Catherine Hagman
@catherinehagman.bsky.social
Editor. Supporter of the arts. Granddaughter of immigrants. Current reading: Mirabai Starr’s translation of Teresa of Ávila’s The Book of My Life. Current focus: Our republic, because I want to keep it.
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This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
Be of good courage. Stand up and speak up for the world you want to create. We will prevail.
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The Ultimate Definition of What It Means to Be a Human
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Be of good courage. Stand up and speak up for the world you want to create. We will prevail.
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www.youtube.com/shorts/Cl7qs...
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
Heavenly! On #WETAClassical, tonight's Choral Showcase theme is Christmas Around the World, and Bill Bukowski will be offering music from an array of artists, composers, cultures, and eras. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. #ChoralShowcase #Christmas
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December 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Heavenly! On #WETAClassical, tonight's Choral Showcase theme is Christmas Around the World, and Bill Bukowski will be offering music from an array of artists, composers, cultures, and eras. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. #ChoralShowcase #Christmas
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"While the biggest and most influential [U.S.] news orgs are doing great reporting ... their politics and gov't coverage often feels like biz as usual.
"Journalism should be communicating the still-raging five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose and history."
-- @sulliview.bsky.social
"Journalism should be communicating the still-raging five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose and history."
-- @sulliview.bsky.social
America has tragically changed, but journalism is still stuck in old ways
The swift slide into authoritarianism should have been a five-alarm fire for the media
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December 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"While the biggest and most influential [U.S.] news orgs are doing great reporting ... their politics and gov't coverage often feels like biz as usual.
"Journalism should be communicating the still-raging five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose and history."
-- @sulliview.bsky.social
"Journalism should be communicating the still-raging five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose and history."
-- @sulliview.bsky.social
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December 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I hate what Republicans have done to the USA.
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I hate what Republicans have done to the USA.
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It must be so hard to come up with something even more evil every day...
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It must be so hard to come up with something even more evil every day...
It's difficult to tell whether the hatred, insecurity, or mendacity rules him more.
Fred Trump and Roy Cohn have a lot to answer for, but so do the U.S. media and corporate leaders who enabled Donald Trump.
Fred Trump and Roy Cohn have a lot to answer for, but so do the U.S. media and corporate leaders who enabled Donald Trump.
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's difficult to tell whether the hatred, insecurity, or mendacity rules him more.
Fred Trump and Roy Cohn have a lot to answer for, but so do the U.S. media and corporate leaders who enabled Donald Trump.
Fred Trump and Roy Cohn have a lot to answer for, but so do the U.S. media and corporate leaders who enabled Donald Trump.
@lindaclassical.bsky.social, it was such a pleasure to hear “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” by the Arturo Delmoni Quartet earlier. I look forward to the #WETAClassical #Chanukah, #Advent, and #Christmas musical selections every holiday season.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@lindaclassical.bsky.social, it was such a pleasure to hear “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” by the Arturo Delmoni Quartet earlier. I look forward to the #WETAClassical #Chanukah, #Advent, and #Christmas musical selections every holiday season.
weta.org/fm/playlists
weta.org/fm/playlists
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Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today, and I invite you to share the most Jane Austen things you've done (so far) in your life. Mine include joining in the dancing of the era (reels and so forth), though I was dancing in places such as Buffalo and Takoma Park, not Bath. Your turn! #JaneAusten250
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today, and I invite you to share the most Jane Austen things you've done (so far) in your life. Mine include joining in the dancing of the era (reels and so forth), though I was dancing in places such as Buffalo and Takoma Park, not Bath. Your turn! #JaneAusten250
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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Happy Hanukkah to all our friends of Jewish faith! 🕎
December 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Happy Hanukkah to all our friends of Jewish faith! 🕎
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Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
For the first night of #Hanukkah, #WETA Classical’s #ChoralShowcase is featuring George Frideric Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, which “recounts the story of a successful revolt against religious persecution by an occupying power.” Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
For the first night of #Hanukkah, #WETA Classical’s #ChoralShowcase is featuring George Frideric Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, which “recounts the story of a successful revolt against religious persecution by an occupying power.” Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT.
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This came out as part of a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration order to exclude certain immigrant children from Head Start
www.aclu.org/cases/washin...
www.aclu.org/cases/washin...
Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy et al. | American Civil Liberties Union
The Trump Administration is threatening the future of Head Start – a program that has provided critical and evidence-based services—from education to childcare— to more than 40 million children and th...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This came out as part of a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration order to exclude certain immigrant children from Head Start
www.aclu.org/cases/washin...
www.aclu.org/cases/washin...
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More pages of that list of words forbidden from being used by Head Start programs:
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
More pages of that list of words forbidden from being used by Head Start programs:
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According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
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BALTIMORE AREA CAT LADIES/DADDIES/FOLKS & UN-CATTED ALLIES! JONI US SATURDAY 12/13!
Baltimore Sign Waves's event, “Army-Navy Game Day Peaceful Protest: Baltimore Community Says NO to Trump Tyranny” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Baltimore Sign Waves's event, “Army-Navy Game Day Peaceful Protest: Baltimore Community Says NO to Trump Tyranny” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Army-Navy Game Day Peaceful Protest: Baltimore Community Says NO to Trump Tyranny · Mobilize
Members of the greater Baltimore community will line the sidewalks around Ravens Stadium on the day of the Army-Navy Game. We gather to remind our mlitary that they serve the Constitution, and they h...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
BALTIMORE AREA CAT LADIES/DADDIES/FOLKS & UN-CATTED ALLIES! JONI US SATURDAY 12/13!
Baltimore Sign Waves's event, “Army-Navy Game Day Peaceful Protest: Baltimore Community Says NO to Trump Tyranny” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Baltimore Sign Waves's event, “Army-Navy Game Day Peaceful Protest: Baltimore Community Says NO to Trump Tyranny” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Tonight on WETA Classical, Choral Showcase is devoted entirely to Benjamin Britten's choral works for the season: A Boy Was Born, Saint Nicholas, and A Ceremony of Carols. Tune in or stream beginning at 9. #Britten #ACeremonyOfCarols #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
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December 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tonight on WETA Classical, Choral Showcase is devoted entirely to Benjamin Britten's choral works for the season: A Boy Was Born, Saint Nicholas, and A Ceremony of Carols. Tune in or stream beginning at 9. #Britten #ACeremonyOfCarols #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
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Today, Dec 7th, is the birthday of Stephanie Marie Beatty. She died at 22 in a 2023 domestic violence shooting in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Stephanie loved children, relished time spent working at a local daycare, and was pursuing Early Childhood Education certification at the time of her death.
Stephanie loved children, relished time spent working at a local daycare, and was pursuing Early Childhood Education certification at the time of her death.
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today, Dec 7th, is the birthday of Stephanie Marie Beatty. She died at 22 in a 2023 domestic violence shooting in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Stephanie loved children, relished time spent working at a local daycare, and was pursuing Early Childhood Education certification at the time of her death.
Stephanie loved children, relished time spent working at a local daycare, and was pursuing Early Childhood Education certification at the time of her death.
Sorry/not sorry for the image: Heather Cox Richardson really strips the #Trump administration bare here: the racism, the corruption, the lies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKt...
This Week in Politics | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Sorry/not sorry for the image: Heather Cox Richardson really strips the #Trump administration bare here: the racism, the corruption, the lies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKt...
This morning it occurred to me that this year the Christmas decorations at the #WhiteHouse should go somewhere where human beings are not referred to as "garbage" and "retarded." There is no peace on Earth and especially not in the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump rails against Somali migrants: ‘I don’t want them in our country’
The president blasted Minnesota’s Somali community as “garbage” in a rant also attacking Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This morning it occurred to me that this year the Christmas decorations at the #WhiteHouse should go somewhere where human beings are not referred to as "garbage" and "retarded." There is no peace on Earth and especially not in the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...