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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 4h

As someone who has been paying around $57,000 per year for daycare for two kids on my professor salary, I really think DINKS would be getting a bargain if they had to pay an extra $5k in taxes and continue not having children.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 7h

The scale of the structural problems facing our democratic republic feels overwhelming right now.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 8h

This pun is actually on my slides when I teach about polling

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 22h

Made this tonight for dinner. 10/10, will make again.

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

Pad Prik King (Red Curry Chicken and Green Beans)

cooking.nytimes.com

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

Also, like, I'm pretty sure 10s of 1000s of borrowers will figure out from the Internet to request the paper trail and the debt will just POOF. I've seen how to do this but since I am in PSLF I haven't bothered.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

LOL i recognized the cover art immediately. has that edition been updated in the 24 years since I read it as an undergrad?

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

cc @pulitzercenter.org

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

sports is the only arena (sorry) in which X still has any substantive pull to a "normie" audience.

1. sports fans: beseech your teams to leave the hate site for blue sky
2. blue sky peeps: let people do their stupid sports skeets in the name of harming elon musk

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter has dwindled to negligible levels for all things that aren't MAGA produced or people fighting with MAGA.

I don't know what kind of data we need to show people who should know by now how algorithms and bots and so forth work but...

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

I posted this breakout of what percent of traffic to ACASignups.net is from various sources earlier this year and got positive feedback, so I figured I'd post an update every quarter.

The big story is still how Bluesky has exploded in growth while Twitter/X has dwindled to negligible levels.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh ooh please let it somehow involve botched plastic surgery

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Call for PostDoc or Visiting PhD Student 🚨

apply.interfolio.com/175219

We're seeking an American Politics scholar of leg. institutions or representation, under the direction of Jim Curry, Jeff Harden, and Rachel Porter (me!), affiliated with our Representation and Politics in Legislatures Lab

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

this is the real dominant ideology in the United States, and in the mass media in particular. it's not serving a "liberal" ideology, it's serving capital.

A.J. Carrillo @ajcarrillo.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss isn’t a journalist, she is a servant of financial power.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

Ofc the real problem is that in much of America, there is inadequate housing and transport for seniors that does not revolve around cars. So if seniors who cannot safely drive lose their licenses, then what?

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. The state needs to step in, because the family often can’t or won’t, and some elders have no one to take the keys away.

Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 3d

We invented graduated drivers licenses for teens. They worked. But we leave 80-year-olds to “see how it goes.” Every family suffers on their own. But this is a shared social problem, not a personal one. We need conditional licenses for older drivers. Daylight. Local. Annual medical check-ins.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

Great read. Also worth expanding her point re: ACA—more progressive policy (public option) was *better* policy for ameliorating suffering but the most conservative members of the caucus killed it & Dems got slaughtered anyways and the middle-road version hasn’t fully won over voters.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hell yes. From @juliaazari.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

But the main coalition-building point still stands: “politics is for power,” Klein insists in these interviews (presumably quoting political scientist Eitan Hersh). True enough! But power also exists within coalitions. And in contemporary US political parties, the rules over things like who has veto power over presidential nominations are increasingly loose and constantly being renegotiated formally. Asking core groups within the Democratic party – African Americans, LGBTQ Americans – to take a backseat because some other groups are pivotal for the coalition is asking a lot. This arrangement has implications for who will drive the agenda of that coalition.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

So fix the fire codes! Again, it’s a solvable problem for people with political will to do so. If states can pass single-stair legislation and ADU enabling legislation that accommodates the need to fight fires, so can they too enable higher high-rises.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 3d

The #1 thing I have learned about housing policy is that housing is too expensive & supply is limited because *people make it that way.* Some of that is active NIMBY opposition; some is a simple failure to fix broken rules like the one below.

Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 3d

“A lot of times, we’re reluctant to change on really dumb things.”

Many of the rules shaping what we can and can’t build today were written 50–60 years ago. If we want to meet Massachusetts’ modern housing needs, everything should be on the table for reform.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/05/o...

Why five feet of building space can doom construction - The Boston Globe

1973 law on high-rise threshold is out of sync with national recommendations.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 3d

Barf. If they even bothered calling me for $$ anymore (they stopped a long time ago when I described my debt load from my “fully funded” PhD!) I’d give them a piece of my mind.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 3d

It’s all vibes! Argle bargle.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 4d

That is, IMO, the best song on the album. But Opalite is such a sweet bop.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 4d

What, don’t you enjoy endless emails introducing the new vice-provost for strategic initiatives, or the (literal) 43 emails about transitioning to a new, non-functional expense processing system?

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 4d

Those are fun! Interesting cross-section of American history.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 4d

this is a good skeet

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now.

In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself.

Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it

"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."

www.motherjones.com

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 4d

who has the energy to be upset about extra shit?! I can barely summon the energy to be upset about everything in my own life!

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly this is pretty funny

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