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Kate Hakala
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Writing • Editing • Mental Health
10/10 juxtaposition. No notes.
March 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Trash day in 2025
March 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Allegory alert!
February 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If you need it:
February 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility
We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests
This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism:
January 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Be patient as you purchase directly from small businesses.

Don’t expect Amazon and Target style fast shipping.
January 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I know the body keeps the score but it doesn’t need to tally every splinter of a fraction. I have a new zit for every executive order.
January 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Explaining to my rat brain that its dopamine hits are now fascist platforms. Rat brain struggling with the concept.
January 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM