Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
@debraguckenheimer.com
Writer, activist, artist, teacher, sociologist, 🥄 , neurodivergent, disabled, queer, single mom.
🏳️🌈 Pronouns: she/they
debraguckenheimer.com
#livingwithableism #resist
🏳️🌈 Pronouns: she/they
debraguckenheimer.com
#livingwithableism #resist
Democracies don't scapegoat groups of people, protect criminals because they are powerful while criminalizing existence. We need to change the way we conceptualize what's happening and how to resist now.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
December 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Democracies don't scapegoat groups of people, protect criminals because they are powerful while criminalizing existence. We need to change the way we conceptualize what's happening and how to resist now.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
We have been letting democracy slip away in the United States for a long time. MAGA took advantage of weaknesses we all let happen. Need more evidence?
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
We need to change our approach to resistance now.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
We need to change our approach to resistance now.
December 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We have been letting democracy slip away in the United States for a long time. MAGA took advantage of weaknesses we all let happen. Need more evidence?
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
We need to change our approach to resistance now.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
We need to change our approach to resistance now.
You No Longer Live in a Democracy
debraguckenheimer.substack.com/p/you-no-lon...
debraguckenheimer.substack.com/p/you-no-lon...
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
You No Longer Live in a Democracy
debraguckenheimer.substack.com/p/you-no-lon...
debraguckenheimer.substack.com/p/you-no-lon...
Imagine if Germans responded to the Nazi takeover by talking about future elections and lawsuits. Can we rethink resistance yet?
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Imagine if Germans responded to the Nazi takeover by talking about future elections and lawsuits. Can we rethink resistance yet?
Trump reopens the Rape Club prison as ICE detention center. This is what the US government is now.
Hundreds of women alleged they were repeatedly sexually assaulted by prison staff at FCI Dublin, a northern California facility so notorious for sexual violence it was dubbed “the rape club.” Ten prison guards, including the warden and chaplain, were charged...
www.huffpost.com/entry/womens...
www.huffpost.com/entry/womens...
'It Feels Dystopian': Trump's Possible Plan For A 'Decaying' Prison
A recently shuttered federal women's prison could reopen as an ICE detention center as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Trump reopens the Rape Club prison as ICE detention center. This is what the US government is now.
The Trump Regime announces plans to bribe people to snitch on people who openly support basic human rights, feminism, or transgender humans existing freely.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Debra Guckenheimer's Creator Profile
www.tiktok.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Trump Regime announces plans to bribe people to snitch on people who openly support basic human rights, feminism, or transgender humans existing freely.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Example of how the Trump regime fits with "End of Times Fascism" Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor warned us about. They are spreading disabling diseases as a tactic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk?CMP=share_btn_url
December 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Example of how the Trump regime fits with "End of Times Fascism" Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor warned us about. They are spreading disabling diseases as a tactic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk?CMP=share_btn_url
MAGA is dark. This is a quintessential example - diverting state funding for children to attempt to control women's bodies.
DeSantis Administration Diverted Medical Funding for Anti-Abortion and Cannabis Ads, Investigation Finds
A huge Miami Herald investigation found $35 million the DeSantis administration allegedly diverted to fight Florida's abortion amendment.
share.google
December 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
MAGA is dark. This is a quintessential example - diverting state funding for children to attempt to control women's bodies.
End the genocide in Gaza now.
“Slower Form of Death”: Despite Ceasefire, Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza as Winter Storm Floods Tents
Ceasefire? Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza as Winter Storm Floods Tents
Palestinians were battered with rain and freezing temperatures overnight as winter storm Byron hit the Gaza Strip. Soaked tents and makeshift shelters flooded, causing some mattresses to float and imp...
www.democracynow.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
End the genocide in Gaza now.
Let's be real. Trump has trampled the Constitution. This is happening all over the country. It's time to stop pretending that the US is still a democracy and time to respond appropriately to the fascist coup.
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Let's be real. Trump has trampled the Constitution. This is happening all over the country. It's time to stop pretending that the US is still a democracy and time to respond appropriately to the fascist coup.
Someone was disappeared off of the connecting flight i took to leave the United States. In front of my kids. Without mention of a warrant. No one did anything. This is what it is like to fly in the US today.
The Transportation Security Administration is now sharing passenger data with ICE to enable Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
trib.al/TdrHID7
trib.al/TdrHID7
Trump Admin Is Secretly Giving ICE Names of All Air Travelers
It’s just the latest evidence we’re living in a dystopia.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Someone was disappeared off of the connecting flight i took to leave the United States. In front of my kids. Without mention of a warrant. No one did anything. This is what it is like to fly in the US today.
The Trump regime has turned ICE into a force disappearing and physically harming people inside the country. This is just one story of MANY. What is your line?
www.ktsm.com/news/ice-det...
www.ktsm.com/news/ice-det...
Vancouver man transferred to ICE facility in Texas, family says
The family of a Vancouver man — whose foot was allegedly run over by immigration authorities during his arrest in early December — fears federal agents retaliated against him after they…
share.google
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The Trump regime has turned ICE into a force disappearing and physically harming people inside the country. This is just one story of MANY. What is your line?
www.ktsm.com/news/ice-det...
www.ktsm.com/news/ice-det...
It's not just you that is financially struggling. The Trump regime is causing 1 in 4 in the US to live paycheck to paycheck. That will likely increase over time. You can't afford to stay. www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/economy/job-prices-debt-economy
‘Things are pretty crappy.’ 1 in 4 US households are living paycheck to paycheck | CNN Business
Austin H. can’t wait to buy a house and start a family. But right now, the 34-year-old is barely getting by.
share.google
December 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's not just you that is financially struggling. The Trump regime is causing 1 in 4 in the US to live paycheck to paycheck. That will likely increase over time. You can't afford to stay. www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/economy/job-prices-debt-economy
We need to do more than just think Trump being unpopular will lead to an end of the MAGA regime. The US is no longer a democracy. We need to rethink resistance.
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He's flailing on the economy. Epstein haunts him. Republicans are beginning to revolt against him.
He's not all powerful.
A tyrant can exercise tyranny only insofar as the objects of his tyranny continue to allow it.
Remember this.
He's not all powerful.
A tyrant can exercise tyranny only insofar as the objects of his tyranny continue to allow it.
Remember this.
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We need to do more than just think Trump being unpopular will lead to an end of the MAGA regime. The US is no longer a democracy. We need to rethink resistance.
The U.S. is not a democracy anymore. We need to stop planning resistance as if it is. Elections, advocating to Congress, and courts won't stop this. But this regime must be stopped.
The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens. And they say you cannot refuse.
Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:
Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:
Lessons from Trump’s “war” on Chicago
ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorized the city, and locals fought back.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The U.S. is not a democracy anymore. We need to stop planning resistance as if it is. Elections, advocating to Congress, and courts won't stop this. But this regime must be stopped.
The way that MAGA uses policies like Title IX to do the opposite of what was intended! This is about a student who wrote a paper based in the Bible for a psychology class. This is one of many examples of how higher Ed in the US is crumbling.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The way that MAGA uses policies like Title IX to do the opposite of what was intended! This is about a student who wrote a paper based in the Bible for a psychology class. This is one of many examples of how higher Ed in the US is crumbling.
Come join me in Europe
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Come join me in Europe
Democracies don't disappear 6 year olds.
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Democracies don't disappear 6 year olds.
Congress can't fix it. It's time to accept that the United States is dead. And focus on stopping this group of fascist oligarchs. t
Then build a new democracy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrQKFo4f/
Then build a new democracy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrQKFo4f/
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Congress can't fix it. It's time to accept that the United States is dead. And focus on stopping this group of fascist oligarchs. t
Then build a new democracy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrQKFo4f/
Then build a new democracy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrQKFo4f/
1 of many examples of why I fled the U.S. I don't want my kids to watch their classmates be disappeared. What's your line?
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
1 of many examples of why I fled the U.S. I don't want my kids to watch their classmates be disappeared. What's your line?
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
I fled the United States. Here's why
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
Fleeing the United States
I quickly left behind most of my possessions, my friends, community, and my country to start my life over in the city where my grandmother fled Nazis.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fled the United States. Here's why
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
U.S. academics, this is our moment. Who's with me?
There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n
December 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
U.S. academics, this is our moment. Who's with me?
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
"The fact that I needed a lawyer, it took me a long time to wrap my head around. Because what other federal benefits do people receive that you need to hire a lawyer for? I thought, ‘This doesn't make any sense.’" ~ Debra Guckenheimer, SSDI recipient from California
June 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"The fact that I needed a lawyer, it took me a long time to wrap my head around. Because what other federal benefits do people receive that you need to hire a lawyer for? I thought, ‘This doesn't make any sense.’" ~ Debra Guckenheimer, SSDI recipient from California