Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
@debraguckenheimer.com
Writer, activist, artist, teacher, sociologist, 🥄 , neurodivergent, disabled, queer, single mom.
🏳️🌈 Pronouns: she/they
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#livingwithableism #resist
🏳️🌈 Pronouns: she/they
debraguckenheimer.com
#livingwithableism #resist
Healthcare in the US is quite dystopian. When I filled a prescription here in Deutschland, I almost cried because it was so affordable. But this example is a bit numerous, albeit absurd.
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Cate Osborn on Instagram: "#adhd #adhdinwomen #adhdisreal #adhdawareness #neurodivergent"
12K likes, 465 comments - catieosaurus on November 18, 2025: "#adhd #adhdinwomen #adhdisreal #adhdawareness #neurodivergent".
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February 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Healthcare in the US is quite dystopian. When I filled a prescription here in Deutschland, I almost cried because it was so affordable. But this example is a bit numerous, albeit absurd.
www.instagram.com/reel/DRYMpEe...
www.instagram.com/reel/DRYMpEe...
Little reminder that the Regime will post and say many racist things. We don't have to repeat or share them. We can just name "President shares heinous racist image again."
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Little reminder that the Regime will post and say many racist things. We don't have to repeat or share them. We can just name "President shares heinous racist image again."
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."
www.publicnotice.co
February 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
We need to not just focus on the White citizens being killed. What's happening in the camps is dangerous, involving children. We need them to know that we care about ALL people and will hold them accountable.
February 8, 2026 at 6:05 AM
We need to not just focus on the White citizens being killed. What's happening in the camps is dangerous, involving children. We need them to know that we care about ALL people and will hold them accountable.
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
People say "cruelty is the point" but it's really death. They want people dead to have their ethnic cleansing and they're going to engineer every situation so people die but not in a way they'll go to trial for murder.
Unlivable conditions to make unliving people.
bsky.app/profile/mike...
Unlivable conditions to make unliving people.
bsky.app/profile/mike...
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
People say "cruelty is the point" but it's really death. They want people dead to have their ethnic cleansing and they're going to engineer every situation so people die but not in a way they'll go to trial for murder.
Unlivable conditions to make unliving people.
bsky.app/profile/mike...
Unlivable conditions to make unliving people.
bsky.app/profile/mike...
Locking up people without cause, lying, denying medical care, housing with the wrong gender....trans people are being kidnapped and tortured by ICE.
"ICE Is Treating Trans Immigrants With A New Level Of Cruelty:
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect."
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect."
ICE Is Treating Trans Immigrants With A New Level Of Cruelty
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
www.huffpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Locking up people without cause, lying, denying medical care, housing with the wrong gender....trans people are being kidnapped and tortured by ICE.
What would it look like to revive the #metoo movement in this time of fascism and regime of perpetrators?
I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:24 AM
What would it look like to revive the #metoo movement in this time of fascism and regime of perpetrators?
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
Minneapolis teaches us that resistance can be fun and creative.
Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents
Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...
www.mprnews.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Minneapolis teaches us that resistance can be fun and creative.
In a democracy, military members are free to spend their money and free time how they wish, not being forced to help cover a bribe (Melania got a record $28 mil "for" the doc.)
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February 7, 2026 at 8:13 AM
In a democracy, military members are free to spend their money and free time how they wish, not being forced to help cover a bribe (Melania got a record $28 mil "for" the doc.)
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“Is it too obvious to say that of course the right only values family as a system of ownership and property, only values motherhood as a way to push women from public life… only values babies & births when they are white babies and white births, meant to reproduce the nation as they imagine it?”
"The people tearing these loved ones apart are often the very same people who have spent so much of the past several years lecturing the American people, and in particular American women, about the importance of parenthood and family," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.
Republicans are the party of separating and destroying families | Moira Donegan
Their ‘pro-family’ rhetoric is a cynical and hollow sham
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“Is it too obvious to say that of course the right only values family as a system of ownership and property, only values motherhood as a way to push women from public life… only values babies & births when they are white babies and white births, meant to reproduce the nation as they imagine it?”
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!
February 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!
Reposted by Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
We’re literally killing ourselves. They’ve been working on cutting edge cancer vaccines
Moderna announced that they’re cutting back late-stage vaccine trials due to the uncertainty in the US market www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...
Moderna chief: Company won’t invest in new late-stage vaccine trials
Moderna has already been facing declines in sales after a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
February 4, 2026 at 7:03 AM
We’re literally killing ourselves. They’ve been working on cutting edge cancer vaccines
There is a massive pedophile ring in the United States. Of the most involved - 1 woman is in a fancy prison, 1 man holds the highest office and is kidnapping people, including girls.
February 4, 2026 at 10:58 AM
There is a massive pedophile ring in the United States. Of the most involved - 1 woman is in a fancy prison, 1 man holds the highest office and is kidnapping people, including girls.
Have cryptocurrencies been funding an elite pedo ring?
finance.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey...
finance.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey...
Jeffrey Epstein Files Reveal Shocking Coinbase Connection – What the Crypto World Missed
Epstein invested $3 million in Coinbase's 2014 Series C round via his Virgin Islands entity. The deal was facilitated by Brock Pierce, with emails showing ...
finance.yahoo.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Have cryptocurrencies been funding an elite pedo ring?
finance.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey...
finance.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey...
U.S. academics - we need to give some thought to the way in which privilege and abuse plays out. We can start with what happened with Epstein, but we all know it doesn't end there.
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
February 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
U.S. academics - we need to give some thought to the way in which privilege and abuse plays out. We can start with what happened with Epstein, but we all know it doesn't end there.
Heroes
for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed.
ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
‘Backing down isn’t an option’: Minnesota ICE shootings mobilize Americans to join ICE observer groups
The killings of Minneapolis residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti have inspired people across the US to document federal agents’ activities in their communities
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Heroes
This is what hope looks like
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This is what hope looks like
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me 5 class you took in college:
1. The philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi
2. Deviance. Discord, Dismay
3. Political Philosophy
4. Feminist Theory
5. Democratization Internationally
1. The philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi
2. Deviance. Discord, Dismay
3. Political Philosophy
4. Feminist Theory
5. Democratization Internationally
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Social Movements in Eastern Europe
2. Biology and Human Affairs
3. From Bebop to Hiphop
4. Twentieth Century American Wars
5. Creative Writing
1. Social Movements in Eastern Europe
2. Biology and Human Affairs
3. From Bebop to Hiphop
4. Twentieth Century American Wars
5. Creative Writing
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me 5 class you took in college:
1. The philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi
2. Deviance. Discord, Dismay
3. Political Philosophy
4. Feminist Theory
5. Democratization Internationally
1. The philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi
2. Deviance. Discord, Dismay
3. Political Philosophy
4. Feminist Theory
5. Democratization Internationally
Democracies have bureaucracy that is professional and independent, not tools of one person.
The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too
the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Purge the Public Servants
The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Democracies have bureaucracy that is professional and independent, not tools of one person.
This keeps me up at night
Tad Stormer, historian of resistance history of the United States, with a sobering reminder.
“All meaningful change in American history has come with a body count.
The bodies of those that were victims of abusive authority and those that fought to end it.”
“All meaningful change in American history has come with a body count.
The bodies of those that were victims of abusive authority and those that fought to end it.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:16 PM
This keeps me up at night
Everyone who teaches socialization, soc of family, or med soc or any sociology course should be talking about what it is like to be a child in the United States right now with the lack of regard for even the youngest lives.
“There was a car seat in the back with one of those baby blankets you get at the hospital. There were broken glass shards all over it,” he said. “I carefully pulled back the blanket and there was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Everyone who teaches socialization, soc of family, or med soc or any sociology course should be talking about what it is like to be a child in the United States right now with the lack of regard for even the youngest lives.
If this isn't your line, what is? @governor.ca.gov are you going to just let things like this happen in your state? @padilla.senate.gov go visit him and stand up for the rights of journalists in California please.
the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji
January 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
If this isn't your line, what is? @governor.ca.gov are you going to just let things like this happen in your state? @padilla.senate.gov go visit him and stand up for the rights of journalists in California please.
F this is so upsetting. I've been watching Lemon regularly. And we've seen too recently what happens when press are removed...
Democracies have a free press. We must acknowledge where we are in order to effectively resist.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
Democracies have a free press. We must acknowledge where we are in order to effectively resist.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
January 30, 2026 at 2:48 PM
F this is so upsetting. I've been watching Lemon regularly. And we've seen too recently what happens when press are removed...
Democracies have a free press. We must acknowledge where we are in order to effectively resist.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
Democracies have a free press. We must acknowledge where we are in order to effectively resist.
open.substack.com/pub/debraguc...
"Why are you attacking my son?" Beautiful testimony of a father advocating for his trans child. substack.com/@samantha705...
Samantha Paige (she/they) (@samantha705901)
“Why won’t you leave my family alone??”
substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:14 AM
"Why are you attacking my son?" Beautiful testimony of a father advocating for his trans child. substack.com/@samantha705...