Dr. Katherine Haenschen
@drkath.bsky.social
Asst Prof at Northeastern. Digital media & politics. Proud NJ native. Fan of #UCONN, enabling multi-family housing near transit, meatballs, field experiments.
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babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”
Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.
www.axios.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
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The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
Our country is the Bad Guy right now, y’all.
The US is now a nuclear-armed rogue state run by a corrupt authoritarian man slipping into dementia.
Either the world takes collective action and stops trying to appease him - or the consequences will be an escalating series of war crimes and global disasters at his hands.
Either the world takes collective action and stops trying to appease him - or the consequences will be an escalating series of war crimes and global disasters at his hands.
President of Brazil calling for international action against US
First steps should be global boycott- no participation in US World Cup, Olymplics or any other international gathering here.
Given ICE raids and visa bans, that should already be in place, but Trump illegal war crimes should seal it
First steps should be global boycott- no participation in US World Cup, Olymplics or any other international gathering here.
Given ICE raids and visa bans, that should already be in place, but Trump illegal war crimes should seal it
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Our country is the Bad Guy right now, y’all.
Mamdani’s campaign has used digital media to make visible so many of the New Yorkers who are so often overlooked yet are vital to the place being what it is.
best way to end day 2: chicken roast and aloo bhortha from boishakhi
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Mamdani’s campaign has used digital media to make visible so many of the New Yorkers who are so often overlooked yet are vital to the place being what it is.
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Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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Sumerian engineers 2000 years ago
Arch is pretty good
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Sumerian engineers 2000 years ago
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It's possible that a year from now, on Dec. 31, we will be able to say that things are better now than they were a year ago. I don't think that was possible a year ago. So there's something to hold on to!
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's possible that a year from now, on Dec. 31, we will be able to say that things are better now than they were a year ago. I don't think that was possible a year ago. So there's something to hold on to!
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RIP 2025
2025-2025
2025-2025
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
RIP 2025
2025-2025
2025-2025
Assortative mating likely increases with levels of political interest. The couple pictured here does not talk politics!
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Assortative mating likely increases with levels of political interest. The couple pictured here does not talk politics!
Just finished a massive Adulting Hassle foisted on me by forces beyond my control that had been looming over me since early November. It did wind up taking about an hour, was fiddly, and did require some effort on my end. But it is DONE, and may spur me to complete similar tasks... tomorrow.
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just finished a massive Adulting Hassle foisted on me by forces beyond my control that had been looming over me since early November. It did wind up taking about an hour, was fiddly, and did require some effort on my end. But it is DONE, and may spur me to complete similar tasks... tomorrow.
my first PhD project (before I quit to work on political campaigns and then came back to PhD school and decided to study Pol Comm) was on Hollywood movie marketing. it was all so fascinating, and arguably deeply relevant to understanding political campaign communication.
From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
December 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
my first PhD project (before I quit to work on political campaigns and then came back to PhD school and decided to study Pol Comm) was on Hollywood movie marketing. it was all so fascinating, and arguably deeply relevant to understanding political campaign communication.
consequences are good!
We need Nuremberg trials for the Trump administration officials who illegally sent these men to a torture camp. No "forward, not backward" BS. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We became famous, but at what cost?’: after the horrors of Cecot, the search for a normal life
After months of torture in the Salvadorian prison, the men deported from the US reunite with families in Venezuela
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
consequences are good!
Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The Everything Is A Scam bubble *will* burst eventually and I am so looking forward to watching these guys wash up penniless and dazed
Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
December 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The Everything Is A Scam bubble *will* burst eventually and I am so looking forward to watching these guys wash up penniless and dazed
Maybe your grades should reflect your actual learning and knowledge, and not your ability to correctly prompt A Computer.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Maybe your grades should reflect your actual learning and knowledge, and not your ability to correctly prompt A Computer.
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We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
I’d literally rather host any other member of the human race in my apartment for the evening than Stephen Miller.
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’d literally rather host any other member of the human race in my apartment for the evening than Stephen Miller.
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he's buying a list/he's checking it twice/he's cursing the states/where he has to impute the data on who's naughty or nice
December 23, 2024 at 3:33 PM
he's buying a list/he's checking it twice/he's cursing the states/where he has to impute the data on who's naughty or nice
The coolest thing happened today: we caught the Holiday Train!! We met Phil Eng!!! Santa was driving and the elves were working the door. Thank you @mbta.com! 🎅🏼🎄
December 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The coolest thing happened today: we caught the Holiday Train!! We met Phil Eng!!! Santa was driving and the elves were working the door. Thank you @mbta.com! 🎅🏼🎄
I will be doing my annual love-loathe watching of Love Actually around 8pm Eastern this evening if anyone cares to join in.
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I will be doing my annual love-loathe watching of Love Actually around 8pm Eastern this evening if anyone cares to join in.
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The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.