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Katie Hauschildt
@hauschildt.bsky.social
Sociologist in critical care at OHSU • typos/views my own • she/they/person with no chill for transphobes
I mean, bless the imagination of the person who maintains a 1970s Pan Am fantasy of flying, shattered only when they look over and see someone else looking slightly more comfortable in flannel drawstring pants.
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.

Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.

They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Controversial take, I guess: You can be considerate of others when in PJs. People in PJs is not what makes flying miserable, for me. There's the insufficient leg room, uncomfortable seats, delays...

If you are miserable on a plane because other people are in sweat pants... that's a you problem.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Nurses will overwhelmingly get well paying jobs and pay these loans back. There aren’t drawbacks of these programs. It’s just racism and misogyny for the sake of it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Devastating.
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.

Maybe not even then.

(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.

Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Video for my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" on 4 Nov, with a lovely audience (see thread below for slides) #scienceofscience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXl...
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Just as reproductive health advocates warned for years

Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/31/a... by @allisonburtka.bsky.social @rewirenewsgroup.com CC @hauschildt.bsky.social @lauraandreson4tn.bsky.social
Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises—Study
Pulmonologists, critical care doctors, even rheumatologists are struggling to adequately treat pregnant patients in states that restrict reproductive rights, new research reveals.
rewirenewsgroup.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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It seems crucial (and long overdue) that our national political discourse has finally shifted from an obsession with "the economy" to what actually matters: whether people can afford the basic things they need to live.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.

hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...
The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
hellgatenyc.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It is always fascinating teaching in the same seminar room as Prof @yipingong.bsky.social

My agenda for Week 11 of Death & Daring in the Modern ICU using @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hauschildt.bsky.social was surprisingly well paired with her on Viktor Frankl
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A reminder that what conservatives have wrought didn’t happen overnight - but neither did this. Real organizing takes time and effort, but it does work, so don’t give up. Keep organizing, keep resisting, keep going.
I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.

DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.

His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Damnit. Damnit.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I wrote this because abortion bans are harming health care in widespread ways, and this research shows how these bans are getting in the way of pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Patients are dying because of these bans.
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A reminder that literally any billionaire could apparently step up and fund SNAP and many millions of Americans wouldn’t lose access to groceries tomorrow.

Imagine if you could do this and it would literally be nothing to you, would not affect the way you live your life AT ALL, and not doing it.
I’m sure there are no strings attached for this *snort* but to all the supposedly “progressive” billionaires out there: a public offer to cover SNAP and other essential services, since apparently you can now earmark donations for whatever you want, would be great.
So an anonymous billionaire Trump ally is dispersing $130 million in personal cash to US troops.

Truly crossing new rubicons weekly

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hopkins - whose School of Public Health bears his name - lost $800 million in federal funding & laid off 2000 people doing life-saving work earlier this year. But super cool that he’s twice as rich. That def makes a meaningful difference in the lives of literally no one, including Bloomberg himself.
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This system is so broken. It is so very expensive and so very broken.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
At this point, over three years since I received care, thousands and thousands of dollars of staff time and resources that have been devoted to this mess. And guess what - we all get to pay for it. We pay for insurance companies to play hot potato with these claims.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
But it’s three years later, and I still don’t know the resolution of this mess. It’s annoying, frustrating, I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG, I’m a health services researcher and I can’t figure out how to resolve this mess.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
But remember - I already paid the deductible and (expected) co-insurance because when these were first filed by the providers, I told them I had CareFirst and paid accordingly. And regardless of the BCBS FEP mess, I did have CareFirst - both my employer and I were paying those premiums.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
So today’s letters mostly said they were still processing these claims - it’s late 2025. One, for $1470, they said they weren’t covering - again - this is care I never asked them to cover. It’s unclear to me if this goes back to CareFirst, who will now agree the original claims were accurate.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Then I got a bunch of letters last year - 2024 - saying BCBS FEP was still working on processing these claims. Claims I didn’t submit to them, but apparently got re-routed to them - it’s unclear by who - maybe CareFirst?
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
When I figured this out, I called BCBS FEP - and they told me I couldn’t remove myself from their insurance plan - only my (ex) employer could do that.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Apparently the paperwork to remove me from BCBS FEP never got processed when I left so to CareFirst, it looked like I had other insurance and they sure didn’t want to pay.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM