katiehayden.bsky.social
@katiehayden.bsky.social
boston apologist
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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
Breaking:
 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
June 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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If Republican lawmakers roll back Medicaid expansion funding it could lead to over 34,000 more deaths every year, according to new research from The Center for American Progress.

thehill.com/policy/healt...
Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30k additional deaths: Analysis
An attempt by Republican lawmakers to roll back the federal government’s share of Medicaid expansion could result in tens of thousands of additional deaths, according to an analysis by a liberal th…
thehill.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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As COVID-19 and measles spread in NY, it's almost hard to believe our Democratic governor's response is that **less** people should wear a mask.

It's so shameful and will harm so many people if this passes.

Masks should not be criminalized, stigmatized, or banned. #NoNYMaskBan
April 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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imagine having enough money to where you could part with and donate this much money to sway the entire political ecosystem. pure evil
March 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The people pushing the lab leak theory want a major crackdown on viral research, precisely the kind of work that will prevent the next global pandemic. The more extreme lab-leakers want to jail scientists and shut down public health institutions entirely.
Maybe it’s just because I have not dived into it to any meaningful degree, but I don’t understand the stakes of the lab-leak theory. What does it do for people who propound it? What would it challenge or undermine if it were proved true?
I get that this sounds plausible to lots of people but it is not congruent with the evidence!

Genetic data indicates the virus didn’t come directly from bats. The Wuhan lab ONLY studied bat viruses.
March 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNN
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra...
www.cnn.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
March 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying.

like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.
March 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This 2024 ProPublica piece on vouchers highlights points that remain relevant today:

"The beneficiaries in these states are mostly families whose kids were already enrolled in private schools, not families using the vouchers to escape struggling public schools."
Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers
School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up som...
www.propublica.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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No words.
Just months ago, the Israeli government put out a hit list of six journalists. Hossam Shabat was one of them.
Today, they killed him.
March 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
truly ignorant on canadian politics. what are the best sources to learn more? newspapers, journalists, etc
March 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands.

Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
"acceding to the ... demands is not going to restore the funding." From @danifriedrich.bsky.social in @chronicle.com

www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
March 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.

The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.
March 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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We’re doing Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo again, except both at once, and to random dads and barbers abducted off the streets of America for the crime of being Latino
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum
With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
March 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM