Katie Skeen, PhD
@skeen.bsky.social
Cold-eyed warm-hearted editor researcher mother radical optimist.
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I was on Jeopardy! the week that Alex Trebek shaved off his mustache.
🩷NYChicagoDublinPhiladelphia🩷
I was on Jeopardy! the week that Alex Trebek shaved off his mustache.
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My latest: How the Trump Administration is giving even more tax breaks to wealthy and giant corporations: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My latest: How the Trump Administration is giving even more tax breaks to wealthy and giant corporations: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Oh WOW. I edited her book _Designing San Francisco_.
She was great to work with.
😢
She was great to work with.
😢
I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Oh WOW. I edited her book _Designing San Francisco_.
She was great to work with.
😢
She was great to work with.
😢
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You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]
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Because USAID was investigating Starlink. Never forget that part.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Because USAID was investigating Starlink. Never forget that part.
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Southwest Side businesses are struggling amid the immigration blitz: "This is worse than COVID." blockclubchi.co/4nEQJLC
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Southwest Side businesses are struggling amid the immigration blitz: "This is worse than COVID." blockclubchi.co/4nEQJLC
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Musk is a mass murderer.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Musk is a mass murderer.
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Democrats need to be campaigning against this type of pre-planned bailout argument.
They're already laying the groundwork for the bubble we know is coming and a trillion-dollar plus government bailout.
They're already laying the groundwork for the bubble we know is coming and a trillion-dollar plus government bailout.
He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Democrats need to be campaigning against this type of pre-planned bailout argument.
They're already laying the groundwork for the bubble we know is coming and a trillion-dollar plus government bailout.
They're already laying the groundwork for the bubble we know is coming and a trillion-dollar plus government bailout.
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The headlines from Chicago today are vile:
'"Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care" 1/
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'"Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care" 1/
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The headlines from Chicago today are vile:
'"Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care" 1/
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'"Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care" 1/
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Day 10. This is an ongoing issue with our media, including @npr.org - they just put the wild claims of these liars in the headlines. Putting it in quotes doesn’t help. You’re giving credence to their nonsense when you put it in the headlines. Headline should be that they’re lying. Fail.
1/10
1/10
The comments came as federal courts ordered the Trump administration to resume food assistance payments. n.pr/4oTIZ9D
As SNAP funding lapsed, a top official called the program 'corrupt'
The comments came as federal courts ordered the Trump administration to resume food assistance payments.
n.pr
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Day 10. This is an ongoing issue with our media, including @npr.org - they just put the wild claims of these liars in the headlines. Putting it in quotes doesn’t help. You’re giving credence to their nonsense when you put it in the headlines. Headline should be that they’re lying. Fail.
1/10
1/10
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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For those who don’t know, Lina Khan is John Wick/Baba Yaga to Wall Street and billionaires
BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
For those who don’t know, Lina Khan is John Wick/Baba Yaga to Wall Street and billionaires
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Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
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#OtD 5 Nov 1855 American socialist and labour leader Eugene Debs was born. He helped found both the American Railway Union and the @IWW, and was jailed in 1919 for his opposition to WWI. While in prison he ran for president, and received nearly 1m votes workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#OtD 5 Nov 1855 American socialist and labour leader Eugene Debs was born. He helped found both the American Railway Union and the @IWW, and was jailed in 1919 for his opposition to WWI. While in prison he ran for president, and received nearly 1m votes workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww
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Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People."
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People."
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
TURN THE VOLUME UP!
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
TURN THE VOLUME UP!
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I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
BRAAAAAAADD!!!!
(college classmate)
Let's go get a Senate seat!!
(college classmate)
Let's go get a Senate seat!!
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
BRAAAAAAADD!!!!
(college classmate)
Let's go get a Senate seat!!
(college classmate)
Let's go get a Senate seat!!
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Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
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Please don’t forget the PA Supreme Court retention votes! Not a big election year in PA, yet the three Democratic Supreme Court justices have won their retention votes resoundingly.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Please don’t forget the PA Supreme Court retention votes! Not a big election year in PA, yet the three Democratic Supreme Court justices have won their retention votes resoundingly.
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Pope Leo is doing Catholicism the wrong way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Pope Leo is doing Catholicism the wrong way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein