Dr. Hope Hanscom (she/her)
@hopehanscom.bsky.social
Partner, parent, sibling, friend, educator. BA: Holy Cross, MS: Dowling, CAGS: Bridgewater State, EdD: Northeastern. Social justice advocate (esp. REDI, disability rights, women’s bodily autonomy, LGBTQ+ rights, climate change, economic justice & equity).
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World AIDS Day 🧵
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Although a stated goal of this regime was to end the AIDS epidemic, the regime has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization and refuses to recognize World AIDS Day in 2025.
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Although a stated goal of this regime was to end the AIDS epidemic, the regime has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization and refuses to recognize World AIDS Day in 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
World AIDS Day 🧵
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Although a stated goal of this regime was to end the AIDS epidemic, the regime has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization and refuses to recognize World AIDS Day in 2025.
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Although a stated goal of this regime was to end the AIDS epidemic, the regime has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization and refuses to recognize World AIDS Day in 2025.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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It was always performative outrage.
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It was always performative outrage.
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I don't expect any of our major media outlets to acknowledge this outright, but this is the thing: These aren't 'steep' tariffs, these are _insane_ tariffs. These are 'nobody in the White House understands decimal points' numbers. It speaks to total economic illiteracy _throughout the White House_.
There's no question that today's tariff announcement will give the United States the highest tariff rates of any industrialized country. And it's not even close.
April 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I don't expect any of our major media outlets to acknowledge this outright, but this is the thing: These aren't 'steep' tariffs, these are _insane_ tariffs. These are 'nobody in the White House understands decimal points' numbers. It speaks to total economic illiteracy _throughout the White House_.
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people
March 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people
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UPDATE: According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another 600 employees have accepted voluntary resignations or retired.
U.S. Education Department says it is cutting nearly half of all staff
According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another 600 employees have accepted voluntary resignations or retired.
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
UPDATE: According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another 600 employees have accepted voluntary resignations or retired.
Thank you to my Representative in Congress @keating.house.gov for taking a stand and sending a message.
Republican congressman Keith Self introduced transgender Representative Sarah McBride as "Mr. McBride."
Sarah snapped back and called him madam chair.
Dem Congressman Bill Keating went off on Rep. Self and adjourned the meeting over his lack of decorum and purposeful targeting of Sarah McBride.
Sarah snapped back and called him madam chair.
Dem Congressman Bill Keating went off on Rep. Self and adjourned the meeting over his lack of decorum and purposeful targeting of Sarah McBride.
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Thank you to my Representative in Congress @keating.house.gov for taking a stand and sending a message.
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Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
February 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
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been thinking a lot about this quote lately
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
February 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
been thinking a lot about this quote lately
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.
USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk has been denigrating USAID, which is the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.
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Everybody should read this. Talk about coups and the like is not helping, and in fact may give Trump what he wants. What does help is when you laugh at the foolishness of this strategy. He's setting himself up for a reckoning when things fall apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article)
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Everybody should read this. Talk about coups and the like is not helping, and in fact may give Trump what he wants. What does help is when you laugh at the foolishness of this strategy. He's setting himself up for a reckoning when things fall apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
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Dear Leaders of the Free World,
Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.
We stand with you.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.
We stand with you.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans)
Dear World,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dear Leaders of the Free World,
Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.
We stand with you.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.
We stand with you.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
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“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
December 16, 2024 at 10:49 PM
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
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Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
“When Trump was asked about Capitol attackers who assaulted police officers he said that ‘they had no choice’”.
Donald Trump promises to pardon January 6 rioters on ‘day one’
Donald Trump promises to pardon January 6 rioters on ‘day one’
President-elect says he will ‘act quickly’, claiming convicted Capitol rioters had been put through a ‘very nasty system’
In his first sit-down news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to…
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:28 PM
“When Trump was asked about Capitol attackers who assaulted police officers he said that ‘they had no choice’”.
Incredible writing. Horrifying story.
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 7, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Incredible writing. Horrifying story.
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Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.
December 7, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.
www.huffpost.com/entry/brain-...
We’ve been lucky so far with the access to care for our child’s rare, debilitating, chronic illness. Life-saving care should not be a matter of luck or privilege or geography.
We’ve been lucky so far with the access to care for our child’s rare, debilitating, chronic illness. Life-saving care should not be a matter of luck or privilege or geography.
My Daughter Desperately Needs Brain Surgery. Our Insurance Company's Response Has Been Shocking.
"The insurance company has an army of people who are very concerned about paperwork and precise wording ... My kindness and patience has shifted to fury."
www.huffpost.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:01 PM
www.huffpost.com/entry/brain-...
We’ve been lucky so far with the access to care for our child’s rare, debilitating, chronic illness. Life-saving care should not be a matter of luck or privilege or geography.
We’ve been lucky so far with the access to care for our child’s rare, debilitating, chronic illness. Life-saving care should not be a matter of luck or privilege or geography.