Karin Friederic (she/her)
@karinf.bsky.social
Cultural/medical anthropologist @WFU. Gender, human rights, global health, violence, development, community-organizing, chronic illness & NC politics. Latin America/Ecuador, US, Sweden. Author: The Prism of Human Rights. NGO: The Minga Foundation #pwME
Numbers to call and report ICE activity in NC
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Numbers to call and report ICE activity in NC
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Whoa! Immigrants come here with nothing and the next thing you know they’re buying houses that established citizens cannot afford? Those enterprising newcomers sound like just the sort of folks we need. Never mind that JD’s premise is as BS as his 30M number.
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 9:55 PM
Whoa! Immigrants come here with nothing and the next thing you know they’re buying houses that established citizens cannot afford? Those enterprising newcomers sound like just the sort of folks we need. Never mind that JD’s premise is as BS as his 30M number.
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Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”
Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?
JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
October 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”
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The Anthropology Department at Wake Forest University is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Archaeology for next academic year. Apply by January 5! apply.interfolio.com/175804 🏺
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October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The Anthropology Department at Wake Forest University is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Archaeology for next academic year. Apply by January 5! apply.interfolio.com/175804 🏺
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
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tell it
April 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
tell it
Right here in North Carolina!
New in PN: How to steal a state supreme court seat with one weird trick
"Republicans succeeded in changing the rules not midgame but literally after they lost. Nothing will stop them from doing this again and again, making a mockery of elections and injecting confusion into results."
"Republicans succeeded in changing the rules not midgame but literally after they lost. Nothing will stop them from doing this again and again, making a mockery of elections and injecting confusion into results."
How to steal a state supreme court seat with one weird trick
North Carolina Republicans are closing in on a brazen heist.
www.publicnotice.co
April 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Right here in North Carolina!
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Loved listening to my good friends and comrades April Petillo, Alison Bloom, @karinf.bsky.social, Hasnaa Mokhtar and Sam Lilly at #SfAA2025 bring hope and possibilities for imagining otherwise as we continue the work to end GBV, here and everywhere.
March 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Loved listening to my good friends and comrades April Petillo, Alison Bloom, @karinf.bsky.social, Hasnaa Mokhtar and Sam Lilly at #SfAA2025 bring hope and possibilities for imagining otherwise as we continue the work to end GBV, here and everywhere.
I, like many others, rely on these reports & categories to convince Homeland Security of specific country conditions for asylum claims. Without these categories, the State Dept *disappears* these forms of discrimination & impairs the asylum process. It's the point. And it is evil. Not merely unjust.
The annual State Department human rights report “will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government.”
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...
Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report - LGBTQ Nation
He also removed sections on women, people with disabilities, and government corruption.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I, like many others, rely on these reports & categories to convince Homeland Security of specific country conditions for asylum claims. Without these categories, the State Dept *disappears* these forms of discrimination & impairs the asylum process. It's the point. And it is evil. Not merely unjust.
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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The consequences of destroying USAID: 1M children not treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of TB will go up by 30%. 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next 10yrs
They did it anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They did it anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...
www.propublica.org
March 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The consequences of destroying USAID: 1M children not treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of TB will go up by 30%. 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next 10yrs
They did it anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They did it anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
I spent the day at Latinx mini-mercados, laundries, and grocery stores handing out red cards abt immigrant rights (& what to do if agents show up). The appreciation was so intense and palpable. May sound self congratulatory, but it was by far the best way to get over this awful what-do-we do-slump.
February 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I spent the day at Latinx mini-mercados, laundries, and grocery stores handing out red cards abt immigrant rights (& what to do if agents show up). The appreciation was so intense and palpable. May sound self congratulatory, but it was by far the best way to get over this awful what-do-we do-slump.
This gives me *some* hope.
Can we imagine Global Health without the USA at its centre?
speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/14/s...
speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/14/s...
“Stop looking north, look to the world”. Can we imagine Global Health without the USA at its centre?
How should the world respond when a single country’s power and influence are so deeply embedded in global structures that its actions can destabilise entire systems?
speakingofmedicine.plos.org
February 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This gives me *some* hope.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Democracy doesn’t run on vibes. Do something that matters.
☎️ Call your representative and defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
☎️ Call your representative and defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ⭑ 5 Calls
After the devastating 2008 financial crisis, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an independent agency that enforces …
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February 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Democracy doesn’t run on vibes. Do something that matters.
☎️ Call your representative and defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
☎️ Call your representative and defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
And then there's this. 🥺
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
And then there's this. 🥺
This. This is a miracle: My father's house was saved. What burned was a shed, equipment room, and a hillside. And only feet from the main house (as you can see). I still can't believe it. #palisadesfire
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This. This is a miracle: My father's house was saved. What burned was a shed, equipment room, and a hillside. And only feet from the main house (as you can see). I still can't believe it. #palisadesfire
Thinking of everyone in the Castaic lake area. These 🔥 are the worst.
January 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thinking of everyone in the Castaic lake area. These 🔥 are the worst.
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Hard to describe the level of nausea I feel watching Dems pivot from "he's a fascist who will end this country" to "we're just gonna see where we can be bipartisan and avoid picking fights" in one month flat
December 18, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Hard to describe the level of nausea I feel watching Dems pivot from "he's a fascist who will end this country" to "we're just gonna see where we can be bipartisan and avoid picking fights" in one month flat
So, we're starting with polio, huh?
December 14, 2024 at 5:52 AM
So, we're starting with polio, huh?
NC folx: pay attention!
Years ago, North Carolina's private school voucher program (advertised as "Opportunity Scholarships") was marketed as expanding opportunity for a highly diverse group of children. But that is no longer the case.
Credit: @ps1nc.bsky.social
Credit: @ps1nc.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 6:15 AM
NC folx: pay attention!
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Ah, the faces of cowardice.
December 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Ah, the faces of cowardice.
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Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family.
Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family.
Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou