Kathie Friedman-Kasaba
@kathiefriedman.bsky.social
Immigration & Refugee Studies at University of WA. Author of “The Lucky Escape: What Happens When International Humanitarianism Fails” in Care in a Time of Humanitarianism (2024). Also love cooking, mysteries, cats, and Detroit
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This was one of the saddest Thanksgivings I’ve ever had. I’m so grateful for my loving family and the food and company we shared. But the sadness that I feel for so many immigrants and refugees right now is getting close to unbearable.
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This was one of the saddest Thanksgivings I’ve ever had. I’m so grateful for my loving family and the food and company we shared. But the sadness that I feel for so many immigrants and refugees right now is getting close to unbearable.
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Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
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Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction.
The enablers have to feel it.
weaintbuyingit.com
The enablers have to feel it.
weaintbuyingit.com
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction.
The enablers have to feel it.
weaintbuyingit.com
The enablers have to feel it.
weaintbuyingit.com
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Here's how they did the whistles, which include a pamphlet with code for "Alert: ICE in the area" (beep beep beep) and "ICE detaining an neighbor, please come form a crowd" (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep) blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/h...
Hundreds Pack 'Whistlemania' Events To Fight ICE In Chicago: 'We Have To Stand Up For One Another'
Hundreds of neighbors joined Whistlemania events in seven neighborhoods to assemble whistle kits that alert when immigration agents are nearby.
blockclubchicago.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Here's how they did the whistles, which include a pamphlet with code for "Alert: ICE in the area" (beep beep beep) and "ICE detaining an neighbor, please come form a crowd" (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep) blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/h...
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My advice for journalists & election officials: “Think thru possible rumors that might emerge in upcoming elections, identify the misunderstandings those rumors rely upon, & develop [and] deploy prebunking messaging that helps fill in conceptual gaps these rumors & intentional falsehoods exploit.”
August 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My advice for journalists & election officials: “Think thru possible rumors that might emerge in upcoming elections, identify the misunderstandings those rumors rely upon, & develop [and] deploy prebunking messaging that helps fill in conceptual gaps these rumors & intentional falsehoods exploit.”
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New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims
New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
August 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
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"The one thing that we know is that change happens when people are the ones that make it happen." 🌱✨
Dolores Huerta reminds us that even in dark times, hope and action bring the spring.
Watch her powerful words with Diego Luna on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Dolores Huerta reminds us that even in dark times, hope and action bring the spring.
Watch her powerful words with Diego Luna on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
June 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"The one thing that we know is that change happens when people are the ones that make it happen." 🌱✨
Dolores Huerta reminds us that even in dark times, hope and action bring the spring.
Watch her powerful words with Diego Luna on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Dolores Huerta reminds us that even in dark times, hope and action bring the spring.
Watch her powerful words with Diego Luna on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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During a powerful opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, guest host Diego Luna highlighted the essential contributions of immigrants to the U.S.
“There are a lot of lies flying around about immigrants, but I'm sure you have more than one story that can attest to the contrary. Talk about it.”
“There are a lot of lies flying around about immigrants, but I'm sure you have more than one story that can attest to the contrary. Talk about it.”
June 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
During a powerful opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, guest host Diego Luna highlighted the essential contributions of immigrants to the U.S.
“There are a lot of lies flying around about immigrants, but I'm sure you have more than one story that can attest to the contrary. Talk about it.”
“There are a lot of lies flying around about immigrants, but I'm sure you have more than one story that can attest to the contrary. Talk about it.”
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1/🧵 Immigration enforcement report: WA State | May 2025
Our Hotline + Rapid Response teams responded to multiple immigration-related reports in WA. Some confirmed, some not, but all contribute to fear and disruption in our communities. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇
Our Hotline + Rapid Response teams responded to multiple immigration-related reports in WA. Some confirmed, some not, but all contribute to fear and disruption in our communities. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇
June 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
1/🧵 Immigration enforcement report: WA State | May 2025
Our Hotline + Rapid Response teams responded to multiple immigration-related reports in WA. Some confirmed, some not, but all contribute to fear and disruption in our communities. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇
Our Hotline + Rapid Response teams responded to multiple immigration-related reports in WA. Some confirmed, some not, but all contribute to fear and disruption in our communities. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇
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I have a new article out today on Trump's immigration policies 100 days in and will really appreciate if everyone can hang in there while I post about it for the next week+
We put a lot into it so I hope it will be helpful: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...
We put a lot into it so I hope it will be helpful: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...
www.migrationpolicy.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I have a new article out today on Trump's immigration policies 100 days in and will really appreciate if everyone can hang in there while I post about it for the next week+
We put a lot into it so I hope it will be helpful: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...
We put a lot into it so I hope it will be helpful: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...
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It’s easier to tell the story of canceled grants, but the impact of the grants that will never be awarded is going to be far more damaging, especially for junior researchers and sustaining research pipelines.
April 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It’s easier to tell the story of canceled grants, but the impact of the grants that will never be awarded is going to be far more damaging, especially for junior researchers and sustaining research pipelines.
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The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
April 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
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Here’s an article we wrote explaining how we’re misinformed by both bad facts AND faulty frames: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...
Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking
The communicative solution to pervasive misinformation is not better facts, but better frames.
www.cip.uw.edu
April 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Here’s an article we wrote explaining how we’re misinformed by both bad facts AND faulty frames: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...
Hands Off Seattle!
April 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hands Off Seattle!
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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one of these kids grew up to become my elementary school PE teacher. another was the neighbor across the road from us, and another was the strawberry farmer whose fields I played in when we were at my grandparents' house.
#OnThisDay in 1942, Bainbridge Island's Japanese American residents, the first to be incarcerated under Executive Order 9066, were removed from their homes. historylink.org/File/8277
March 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
one of these kids grew up to become my elementary school PE teacher. another was the neighbor across the road from us, and another was the strawberry farmer whose fields I played in when we were at my grandparents' house.
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Everything looks like a conspiracy when you (and your audience) don’t know how anything works.
March 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Everything looks like a conspiracy when you (and your audience) don’t know how anything works.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
March 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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In New Mexico: "ICE hasn’t identified any of the 48 people they arrested, nor indicated where or in what conditions they’re being detained, whether they have access to attorneys or which agency is holding them."
sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/i...
sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/i...
ICE ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say • Source New Mexico
“We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” an ACLU attorney said.
sourcenm.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In New Mexico: "ICE hasn’t identified any of the 48 people they arrested, nor indicated where or in what conditions they’re being detained, whether they have access to attorneys or which agency is holding them."
sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/i...
sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/i...
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!