Katherine Roberts
@kroberts.bsky.social
American in London - Second World War nursing historian - museums education enthusiast - she/her
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Relatedly, something I've been talking about since the first Indivisible events: stop taking photos of people who aren't you, stop taking photos of crowds, stop taking photos where faces are discernible UNLESS you're taking a photo of official misdeeds. Otherwise, you ARE the surveillance state.
Don't sit or kneel in front of riot cops. Sitting puts your head at rubber bullet height. Sitting makes it hard to run away from vehicle attacks.
Don't point protesters out to the cops. Don't hand protesters over to the cops.
Mind your business. What did you see? You didn't see shit.
Don't point protesters out to the cops. Don't hand protesters over to the cops.
Mind your business. What did you see? You didn't see shit.
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Relatedly, something I've been talking about since the first Indivisible events: stop taking photos of people who aren't you, stop taking photos of crowds, stop taking photos where faces are discernible UNLESS you're taking a photo of official misdeeds. Otherwise, you ARE the surveillance state.
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I think a lot of people today are so far removed from the past that they forget that infant mortality was once so high that it skewed life expectancy down to 35.
Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.
They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you
June 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I think a lot of people today are so far removed from the past that they forget that infant mortality was once so high that it skewed life expectancy down to 35.
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Good to see a shift in WORDS from congressional Republicans – now let’s see ACTIONS.
The GOP must end their vacation, bring the House back to Washington, and work with us to stop the shutdown of health care that’s looming for 24 million Americans.
Democrats have BEEN ready to get to work.
The GOP must end their vacation, bring the House back to Washington, and work with us to stop the shutdown of health care that’s looming for 24 million Americans.
Democrats have BEEN ready to get to work.
October 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Good to see a shift in WORDS from congressional Republicans – now let’s see ACTIONS.
The GOP must end their vacation, bring the House back to Washington, and work with us to stop the shutdown of health care that’s looming for 24 million Americans.
Democrats have BEEN ready to get to work.
The GOP must end their vacation, bring the House back to Washington, and work with us to stop the shutdown of health care that’s looming for 24 million Americans.
Democrats have BEEN ready to get to work.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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The largest group in ICE detention is now immigrants with no criminal record, with more than 16,500 currently being held.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about going after the “worst of the worst.”
This was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about going after the “worst of the worst.”
This was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The largest group in ICE detention is now immigrants with no criminal record, with more than 16,500 currently being held.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about going after the “worst of the worst.”
This was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about going after the “worst of the worst.”
This was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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"'Just months after slashing funding for the World Trade Center Health Program that cares for survivors and first responders, President Trump now wants to take over the 9/11 Memorial [and] Museum,' [Governor Kathy] Hochul said in a statement."
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
Bloomberg v. Trump? Fight brews over 9/11 museum as NYC eyes 25th anniversary of attacks. https://gothamist.com/news/bloomberg-v-trump-fight-brews-over-911-museum-as-nyc-eyes-25th-anniversary-of-attacks
Bloomberg v. Trump? Fight brews over 9/11 museum as NYC eyes 25th anniversary of attacks.
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan
President Trump is looking into turning the memorial and museum into a national park, but will likely find a formidable challenger in former Mayor Mike Bloomberg. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"'Just months after slashing funding for the World Trade Center Health Program that cares for survivors and first responders, President Trump now wants to take over the 9/11 Memorial [and] Museum,' [Governor Kathy] Hochul said in a statement."
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
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September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The right wing believes that violence is bad when it happens to them, but when it happens to people they deem undesirable to society they not only don’t have a problem with it but they actively reward the people who carry it out
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The right wing believes that violence is bad when it happens to them, but when it happens to people they deem undesirable to society they not only don’t have a problem with it but they actively reward the people who carry it out
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The Dems can “condemn” violence all they want. The right-wing establishment is still going to target them any opportunity they get. Any liberal condemnations just expedite the process of justifying their own destruction.
September 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Dems can “condemn” violence all they want. The right-wing establishment is still going to target them any opportunity they get. Any liberal condemnations just expedite the process of justifying their own destruction.
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Regardless of your feelings on the shooting, there's no doubt that Trump didn't need it to continue enacting mass political violence against the civilian population.
Political violence is committed every day against protestors, immigrants, and trans people, and they rarely get any justice.
Political violence is committed every day against protestors, immigrants, and trans people, and they rarely get any justice.
I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Regardless of your feelings on the shooting, there's no doubt that Trump didn't need it to continue enacting mass political violence against the civilian population.
Political violence is committed every day against protestors, immigrants, and trans people, and they rarely get any justice.
Political violence is committed every day against protestors, immigrants, and trans people, and they rarely get any justice.
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I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
September 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
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MAGA lawmakers are now pushing a bill to criminalize homelessness in D.C., threatening those who sleep outside with imprisonment. The measure would give Trump greater power to disappear the city’s homeless population under his military occupation of Washington.
Comer Announces Full Committee Markup of Legislation to Ensure a Safe and Prosperous District of Columbia - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
oversight.house.gov
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
MAGA lawmakers are now pushing a bill to criminalize homelessness in D.C., threatening those who sleep outside with imprisonment. The measure would give Trump greater power to disappear the city’s homeless population under his military occupation of Washington.
So a malignant white supremacist got shot today. Anyways, here’s the obituary for Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota lawmaker, who was assassinated in June and who had spent her life trying to build something better as opposed to trying to tear everything down. Let’s remember Melissa
bit.ly/4n0NoXR
bit.ly/4n0NoXR
DFL Leader Melissa Hortman: A political force known for ambitious goals, adept ways
Political leaders, family and friends will gather Friday at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to Hortman. She was remembered for her calm demeanor, strategic thinking and lasting impact on Minnesot...
www.mprnews.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
So a malignant white supremacist got shot today. Anyways, here’s the obituary for Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota lawmaker, who was assassinated in June and who had spent her life trying to build something better as opposed to trying to tear everything down. Let’s remember Melissa
bit.ly/4n0NoXR
bit.ly/4n0NoXR
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As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal.
With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.
(Published 2023)
With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.
(Published 2023)
Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t.
As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.
www.propublica.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal.
With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.
(Published 2023)
With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.
(Published 2023)
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history
The Trump regime’s campaign of whitewashing US history has reached the halls of the Smithsonian museums, with exhibits dealing with slavery, the civil rights movement, and other struggles against oppr...
act.indivisible.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
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The Israeli military is deliberately massacring groups of journalists as it is threatening to occupy all of Gaza.
August 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Israeli military is deliberately massacring groups of journalists as it is threatening to occupy all of Gaza.
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The audacity and success of the Collins-Murkowski political strategy of “I was bamboozled and actually oppose every vote I have ever made” never ceases to astound me.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she feels “cheated” after she won a concession in the tax and spending bill to protect wind and solar projects, only to see the Trump administration issue orders that she said seem designed to quash such projects.
Sen. Murkowski, feeling ‘cheated’ by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she’ll go to bat for Alaska projects
Murkowski won a concession in the Big, Beautiful Bill to protect tax credits for 12 months for wind and solar. But she said a recent presidential order and Interior directive undercut those plans.
www.adn.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The audacity and success of the Collins-Murkowski political strategy of “I was bamboozled and actually oppose every vote I have ever made” never ceases to astound me.
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Absolutely having one of those days where I just think if someone could wring out my spine like a towel it would fix a lot of my problems.
July 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Absolutely having one of those days where I just think if someone could wring out my spine like a towel it would fix a lot of my problems.
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Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to show their faces will arrest you because of the color of your skin or even because you spoke out against Trump. And Republicans in Congress just boosted their funding. Call it what it is. It's fascism.
July 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to show their faces will arrest you because of the color of your skin or even because you spoke out against Trump. And Republicans in Congress just boosted their funding. Call it what it is. It's fascism.
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Welp, looks like me and my *checks notes* three UK degrees will most likely be moving back to the States come November 2026 cause with a museum sector salary, those degrees may make me skilled but clearly not skilled enough 🫠
Feeling slightly thrown for a loop finding out about recent changes to the skilled worker visa late last night and not reall seeing much chatter about it elsewhere…
But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮💨
www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...
But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮💨
www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...
Major statement of changes to the Immigration Rules raises Skilled Worker thresholds and ends overseas recruitment of care workers
138-page statement of changes to the Immigration Rules begins White Paper's "complete reset" of the immigration system
www.ein.org.uk
July 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Welp, looks like me and my *checks notes* three UK degrees will most likely be moving back to the States come November 2026 cause with a museum sector salary, those degrees may make me skilled but clearly not skilled enough 🫠