Susannah K
@spiralgal.bsky.social
Early childhood mental health professional. Educational equity advocate in my free time. Tired swing state mom
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THIS. Teenage victims have a completely different set of prejudices to deal with. Trust me, I know. Grooming is probably the least understood aspect of child abuse.
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
THIS. Teenage victims have a completely different set of prejudices to deal with. Trust me, I know. Grooming is probably the least understood aspect of child abuse.
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I can’t take election analysts who are spending this week talking about races that’ll be decided in 2026 too seriously when there’s so many decisive elections in 9 days.
My selection of the roughly 185 key ones: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
My selection of the roughly 185 key ones: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
FORGET about 2026 and 2028 for the next 10 days.
Focus on elections in 2025. There are **52,000** of them, according to @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and they all matter.
Focus on elections in 2025. There are **52,000** of them, according to @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and they all matter.
If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029.
The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race.
Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race.
Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
October 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I can’t take election analysts who are spending this week talking about races that’ll be decided in 2026 too seriously when there’s so many decisive elections in 9 days.
My selection of the roughly 185 key ones: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
My selection of the roughly 185 key ones: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Chicago, Illinois, 2025:
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Chicago, Illinois, 2025:
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.
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Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:
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It’s really all we should be talking about today.
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
September 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.
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We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
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“Well I don’t like that study because it doesn't give me the result I want’
September 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Well I don’t like that study because it doesn't give me the result I want’
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a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors.
@theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
@theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
September 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors.
@theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
@theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
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More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota.
Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.)
Voice in Congress: Zero.
Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.
Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.)
Voice in Congress: Zero.
Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota.
Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.)
Voice in Congress: Zero.
Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.
Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.)
Voice in Congress: Zero.
Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.
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This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
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SO MANY KIDS used to die
Improvements in sanitation and vaccines were big, but pasteurization had a big impact too
Pasteurization wasn't mandatory in the US until after WWII (exact year depends on the state)
Improvements in sanitation and vaccines were big, but pasteurization had a big impact too
Pasteurization wasn't mandatory in the US until after WWII (exact year depends on the state)
September 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
SO MANY KIDS used to die
Improvements in sanitation and vaccines were big, but pasteurization had a big impact too
Pasteurization wasn't mandatory in the US until after WWII (exact year depends on the state)
Improvements in sanitation and vaccines were big, but pasteurization had a big impact too
Pasteurization wasn't mandatory in the US until after WWII (exact year depends on the state)
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One thing to understand about America is that our cities have a *million* people of all genders & races who have the energy of the tank man in Tiananmen Square, because they came from communities all over the world that know oppression, that know how to fight authoritarianism, that know solidarity.
Residents of Columbia Heights in Washington DC force out ICE agents trying to kidnap their neighbors
Absolutely f*cking amazing to see the people standing up to the nazis.
Absolutely f*cking amazing to see the people standing up to the nazis.
August 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
One thing to understand about America is that our cities have a *million* people of all genders & races who have the energy of the tank man in Tiananmen Square, because they came from communities all over the world that know oppression, that know how to fight authoritarianism, that know solidarity.
Call your congress people!
CTA: Call Your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators
Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them:
www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them:
www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
![Urgent CTA: RFK Jr Moving to Destroy CDC. Call Your Reps
Hello my name is [$NAME]. I am a constituent calling from [$CITY/TOWN, $ZIPCODE]. I'm calling to urge [the Senator / the Representative] to demand the removal of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary.
RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger not just to the health of the American people but to the entire world. Firing CDC Director Dr. Monarez because she was carrying out her duty to ensure that life-saving, safe, and effective vaccines against COVID, a disease which has killed more than 1.2 million Americans, are available to all Americans is inexcusable. RFK Jr's deliberate, determined campaign to undermine the public health mission of CDC has caused the principled resignations of four other senior CDC leaders, including the expert who heads the national center that combats emerging infectious disease — the top CDC official in charge of preventing bird flu from killing millions of us. RFK Jr. is compromising the biosecurity and national security of the United States and endangering me and my family.
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August 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Call your congress people!
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Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder?
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder?
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
August 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
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Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post.
Below is his full resignation letter.
You should read every word.
This is a truly scary moment for public health in America.
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Below is his full resignation letter.
You should read every word.
This is a truly scary moment for public health in America.
1/2
August 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post.
Below is his full resignation letter.
You should read every word.
This is a truly scary moment for public health in America.
1/2
Below is his full resignation letter.
You should read every word.
This is a truly scary moment for public health in America.
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This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
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Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984.
The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.
The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.
August 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984.
The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.
The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.
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that the phrases “intentionally destroying the economy” and “worst economic president of our lifetimes” arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode
August 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
that the phrases “intentionally destroying the economy” and “worst economic president of our lifetimes” arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode
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What Danielle said.
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
A thing I really need people to keep in mind: 15% tariffs are high, historically speaking. 10% tariffs are high.
The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!
The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!
August 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What Danielle said.
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%