Katie Skeen, PhD

educational thread 🧵

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

that they allowed Trump into the WH TWICE! It’s the racism! Period! That is why yall spent the entire campaign saying the Vice President of the United States, the most qualified candidate of the bunch, the smartest person in the room, voted in by the largest majority in history, had not earned it.

Ireland elects a leftist who campaigned on economic justice, Gaza Catherine Connolly, an independent endorsed by Sinn Fein, campaigned on calls for urgent domestic reform with an unflinching critique of Israel’s war in Gaza.

BREAKING Ireland elects independent Catherine Connolly president. The Sinn Fein-backed leftist campaigned on economic justice at home, fury over Gaza

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

A 1981 black and white photo of Tim Mellon, from the NYT story. He is wearing a nametag and a tie with Christmas trees.

Congratulations to Tim Mellon, the far right billionaire who just volunteered to become the literal poster child for ads about billionaires whose tax cuts are a primary reason why the govt is shut down.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Restaurant owner gives free meals to active military during shutdown—now ICE is forcing her to deport.

She owns Tacos El Fluffy with her son—a U.S. Navy veteran.

Her work visa has been revoked—forced to self deport by end of month.

Son announced that he will have to close the restaurant for now.

Jay Jacobs: “I might resign”
New Yorkers: “When, soon?”

definitely discussing the Louvre heist

The idea that you’d wish for perfectly sealed territorial borders, something impossible and also associated with the worst regimes in history, and also claim they are the norm? And also “easy”? Gtfo

Right, anyone saying this "buys" the military is wrong (it's chump change!), but it does buy a nice bit of propaganda and the appearance of largesse.

1. that's not how this works

2. this is, like, six hours of pay

3. this is clearly Trump trying to message to the military that they are his personal army and reliant on his largesse

4. they're probably lying about this donation even existing

5. that's really not how any of this works!

hey you want to take a guess what the single most common occupation for working people who get SNAP benefits is

(it's home health aide)

In Gary, Indiana this morning—

Community members have gathered in protest of ongoing ICE flights.

This small, sleepy airport is where many captives from the Chicago area detention center are transported (frequently in the middle of the night) as the next step in the deportation pipeline.

Babies KNOW.

Bribes. These are bribes. Bribes all the way down.

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

It's so much worse than I thought.

OMG please fund SEPTA already @pasenate.com

Please, please do not minimize that being against beards in the military is very specifically racist (because the shaving requirement hurts Black men).
This fact keeps getting lost.

The 1937 movie In Old Chicago shows how the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 started: An overly sensitive nursing cow -- who knew how to break the fourth wall. #chicago #greatchicagofire

Agree, and I blocked that account. She clearly doesn't know what she's talking about.

Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Dublin Ireland
#Dublin #streetphotography #photography

The election Nazi tattoo guy wants to run in isn't until November 2026, maybe people defending him including but not limited to Bernie fucking Sanders could devote their time to finding a candidate without a Nazi tattoo. That they kept for 20 years knowing it was a Nazi tattoo.

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

For all who celebrate
(20 years ago today):
#southside

SNAP benefits jeopardized by federal government shutdown Most SNAP households have elderly people, children, or individuals with disabilities.

Thanks to a bunch of wealthy fascists and fascist enablers, *2 million* Pennsylvania residents are officially losing their SNAP benefits next month. That includes 500,000 Philadelphians—1 in 3 residents. The GOP fiddles while our people starve

www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

Word to higher ed: DO NOT USE AI ART in your marketing materials unless you want the students and alumni of the humanities depts you just cut to COME FOR YOU and also never make another donation again.

Month #2 in the books and @npr.org got 9 days of 30 where they didn’t normalize fascism. I docked them two days because of egregious normalization of fascism or outright propaganda. So, 7/30 again. Poor form. Let’s see how month #3 does.