dr.kwittman
@kwittman.bsky.social
Community eng.+sustainability pro & historian. Knitter, runner, & adoptee rights activist. Cubs fan & cat mom. MS-born, Midwesterner at heart. Étudiante 🇫🇷.
Interests: history of integration @ community colleges.
she/her/dr.
Interests: history of integration @ community colleges.
she/her/dr.
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The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
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I thought this was a really good OpEd. Sort of an open letter to people around the world shocked and dismayed by US foreign policy under Trump, written by a wise, knowledgeable and insightful American. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
For most of the world, the US is now a malign actor
While many may be tempted to cut the U.S. off as an ally and partner, I hope our friends don’t give up on us so easily.
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I thought this was a really good OpEd. Sort of an open letter to people around the world shocked and dismayed by US foreign policy under Trump, written by a wise, knowledgeable and insightful American. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
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incredible things happening at the nazi bar
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
incredible things happening at the nazi bar
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“…USA is a place that people fear… don’t trust … it’s no longer a destination… it’s a place to be AVOIDED.”
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“…USA is a place that people fear… don’t trust … it’s no longer a destination… it’s a place to be AVOIDED.”
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What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
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As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
Many of us who have had our identities and legal documents altered without our consent due to adoption have had trouble registering to vote, getting a Real ID, or obtaining a passport. The failure of any admin to hear or protect adopted people is yet another failure that is causing immense harm.
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Many of us who have had our identities and legal documents altered without our consent due to adoption have had trouble registering to vote, getting a Real ID, or obtaining a passport. The failure of any admin to hear or protect adopted people is yet another failure that is causing immense harm.
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Not even installed right!
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The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion Hell
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December 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.
Absolutely not.
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Absolutely not.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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she’s so good at eating treats too fast and then vomiting somewhere I can never immediately find. olympic-level, once in a generation talent.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
she’s so good at eating treats too fast and then vomiting somewhere I can never immediately find. olympic-level, once in a generation talent.
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The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
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I genuinely do not understand why ‘RFK Jr wants to kill thousands of American kids and make millions sick’ isn’t in the news basically every day. Also, why are Republicans OK with killing kids? Is it because they’re so busy covering for pedophiles that they’ve given up on kids entirely?
Breaking news: Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary RFK Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots are behind the rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders.
RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I genuinely do not understand why ‘RFK Jr wants to kill thousands of American kids and make millions sick’ isn’t in the news basically every day. Also, why are Republicans OK with killing kids? Is it because they’re so busy covering for pedophiles that they’ve given up on kids entirely?
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Last week we launched our new collection to visualize a thousand years of the trident, or tryzub, in Ukrainian.
Today, just in time for Christmas, we're bringing this history to your home with exclusive blankets and gift wrapping paper.
Order now: store.kyivindependent.com/collections/...
Today, just in time for Christmas, we're bringing this history to your home with exclusive blankets and gift wrapping paper.
Order now: store.kyivindependent.com/collections/...
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Last week we launched our new collection to visualize a thousand years of the trident, or tryzub, in Ukrainian.
Today, just in time for Christmas, we're bringing this history to your home with exclusive blankets and gift wrapping paper.
Order now: store.kyivindependent.com/collections/...
Today, just in time for Christmas, we're bringing this history to your home with exclusive blankets and gift wrapping paper.
Order now: store.kyivindependent.com/collections/...
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Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
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Let's say ... 88%
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Let's say ... 88%
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NC prison officials say “shifting economic conditions” forced them to raise their markup on basic goods like food, drinks, batteries to run radios, etc
Phill Smith, who’s incarcerated there, reports on the impact of the price hike and how prisons squeeze revenue from those who can least afford it
Phill Smith, who’s incarcerated there, reports on the impact of the price hike and how prisons squeeze revenue from those who can least afford it
North Carolina Prison Officials Raise Prices for Those Who Can Least Afford It - Bolts
It’s 4:30 pm on a Monday as Colell Steele stands in front of the closed canteen window at Neuse Correctional, a medium-custody prison in North Carolina. He’s lined up to... Read More
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December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
NC prison officials say “shifting economic conditions” forced them to raise their markup on basic goods like food, drinks, batteries to run radios, etc
Phill Smith, who’s incarcerated there, reports on the impact of the price hike and how prisons squeeze revenue from those who can least afford it
Phill Smith, who’s incarcerated there, reports on the impact of the price hike and how prisons squeeze revenue from those who can least afford it
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A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Monday 01 December 2025
0000-0000 UTC
7pm-7pm EDT
4pm-4pm PDT
* At least 18 planes used.
* (2) Coast Guard C-27s.
* Journey Aviation N588AT flew to Nigeria.
* Journey Aviation N588TN flew to South Africa.
Monday 01 December 2025
0000-0000 UTC
7pm-7pm EDT
4pm-4pm PDT
* At least 18 planes used.
* (2) Coast Guard C-27s.
* Journey Aviation N588AT flew to Nigeria.
* Journey Aviation N588TN flew to South Africa.
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Monday 01 December 2025
0000-0000 UTC
7pm-7pm EDT
4pm-4pm PDT
* At least 18 planes used.
* (2) Coast Guard C-27s.
* Journey Aviation N588AT flew to Nigeria.
* Journey Aviation N588TN flew to South Africa.
Monday 01 December 2025
0000-0000 UTC
7pm-7pm EDT
4pm-4pm PDT
* At least 18 planes used.
* (2) Coast Guard C-27s.
* Journey Aviation N588AT flew to Nigeria.
* Journey Aviation N588TN flew to South Africa.