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Katie Skeen, PhD

@skeen.bsky.social

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Cold-eyed warm-hearted editor researcher mother radical optimist. 🩷NYChicagoDublinPhiladelphia🩷 I was on Jeopardy! the week that Alex Trebek shaved off his mustache.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 7h

My dad, a white South African who's almost 90, was out there today.

Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 17h

We hold theſe truths to be ſelf-evident.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 18h

My 14 year old niece came up with this one.
So true.
#NoKings

Poster: A King does not become a king until we bow down.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 18h

My Gritty sign got more nods last time (it's PHILLY); I'm so happy Bluesky nerds are showing up for this one!

Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 22h

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

sign says "I said no kings" in eighteenth-century typeface

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 18h

Please do! This nerd needs company! 😂

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks!

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks!

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Janneken @janneken.org · 18h

Entry to Independence Mall. #nokings Philly overthrew kings before and we will do it again.

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🐸 Helen Kennedy 🐸 @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 20h

NYC #nokings

Jubilant atmosphere in Times Square - and so many good signs

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks! My PhD is in 18C!

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 19h

Hand made sign on cardboard “Protesting for free since 1773”

Reverse. NO KINGS. And text from Declaration of Independence

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!!

Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 22h

6ABC has been pretty great actually. Local news is more on the ball than the national news orgs right now.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 22h

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 23h

#MichaelBender & #AlanBlinder at @nytimes.com keep describing Trump’s extortion of universities as “negotiations.” They’ve now become odiously complicit. When you have a gun to your head it’s not negotiations. Their refusal to speak the truth is journalistic malpractice. Do better boys.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

Remarkably swift passage of Everett teen into deportation system showcases ICE reach and efficiency

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 2d

Look for the helpers: Here's how Chicagoans are supporting their neighbors amid ICE raids.

In collaboration w/ @citybureau.bsky.social: blockclubchi.co/3WcaPl8

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 3d

A little something wavy from @larjguy.bsky.social

A colorful vintage tile floor pattern from hexagon tiles.

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Art Martin @gartmartin9.bsky.social · 4d

2013 performance of SOS Band's "Tell me if you still care"--by D'Angelo and Questlove. pretty impossible to top
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIaU...

D’ANGELO & QUESTLOVE - TELL ME IF YOU STILL CARE by SOS BAND - Okayplayer live

YouTube video by Anastasia Fedorova

www.youtube.com

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 4d

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 4d

A colleague was just chased out of the country with death threats for doing scholarship on fascism, and the Ruckers preznit responds with a MAGA-coded piece about "cancel culture"? I didn't have high hopes for him, but was willing to give him a chance. The mofo just wasted it when it mattered most.

Rutgers president: Cancel culture is not an antidote. Universities must keep free speech.

William F. Tate IV: Protecting free speech, as we do at Rutgers, does not mean endorsing every view expressed on campus.

www.nj.com

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KatNish @katnish16.bsky.social · 4d

Way to go Yamamoto! Complete game!

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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 5d

Listening to him for an hour, I genuinely don't think Klein has ever thought about where his bright lines are.

Every job I've ever had, I've figured out in advance what would make me quit. I've made plenty of compromises in my life, but *I know where my lines are.* And I'm not shy abt them!

10/n

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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 5d

Philly is the best city in the United States to be in if you’re a living artist who doesn’t come from generations of family wealth. 🦅

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