Kay Hatlestad
kaywh.bsky.social
Kay Hatlestad
@kaywh.bsky.social
a retired engineer, lifetime Girl Scout, cat lady, and traveler.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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ICE is targeting children. This is disgusting, inhumane, and it’s something that should deeply, deeply upset you.
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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What happens when you put a bunch of humanists in a hotel room? 🧐

An educational course on humanism, obviously.

Humanism 101 launches this week on YouTube: youtube.com/humanistvision
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Please join us in congratulating Clean Energy Works fellow, Erik Hatlestad for his inclusion on 2025’s Grist 50, an annual list of climate and justice leaders to watch and highlights the accomplishments that are moving the clean energy economy forward.
October 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Liam was detained by the state. Vance didn’t demand his release. He defended the machinery that traumatizes children.
That’s not leadership that’s moral bankruptcy.

If a child scares you, your politics are garbage.

History will remember the cruelty & who defended it.
#DefendersofDemocracy
#SheShed
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Fight Back With Friends! Monthly Call To Action” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Going LIVE with @karenattiah.bsky.social at 1:30 pm ET to talk about why her "Race and Media" was so scary, terrifying, and threatening that Columbia University had to cancel it, and how to fight back against the erasure of our stories and communities.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-c...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
karenattiah.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My photos from St. Paul's #HandsOff protest on Saturday. photos.app.goo.gl/Az6KF8Xm4R84...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Democratic Representatives voting to censure Al Green:

Ami Bera (Calif.)
Ed Case (Hawaii)
Jim Costa (Calif.)
Laura Gillen (N.Y.)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.)
Jim Himes (Conn.)
Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.)
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Jared Moskowitz (Fla.)
Tom Suozzi (N.Y.)
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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We’re being gaslit, folks.
I’m not down with this!

These Democrats voted with Republicans to censure Al Green:

- Ami Bera (CA)
- Ed Case (HI)
- Jim Costa (CA)
- Laura Gillen (NY)
- Jim Himes (CT)
- Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
- Marcy Kaptur (OH)
- Jared Moskowitz (FL)
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
- Tom Suozzi (NY)
March 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
March 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Heather Cox Richardson's letters are always worthwhile. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
December 1, 2024
Over the holiday weekend, President-elect Trump continued to name the people he wants in his incoming administration.
substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Former Israeli Defense Minister Yaalon is right.

Netanyahu's government is committing war crimes & ethnic cleansing in Gaza. You don't fight terrorism by starving people & killing tens of thousands of civilians.

I hope more Israeli military leaders will join him in speaking up.
December 3, 2024 at 12:39 AM