Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We have not been watching, because lately they seem to do better when we don't watch. My husband just turned the game on... 010
Reposted by Karen HAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In addition, there are many other important roles you can fill on our PA Dems voter protection team before, on, and after election day—phone banking, helping voters cure ballot defects, monitoring the vote count and more. Sign up now! We're happy to train you. No experience, no JD required.docs.google.comJoin the PA Dems Voter Protection Team!The PA Dems Voter Protection Team works to ensure that every eligible Pennsylvania voter can cast a ballot, and every ballot counts. Please join us by volunteering in one of the following important ro... 378
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don't believe our children have to sacrifice for our political beliefs. I can fight for what I believe to be right, but those are MY choices. The kids deserve the best I can provide 000
Reposted by Karen HOregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE NEWS: A federal judge just permanently blocked Trump’s attempts to politicize food assistance. Oregon DOJ led this multistate lawsuit, which also protects food assistance for lawful permanent residents. #orpol #breakingnews 8500133
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If we did a national poll with no question, just a choice of YES or NO, what would the results be? 000
Reposted by Karen HDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Greetings, non-Jews in academia! As we start another semester, here's your regularly scheduled reminder that the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up. If you wouldn't schedule an important meeting or exam on Christmas or Easter, don't schedule one on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur. 6521208
Reposted by Karen HEffie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026with alt-text (please alt-text your pics!) 10514210
Reposted by Karen HKate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem 382941730
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Consider the intersection of the Philly Naked Bike Race🚴♂️ and the Philly Bookstore Crawl ...Happy Saturday! 000
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Just returned from a few weeks traveling with a friend who is not on social media. She gets her news from newspaper and magazines rather than the internet. There are many topics I spend a lot of time thinking about that she was unaware of, for example, she had no idea JK Rowling is a transphobe 000
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 05/07/2026It's 1:30 am in Philly. I live 2 miles from the Art Museum so this cannot be the Roots concert, right? But there is music playing so loud my house is vibrating!?! 010
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I don't think they should let producers give acceptance speeches on televised awards shows. Congrats, you are wealthy and your investment paid off. Good job. 100
Reposted by Karen HEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Hey pals! I just ordered a book via Bookshop.org, which is not only *not* Amazon, it actually supports whatever local indie book store you choose - and oh hey! What's this I have here? Why, it's a refer-a-friend code so you can save 20% on your own order! Yay books! 🎉 refer.bookshop.org/wzh2gw22 9545198
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I just learned that "greige" is a new color name that paint companies are using and just ... no 000
Reposted by Karen HDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.nature.comExclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on holdUS science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions. 30893625
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It's 11:35 but I guess I won't be changing the channel to CBS for Colbert 😞 000
Reposted by Karen HElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim. 14036321603
Reposted by Karen Hstefa @stefapie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026It only takes a few minutes to tell the FCC that this sucks 4595429
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I haven't seen a single use case for AI that persuades me to try it. I am sure there are ways for AI to be useful, but I prefer to write my own messages, read my own emails, craft my own poems and interpret things myself. These are interesting things to do and sometimes even bring me joy! 000
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 27/04/2026For someone descended from people who escaped Ukraine more than a century ago and who never wanted to answer questions about the "old country" because of their trauma, this is hard to comprehend 010
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Without saying your age post your favorite movie from the year you turned 18.media.tenor.coma man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is wearing a skeleton tank top .ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is wearing a skeleton tank top . 020
Reposted by Karen HNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12/04/2026GUARDIAN: "Viktor Orbán is now speaking at Fidesz’s election night and he says the election result is “clear” as he concedes defeat." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...theguardian.comHungary election live: Polls in Hungary close in tightly fought election after 16 years under Viktor OrbánPrime minister has been trailing in the polls to Péter Magyar in race that could have repercussions for Europe, the US and Russia 16486165
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Aside from the fact that the Phillies lost, the experience at the ballpark was disappointing because everything (everything!) was sponsored. The Rav 4th Inning. The Burlington coat factory double. The Cadillac Hall of Fame club. I couldn't keep track of it all. It does not enhance the fan experience 000
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Allies at Penn who are not Jewish should join every organization, put their names on those lists at Hillel and Jewish Studies etc 020
Reposted by Karen HThe Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesbuff.lyThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 176124904765
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 28/03/2026After Trump was elected the first time, I was organizing locally for the women's march. My mother scoffed and said she would march when it affected her. I think she reacted this way because she felt a bit guilty for not doing anything. Today, she and my father are at their local No KIngs rally! 010
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 25/03/2026While they try to make the drive easier, the direct train from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh runs only once a day and takes 7+ hours to go 300 miles. They should make the train easier! 020
Reposted by Karen HGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Absolutely astonishing. I don't think many people realize the extent to which the scientific enterprise in America has collapsed over the past 14 months. As someone who covered science funding for the first half of his career, it's almost unfathomable this could happen. 813468
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 04/03/2026not just grandfathers. One set of grandparents had a corner store; the others were an engineer and a teacher. The women in my family always worked 000
Reposted by Karen HAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/ 27709205
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 26/02/2026If you're trans in Kansas, you need $200 to get on a bus to Philadelphia. We would be happy to welcome you here 010
Reposted by Karen HJonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 21/02/2026In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy. /fin 101180254
Reposted by Karen HPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...nytimes.comAlysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time 193635940
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Musk became a US citizen in 2002. He is an immigrant, a naturalized citizen. 110
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 15/02/2026when you think about the men in academia who were hanging with Epstein, remember that these men were gatekeeping at every level. Professors do this: undergraduate mentoring, voting on graduate admissions, graduate mentoring, voting on faculty hiring.. 100
Karen H @karen122.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Lawrence Summers said that! He said that there are "issues of intrinsic aptitude" that explain why there are fewer women faculty in math and science. www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...pbs.orgHarvard President Summers' Remarks About Women in Science, EngineeringHarvard President Lawrence Summers faced intense criticism for remarks he made about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering at a Jan. 14 closed-door conference. 010
