This case in Santa Barabara highlights how the disabled community is at risk by this administration. The details are traumatizing to read (content warning). This just one of many human rights violations taking place by the Department of Homeland Security.. www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD
@debraguckenheimer.com
Writer, activist, artist, teacher, sociologist, 🥄 , neurodivergent, disabled, queer, single mom. 🏳️🌈 Pronouns: she/they debraguckenheimer.com #livingwithableism #resist
2.3K followers178 following1K posts
This haunts me. While domestic violence organizations are having federal funding slashed, immigrant women are trapped in domestic violence or state violence.
Under Trump, more immigrant survivors are feeling like the violence and abuse they experience behind closed doors is “more tolerable than the violence and abuse they could experience if they tried to leave,” one advocate told ProPublica.
We let a pedophile in charge of detaining children with no oversight. Please let this be our line.
Sen. Ron Wyden rings alarms about kids at the ICE center in Alexandria "at risk of falling into horrific cycles of trafficking," and "Louisiana will be another black box location for the Trump administration to disappear migrant children" www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
Voter suppression - Just one of many attempts by Trump. May we not be deterred.
NEW: The DOJ is reportedly targeting Californians on the list of 20k people it alleged are noncitizens registered to vote in the Golden State. Over two dozen arrests have been made so far, according to a local news outlet — a dangerous escalation in Trump's push to undermine the state's elections.
Hacking voter machines, another way Trump is trying to steal the midterms. This is a continuation of his coup. May this be our line. www.propublica.org/article/cisa...
This reminds me so much of photographs taken in Germany with railway workers going about business as usual as people like my great grandparents were deported to their deaths. Genocide can look like business as usual. What is your line?
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
This is so far beyond my line.
🚨 “We’ve got a president who’s no stranger to the Epstein files leading a Gestapo campaign to round up our most vulnerable population of children," said founder of group protesting new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open at a Louisiana airport. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
Mad about college rape? Trump just made the problem worse. www.hrc.org/press-releas...
In light of Cornell, let's shift prevention education at college from an only one time workshop to academic classes. And find a link to the journal article I coauthored with a student from the course talking about some of the obstacles dealt with. debraguckenheimer.substack.com/p/rape-preve...
It was incredibly challenging leading a classroom in open conversations with the friend and team mate of an accused (and later convicted) rapist along with a group of anti-rape activists, but having a course focused on sexual violence made a huge #cornell www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...
Correction :We are moving in a more violent direction and need to understand where this goes if we don’t change course.
The botched execution of Christa Pike supports what Rev. Jeff Hood, spiritual advisor to the condemned, told us last year: This country's use of capital punishment shows that we, as a society, "have moved in a more violent direction."
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD reposted
People keep calling Trump stupid, but the fact is, this regime has been extremely organized in achieving the goals of the Heritage Foundation & AFPI. Some of these hospitals were in blue states where people support trans care - but the far right was committed, &... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
Berlin's Left party Die Linke wins local elections today. We may have a woman mayor who is reminiscent of Mamdami. I am proud today to be a Berliner. www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/liveb...
The brain is actually 2 separate organs. This is very hopeful for those of us with neurological conditions. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
They are openly planning on cheating the midterms.
🚨 Patel admits agents will be deployed to polling places 👇 WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls? PATEL: Nope W: So you are sending FBI agents? P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance
Researchers, what is happening with changes to IRB? How do we protect abuse of humans in research? www.the-scientist.com/proposed-cha...
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD reposted
Replying to @propublica.org
Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family.
There are concentration camps in the United States. What else will come out in the future? People are being put in cages too small to lay down, with no where to sit or use the bathroom. www.msn.com/en-us/genera...
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD reposted
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD reposted
Replying to @ibramxk.bsky.social
Racism and sexism are old societal cancers. Without the ability to mass-screen the workforce each year for racial and gender inequities, those malignancies are likely to swell and spread unrecognized, undiagnosed, untreated, as they did in 1963. Which is the plan. theemancipator.org/2026/09/10/i...
If there was a significant chance that AI could end humanity, what would you do? eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD reposted
It's not journalism when newspapers repeat obvious lies. The New York Times is propaganda.
Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."
Debra Guckenheimer, PhD reposted
Okay what is this? Why did she decide to have her last interview on this corporate platform by a White man?
Feminist icon and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem shared her last words. The day after her death, Netflix released her episode of Famous Last Words, a series in which Brad Falchuk privately interviews influential people and (cont.) 🧵 www.vulture.com/article/glor...?
Okay what is this? Why did she decide to have her last interview on this corporate platform by a White man?
Feminist icon and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem shared her last words. The day after her death, Netflix released her episode of Famous Last Words, a series in which Brad Falchuk privately interviews influential people and (cont.) 🧵 www.vulture.com/article/glor...?
Compare how this academic is treated in comparison to Professor Jason Arday. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
I know how pervasive both plagiarism from those in power and the way oppression plays out in academia. Can we talk about what resistance looks like as sociologists? debraguckenheimer.substack.com/p/academia-i...
To honor Gloria Steinem, I will continue to find people striving for freedom for all people to live authentically. I will practice hope by engaging in resistance.
"The most important monument to Gloria will not be a statue, an award or even a shelf of remarkable books. It will be the work we—working together—do next," writes Ms. Executive Editor Kathy Spillar.