“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people." From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A reminder to follow journalists, today and every day. If you say you're going to have disability representation in an article on a disability topic, interview a disabled person, not a non-disabled parent. Their perspectives don't count as disability representation.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

“Keep your head down, follow without questioning, adjust field of study” It’s alarming how many academics are already lining up to join this camp and publicly recruiting others to do the same, including US citizens and profs with tenure.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Like a small seed breaking through the earth to find life...🌱 Every £25 you give becomes a seed of hope — growing into food on my children’s table and safety in their hearts.😓 Please, donate or share — every act of kindness keeps us going. 🧡 gofund.me/c3d22e1ce

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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Scotland 2025 A study of 13 people with Long COVID found every participant lost income, many faced job loss, rising costs and barriers to benefits. 8% of adults report Long COVID, with highest rates in deprived communities. www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

The occupation army has created only safe zone in Gaza, the block where we are staying is not safe at all 😭 Now I don’t know what to do because the situation is truly getting worse 😭 I urgently need your help 🙏 I don’t want to lose anyone I beg you 💔 gofund.me/a6c3afa5c @mommunism.bsky.social 😭🙏

This is so tragic and preventable. “Although they recovered from the initial measles illness, the child developed and ultimately died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE - a rare but universally fatal complication that can occur in individuals who had measles early in life”

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

Hawaii’s health insurers say they will cover COVID vaccinations for anyone older than six months, despite new FDA guidance that says children and healthy adults don’t need the shots.

The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.

After RFK Jr. says he doesn’t know how many people died from Covid and doesn’t know how many lives were saved from the Covid vaccine because the CDC data was too bad, Sen. Mark Warner: “How can you be that ignorant?”

Just got my author copy of the NursingClio reader! Please everyone get like 12 copies and support the incredible work of @nursingclio.bsky.social!!

Medscape: 'Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard' 'Jeffrey Siegelman, MD, contracted COVID-19 in August 2020 and, 3 months later...he’s still dealing with the symptoms, as one of many healthcare providers who have long COVID.' www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Wear a fucking mask people. I’m so sick of your ignorance. It’s willful. Get on the boat or you’re going to drown. And this is the last lifeboat. There’s room for all, because it’s an analogy… but you’re really just drowning yourself if you don’t reach for the line we’ve been throwing you.

However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Remember last year when those of us who thought Covid contrarians are a danger to our society were treated like we were crazy. Oh, remember the days when Vinay Prasad had no real influence on vaccine policy.

Ngl I have really mixed feelings about everyone suddenly caring that the CDC is abandoning everyone NOW, while these same people were cool with a "back to normal" that effectively brought back ugly laws.

This is how a real leader acts. A real leader does not quit and run. www.chronicle.com/article/gmu-...

I designed this lecture on the history and politics of crime data to be an educational tool for classes and political ed. It’s organized in sections that can be taught separately if needed. And, of course, it emphasizes the early criticisms of crime data by Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. Du Bois.

"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."

I feel very fortunate that I work at a place where I don't have to both sides people losing Medicaid.

You know how much faculty stress could be avoided by just consulting faculty first before forcing unwanted and expensive technology on them? So much. There is literally no upside to pouring money into tech faculty will have to work hard to avoid (dreaded "smart"boards in my uni).

*activates glowing red laser eyes in anti-imperialist* GOOD

The most important part of this article, to me, is the end. It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.” Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5) www.bmj.com/content/390/...

A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

In the next essay in our Color of Long COVID series, supported by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's Disability Visibility Project, Jermaine Greaves writes about how managing #LongCOVID taught him to breathe, have patience, and understand what he can and cannot do. bit.ly/45kLtXN

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Did you miss yesterday's #CoffeeWithACodex with @lisafdavis.bsky.social, featuring the realistic facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript? Fear not! It was recorded, and I just posted it to YouTube. Take an almost-look at one of the world's most inscrutable manuscripts. youtu.be/LlwjwLYTJug

Just remembered my villain origin story, which is when I was on the academic job market and I went to a senior scholar for advice and he said "can't your boyfriend just get you a job?"

Man hates ethics and hates the idea of anyone being taught to read critically enough to question his research. Just go work in industry if you wanna do unethical sketchy shit.

2025… when you have to rely on buzzfeed for accurate health information. At least someone is calling Covid what it actually is: “The largest mass disabling event in human history” Consider this your reminder to wear a mask (ideally an N95 or better), clean the air and get your vaccines!

"We need to unyoke ourselves, the humanities are dragging us down!" says the man whose work is subsidized by an army of lesser-paid humanities professors and TAs who can teach and research, if necessary, with the supplies found in my backpack in 1994.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u

Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point. Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.

I could say the same about Long Covid and the millions of children who will suffer the proliferation of cancer, vascular disease, immune dysfunction, kidney and liver disease as the result of repeated infections from SARS-CoV-2. Adults live in denial about what they’re doing to their own kids.

lmao this is so good for mamdani

One of my mentors has a new book and it looks amazing. www.ucpress.edu/books/slaver...

I have literally never used ChatGPT to do anything. Gonna start a chastity club.

The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Once more, since it seems to go unsaid all too often: famine, disease and disability work in insidious ways to exacerbate each other. And this ‘explanation’ implies that a disabled child having severe malnutrition is ‘fine’ because he’s disabled. It’s depraved.

We are not going down without a fight. I'm not giving up on SNAP and Medicaid and neither should you.