Essential context for what is happening in Portland and Trump's declaration of war against us. Note that it's *local law enforcement* accusing the feds of incitement.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

🐌📖🎊🥳 I’m thrilled my piece, Snail’s Pace: The Art of Cripping Time is featured in THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, is available now! Edited by @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, this anthology is filled with art, poems, and essays by so many amazing writers! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Join us for a call party to contact our elected officials about upcoming telehealth legislation on September 17th at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET. Please feel free to invite friends and allies! RSVP here: ow.ly/6Gnw50WNS1E #pwME #disability #Telehealth #MECFS #LongCovid

It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Coming October 2025... A labor of love, and in exquisite company. The Annual Review of Anthropology this year is gonna be a banger.

I am so proud I can hardly stand it: www.comstocksmag.com/article/youn...

All new guest essay for the Disability Visibility Project by Leah Harris and Liat Ben-Moshe: Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/13/u...

If you want to read about the legal structure (i.e. lack of consumer protection) that puts people at the mercy of this perfunctory, dangerous theater of expertise, some colleagues and I wrote this a few years ago. Based in first-hand knowledge: ceur-ws.org/Vol-2657/pap... ceur-ws.org/Vol-2657/pap...

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

In 2013, the Obama administration introduced a goal for federal contractors to work towards having 7 percent disabled employees. Now, as I reported for @motherjones.com, the Trump administration is working to undo this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Can confirm from personal experience that ableism is also rife for disabled pregnant people in UK

More about the film here roxie.com/film/life-af...

Bay Area folks, I'm going to be moderating a panel on August 10 for the documentary film "Life After," which explores how "right to die" can be very ableist. The great @sfdirewolf.bsky.social will be on the panel with director Reid Davenport. Tickets here ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/185...

I've previously written about the harms of mask ban, and we'd very much like to do a scene report featuring people who are masking in a place with a mask ban! We can discuss ID (potential for first name only). Pls repost!!!

If you didn’t read this yesterday, you darn sure should today.

Trump’s views on disability fits disturbingly well to the social Darwinist and eugenicist tendencies in the MAHA movement.

Calling this “shocking” says a lot. Not news, Psychology Today. We’ve known this, ask any support group.

Beautifully argued and researched, Violet Affleck. A+ from this disabled professor! yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

Dude, I just cannot listen to WH spokeswoman Barbie anymore. It's like they took the meanest mean girl from high school, slapped her in an Emily Gilmore suit and told her to see if she could break the world record for smug. 🤮

My interview with Anne Ursu is up on Lit Hub!

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is [email protected].

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Theories as to why 47 has chosen DOLLS as the thing that all us poor folks need to reign in our spending on, the thing he’s getting all fake-moral “rational dad” about in these inane interviews where he sounds like a car salesman who huffed rug cleaner? I have mine but want to hear others. GO!

Glad this research is being published and with all due respect, a lot of us having a mental convo with researchers that goes “Ya, no duh. We’ve been saying this about LC since 2020 and the other conditions for a lot longer…” Onward. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"This also raises the question of a possible shared pathophysiology in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, postural tachycardia syndrome, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, & #hypermobility spectrum disorders with LC." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EDS #Disability #CripCoop

Scoop: Democrats have introduced an official inquiry into the decision to closure of the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled and aging adults remain independent. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main... #Palestine #Israel

For the fatherhood medal you need to either have five children with three wives or a legion with a mysterious number of surrogates.

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

To RFK, from all of us: "We stand absolutely as one with this degenerate art. In it reside all the hopes of the future." "Long Live Degerate Art," Art and Liberty Group, Cairo, 1938. Also, f*ck you.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Care at the End of the World" by Jina B. Kim, which develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a #disabilitystudies lens to bear on literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. buff.ly/hr1teOD

NEW: Of the 7,837 disputed procedures in the lawsuit, involving 1,680 patients, Blue Cross paid this breast cancer center about 9 cents on the dollar, paying $43M on invoices totaling $500M. Some 60% of the claims weren’t reimbursed at all.

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

This. I’m so glad someone else is saying this <3

BREAKING: Groups sue the Social Security Administration over actions making life harder for people w/ disabilities. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Preliminary injunction motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Memo: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

20% off The Disabled Anthropologist at Routledge!

"Forced sterilization laws are a really powerful example of how violations of disabled people’s bodies and rights are baked into our legal system today.” For @motherjones.com, I reported on how disabled people continue to be forcibly sterilized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Jon Oliver declared Mark Zuckerberg’s rap name “Little Broccoli,” and folks, that was the laugh I needed. No offense to broccoli.

We are excited to announce that @newdisabledsouth.org is launching the Black Disability Institute’s Anthology Series, uplifting stories on Black disability & mental health! ⏳Submit by April 30, 2025 🔗Submit your story here: bit.ly/BDIstory 📄 Full RFP and details here: bit.ly/BDIrfp

“Freedom minimizes coercion,” says billionaire who gave an ultimatum to an editor to either do as he says with enthusiasm or resign

time.com/7260543/medi... From my good friend and ally, the brilliant Danilyn Rutherford.

Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight.

✨Autotheories✨ mitpress.mit.edu/978026255229... Out now! You can read my essay “Autoethnography, Undone: Toward a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism.” Or Judith Butler’s chapter. You know, whatevs. Grateful to editors Vilashini Coopan and Alex Brostoff.

The toll of climate disasters is a direct consequence of decades of disinvestment in the communities most vulnerable to crises. @zacariasm.bsky.social reports on how many disabled & elderly residents were abandoned during California wildfires. prismreports.org/2025/02/19/d...

JUST IN: Catholic Bishops sue over Trump suspension of refugee admissions. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...