Boys I have some bad news. They’re finally going to be able to try it

We invite all University of Miami faculty, students, staff, and alumni, to join our letter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"Algorithmic tools force workers to rush their work and ... penalize workers for safe behaviors, like braking suddenly for obstacles or people in the street ... Drivers are then directed to complete remedial lessons on the Mentor apps ... for these infractions"

I appreciate UTMB's efforts to create opportunities for more runners with disabilities and thought the video they showed on the broadcast was great. But now they need to train their English language commentators how to talk about disabilities in a way that isn't offensive.

"Even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month [...] conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting." buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

ICE is getting access to the sensitive data of nearly 80 million Medicaid recipients. @leahfeiger.bsky.social got the agreement! www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...

Zohran Mamdani has already heavily ratio-ed Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ad with a donation link and it’s going up by thousands every minute

Health things that talk about "reversing" chronic diseases (and not put them into remission/managing them) are such red flags. Of course, CHD is a different level of vile.

I have many snarky things to say about this philanthrocapitalist propaganda sponsored by the family that brought you food deserts. But let’s keep it simple. Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.

A heavy week. ICE is targeting people through their medical records, as Alberta sets new COVID policy that would make RFK Jr. blush. This one will stick with you.

Teaching about and against AI means working with students to analyze the connections between AI and environmental racism. In addition, educators, students, and community members can build coalitions for civic actions against Big Tech and its plans for more extractive, harmful infrastructure.

Fears over losing access to medication, the potential impact of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and attacks on resources: For @rewirenewsgroup.com, I spoke to young people about the toll of the Trump administration on mental health and how it is affecting critical resources.

26 #disability activists were arrested last week protesting at the House committee meeting to cut 10 million off of #Medicaid. One of the lead organizers, ADAPT's Mike Oxford, talks to Bob Kafka of Barrier Free Futures. www.ksfr.org/show/barrier...

Let’s not forget the hurricane season is about to start.

Exactly. Like I wrote back in 2013 about Google Glass, we have to pay attention to what the device does to *other* people. Facebook's stupid glasses put EVERYONE ELSE under surveillance without their consent.

Gonna go out on a limb and say we kinda saw it coming www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/h...

Can we start dating the deletions of websites with info on trans, disabled, BIPOC folks?

AI Slop is the aesthetic of contemporary fascism variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Wild to think that a healthcare system based around the question “How much money can we make off of this?” isn’t working.

can’t wait until my apolitically designed police murderbot hits the streets, in an apolitical way www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.

A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism. www.wunc.org/education/20...

Data centers are the new sacrifice zones

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Imagine a world with no Amazon.

many people are saying this

One week later, and the wounds are very, very fresh. Our NSF grant, which focused on educational justice for Black families in Evanston, was illegally canceled. Read more about it here: sepehrvakil.substack.com/p/our-nsf-gr...

NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all. It follows intense pushback from courts across the country. Details TK

$30 million siphoned off the NEA & NEH to build the American Exceptionalism Wax Museum

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This won't be limited to just autism. They're building the panopticon to track anyone with any "undesirable" illness. This is eugenics, full stop.

Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes? Fuck ALL the way off.

🚨SCOOP🚨: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants. They are already cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida, sources tell me. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

Central to my research has been that the pervasive ableism behind vaccination refusal and hesitance has roots as far back as the eighteenth century. The deep fear of disability (especially cognitive or intellectual) as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease is absolutely not new.

🍉 Please help us continue to keep the thousands of eSIMs we bought active so Gazans can connect with the outside world For more: chuffed.org/project/crip...

PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students. bit.ly/CampusLettersTally

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

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Hey, go do this, please. I have health insurance through the ACA, and if this rule went into effect, it would mean that while I'd still be paying a ridiculous amount in premiums, the plans I'd be able to get wouldn't actually cover my health needs.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Fuckkkk this www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

Did this today, though neither @adamschiff.com nor @alexpadilla4ca.bsky.social were picking up. For the phone-shy: say, "I'm calling to register an opinion." They'll ask for your name & zip code, & then you briefly say your piece. They won't argue. They take these calls 100x/day, it's not weird.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

So I wrote a book about Twitter. Medieval Twitter to be exact---the interconnections between Twitter's textual modes & medieval literary culture(s), plus medievalists' use of Twitter and the #MedievalTwitter hashtag www.arc-humanities.org/978194240195... @archumanities.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.