Millions of Americans went without a paycheque. Millions more went without SNAP & endured the trauma of not knowing where their next meal would come from. They suffered because healthcare is worth fighting for. They rewarded the Dems with a blue wave and Schumer just ensured it was for nothing

When I think about how I gave birth without medication, twice, before understanding that I am autistic & have chronic conditions… I get really mad. Nine yrs later I am in PT trying to correct what happened to my body. I love my kids & am happy to have them but there has to be a better way. 1/

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

When I say that I’ve “cut ties with my birth family” what I mean is that “they are part of a cult. I’m not equipped to free them from it & I can no longer bear to struggle with my failure to convince them to reject it.”

Me: This is unsustainable. Friend: … Me: All of it is ready to fall apart. Friend: … Me: My body. Friend: I figured.

Remember: it’s not the building, it’s the symbol. If a symbol built by slaves was replaced with something beautifully conceived, sustainable, and innovative that served the American people and was approved by Congress, that would be something to support. Wanton destruction? Hideously selfish.

A reminder that losing SNAP will be particularly devastating to those whose disabilities require them to have special diets. The disability tax is real. Everything costs more when you’re sick, and special diets are no exception. Boost & donate to mutual aid. People need help.

Starving can cause chronic illness and disabilities. Malnutrition is not to be trifled with. Cutting off SNAP funding will cause people to suffer. Some will get ill. Some may die. There’s no excuse for this. 40 million people rely on that program. It’s a cull.

My rib slips out of place reaching for a glass of water. There’s no better student of anatomy than someone with chronic pain in PT. Please tell me how the fibers of my body *should* be holding it together without me thinking about it & then how to think about it to actually hold things together.

When you say only the “genuinely disabled” should receive support, you’re aiding fascism. When you say people are scamming the system, you’re aiding fascism. Many disabilities are invisible and it’s hard to get support. People aren’t scamming. That’s “useless eater” rhetoric designed to divide.

I geared up for today’s #NoKings because I have a compromised immune system. I was pointed out once as “over the top” because they thought I was worried about tear gas. Nope, just about 1k ppl around me not wearing masks, Long Covid, the flu, and trying to normalize #disability.

Is the little spike of dopamine from a notification worth all the pain social media causes? … I come from a family of addicts and my brain doesn’t make dopamine the average way so I really can’t be trusted with the judgement on that.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

When your hips are misaligned by two inches and your ribs are tapered like a mermaid style wedding dress. I love being the one around for PT students because Hello! I’m the ND person with chronic pain who has stretchy ligaments and carried babies in my body which messed it up. Good luck!

And this is why I have cut ties with my birth family, who believe they are the best type of Christians and could only ever be furious with me for challenging their beliefs.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

I feel sick.

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

I don’t belong here. - me, at work. everyday.

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION. "Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE. Fuck you - fuck you again.

Royalty visited today. Indigenous representation was present on site… symbolically. A flag of the Sami people and a land acknowledgement of the tribes who once cared for this land and were betrayed isn’t enough, but it isn’t nothing. the remarks never touched on current immigration. A shame.

World sad. I’m sad. Sculpture to collect shiny objects makes it bearable. Just.

I will use this column to hype my dude sluggish.ghost.io/a-straight-u...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

2024: my image was part of a project that highlighted National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The project stretched into this year when I talked with the company’s ERG about working as an autistic artist with chronic illness & pain. I’m proud of it. Will NDEAM exist in 2026? #disability

Middle schoolers walked out www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

i actually cannot conceptualize how crazy shit is about to get

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

Just finished “Buffalo Hunter Hunter” and it was a great read. More than that - I’ve retreated from my birth family since 2016, cut them off since 2024. I’ve refused to exonerate them for their choices & it’s the right thing to have done. It wasn’t easy though. The ending… worth it. Always.

Read about #DrIanRoberts in his biography and you will see why he was targeted - a high profile Black man with a background of excellence in a completely mediocre Red State whose elected officials will not fight for him. This is a test case to see what they can get away with in every Red State.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

How to ruin someone’s day: - describe any food that has sauce, spread, or condiments as “wet” and proceed to list wet foods and why they are gross - when they say “ah, but soup is delicious and quite clearly a wet food” tell them that: “No, soup is a drink with chunks in it” #ActuallyAutistic

this thread, and everything bearing witness to the honorless slaughter at Wounded Knee, is important

Folic acid and folate supplements can make you really sick when you overdose and most people get enough folate through diet alone. Fevers can disable you for the rest of your life if left untreated. Babies and children are especially vulnerable. Being tough doesn’t cure or prevent neurotypes.

Against my better judgement I listed to this yesterday and it broke my heart. Knowing that people like me will be used as human test subjects to endure pain and fever and unproven supplements with possibly dangerous side effects… simply because discipline doesn’t work the same way.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Not to mention Matthew Dowd, Terry Moran and Jim Acosta. And anyone at the CDC who dared to care about science. If you still think freedom of speech exists in American, you’re wrong. If you still don’t understand you’re living under fascism… please wake up.

Hello from the zebra habitat where my EDS folx and I reside.

One time in San Francisco I was attacked by a mentally unstable unhoused person in front of a bank with 2 security guards. Neither guard moved/blinked but another unhoused person came & helped untangle the man’s fingers from my hair, checked to make sure I was ok, & took my assailant to safety. 🧵

Individualism is toxic. It is the height of white, colonial, patriarchal bullshit. Only men who have had most everything done for them throughout their lives (by women/servants) could think it’s possible to get by without help. The systems and culture are built by those men.

Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, Millions and BILLIONS AND *TRILLIONS* of cats.

The perfect summation doesn’t exis-

Every one of these people is fucking telling on themselves And the thing they are saying is "I will kill your family to make a buck" Because if they don't care about trans people, they probably don't care about *any* marginalized people

No one should ever be living up to their potential all of the time. We need to rest so that when crisis strikes or an opportunity arises we have reserves of energy. Capitalism just fucks with that. We extend ourselves on behalf of others to *barely* survive. Comprehension of the horrors? Nah.

Kiddo with simultaneous allergies, strep throat, & hand foot and mouth within the first month of school. I don’t know how to keep a job and also raise kids because my support system is small and full of people who work/are also immunocompromised. Capitalism says my kids and I should die ASAP.

Parent: “I didn’t know you were queer! You can’t blame me for making you feel ashamed of it if I didn’t know I had to hide my homophobia from you! We love and support you the best we can but you never share anything with us!” Me: (closes email and walks away from screen)