Kimmel’s show was off-air for less than a week. It’s infuriating how many Americans will mobilize like this every once in a while, self-congratulate as if it’s revolutionary, then meticulously itemize every excuse for not mobilizing against multiple ongoing genocides, for one example.

I’m not caught up on every single contextual detail, but from my current knowledge, a couple of things stand out: 1) Celebrities SO selectively mobilize, usually just for white people 2) Sarah Paulson is supposedly unsure about the necessity of a revolution, but seemingly signed pretty decisively?

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

I’m not saying these aren’t dangerous, I’m saying guns are exponentially more dangerous and it’s absurd and illogical to literally and symbolically crush one but never! not once!!! the other

When the worst thing I’ve ever been through started

1) This frames the internet as a problematic place for the gathering of identities & ideas they disagree with. 2) American eugenists called for segregation with the same language 100+ years ago. 3) Frames the same people in my first point as dangerous opposite of “normal, hardworking, law abiding”

Sometimes life after loss is sobbing while you build legos

“President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian” Right about what? Like this section about the National Museum of the American Latino, what specifically is the problem? 🤔 Disabled, plus-sized actresses? Ambulatory wheelchair users? Latinx, LGBTQ+, Disabled stories? whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

She wasn’t my parent, but damn did she out-parent every single adult in my life, combined. It’s the fucking WORST thing to feel, knowing she’s just gone. This year. 2025 is fucking brutal. 😞

“The number of deaf and hard-of-hearing people has risen from 20,000 to 35,000, and they all need training on how to avoid danger during military operations.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

I can vividly imagine her response to me saying “I miss you.” She’d reply close to “Oh honey. I know.” With a hug or resting her hand on my arm. I miss her more than anything.

HUGE RED FLAG 🚩 HUGE RED FLAG 🚩 HUGE RED FLAG 🚩

As a disabled person, the absolute glee with which people hyper analyze signs of disability is always disturbing to me, no matter who is at the focus or how terrible they are

My teeth have shifted so much in the past couple years I: 1) I went from an overbite to an underbite 2) can’t chew on the left side because my teeth don’t touch If I could go ahead and get DX’d with hEDS now… 🥲

It’s ridiculous how many people have taken the “enhanced” image as fact when this one exists right next to the source

Grateful for good reads today

Missing her. Part of me is missing. 💔

“stop trusting the experts” “do our own research” “Trust me! I can diagnose kids with mitochondrial challenges with a quick glance”

Archive link: archive.ph/MAQ4U

“Only 2% of students in [the 2023-24] cohort received a certificate of completion.” I fear the “small percentage” arguments against accessibility will continue to gain weight especially as leftward people make them in response to disabled peoples’ continued asks for solidarity in COVID precautions.

Lmao what’s next? Banning “rem” units? But really though. Better sue Microsoft, Apple, Google, and every other device and operating system maker while they’re at it. Every last one of them has built-in accessibility settings for customizing how websites look and work.

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

I wish we could sit and read together. Or watch the golden girls.

I get so angry when I think about how thoroughly we could all—and I do mean ALL—be chilling right now.

I’m sorry but what in the entire fuck are Indiana republicans like Jim Banks even talking about. Indiana has had a republican trifecta for 15 years straight. Would be 21 if not for dems having the house 2007-2010.

Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Sometimes I lose faith in the book but then I go in to do a little edit and I’m like wow, I love this book I hope you will too 🤓 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Why???????

This just in: Disabled people are disproportionately affected by the violent destruction of health & food systems, deliberate control of vital resources, and blocking of external humanitarian aid

Hey is it possible to nuclear block a song across the entire internet? Specifically Alan Jackson’s “Remember When”? 🥺

She is my first and last thoughts every single day. Every single day, such heavy thoughts. I love to picture her smile and laugh, even though those images quickly remind me of the cold permanence of her absence.

This 27-year-old wrote that he’s uploaded 1,500 books to Amazon and made $3M. He said writers are broke bc nobody cares about books on what writers find interesting. Meanwhile I spent over $200 just today on books relating to disability, access, history, culture, etc. Many bc I love *their* work.

These kinds of language patterns are so loud and immediately noticeable to me. Using “female” but not “male.” And “men” but not “women.”

I think I’ve cried more in the past 4 weeks than in the past 10 years. I miss my Grandma so fucking much. She was always “Grandma” but man did she out-parent every single adult in my life—combined—for every second of the 30 years we had together. She was a divine epitome of unconditional love.

I have a cookie jar that’s at least as old as me that my Grandma *always* put oreos in. It’s so easy for me to picture myself in her old apartment, too short to reach the shelf without a stool. I washed and filled it with oreos today. Holding it reminded me of holding her hand for the last time.

Gaza will not sleep tonight, mourning its shining lantern and the lion of its battlefield. By God, we weep as if our own brother has been martyred. ‏Anas Al-Sharif the voice of truth you were her melody when they tried to silence every song, her tear when the river ran dry. ‏And today, they have.

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

The irony of minimizing decades of intentional, planned resurgence of legislated eugenics & white nationalism… via two of eugenists’ favorite terms

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent

Data centers don’t “share” the blame, they ARE the problem. Indiana’s made dozens? of deals w/ 25-50 years of massive sales & use tax breaks. Includes electricity usage. We’re losing out 100s of millions in state revenue. Companies will save billions only paying a fraction of what the locals do.

This is *absolutely* related to AI/LLMs. Not because these jobs can actually be automated, but bc companies choose to aggressively invest. Microsoft for example. $88B profit, 1000s laid off over multiple rounds in 2025 alone, choosing massive data centers (with massive tax breaks) over people.

Well all this formal, legal language made me hate "functional limitations" pretty fast. Too 1907 for me.

Data centers don’t “share” the blame, they ARE the problem. Indiana’s made dozens? of deals w/ 25-50 years of massive sales & use tax breaks. Includes electricity usage. We’re losing out 100s of millions in state revenue. Companies will save billions only paying a fraction of what the locals do.

And minimum wage increased 0% 🥲

Pretty fucking cruel how some of the best writing happens when the process involves confronting pain so visceral you could not care less about what people think of the words that come out or the fact that you’re digitally bawling all over the damn place

I’ve felt deep grief before, many times, but I’ve never experienced it like this. It’s not constant sobbing. Though I’ve done a lot of that. It’s small things like a golden girls fridge magnet abruptly stopping me in my tracks. Needing to lean on the counter bc her absence is so loud and heavy.

I had one of mine on autopay for YEARS, it was randomly transferred to ED, I can’t get the sign in to work at all, and if I’m remembering correctly the only contact info listed is a phone number. I’m deaf…

It’s really fucking weird to want to tell poor people what they can and can’t buy at the grocery store as a condition of deigning to allow a rigged system to help them out a tiny, tiny bit.