My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

When I see this, I see fundamentally anti-democratic ppl trying to spread their nihilism by sowing distrust in the v idea of a shared world, a public we collectively belong to. (Plus, every accusation is projection, these goons in power are fleecing us, themselves making 💰 from their govt positions)

This is collective punishment, denying benefits to the most vulnerable when they have done nothing wrong.

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Humantities education declined specifically because it was targetted for destruction.

‘Covid ‘only’ kills the sick the old and the vulnerable’ presented as a net positive is not restricted to RFK jr. And I’m sure I will be unpopular for pointing that out.

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

This is true. #WritingCommunity Don't give up. (Just in case you needed to hear that today.)

Currently reading ONE OF THE BOYS by @dirtbagqueer.rocks and it is so great! bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Yep. It isn’t 2023. Telemedicine abortion remains broadly available everywhere: •Domestic providers can switch to a miso-only regime; slightly less effective but still extremely safe •International providers will still mail mifepristone uninterrupted The field has been planning for this moment.

This is the problem they want to fix.

Listen to @lisatschudi.bsky.social speak with an AMAZING author- @lauramauldin.bsky.social - about family caregiving as she relaunches the "Love Doesn't Pay The Bills" podcast. And check out Laura's book, "In Sickness and In Health". podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Today I listened live as the UConn Board of Trustees voted to approve my promotion to Full Professor!

Today I listened live as the UConn Board of Trustees voted to approve my promotion to Full Professor!

We’d love submissions for Pride Month to be featured in Disability Culture Currents! We’re looking for pieces exploring disability and the LGBTQIA2S+ experience. We accept opinion, personal essay, and graphic storytelling. Pride submissions due May 15, 2026. Visit tinyurl.com/DCCurrents to submit!

While testifying last week, RFK Jr. dismissed Medicaid programs that pay families to care for disabled loved ones as “rife with fraud” and claimed that they pay people to complete menial tasks they “used to do as family members for free.” Disability rights advocates & family caregivers are furious.

We had those taxes and services. Then Civil Rights happened, and white folks let their racism drive anti-public goods and Government services agendas.

We should be learning from other countries...

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Today I learned that one should ask a hospital where a loved one is being treated in an *ICU* if they will be monitored and treated by on-site care providers or through remote telehealth. This fatal dystopian story is about Yale New Haven Health. lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/no-o...

This is a multigenerational sin that isn’t really reparable

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

MY GOD

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

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We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...

Big men scared of sociology, but it’s illegal to research why. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

It’s eugenics.

Not a single prominent Republican will respond to the most basic gutter racism coming from the leader of their party.

There’s little weirder to me about this moment than seeing wired, the publication that for decades paved the road to US technofascism with their ridiculous propaganda of “tech optimism” & technolibertarianism, running articles like this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they are—it’s just ironic as hell

This is so vital. AI — like the internet — benefits when we refuse to consider its materiality.

organizing gets the goods

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

sorry i never responded to your email, i didn't want to and then i forgot

Call your Democrat Senators today. Allowing ICE to ‘monitor elections’ in exchange for a deal to exert more control over ICE is insane. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Maybe some country that cares about human rights can come liberate us from our dirty war

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more. I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’ This is your history.

Science is a product and reflection of the society it's part of. Western science therefore has a history of misogyny, colonialism and racism. No-one should pretend otherwise.

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

THIS WEEKEND ON BOOKTV -- Catch a recording of my DC book event at Politics and Prose this Sunday at 2:45pm! www.c-span.org/event/book-t...

I am imagining what it would feel like to be unburdened of the constant awareness, the constant vigilance, the the constant heartbreak of a culture that will not address its own failures, and which outsources the responsibility and the consequences to the survivors. This is what we fight for.

A scientist who worked in the ER during COVID, here since he was 8, no criminal record, on his way to his newborn in the NICU—grabbed by ICE and still being held

Trump admin orders libraries to stop processing passport applications...at same time they want to require citizenship docs like passport to register to vote www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

I’ll be on WHYY @thepulse.whyy.org today at 9amET and 12pm tmw talking about my book IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH— this was an incredible experience bc Maiken Scott is so incredible at interviewing whyy.org/episodes/1-i...

I’ll be on WHYY @thepulse.whyy.org today at 9amET and 12pm tmw talking about my book IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH— this was an incredible experience bc Maiken Scott is so incredible at interviewing whyy.org/episodes/1-i...