Did you know November is National Family Caregivers Month? Did you know there are 63 MILLION family caregivers in the US? I made the website, Disability at Home, to chronicle the ingenious hacks that caregivers and disabled folks create to make life work -- check it out! www.disabilityathome.org

Did you know I wrote a book?! Advanced copies are out and blurbs are in— coming your way Feb 10, 2026. And of course the very best thing to do is preorder your hardcover copy or audiobook! www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

INVESTIGATION: For months, I've looked into New Hampshire's disability care system. I found a system unwilling or unable to protect those in its care from horrific abuse and neglect. Read the stories of those harmed in Part I of "A System of Harm" at @NewHampshireBulletin.com: buff.ly/qCSXfws

It is all eugenics, all the time.

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

THIS IS SO GOOD

“The ripple effect on families, children, and communities is going to be enormous.” Domestic workers count on SNAP. Trump's shutdown is hitting hard.

The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump. n.pr/43W4f6r

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

What I ❤️ abt Mamdani’s “turn the volume up” line is it is both a diss AND a call to action for the rest of us. Like keep talking abt how unacceptable it is to be hateful, keep advocating for collective care, keep connecting w yr neighbors & communities, keep calling for change, turn the volume up!

Getting nasty emails abt the piece I wrote for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social . One said, “Well why should we listen to YOU? You’re not a climate expert.” True, but I AM an expert who studies power, how it works, who wields it & who gets destroyed by it.

You know upper admin is really getting ready to fuck you over when they start talking about the need for faculty to be "flexible."

"Reporting the thoughts of a billionaire as news is as grotesque as the amount of wealth they’ve been allowed to accumulate." newrepublic.com/article/2024...

Spread the word. The Trump Administration can use emergency funds to pay for SNAP benefits during a shutdown. The President and little Mike Johnson are lying to you. How do we know? 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I think Billie Eilish would really like the essay I published in @thenewrepublic.bsky.social yesterday! newrepublic.com/article/2024...

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

what stage of capitalism is this

Great work, @lauramauldin.bsky.social . So needed.

"Reporting the thoughts of a billionaire as news is as grotesque as the amount of wealth they’ve been allowed to accumulate." I had a lot of fun writing this for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social -- seeing Gates' thoughts on climate change reported yesterday made me cranky

"Reporting the thoughts of a billionaire as news is as grotesque as the amount of wealth they’ve been allowed to accumulate." I had a lot of fun writing this for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social -- seeing Gates' thoughts on climate change reported yesterday made me cranky

I wrote a thing for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2024...

Please preorder this important book written by my fellow @eccobooks.bsky.social author @sarahweinman.com !!

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

ICE is doing its dirty work, detaining thousands of people a day without criminal records. And doing it without a warrant. But people are standing up. And the resistance is growing. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

This makes me very cranky.

Turns out I need those prayers more than I thought! Created acct, created first post. After that, locked out & unable to login no matter how many times I reset the password etc. This old dog can't learn new tricks apparently, not sure I"ll be able to ever log in again! Ugh.

Well, my book IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH comes out in nearly 4 months and I guess I finally have to get an instagram account. Pray for me!

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

What a speech. Just read the thread

Sam's Club is part of Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart workers are among the largest recipients of SNAP in this country. Apparently, some Wal-Marts will help employees fill out SNAP applications as part of their HR paperwork. When people start going hungry on Nov 1 part of the reason is companies underpay them

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The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

As folks in their 50s, we expect our premiums to go up $10,000 or more and lose $12,000 in credits.

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

On April 1, ICE apprehended 47 people — including 9 children — at a birthday party in Dripping Springs, Tex. The agency’s only disclosure about the raid describes the operation as targeting people believed to be connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. 🧵

Sen. Murray is exactly right: "Trump is gleefully using the shutdown as a pretext to hurt students .... No one is forcing Donald Trump to fire the people who make sure students with disabilities can get a good education — he just wants to." wapo.st/4nY78vK

⭐️⭐️ Scholars of academic freedom agree: “To immunize ideas based on political standards is to impose an unacceptable test of ideological conformity. Nothing could be further from the spirit and ideals that we, despite our differences, seek for American higher education.” ⬇️

Yet again, USA: Tell your members of Congress to not permit this or anything like it. And if you have a GOP Rep; remind them that they can break with their party leadership, remove Johnson as Speaker, and actually do their jobs at any time.

Trump’s Department of Education actively collaborates w/ Moms for Liberty. Asked “what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told ProPublica: “‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

"Screenshots of internal documents obtained by NYT show that Salesforce has pitched ICE on using the company’s artificial intelligence capabilities to help ICE staff up as Mr. Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the country". www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Still evergreen.

🤯 I don’t really know anything about Catholicism and this thread is absolutely bonkers. Had no idea what Opus Dei was or that it existed and just, wow

Read this on the plane. Really strong work, drawing connections for people too overwhelmed to keep track of the many important narratives. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s all eugenics, which is built on intertwined white supremacy & ableism (the idea that only able bodied people deserve to exist & be cared for bc they’re “normal” & “productive”)— and the kicker is that it uses women’s bodies to achieve this delusion. Racism, ableism, sexism—all connected.