A really good question! In most disability advocacy spaces, using words like stupid as a metaphor directed toward an action/institution still means the metaphor rests on assumptions/stereotypes about disabled ppl and reinforces disability as negative. Impt to note that this is often unintended harm

the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to

This church in the Chicago suburb of Cicero that a friend formerly pastored is canceling an outdoor movie night because of how ICE is terrorizing their community

“It’s cruel to step on someone already vulnerable knowing well that they’re not criminals—these are honest people working, contributing to the economy—just because they want to reach deportation numbers, just because they look Mexican.”

something something skyrim on the switch something something loving my first play-through

This is actually a great lens through which to look at all of your relationships. If you have friends or family who freely treat someone else in their life badly, chances are that treatment will eventually make its way to you, especially if you piss them off

Towards One, Lee Krasner 1967

"El gran problema con asignar culpa a las vacunas, el Tylenol o madres frías y poco amorosas es que cuando estamos teniendo debates sobre la culpa, no estamos teniendo debates acerca de la mejor forma de apoyar a las personas autistas."

Reviewer 2, about to recommend that you cite six of her papers (unrelated to your study)

Just spoke to someone who drove an hour and a half to another state to get the Covid vaccine, which he had to pay over 200 for. People should not have to do that.

A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.

If you want to know where we are on autism, I was just interviewing a child psychiatrist for a piece who told me that parents are afraid of getting their kids an autism diagnosis because they are afraid of the stigma and RFK Jr.'s talk about an autism registry.

My resting heart rate's been pretty high ever since I decided to watch the light-hearted and family-friendly CHILDREN OF MEN (2006) for the first time during my plane ride back into the United States

Image: artist illustration of a wheelchair user with brown skin and black hair, wearing flowered boots. A speech bubble contains text reading, "There is no marriage equality until people with disabilities can marry without losing benefits."

Small visit in Switzerland for a wedding

Loved this bit from Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Women by Dale McCormick so much that I typed it up and pinned it over my desk (h/t Michelle Millar Fisher on insta www.instagram.com/p/DM2S05bOKk...)

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

I've been in Chicago for a month and I still can't shake the feeling that in every social situation I sound like foghorn leghorn

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

32 years old Palestinian Raheel Muhammad Rasras, died at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis today due to malnutrition caused by famine and Israeli siege.

Unless there are Nuremberg trials for everyone involved in this system, it will be a moral failure of historical proportions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"The suffering and exploitation of non-white peoples that built the United States was allegedly justified by the assumption that these subordinate classes lacked some crucial capacity or were, in a sense, disabled."

I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.

If a person can’t work, medical costs just became absolutely prohibitive. If you care about disability justice at all and you have the ability, it is now a moral imperative to help people meet needs. I am not exaggerating. This may be the difference between life or death.

The richest country in the world can afford Medicaid. The richest country in the world can afford food assistance. There’s no reason for the cruel and dehumanizing cuts in this big bill. It’s fascism. It’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake. It’s a cull to accelerate ethnic cleansing.

The House just passed the budget. I'm a disabled person first before being a journalist. I'm so sorry to my disabled friends whose healthcare is now at risk.

I don't know a single disabled person Medicaid who thinks they'll be spared from the effects of Medicaid cuts. Disabled people on Medicaid are really scared.

And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do

Those cuts may force disabled people to move into nursing homes, which are also endangered by Medicaid cuts—according to an analysis by Brown University researchers, 579 nursing homes across the US are now at high risk of closure.

What a rude way to start disability pride month.

The Big Beautiful Bill passed today, and thanks to our senate, disabled people will too.

A staggering amount of money; should terrify us all to know that they will spend it.

Republican Senators have passed a bill that will have literally deadly consequences for sick & disabled people, & will lead to sickness & disability for many others, on the first day of disability pride month. (I know they don't care).

My grandmother had a lot of money saved by the time she needed full time nursing care. She burned through a lot more than $127k per year. Her (almost all incredible) live in nurses were immigrants from Ghana, Peru and Haiti. We’re eternally grateful for how well they took care of her for 8 years.

Exactly this. When my spouse's grandmother went into a home, we had to spend down all of her money paying for what we could, then apply for Medicaid.

Institutional care isn't optional under Medicaid. Home and community based services care is optional. Cutting Medicaid will lead to more people losing HCBS and be forced into nursing homes, as I wrote for @motherjones.com in January. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No matter how you slice it, the Republicans are are cutting Medicaid. This will lead to people, including disabled people, being kicked off Medicaid. It will lead to higher death rates.

even if you aren't aware of it, you are probably friends or colleagues with someone whose parents weren't citizens when they were born in the United States

State violence is disabling. Even if these folks aren’t arrested or deported — this violence has long term psychological and physical affects. Disability justice and immigration justice are one fight: abolish ICE.

"We choose a false and cowardly pacifism that demands a nonviolence from others in the face of a violent threat that does not threaten us, while embracing those who enact that violence because it is a violence that makes us feel safe." www.the-reframe.com/always-do-th...

Trump is whitewashing our census data- erasing multiracial people by forcing them into the 'White' category. This isn’t just bad data; it’s white supremacy in action. New article breaks it down 👇🏽

always struck by how everyone who screams “we’re full” citing the strain on services is also viciously opposed to the safety net

I'm looking for disabled people willing to share about the accessibility of their voting experiences via a brief Zoom or written interview (or any other format that works for you!) for @americanprogress.bsky.social's Disability Justice Initiative. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ditched my social media accounts for a few weeks and I am obligated to share the best thing I saw in Switzerland:

Killing Medicaid, killing vaccines, killing Social Security: It all has one purpose. The Nazis called people who required public assistance Lebensunwertes Leben: Lives unworthy of living. They had another term too, for people unable to work — Unnütze Esser: useless eaters. The elderly, the disabled.

NEW at @motherjones.com: HHS plans to cut federal funding to the state protection and advocacy agencies who investigate abuse in group homes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless