Why I've been a fangeek of @wired.com's journalism for as long as I've been adulting.

Four reporters to come up with this absolutely unhinged framing. People with autism are not a "problem to be solved." They are human beings who should be supported. Polio debilitating and killing thousands of kids annually was a "problem to be solved," and Jonas Salk did that... with a vaccine.

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one." Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

#ICYMI: The Trump administration has been pushing its anti-trans agenda globally at the United Nations. U.S. delegates objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science & tech, global health, toxic pollution and chemical waste.

Next up from Society for Disability Studies, 🍂 Mon. October 6th: "Disruption & Strategic Engagement: Bridging Critical Pedagogy and Disability Activism" feat. Sara M. Acevedo and Suzanne Stolz. Register here: bit.ly/4gtwiiQ

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting. People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

Such wonderful convos and questions in presenting Race-Conscious Data @apsa.bsky.social #APSA2025. And glad I brought print-outs of the piece - old tech to go with the new!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Enjoying a few gems already from Du Bois Review, courtesy of @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Open Access journals at #APSA2025. Poli sci journals should be an easy crossover for @cambup-law.cambridge.org at AALS2026.

Courtesy of APSA2025, I learn of Canada's alt-Heritage Foundation, the Fraser Institute: "Economic Freedom of North America 2024" ranks degree govts "permit their citizens to make their own economic choices." NY + CA ranked second to last in freedom, while FL, TX, and NV ranked as "most free."

There's now a name for (some of) what's going on with the anthropocene: defensive disbelief.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

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Immigration agents this week arrested at least two people in the vicinity of the county’s domestic violence-focused courthouse, sparking fears that the enforcement action would have a chilling effect on people seeking orders of protection and other forms of help at the downtown courthouse.

graphic that i think about when i need motivation to keep masking and encouraging others to mask

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

9. Michigan’s AG has shown one path forward: warning institutions that capitulation itself may be unlawful. If more AGs follow that lead, they could tip the balance, compelling schools and hospitals to resist rather than retreat, and ensuring that trans lives are not treated as bargaining chips.

1. Michigan's AG Dana Nessel has issued a threat to University of Michigan Health's capitulation to Trump after it banned trans care for youth. She calls their decision likely in violation of state nondiscrimination law, considers action against the hosptial. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"False equivalence is fascism's engine. Treating bad faith as if it is good faith fuels that engine." - @juliusgoat.bsky.social

In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.

One of Trump's directives is to *remove divisive or partisan narratives* from museums. You know, that whole thing about Americans OWNING OTHER HUMAN BEINGS needs to have a positive spin, right? 🧐 (Tiny D mandated FL schools teach about all the skills the darkies acquired as slaves. 🙄 is.gd/qmRcRM)

In which the Diary of Anne Frank is also verboten in Florida: “If we eliminate every book that tells a story that is different than the life experiences of an individual or a family, there will be no books left in the library.” - Rob Sanders, educator & author www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Webinar series on Disability and Activism madthinking.org/2025/08/13/d... Image: post of the schedule for the series

Yet so far from what we gather from reading the news...as if media has always propped up a funhouse mirror y'know? 🤔

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI. @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

🚨 150 University of California law professors (and counting) have now signed this open letter to the UC Regents and other officials, explaining the flagrant illegality of the Trump Administration’s UCLA funding cut offs, and urging the UC to fight back. sites.google.com/view/uclawfa...

For everyone who lives, works, or is within spitting distance of DC: this is from Miriam’s Kitchen about what we can do tonight when Trump’s thugs will be perpetrating the violent, forcible removal of DC’s unhoused population. Please please share and don’t look away.

Utmost appreciation to journalists who tackle issues others find difficult and defies public lore. This time, Rohan Zhou-Lee @diaryofafirebird.bsky.social ties together #disability justice, #AAPI communities, and ongoing state violence / harm by law enforcement. www.mochimag.com/activism/pol...

🧵1/2 Trump invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act—seizing control of Washington, D.C., and putting our police under federal command. This has never been done before. The Home Rule Act was meant to give DC residents the right to govern themselves—not hand their city to an aspiring dictator.

Remember and share before humanity writes itself off: "We are built for safety, belonging, and dignity. We are built to be connected to and make a difference for others, to have meaningful lives." - Staci K. Haines, The Politics of Trauma

Where they can't get Congress to enact this, they use softer power, like regs, guidance, threats to bring enforcement actions that result in settlements to act this way. And each memo, EO, press statement, and social media expression parrots the frame, presenting it as fact.

"resolve dispute" is a bizarre way to describe extortion.

One of two things is true -- either people of good will have tuned out of politics such that political candidates are appealing to deeply disturbed sadists or we've become a culture of deeply disturbed sadists.

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute. Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol in TPM:

The closing of community mental health centers under Reagan is a primary cause of homelessness. But, this evil EO is a radically different policy: it's forced institutionalization. The homeless population is in desparate need of mental health services, not prison by another name.

Just to be clear, the two Hs & 14 words are neo-Nazis slogans. the photo is associated with manifest destiny—the idea that god ordained white men to rule the continent, justifying genocide, enslavement, etc Your federal govt is spewing white nationalist propaganda...again #InflationVoters

The complete doggerel of Trump's AI Plan - predictable. And yet, when the technofascism peeks out in this hand - deluded "woke"-chasing - sometime allies are now beginning to bolt.

One trillion $ in Medicaid cuts, aka 1,000 billion $s, aka 849,505,000,000 Euros in #OBBB. We are that country that will gut itself and try (in vain) to sell its entrails, to spite its nose.

I’m an English professor at William & Mary & for the first writing assignment in all my classes, I tell students to give me their version & a version written by AI. I tell them not to indicate which is which & I grade them both & make a guess. it’s never been hard to tell.

"In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter." - Damon Hewitt, @lawyerscomm.bsky.social President & Exec Director

Wouldn't trade my first job educating the media and public about Medicare and Medicaid reform in the 00s for anything. And yet, to organize shareholders, so much of the middle class and striving class, to confront corporate power in these times ... careers.jobscore.com/careers/thes...

👇 Hearing is today

Next Wednesday pack City Hall to stop ICE! Show up to stop GEO group from claiming the historic site of trans & SW resistance in SF—Compton’s Cafeteria. Press conference by trans right icon & community historian @susanstryker.bsky.social