I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

To give context for what this area is like, my cousin owns a crawfish farm here This is also the district where Nottoway Plantation was, before it burned down

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Good reading month! Tourist Season was my favorite, and A Gentleman in Moscow was the most beautifully written, but I’d honestly recommend any of these #booksky

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

They are suing because they want to be able to institutionalize disabled people instead of allowing them to live in their communities

Tons of industry pros (agents, editors, artists) are donating items, so spread the word to writers and illustrators who want professional help on their project. Opportunities like this come very rarely to get feedback from this caliber of professionals. Plus it supports worthy organizations.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

And donate. Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

I will give you a personalized romance recommendation if you purchase it TOMORROW from either Tropes & Trifles, a romance only bookstore in Minneapolis. (This is a brilliant idea I am copying from Maris Kreizman) www.tropesandtrifles.com

CVS has been jerking me around for the past month trying to fill a scrip my doc sent them. They kept saying it was ordered and would arrive on x date and nothing would ever arrive. Finally, this week they said the issue was that my insurance doesn’t cover the med. CVS IS MY INSURER.

Spending the day getting ready for the tax season! If you are in the US and made less than $69k last year, check here to find a free tax prep program near you. www.irs.gov/individuals/...

For giving, this is a very good resource for mutual aid orgs, personal fundraisers, and nonprofit/community org donations. www.standwithminnesota.com Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

Hey y’all! REMINDER: I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

First 5-star read of the year! Two serial killers fall in love. Funny, sexy, gory, murdery. Note: First book in a trilogy, several plot threads still open at the end of book one. #booksky

Well, if Merriam-Webster says so…

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

New paper - this is the largest long COVID estimate I've seen yet 😳 Link 🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39842946/

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

yesterday, the Tournament of Books* dropped the 2026 long list. I will now tell you what these books would be about, based on cover and title, if they were romance novels instead of LitFic.

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask: What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔 www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

A lot of the scammers/romance scammers who create fake profiles to win people's trust to ask them from money, or for nudes to extort them for money, or who hack into people's accounts & take them over are human trafficked people who were looking for tech work & kidnapped. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great work from Rachel Fairbank on the winding story of metformin for #LongCOVID at @thesicktimes.org. Quotes from @jencurtinmd.bsky.social, Rachel Hall Clifford, @chromatowski.bsky.social, Carolyn Bramante, Ed Mills, Melissa Mazur & myself. thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m... #MedSky

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.” It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s hard to travel as a person with a disability. If you’re an ambulatory wheelchair user, you’re judged, sneered at and treated with disdain. Often your wheelchair ends up damaged. The wheelchair passenger protection rule was a huge win for disabled people. Of course they’re taking it away

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Try taking the COVID competency exam yourself, and share it around! Great way to bust myths (and the person who wrote it is an epidemiologist, and well-informed, so it really does). seanmullen.com/covidcompete...

It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BOOK REC REQUEST! Does anyone have any good middle grade book suggestions with characters who use mobility aids? I have a student who is a voracious reader and I would love to get some books for my classroom library that represent her ❤️

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

For the last day of Disability Pride Month, here's my angry story about accessibility. Come for the punny superhero lols, stay for the much-needed catharsis at the end. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

There is no “After Covid”

People enthusiastically sharing their interests is genuinely my favorite type of content

Small good news

My June reads were straight bangers, so I want to shout out the authors for #booksky Talia Hibbert writes realistic disability rep and a swoonworthy MMC in a romance that is equal parts sweet and spicy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Also, unlike many chronic illnesses, POTS has objective diagnostic criteria. Dude is acting like these kids are getting diagnosed on vibes; that’s not how it works. You get diagnosed on evidence of postural tachycardia—it’s in the name!

POTS is not a social contagion. It’s a devastating chronic illness that is often under diagnosed or misdiagnosed. The increase in cases is an inevitable consequence of letting covid spread unchecked for years. Mocking patients for using accessibility devices is wrong. This is hardcore ableism

This is what they were saying in the 70 & 80s. Then Bill Clinton, taking them at face value, eviscerated the US social safety net, to the point that it is the weakest & most tattered among developed nations. And they're still saying it. It never had anything to do with reality.