If you have or have been a child who has been diagnosed with autism by a medical or mental health provider, you may be aware that the medical diagnosis does not carry over to an education setting. To receive support in school for autism, children must be reassessed based on the criteria in the IDEA.

The concept here is to get well-heeled travelers to pressure the government to restore secret police funding

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you

Let's talk about the history of "the gay mafia" 🧵

This is certainly one way for a publication to convince a lot of people to stop giving them their money.

50% of the "bold, transformational change" list is already law. This isn't even the floor. It's not even the basement.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

That is amazing! Any chance you could boost us? digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3... We're an all trans immigrant girl scout troop in Mpls MN & can't safely sell cookies in person this year because of ⓘⓒⓔ activity. All funds from purchases & donations go to support our hurting community 🍪💖

This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.

Well, this is a horrible idea.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

The ICE surge in Minnesota isn’t over — it just moved outside of the Metro. ICE agents are still terrorizing innocent people in the suburbs. They’re targeting bus stops and hospitals and parks and being more deceptive than ever. This isn’t over until ICE is out of the ENTIRE state.

Hedone was run by perpetual non-payer Caitlin Marceau. Avoid this editor when they inevitably launch their next project. To all Hedone authors affected, you have my sympathies and I’m sorry this is happening to you.

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

So you guys remember Trump's "Board of Peace"? He's set himself up as chairman for life. He's committed $10 billion from the US, and it's not clear whether that will be coming from the US Treasury. Their primary focus for now is "rebuilding" Gaza. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Seeing it all in one thread 🧵 makes me disillusioned that this can possibly be reality.

Transphobia in particular is very elite driven. It's low information- low salience for most folks because it doesn't actually affect very many people, unless an expensive media case is made for why it DOES affect them.

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Instead of asking "but you'll vote for him in the general, right?", maybe folks should ask "so why won't you vote for him?" and listen to the reasons. Chances are, you won't want to vote him in the general either, and the fun thing is, you can vote for other people in the primaries instead!

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

Trump and Hegseth murder 11 more people on the high seas, and it barely makes a blip in the news cycle: www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/p...

My latest for @texasobserver.org: Maria Margarita Rojas is the first healthcare provider charged for abortion care under Texas’ strict criminal ban. Her attorneys say the state has no evidence—yet her clinics remain shuttered.

"Why do 40% of the students in my classroom have IEPs? Teachers didn't have to deal with this 20 years ago!" 1) Parents, pediatricians, and teachers are more aware of disabilities that impact learning, and are better at identifying them and advocating to have them diagnosed and addressed.

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By @megomatz.bsky.social

📌 ICYMI — Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now"… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/bannon-epstein-farage-and-johnson-and-the-plot-to-topple-theresa-may/

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

you didnt beg me or force me to engage with my laptop or my cell phone or my ps5, i willingly engaged with those things bc they were useful and/or fun

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Vaccines. 😒

YES. I've been begging for this. They are running illegal detention facilities in office buildings. Municipalities shut down businesses all the time for health code or zoning violations far less severe than ICE's. Pressure your cities!

“Despite bipartisan support…the Trump admin issued a memo announcing its intent to shut down BRIC in April. Then, in December, a federal judge ordered FEMA to restore the program’s funding and ‘promptly take all steps necessary to reverse’ the termination.” It hasn’t happened.

If you ever want to be depressed, talk to a 13-year-old about their future. Between AI, climate change, and the current state of the government--with no clear path on how any of this will be fixed--their hopes are low. It's grim.

this video has doubled its views in the last like three hours 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Do y'all know how many people do not know that cars turning right on green lights do not have the right of way if there are pedestrians in the cross walk or bicycles in the bike lane? And will argue that that is not the law, when it is easy to verify what the law is? The answer is, a lot!

I'm so disregulated this morning.

My favorite thing about Mustafa Suleyman claiming AI is going to replace lawyers, accountants, and project managers in 18 months is it demonstrates that he doesn't actually use any AI tools.

Happy for this one to be out today! this piece is particularly important to the folks profiled here, an amazing prison LGBTQ+ affirming organization called Be the Change, and I'd love to be able to share any reactions with those folks <3 truthout.org/articles/thi...

I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider. Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +

I'm sick of Musk of all people talking about which immigrants are damaging the US. He's become the richest man here by exploiting US workers, poisoning and polluting US communities, and even infiltrating the US government to steal our data and stop investigations into his businesses.

There is a certain amount of audacity in an immigrant to the United States claiming that this is an English/Scottish/Irish country, while the people who were born and raised here almost certainly were taught in US public schools that our country was a "melting pot" that welcomes everybody.

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

I will never not find it amusing when people with rich parents, degrees from top universities, and decades-long careers at major media institutions in major east coast cities rant about "coastal elites", who are just liberals of any class, education level, and geographic location within the US.

“Who’s kitchen table?” remains a hell of a question.

It's kind of wild to insist that the reason journalism took a wild swing away from truth-telling and exposing corruption in the 00s is "people didn't like what they saw in the mirror" and not "billionaires began gobbling up news outlets to serve as propaganda factories for the rich".

The only thing I miss more than bread (just bread, any bread) is hot dogs. This post brought to you by IBS.

New: The family of Don Huffines, a former Republican Texas senator who is now campaigning to become the state’s comptroller, bought the disgraced Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico after the child sex trafficker and molester died.

The folks behind this shit belong in jail, not children.

Here's the thing about colonoscopies. The prep *is* miserable. Because of my digestive issues, I had to go something like 60 hours without sleep for my last prep because I had to do 2 rounds and lived on the toilet for 2 days. The worst prep is still not as bad as cancer treatment.

Someone should invent geriatric clubbing. Starts at 7 PM, wraps up by 10, and only plays songs that came out before 2010. Only cell phones allowed are Nokia bricks.