Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

While we brace ourselves for today’s expected pseudo-scientific, ableist nonsense, let’s try to remember that: 1) Autism is not an illness. 2) Autism is not a disorder. 3) Disability is not inherently tragic (though its cause, e.g., being a victim of violence, might be for some).

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross or Amber Ruffin or Karen Attiah or Jemele Hill Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

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A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats. So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Live every week like it’s fat bear week.

JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk never said Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. He never uttered those words.” Charlie Kirk: “Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously.”

Pilsen & La Villita (Little Village) are two of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Chicago. I was lucky to spend a lot of time there working with teachers a few years ago. Me rompe el corazón a ver esto… 🇲🇽 🦅 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

Once again, I'm struck by the fact that the one thing all these shooters have in common is, uh, the guns?

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

“Continue his work”?!? When did Kirk ever say literally *anything* in “good faith”?? This garbage should be immediately disqualifying to anyone supporting Newsom for a Dem primary. Just crazy talk.

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

“Living in a semi-authoritarian state means you’re always outrunning something, so you might as well blaze your own trail.” As I learn to navigate professional & personal life outside academia, I’m even more concerned & confused abt the future of higher ed. than I was when I was in the midst of it.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!

“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American.” NYT op-Ed: We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health #FRFKJr

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

Same.

U.S. Dept of Ed is proposing to eliminate the requirement for states to report data on racial disparities in special education, currently a condition to receive federal $ under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Comments open till 10/21 www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

if you have not gone through the worst thing you can possibly imagine and found a small but necessary amount of hope in some stupid trash then it brings me no pleasure to say: that day will come, you will get through it, and something very silly will be a beautiful part of your healing process.

look what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Disparate impact provides protection 4 some of the most vulnerable, including disabled ppl & Black & brown ppl. Folx have become masterful at writing policy that seems equal, but disproportionately impacts folx who've been historically marginalized. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

we're in trouble find your people locally. join some groups. stand up for your neighbors.

Multiple trusted sources are reporting that #OSEP may be preparing to cancel hundreds of #IDEA Part D #grants. @ted-cec.bsky.social is hosting an urgent meeting Monday, 8/11 at 1PM ET to discuss the situation & next steps. Register to attend at the first link in our Linktree (in bio).

Schools brace for potential cuts to special education funding www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

There are many reasons why I’m very happy to have moved back to North Carolina. The NCGA* is NOT one of them. These bills - now laws 🤢 - are absurd and, in some cases, downright stupid and cruel. *And also Mecklenburg Co., apparently

Cool cool cool cool have you ever considered offering good policies though?

@chaoticnature.bsky.social @katepeeples.bsky.social @washingtoncandace.bsky.social @itsmountaintime.bsky.social @mrs-p-reads.bsky.social @canteach.bsky.social 🙏 Still seeking participants for dissertation survey on social inclusion for students w/ Autism- Please consider reposting!

"To avoid confusion" is quite the euphemism for "being snatched and disappeared by the secret police"

People who entered the US legally and have no criminal charges are being held in the Everglades camp, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald. Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It’s the Fourth of July. But not much to be happy, much less celebratory, about. Take it, John Prine.

July is disability pride month Red- physical disabilities Gold- neurodivergence White- invisible and undiagnosed disabilities Blue- Mental health Green- sensory disabilities Happy disability pride month ❤

July is Disability Pride Month 🩶❤️💛🤍💚💙🩶 Happy #DisabilityPrideMonth to everyone with visible and invisible disabilities. To everyone who cares for someone with a disability, and to everyone who is gonna learn about disability pride this month. Disability Pride is a fight and a celebration⭐

it is no exaggeration at all to say that these are people who would rather destroy the state's flagship public university than education a diverse cross-section of the commonwealth's students

for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.

you have to ask, what will constitute a resolution of the civil rights investigation? let's say UVA completely dismantles everything related to diversity and still admits a class where a third of the student body is nonwhite. would the administration consider this per se evidence of discrimination?

This is bad, bad, bad. A “wahoowa” to President Ryan. Trump DOJ is a joke.

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Anti-intellectualism is a key part of fascism. Recent examples: we don't need to fund education, we should ban books, some kinds of knowledge are useful & others are not (or are dangerous), ban tenure, or "do your own research" & who needs college? All that is anti-democratic.