thinking about the players and staff of Iran’s women’s national team who woke up in Australia today to the news that their homeland had been bombed. how anyone can focus on sport in the midst of these horrors is beyond me. they play their first game tomorrow.

A group of Muslim men had already received police permission to worship during a Sydney protest before they were disrupted mid-prayer by officers, NSW Police Force confirms.

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

Rest in power, Alice Wong. A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor. She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased. We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward. Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.

I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism. They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.

mask off for the coal ghouls - 89% of those who die from heat in Australia are disabled people www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

not sure tasmania should make goblin forest more accessible. sounds like asking for trouble imo.

Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion a year, enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing. Read the full release below:

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Me living by the sword: Swords rule Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh

Are you a legend who wants to support the world’s oldest and largest LGBTQIA+ women's and non-binary football club to create a future where football is safe and welcoming for everyone? Well, I’ve got the petition for you! www.theflyingbats.com/petition @battledinosaur.bsky.social

People call disabled folks “burdens,” but I’ve never met anyone more resourceful, patient, and relentless than sick and disabled people practiced at keeping each other alive.

TGIF the actual plague is back, everyone! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Here's how Poison by Bardot could still win

gee, it would be great if disabled people led this organisation, and they advocated for actual disability-led solutions or anything actually effective womensagenda.com.au/latest/is-au... have a read of @lizjackson.bsky.social piece about similar orgs in the US prospect.org/health/2023-...

Our household is definitely in the eating our feelings stage of grief and through this we have invented a new meal: ‘entreat’. It’s the entree little sweet treat you have after dinner, before the proper dessert.

Today is two weeks since mum left. A week since her funeral. Thankful for this weather keeping me on the couch under blankets and for the people looking out for me.

I’m on a month-or-two break from work at the moment but this is something I’m proud of that I did before the break.

I wrote this last year about the cost of exclusion to disabled people, and it all seems so unchanged www.bluntshovels.au/the-cost-of-...

So proud of my friends in Sydney YIMBY for how hard they work, how much shit they take to make a difference. Watch tonight’s Compass for the whole story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

“He was disabled and on the NDIS. He was hungry. He was under state guardianship - under the care and protection of the Minister. And it was the state that killed him,” said Debbie Kilroy, a leading prison abolition advocate with the National Network. www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...

New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yeah sex is good but have you ever eaten a chocolate chip cookie while Antony Green called that Peter Dutton would lose his seat to a disabled woman?

gee, so great to see this celebration of innovation that includes paying disabled people as little as $3 per hour, by a company that got $2m in financing. /s www.smartcompany.com.au/transport-lo...

It's amazing how much sympathy and empathy people want for "lost", "adrift" boys and men while we're in the midst of acute patriarchal retrenchment, global trans panic, and women being arrested for miscarriages in red states.

End sub-minimum wages now “People with disability can do a job; they just need a bit of help and may take a bit longer to learn,” Bailey says. “But they will get there, like me.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I really don't think those involved in the 8 hours movement envisaged 2 of the 8 recreation hours being taken up by the commute to & from work every day, but here we are. And by "here," I mean on the bus, stuck in traffic

This is a de facto genocide of disabled Americans.

Using a housing crisis to avoid making accessible changes to standards is kicking a can down a road. Someone will always bear the burden of inaccessibility. What we think we save now, we will always pay for later. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

"That ‘multibillion’ industry? Well, according to the ATO it’s paid no tax since 2019. It did sell $4 billion worth of fish, yes. But profits went off-shore." Great piece from @amyremeikis.bsky.social, originally published in our fortnightly newsletter, then shared with @thenewdaily.bsky.social.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

Can someone please make crinkle cut sweet potato crisps?

If you're a citizen or resident of Australia, consider signing this petition to end partner income tests in welfare payments #Petition #AusPol

Please let this be a joke. My power wheelchair handles more rugged terrain.

For a lot of white people, the COVID lockdowns are the first time in their lives they've ever experienced meaningful restrictions, particularly meaningful government restrictions. So it's really not surprising, in retrospect, that their reaction was to overthrow the government and destroy science.

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

Give Sam Kerr the keys to Australia.

“Australia’s mainstream media machine has once again proven itself to be a vacuous, hypocritical, self-serving vortex of exponential waste, ironically ensuring that my point was made over and over and over again.”

A reminder as you gammin dawgs celebrate “Australia Day”. The land you live and work on is Aboriginal land. Always was and always will be 26th of January, is not the date to celebrate.

only good nazi is a dead nazi

ummm, we had an entire royal commission about this, including violence in public. problem is acting on solutions 'Calls to better understand violence against people with disabilities' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

As disabled people, we live “apocalypse” like no one else does. We breathe “crisis” every day. The ingenuity of our community is key to finding solutions to the climate crisis. In the wake of the devastating LA fires, this speech I gave last month feels needed. open.substack.com/pub/cripoire...

Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home. “In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

🚨 SoCal Fires 🔥 1000s evacuated in Pacific Palisades due to wildfires fueled by strong winds. Stay safe: Follow all evacuation orders, check in Genasys Protect app Prep go bags Check on Disabled & older neighbors Need help? Try 211 or call/text Disaster Hotline at 800-626-4959

Important reading about disabled folks in Palestine, including those disabled from violence from the IDF #IDPWD 'Facing genocide while disabled' www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The disability community rely heavily on social media platforms for connection and strategies for existing in an inaccessible world, we are also less likely to have correct / adequate ID to pass online checks and more likely to be targets of online scammers. No one wants this.