I am overwhelmed and angry and sad, and trying to focus instead on @prisonculture.bsky.social's (paraphrased) mantra: Find your lane. Do the work.

The solution to homelessness is not forced institutionalizations. It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income. Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing. We must fix it together.

Disabled people have been warning of forced institutionalization for years. They want to lock away anyone they see as “less than”. Homeless people are just the first targets. We need affordable housing, healthcare & a basic income. Help people meet their basic needs & homelessness goes down

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform? thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Are rising prices and inflation eating into your or a loved one’s Social Security payments? Want to talk about it with a reporter for a news article? DM or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org.

E-Book: Monotropism: Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions At Home & School autisticrealms.com/product/mono...

I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK... ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo... @ndconnection.bsky.social :)

Homeless people are not the enemy. They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing. It’s the system that’s failing. Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves. We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports. We need a safety net

I'm team "books Covid vaccine the minute they're available" due to facts like this.

We just published "Decolonizing autism research: Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s a great day for @moderation.bsky.app to reconsider and unban Link. He is actually a well known figure in disability advocacy and Black In Astro circles. He’s not just some guy who posts.

Changelog: Added quotes from “The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow - YouTube” to our “Enshittification” glossary page. stimpunks.org/glossary/ens...

“...the vast majority of philanthropical resources continue to go to the same well-resourced, established organizations that are largely not accountable to ... communities.” —Lydia X.Z. Brown We're not the typical. We’re tearing down walls in philanthropy. Donate to us. givebutter.com/Xgup0e

We’re here for a revival of Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality”. Install this in your soul. Vernon still shreds. Corey still bellows. The band is tight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY7...

They are truly making up falsehoods out of thin air because they hate autistic people existing.

Other than the obvious eugenics, I think one of the reasons acknowledging that neurodivergence is actually a normal part of humanity is that it has led to people questioning everything from ableism to child rearing practices to education and even how society functions as a whole.

It's extremely obvious to me that neurodivergence is why we are able to function as societies at all. And I mean that beyond things like exceptional thinking or hyper fixations leading to breakthroughs. I mean just in the fact that when we care for one another we thrive.

But the world tells us (01 01 01 01 01) No we are not (01 01 01 01 01) Body or head not (01 01 01 01 01) Capacity for love not (01 01 01 01 01) —The Spook School stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...

“Fractals—a way to speak of the patterns we see—move from the micro to macro level. The same spirals on sea shells can be found in the shape of galaxies. We must create patterns that cycle upwards. We are microsystems.” —adrienne maree brown stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

As always, whenever liars talk about "free speech", the only question you ever have to ask is, "What are y'all doing about sex workers and dissidents?"

This is exactly right. It's happening about the internet itself, too. People are assigning false rose-colored nostalgia memories to the web, describing a "good old days" that elides how terrible and exclusionary the past eras of the internet were.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians." "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians." "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians." "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

This isn’t just explicit antisemitism (which it is), it’s a continuation of the Christian nationalist cooption of Jewish history, ritual & trauma for their own supersessionist purposes— Jews don’t count / aren’t real, we’re the real victims, let’s blow a shofar, etc. and of course:

Want examples and more detailed arguments? Here you go: religiondispatches.org/church-atten... religiondispatches.org/good-enough-... religiondispatches.org/seeking-broa... religiondispatches.org/christian-na... www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/us-c...

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse

Break up the tech monopolies, break up the media conglomerates, seize the assets of criminal billionaires, and regulate the banks that enable them.

We don't say often enough that moguls who support Trump are stupid marks who are being played for chumps, and it's obvious to anyone with two brain cells. That's a point that's worth making in any factual, objective look at their context. www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...

It's important to note that they not only sold out the very things that made their own opportunities possible, they're also lying to themselves because they're getting fucked, too. We have to point out that they're *obviously stupid to buy into this stuff*.

The Aaron Swartz production function www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-aaron-...

A reminder to follow journalists, today and every day. If you say you're going to have disability representation in an article on a disability topic, interview a disabled person, not a non-disabled parent. Their perspectives don't count as disability representation.

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

BREAKING: Trump goes on a wild and unhinged rant spouting misinformation and easily debunked lies about autism. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

One of the extraordinary claims from the Orange Leader about autism, Tylenol and vaccines, yesterday, was that if people do as he suggests, there was no downside. "Nothing bad can happen". Just good things would happen, apparently. Thread/

annsautism.blogspot.com/2025/06/auti... may be helpful in setting out the positives and realities about autism, from actual research, rather than the doom-mongering and total negativity based on whatever goes through his mind that day. Please do feel free to read and share.

“____ causes autism” is the most annoying healthcare conspiracy trend of the last decade

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Tylenol doesn’t cause Autism.

I wish people would stop fixating on causes and cures for Autism and neurodiversity more broadly. It's time people listen to us, especially Neurodivergent people of color, women and others who are often excluded. Let actually Autistic and Neurodivergent people take the lead. This shouldn't be hard.

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Disregarding decades of scientific study by the best minds on the plant and instead proclaiming vitamin supplements (that you also just happen to sell) as a "cure" for a complex spectrum of conditions is the LEAST surprising news from a government composed of social media gym bro wellness grifters.

My heart breaks for the autistic children across the world who, after years of being misunderstood and under resourced, constantly have to deal with being told “you were a mistake and we’re trying to ensure there are no more like you” by society.

As predicted: ableist AF &blaming vaccines, mitochondria, Tylenol&those who birth. Unsound basis, eg fraud study/v weak studies, incl 1 leucovorin trial FDA once *put on hold* that was terminated for investigator noncompliance. At the bottom? A pile of $$ awaits buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

Watching my brain and overall thinking move from the Pathology Paradigm to the Neurodiversity Paradigm since 2021 (because I was raised in the Pathology Paradigm) has been interesting. I'm grateful that I'm able to make such comprehensive shifts in understanding.

Trump and RFK Jr.’s nonsense about Tylenol and autism isn’t just about spreading misinformation: it is about dismantling the decades of work that it took to reorient society from fearing autism to focusing on making the world more welcoming to #ActuallyAutistic people. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This conversation/reaction to Trump, RFK Jr., and Makary's remarks on autism yesterday with @htagerf.bsky.social, Autism Science Foundation president Alison Singer, epidemiologist @bklee.bsky.social, and writer @ericmgarcia.bsky.social is excellent. Worth a read for sure.

So grateful for the work of my friend/big sister Meg Raby. www.scarymommy.com/lifestyle/i-...