This was over on Threads but I don’t feel *great* that it was blurred out and tagged “suspected of being a ter organization or antif@“ 🙃

Dems in Congress are out here trying to wordsmith the perfect gotcha post in response to the vice president of the United States calling for their party to be violently overthrown. At least show the video that proves he’s lying. You have paid digital teams! *WAKE UP*

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.”

Idk who needs to hear this but judging by my timeline, quite a few people. Strokes are the leading cause of disability worldwide. Sometimes your body just stops working the same way it did before. Jokes about strokes are ableist and we can do better thx for listening!

In the European Middle Ages, literally at the dawn of the university, rich families would pay teachers directly for each subject taught and create their own custom curriculum.

Proud of my (comparatively) small town’s mural in recognition of ADA35 / Disability Pride month. Everyone walking by has a chance to learn something about disability. And there’s a visual description QR code!

Many states -- Massachusetts among them -- rebrand Medicaid with another name, like Masshealth. So many recipients who will lose health insurance under Trump's budget bill may not know what's coming: bit.ly/404rw4k

Why is MIGA so funny to me should I log off?

Some of the best anti-war songwriting came out of the early 2000s, even though that time isn’t remembered as well as the folk movement of the 1960s. Rilo Kiley’s ‘More Adventurous’ album and Bright Eyes’ ‘I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning’ of course there was Green Day’s ‘American Idiot,’ but

A “legal path to transition.” That’s the whole ballgame.

I want to emphasize Max's point bc the law is outrageous It explicitly grants or withholds medical treatment based on sex It expressly aims to force trans kids to conform to their sex assigned at birth It's a frontal assault on trans kids and the Constitution ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a novel whose protagonist is named Gen Ai (Genly Ai) but we’re not ready to talk about that are we?

Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals: No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion. It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports. If it is, it’s not compassion. It’s eugenics 🧵

We should celebrate trans lives, in their splendour and variety, as evidence of what human life can be, containing multitudes. I came to understand this so late and so slowly, perhaps because my own life as a cis, straight husband and father is so conventional. And I'm still learning it now.

We may have sailed a little further than we were supposed to. @erinryanhey.bsky.social

Oh hell yeah. Assisted dying bills are NOT progressive and disability rights organizations overwhelmingly oppose them.

Delighted by the pope brothers storyline - happy to take the mic, play wordle w the pope, loved Conclave, appear to have busy lives and get a kick out of the fact that their nerdy little bro is making something of himself.

So the new Pope changes their name entirely and we all *checks notes* applaud their personal and spiritual growth and respect their new name?

Boston Disability Allies! Tomorrow, Disabled Stories Collective is having our inaugural Storytelling event at the Rooted Café at the Somerville Armory. It’s free, no ticket required. Come on out! 7:00PM

People who think disabled people are new to protesting/"newly activated" need to get several grips and then learn some very basic history.

Tonight I’m thinking a lot about disability joy and the importance of witnessing other narratives about disability. Disability can be empowering. Disability can be playful. Disability can be joyful. Disability can be social. Disability can be active. Where do we see that narrative?

Trans icon Miss Major was just denied entry on to a plane in Arkansas because her ID had an X gender marker on it.

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

I'm already tired of seeing variations of this headline because the ruling also specifically erases trans men from the definition of men, excluded trans men from women's spaces even as defining us as women, and erases the existence of non-binary ppl And it's important to make this clear

Once again, we see this tired “guess grandma can’t get her benefits” trope. There are plenty of young disabled Americans who need information about their benefits. We have full lives and families who depend on us. This is urgent - elected officials should act like it.

Yep. I wrote about how I use my email signature to help claim my disabled identity. Anybody who has a disability is free to use my specific language by the way! (ps - in the process of moving off Substack) erinryanhey.substack.com/p/how-my-e-m...

The correct way to say it is I am a person who "uses a wheelchair." That puts the focal point on me using my chair but I can still get out of it if I need to.

Per usual, today the Trump Admin HHS is pretending they can flout the law and throw trans folks out of 504 civil rights coverage. Disability justice is trans justice: it's one fight. The Trump admin wants all of us dead, but we won't stop fighting for liberation with no body or mind left behind.

Washington: Apple Health Washington D.C. : Healthy Families West Virginia : Medicaid Wisconsin: Forward Health, BadgerCare Wyoming: Equality Care Thank you @lisalightner.bsky.social and A Day in Our Shoes for this list

Oklahoma: SoonerCare Oregon: Oregon Health Plan (OHP) Pennsylvania: Medical Assistance (MA) Rhode Island: RI Medical Assistance Program South Carolina: Healthy Connections South Dakota: Medicaid Tennessee: TennCare Texas: STAR+PLUS Utah: Medicaid Vermont: Green Mountain Care Virginia: Cardinal Care

Nevada: Medicaid New Hampshire: NH Medicaid, Medical Assistance New Jersey: NJ FamilyCare New Mexico: Centennial Care, Medical Assistance New York: Medicaid Managed Care North Carolina: Division of Health Benefits (DHB), Medicaid North Dakota: North Dakota Medicaid Expansion Program Ohio: Medicaid

Indiana: Hoosier Healthwise, Hoosier Care Connect, M.E.D. Works, Health Indiana Plan (HIP), Traditional Medicaid Iowa: IA Health Link Kansas: KanCare Medical Assistance Program Kentucky: Medicaid Louisiana: Bayou Health, Healthy Louisiana Maine: MaineCare Maryland: Medical Assistance

Florida: Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Program (SMMC), Managed Medical Assistance (MMA) Program, Long-term Care (LTC) Program Georgia: Medicaid Hawaii : MedQuest Idaho: Medicaid Illinois: Medical Assistance Program, Allkids

Alabama: Medicaid Alaska : DenaliCare Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) Arkansas: Health Care California: Medi-Cal Colorado: Health First Colorado Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons) Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)

Worth re-upping this thread. If your state has a health program that goes by a cute name (like BadgerCare in WI or HuskeyCare in CT), it’s very likely just Medicaid. Democrats need to be shouting that it’s really KanCare (KS) and DenaliCare (AK) being cut. Stop letting them win the messaging.

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough." Corey Booker, just now.

Massachusetts folks: Please share this widely. See the end of the thread to get the survey link for issue tracking.

I’m old enough to remember Cory Booker as the mayor of Newark doing everything in his power to help during hurricane Sandy. He used social media effectively and even invited people to stay in his home. It was wild watching it go down on Twitter. observer.com/2012/11/insi...

Hey I’m nonbinary and I write about disability and culture and I’d be thrilled if you signed up for my newsletter, Rising and Gliding, on Trans day of Visibility! Here’s a piece I wrote on wellness culture. You can subscribe from there. open.substack.com/pub/erinryan...

Evan Greer is a national treasure :) !

The worst part of the Rumeysa Ozturk video is when she says, can I call the police? And her masked abductors reply “we are the police,” and attempt to calm her down.

This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

I think punditry would be a lot healthier if people made the case for their policies and position on the merits first rather than framing everything they advocate for as a good electoral strategy. 90% of the time, it's what they support on the merits, so just make that case.

I urge Massachusetts elected officials to go to Louisiana and see Ms Ozturk in person. (Camp out on the doorstep!) They should show that MA's elected officials are personally committed to stopping secret police from kidnapping and incarcerating any of us when we engage in free speech.

I want to see the top officials in Massachusetts on video, in public, demanding Rumeysa’s release. Letters don’t get you very far. Go make some noise, please. whdh.com/news/lawmake...

I think Hegseth doesn’t understand what OPSEC means. It means operational security and refers to all aspects of communication regarding a mission. For ex., often deployed soldiers can’t tell a loved one where they are going + any exact dates bc of opsec. Didn’t know until I had loved one in service.

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

I truly believe that the reduction of the Three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) down to one (Recycle) in popular thought is because the other two mean people aren't buying things. Recycling is just throwing your trash in the green bin instead of the brown one, but same amount of stuff.