If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity. The thing is that he's a raging bastard but his approach to masculinity is 1. Be a wife guy 2. Don't let anybody else get away with being a bastard 3. Don't let himself get away with it either Who watches the watchman? I DO

Utah is revving up their battle to institutionalize those who rely on home and community based Medicaid waivers in order to stay out of institutions and remain in their homes with their families. Irony? Living at home is over 3x LESS expensive than institutions. #utah #disability #downsyndrom

This is not the only issue, but it's part of the problem: "In September, the VA’s Medical Disability Examination Office said “staff who conduct complex claim [reviews] had been reduced by half,” according to the GAO report." Read more at: www.stripes.com/veterans/202... Source - Stars and Stripes

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

Nothing to parse. Message was chillingly and ominously clear.

WHAT. 😡

Disability education should not be put into HHS because it's not a health issue, it's an education issue. The idea that disability = health is dehumanizing and, frankly, simply wrong.

"Charlotte's Web" is a story about a tiny and nearly invisible creature using the only skills she has to protect a friend and neighbor who's about to be butchered to make the farmer some money, and he returns the favor by caring for her children. Just in case you needed the reminder.

Seriously? The law creating this report was enacted during Trump's first term. He signed it.

This sounds strange to say, but I am wondering if pushing for the release of the Epstein files is actually the best move. I want these people behind bars. Would publicizing the evidence "taint" the jury and make it hard to get convictions?

ICE claimed she is brown skinned so cannot belong here? Thats why the tried to make her disappear? Look at that Native American Beauty. How many ICE are actually sex traffickers ? They are just like the Nazi Gestapo -they raped and killed women and children in -concentration camps. Evil reigns.🤷‍♀️

for what it's worth I think "they would rather starve Americans than pay for health care" is a winning message

Holy shit. For-profit schools, for-profit prisons, now for-profit disability programs.

the only good thing that phrenology produced is the concept of Retrophrenology, as described by Terry Pratchett in "Men at Arms". All you need to practise this complex art is a fascist and a hammer.

Yes. 👊💥❤️💥👊

Video on this article is a helpful one that really breaks it down in a nice way (sticky notes!): www.mprnews.org/story/2021/0...

Well, that's something. Once again, cheers for judges.

Indeed. And even within LotR, he wrote this: bsky.app/profile/bret...

Still proud of the Death bit

They need a work requirement. You know, like what they want Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, SNAP and disability recipients to do.

The number of enlisted families I knew who had to use food stamps at the commissary would blow these jackasses' minds

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Inspiration

With SNAP payments halted, a lot of our neighbors are facing hard times ahead. If you're able to help, please do.

It's even pretty good chocolate.

A wave of anti-science bills pushed by RFK's nefarious allies are hitting state legislatures across the U.S. Longstanding public health protections like vaccines, milk safety & fluoride are targets www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

All our rights were fought for.

#Discworld RE the eternal discussion of where to start with Discworld, I kept hearing advice not to start at the beginning. Apparently Pratchett himself agreed. In a convention speech in 2004, he said, "I find it now rather embarrassing that people...start with The Colour of Magic...

The NPR story about the No Kings protests said they were "largely peaceful." It said police in New York City and Washington, DC (among the biggest crowds) had made no arrests. Same in Austen, TX. In fact, the story included *no* mention of violent protests anywhere. Not "largely"; just peaceful.

Give the Kentucky legislature something new to think about.

I am reading a science fiction novel set in the "near future" in England. The unnamed main character has suddenly jolted my liking for her by "outing" another character, M, to a third person, G. The main character treats it as casual gossip, no big deal--

I wish I could see this!

Susan Stamburg, Cokie Roberts, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg...the voices I grew up hearing, letting me know women had a place at the table. She was 87 and just retired in September.

WTH

@rincewind.run Micah, what happened to the Discworld feed? It's disappeared from my list, and when I searched, I'm not seeing it. If I said something to get blocked, please tell me what it was; I didn't mean to be offensive.

#Discworld 1/4 I recently read *The Fifth Elephant.* I have been browsing various podcasts about Pratchett books. Two different ones have suggested that Carrot had all his surprising moves planned from the beginning. "He must have thought about what he would do if Angua ever disappeared."

#Booksky #Disability #LGBTQIA+ RoAnna Sylver's book *Chameleon Moon* sucked me in and didn't let go. It's an incredibly hopeful dystopian fantasy. Its characters represent different races, genders, sexualities, disabilities, etc and *none* of that is the focus of the story; it's just there.

Accessibility isn’t just about disability — it’s about building communities where everyone can fully participate, connect, and thrive. When we make access the expectation, we create a future where dignity, independence, and opportunity aren’t limited to some, but guaranteed for all. #YesAccess

The National Press Club: “If the news about our military must first be approved by the government, then the public is no longer getting independent reporting,” said club president Mike Balsamo. “It is getting only what officials want them to see. That should alarm every American.”

I can tell I haven't written many papers in the last ten years.I hate and despise the online version of Microsoft Word. Why does it keep printing the last line of page 1 on a separate page? On screen it shows I have lots of room. I have fiddled with page breaks. Aaaarrrgghh.

JAMA: “Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding.”

In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no association. The study is now published in JAMA. To “gaga I was born this way

“Medicine was the most Nazified profession in #Germany” #euthanasia #eugenics #wwii #holocaust #medsky #disability www.motherjones.com/politics/202...