As the nation is engulfed by wildfire smoke, you should all know that there's a clear statistical link between exposure to drifting wildfire smoke and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular, and oncological (cancer) health problems. 🧵

“Nationwide, the number of unaccompanied children in federal custody on any given day has hovered around 2,000 for over a year. In June, the average number of children in custody was 1,796 — 31 were under the age of 6.”

"Especially at a time when propaganda is rampant under the Trump 2.0 regime, it feels particularly crucial to ensure that those invested in Disability Justice are aware of what we owe to Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party."🫂 www.equitableforall.com/articles/cel...

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...

The new work requirements rule may take health care away from millions of disabled people. Check out our plain language explainer to learn all about this new rule and how you can take action to protect health care by writing a public comment! autisticadvocacy.org/2026/07/medi...

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

New: An analysis of a huge wave of public comments on a White House proposal to change federal grant-making found that about 95% were posted in opposition. Via @aniloza.bsky.social @jaspar.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/t...

Hi! For reporting I'm doing at @motherjones.com, I'm looking to connect with people on how workplace accommodations has helped their mental health when it comes to changing in function due to Long Covid. Please reach out at [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

Nothing to see here: Just 292,150+ people warning about Trump Admin’s new federal rule to strip grant funding power away from experts, scientists and unbiased arbiters Instead granting power over federal grants to Trump appointees Enormous issue Comment deadline is today

Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/

As I prepare for surgery in a couple of days I wanted to dash off a quick 'actionable analysis' post that's our tag line here at Shouldn't Need to be a (Public Health) Lawyer.... Here's how to protect yourself from Cyclosporiasis, the explosive diarrhea parasite taking the country by storm

The deadline to speak out against new OMB rules is tomorrow

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Montana Supreme Court upholds state judge's landmark ruling in youth climate case - 2024 - landmark climate ruling - state was violating residents' constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for global warming .. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

"Two studies published this week suggest that updated COVID-19 booster vaccines continue to provide meaningful protection against major adverse outcomes, cardiovascular complications, hospitalization, and all-cause death" www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/upd...

Last week the Trump admin said disabled people don't have the right to live in our communities. Now the Supreme Court says we don't have the right to voter protections. They want to squeeze us out of public life and lock us away in silence.

Clinics in Texas and Florida pumping children with ketamine and untested stem cell materials to ‘cure’ autism while the same administration punishes clinics offering teenagers gender affirming care is somehow the perfect illustration of how this admin is fundamentally about hating the ‘other’

My very favorite org @disabilitylab.bsky.social is looking for their next round of fellows! As an inaugural fellow I cannot say this loudly enough that THIS IS A GREAAAAT FELLOWSHIP! Apply! AMA! www.disabilityculturelab.org/disabilityri...

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

I’m really looking forward to reading this book 💐🎉

“Companies, not all of them particularly careful or scrupulous, have a lot invested in keeping us locked into drearily quantifying our lives – they want our money and need our data – and we’re vulnerable to images and narratives of apparent perfection that play on our anxieties and neuroses.”

This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social

Now beginneth Seven Days in June, Cleve Jones's call to attention to the healthcare crisis and commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the AIDS crisis. Candlelight vigils nationwide on the 5th. Lots of info at the link.

• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

This is NOT false alarmism... this is an actual 5-alarm fire on science, research and innovation in the US. (In case you didn't think it could get worse... it continues to get worse). Public comment is open NOW. We need to continue to use our voices in what's left of our very broken system.

Tonight's Working Families Party Mass Call was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!! In case you missed it, here's a clip from our political education session. Watch the full recording here: www.youtube.com/live/GwkpRdx...

“[In Scot Nakagawa’s] 'Make the Refusal to Quit Go Viral'…[he] writes that the stubborn refusal to give up is the most strategically important identity available to us right now….that refusal should spread through dense, trusted folks in community, not just broadcasts disconnected from community."

New piece: Minnesota lawmakers are acting - in collaboration with local organizers and government officials - to defend disability rights against the federal government. It’s good law. It’s a shitty situation. (Gift link)

Trump is using a "waste, fraud, and abuse" campaign to cut Medicaid: freezing federal payments, labeling home care and autism therapy as fraud, justifying cuts. Lew Blank and I polled voters on what works against it, free messaging briefing, 5/28 @ 1PM ET Register: live.zoho.com/hila-mwe-ufe

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

If you're someone who relies on Medicaid or you have family members/loved ones who rely on Medicaid, and you're interested in the most effective ways to talk about the vital program? This is also for you

Across the country, politicians are trying to take away power from voters, particularly Black voters in the South. But this is not the time for despair or disengagement—that's what the want. Use this toolkit to take action for voting rights this Saturday ⤵️ blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

NOTICE: Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. If they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Remember…last summer we had 95 degree weather. Look out for them

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

another huge W for Brazil

SCOTUS Voting Rights Act opinion based on faulty data. Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice: “In zero out of the last three presidential elections, did Black turnout come anywhere close to parity.Alito’s claim is simply not factual.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Suppression of voting rights was part of the case that civil rights leaders made to the UN that what was happening to Black Americans constituted genocide, back in 1951 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

Extremely bad. There should be a revolt against this. It is very damaging to people and to America. Do you think we can go without people in these professions? Not without devastating consequences.

The FDA has blocked the release of three studies demonstrating the safety of vaccinations for coronavirus and shingles. The studies in question — which cost millions of dollars and were conducted by agency-based scientists — found that serious side effects from the vaccines were very rare.

SPREAD THE WORD. Can we get to 1000 letters? Nicole Saphier lies about vaccines, hawks supplements on the internet and tells you that your health is your "personal responsibility" (get sick: it's your fault). Write to your senators now and oppose this nomination. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

With states picking up the burden to compensate for Medicaid cuts, state-by-state health outcomes are going to start diverging wildly depending on whether you live in a rich or poor state—and how much your state prioritizes healthcare as a human right.

Note to self: “disable the two settings that switch all this on…in Smart Features and Personalisation settings” Step by step instructions woulda been nice. I hope the toggles are obvious.

The language we use matters: This is a thoughtful exploration of the ongoing debate over how we describe ICE facilities. (For the record, I use concentration camp because IMO they meet that criteria.)

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.