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.

“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:

🚨Liz Carr's evidence against the Assisted Dying Bill "Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity" More from @johnpring.bsky.social 👇 www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c...

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NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.

An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico: “When you reclaim your culture, history, art, traditions, land…then things are different. You can talk about who you want to be.” nonprofitquarterly.org/an-indigenou... @steve-npq.bsky.social

When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight. Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]

Knowledge should be critiqued. Science is different. If the scientific method was followed correctly then a study should be able to be replicated multiple times and come to the same conclusion. If it cannot, then its results should not be accepted. This could not be more different.

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.” Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

If you’ve never read it, you absolutely should. Not a thing happening since 2020 has been a shock to me (Grief inducing? yes. Angering? yes. Shocking? No.), in part because of this book. Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

"Government funding through Jan. 2026" — destroying the healthcare system for 2 months of gov funding "backpay for federal employees" — existing law signed by Trump in '19 already guarantees this "Furlough prevention" — I don't know what the fuck this means

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”

Well played.

The police killing of Sonya Massey shows how disability, race, and gender converge in deadly encounters—and why we must reimagine crisis response around care, not control. Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-... #DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Check out our accompanying playlist, Resistance Rhythms. It celebrates the music that carried defiance, joy, and survival across generations—where every beat reminds us that movement itself can be resistance. 🎧 Listen here: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... [2/2]

Swing was more than music—it was resistance in motion. Born in Black communities under Jim Crow, swing became a sound of joy, improvisation, and collective defiance. 📝 Read our new blog, “A Rhythm of Resistance,” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/a-rhythm-of-... [1/2]

DHS just proposed a new rule letting USCIS collect biometrics from anyone tied to an immigration filing — even U.S. citizens, kids, and sponsors. Includes DNA, iris scans, voiceprints. You can comment by 1/2/2026: www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-19747 🧵 Why this matters ↓

“This is way scarier than any clown or zombie,” reported one guest with a rare chronic illness. thesqueakywheel.org/hallowee...

The Trump Administration is creating a backdoor national registry using Social Security data that’s not always sufficient to identify citizens correctly. Congress never authorized this. It could disenfranchise legitimate voters. www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

So excited about this!

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

This is a lie. They could continue to fund SNAP but chose not to. They also don't need to give $40B to Argentina. They're doing nothing to help the American people during a problem they caused. They're dragging it out to cause further harm, avoid swearing in a duly elected Rep, & delay Epstein vote.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

This is D3 sports. Honestly. Swarthmore should know better, tho also they have such a history of making poor decisions when it comes to athletics.

The Dept of Ed has proposed removing IDEA's “significant disproportionality” data tracking for disabled students of color. We urge withdrawal & protection of students’ civil rights. [1/8] Comment by EOD: federalregister.gov/d/2025-16051 More info + our letter: crdjustice.org/public-comment-letters

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is what he does to the "people's house"

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

These are the only sentences which should be said over and over again to the SCt “The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were expressly crafted to grant Black people equal rights as citizens in a democratic society. The Court is preparing to use those very Amendments to deny those rights instead.”

Love to see this from @crdjustice.bsky.social highlighting DisCrit. This work was born out of making the experiences of disabled Youth of Color-with racism, ableism & resistance-the center of my work. I am so honored to see others take it up. Thank you Center for Racial and Disability Justice‬!

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

Karl Marx: "The theory of communism can be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: The Trump regime is systematically turning private companies into government-owned companies.

‼️ this was a striking moment, to me Louisiana was basically like 'here come these Black people always asking for more' and Justice Jackson was like, 'that's not what the fuck they're asking for, they're saying: stop discriminating against us'

Oh man I love this for Tulsa!

And here it is! The article I wrote for Truthout regarding #IndigenousPeoplesDay and the assault on birthright citizenship and tribal sovereignty.

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

This #NDEAM, we’re affirming what real employment means. True equity means fair pay, inclusion, and opportunity for disabled workers. If it’s not competitive and integrated, it isn’t employment. #DisabilityEmployment #DisabilityJustice

Conversion therapy is wrong. The guy who created it also made a version for Autistic folks called ABA. It is also wrong. Listen to the people impacted by these harms. @autisticadvocacy.org @thinkingautism.com

This is totally not a priority but... why are ugly "dad" hats in style right now? Like with the cord across the front and the cursive writing and often nautical theming. Super confused. I mean yeah I got on the ironic trucker hat bandwagon years ago so guilty there but this one... nah no thanks