In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

And people wonder why I stay home www.ocregister.com/2026/02/01/d...

The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.

"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Sigh. Now I feel like a curmudgeon, yelling at the kids to get off my lawn.

PSA for the UVA community: there are deaf professors on grounds. Riding your bicycle on the sidewalk or ramps is not safe because WE CANNOT HEAR YOU coming. Also, getting mad and giving me a dirty look because I didn’t move? 🤡

In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our book is finally out!

Now available! THE CRIP LINGUISTICS READER is a wide-ranging and groundbreaking collection that challenges normative ideas about what is considered “good language.” Visit our website for more information on this latest release from GU Press! gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-...

Excellent reporting from the Cavalier Daily about the right’s bad faith and paranoid obsession with syllabi at UVA. It’s worth keeping in mind that this contingent is led by people like Bert Ellis, who even Glenn Youngkin decided is too crazy to be trusted. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

Seen in the wild…#TDOR this Thursday, November 20. Join us downtown at 6 PM.

Just had a very strange interaction on 5th St. downtown C’ville with a woman driving a navy blue VW SUV with Alaska plates. As she drove off, with her husband and child in the car, she stared me down, then made a V gesture and flicked her tongue through it. What is wrong with people?

There are a couple of seats newly open for this evening's "Zines for Change" zine-making workshop in the @scholarslab.bsky.social with Jess Walters! Read more and register! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15124934

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

The reason they gave up is because the Democrats’ real constituency is upper middle class travelers worried about delays, not working class SNAP beneficiaries and people most harmed by the loss of health care.

Starving disabled people in the richest country in the world is a policy choice.

Glad to see my undergrad is *finally* getting it done.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Cville folks, the @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace (3rd flr UVA Shannon Library) is open to the public & can consult/teach you how to make what you envision. Everything's free (including 3D prints!) except buttonmaker's too popular=need to buy blank buttons yourself to make more than 2.

Stephanie and Najia started "Deafies for Zohran" to make this movement accessible to their community. They even created a signature hand sign for “Zohran.” Sign up for a shift and wave 👋🏻 the next time you’re canvassing in Jackson Heights!

The A-Z exhibits include 2 from the lab: "P is for Point-Cloud Data" by Will Rourk & @arinbb.bsky.social (on 3D captures of historic artifacts+architecture); and "Z is for Zines" by @literaturegeek.bsky.social

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The only way to fully protect the rights of DC residents is to make the district a state. Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_.

Washington DC’s 700,000+ residents deserve federal representation. DC statehood now.

Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

Obviously hoping to return UVA to its roots and its glory days in the late 1830s, when students rioted and shot and killed the Dean. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

This is a must-read story (including full text of letters from a FOIA request) by the Daily Cavalier about Trump admin's efforts to misuse federal antidiscrimination law in support of its ideological agenda against DEI at UVA. Kudos to the student journalists! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

We join with our VA AAUP Conference & UVa Faculty Senate in condemning the DOJ threats to withhold federal research funding in order to oust UVa President Jim Ryan for not bowing to political interference. We join with them in demanding an independent & public investigation into Ryan's forced exit.

critical thread. anyone who finds the scenario laid out implausible needs to get their head in the game. UVA is not Charlottesville, but for better or worse our fates are intertwined. we stand or fall together.

Part of the story about the war on US higher ed right now is university board members who want to see changes for the school that they can’t achieve structurally or politically – their power not in fact being unqualified – inviting and enabling federal incursion to make those changes

And, wow, I can’t believe I got here from there. Except that this administration’s performance of brute power will keep arresting, roughing up, pointing out, desecrating bodies because clearly signaling which bodies cannot count communicates to their base which bodies will always count.

This is a great thread. Highly recommend reading it to the end & the linked articles.

Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Working on a few things but yay! aslsignbank.com

Times like these, I miss DeafTwitter so much. Just had two separate conversations with deaf colleagues at R1s about interpreters. We rely on interpreters to be good teachers and colleagues but it is so hard to find the right team. Especially if you are outside of a metropolitan area.

For accessibility purposes, I typed up a full transcript of the Senator's press conference where he provided updated information about the fight to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.

How 'deaf rage' inspired groundbreaking sign language thriller www.bbc.com/news/article...

I genuinely don't understand how anyone can look at the current moment and think "Abolish ICE" was anything but completely correct. ICE cannot and should not exist. Period.

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I think about this a lot. Cruelty is the point in their execution but it isn’t the ultimate goal.

“Many of these men fancied themselves to be a cut above the [women] programmers who came before, and they often perceived COBOL as inferior and unattractive, in part because it did not require abstruse knowledge of underlying computer hardware or a computer science qualification.”

I’m a fourth generation Democrat. My grandmother was a grassroots organizer in rural upstate NY, working through lists on greenbar printouts, calling people & sending my grandfather out to pick up voters to bring them the polls. I’ve been thinking about her a lot lately.

It’s back on my mind: the way they will utilize (in the word’s true sense) and weaponize ‘students’ when they fail to take you down other ways.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

Boycott US www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important r.e. research ethics.