This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: [email protected]

I literally spent 10 min translating Lula’s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, I’ll do it again.

"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people." From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

A reminder that every word out of RFK's mouth is eugenics, plain and simple. Blaming moms for taking Tylenol during pregnancy and portraying autism as something that must be avoided at all costs is how we end up with disabled colonies (or "farms," "camps," whatever you want to call them).

In addition to all the ableism, blaming moms for taking tylenol during pregnancy or vaccinating their children definitely feels like a recycled version of the "refrigerator mom" theory of autism. Every single day under this administration I have been reminded of why disability history matters.

I can't stop thinking about what RFK Jr said: he's never seen someone with "full blown autism" his age. And that in 1965 his father went to Willowbrook State School and said kids were “living in filth and dirt.. in rooms less comfortable & cheerful than the cages in which we put animals in a zoo.”

Tylenol does not cause autism. Autistic kids do not need to be cured. Okay thanks bye.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Jimmy Fallon as the last late-night host standing is truly the kind of dire shit you hope the graphic novel memoirs don't leave out in 30 years

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

No but seriously a fox news anchor just casually called for the killing of unhoused in one of the most stunningly mask-off nazi-esque eugenicist statements I've heard in a while and that is really fucking saying something. What in the literal fuck. bsky.app/profile/atru...

#TeamRhetoric It appears the fired lecturer was a rhet/comp and lit professor

A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.

NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏

I think it's important to note that Venezuela is saying this didn't happen. They've recovered no debris, and they contend the video appears to be a deep fake. Yet crucially, the US media is mostly avoiding reporting this, or examining the video. www.cbsnews.com/video/venezu...

John Oliver fact-checks Kennedy. PSA- everything coming out of the HHS needs to be fact-checked. Anyone can spout numbers. Here he goes again, as usual. MAHA math ain't mathin'. 🧪 www.youtube.com/shorts/JPzXG...

Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Why is there so little discussion of faculty well-being in the classroom when we talk about student well-being? A lot of lib/leftist pedagogy seems to assume that we as individuals have more control than we do.

So many pedagogical conversations focus on what we as individual instructors need to do to counter the dehumanization of the university for our students. But faculty collectively must have care, belonging, and safety in their workplaces if they are going to do that.

Philip Larkin said "What will survive of us is love," but research based on previous collapsing civilizations suggests it's more likely to be inorganic items that can be buried, burned, or struck without significant degradation. Likely what will survive of us is ceramic toilets.

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Currently working on my dissertation and I *need* this!

What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there

The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off. "I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

the president deployed the national guard to stop Nicolas Cage from stealing the Epstein List, which is written in invisible ink on the back of the fake Declaration of Independence trump put in the Oval Office

Pink polo was MOVING.

I talk to a lot of young people about work the aside from the evergreen "how do I even find a job right now," one of the most common things coming up in those conversations is "how am I possibly supposed to function at work and pretend everything is fine right now?"

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Zohran Mamdani just released a statement about Cuomo working with Trump:

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

“Speaking out for kids in this situation is more important than my career.” More people need to internalize this.

“The reception was mostly warm besides an occasional detractor, including a man who pulled Cuomo in for a handshake, took out his phone for a selfie, and as the former three-term governor of New York smiled for the camera, told him, ‘I can’t wait to watch you lose again.’”

A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.

People keep coming up with strange justifications for this: he is just a run of the mill eugenicist who thinks the ‘unfit’ (which includes all these classes) should be out of sight and out of mind in institutions. There is no interest in bettering their lives or caring for them—just the opposite.

For the Epsteinth time, an 'underage woman' is called a CHILD. Thanks for coming to my Pred Talk.

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵