In case you were unaware, the Cass Review was the biggest and most egregious case of policy-based evidence making perpetrated by any government in recent years. It is so flawed it has been almost universally condemned. Don't let them do the same for mental health care.

The 2026 Disability History Association Publication Awards are now open! Please visit our website to find nomination details. www.dishist.org #dishist

I'm going to be using #DisabilityDiversion because it captures it very well bsky.app/profile/frac...

🕯️Today is Disability Day of Mourning, when our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join us tonight 6pm ET for ASAN’s virtual vigil: youtu.be/HeF3LrHTuBM #DDoM2026

The world's leading player of the early electronic instrument, the ondes Martenot, Christine Ott has collaborated with Radiohead, Tindersticks, and more. Here's a look at her Bandcamp discography.

If you are a journalist or part of a cultural group in the Kansas City/Lawrence area and want someone to talk about Algeria, soccer, and the ties between Algeria's independence struggle and the sport, hit me up. I will be in KCMO all summer and I'm happy to speak in any format.

Sorry, I know I bang on about this thing a lot, but my Paris 1919 book is currently 40% off (as part of a massive Bloomsbury sale), if you think you might be interested. www.bloomsbury.com/us/john-cale...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By @megomatz.bsky.social

And @rpanchasi.bsky.social on the Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️ (6/7)

product v. process

Ma préférée

And it’s not just mental heath crises. Fully half of the people killed by police in the US have a disability. What folx need to understand is that cops are not well-trained in deescalation or conflict resolution. All they have that we don’t is that gun, and permission to use it to end a conflict.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you want to understand how we got to the point where anti-vaxxers have so much power and why their arguments aren't just bad for public health but also #ActuallyAutistic people, buy my book. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

This is a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, but I've been percolating on it for over a year, so here goes. I don't think we are using "imperial boomerang" correctly. Controversial take, perhaps but here is why.

This page aggregates a number of community groups that are involved www.standwithminnesota.com

A wonderful Steve read that has one of the best Genesis references snuck in, crafty like the band he is chronicling here.

I just thought everyone should see this

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

The Mothership landed #hailToOldIU

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

Thanks for all the magic Bears. I wish the ride were continuing, but I am grateful that you brought excitement to the city. #beardown

Back to the 90s!

Thinking of Minneapolis. #huskerdu

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Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday. Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.

BEAR DOWN!!!!

🚨🚨wake up the pope 🚨🚨

At the @historians.org Exhibit Hall representing the @thewsfh.bsky.social and reading @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. All the history!

They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources. If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

L'icône Brigitte Bardot, de la cause animale à l’extrême droite

@richardivanjobs.bsky.social making my Christmas and French history dreams come true!

Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."

Exactly what we expected

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at [email protected] for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

haven't seen ms patti posted here yet this season, place needs work www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84Q...

Just sent a pitch to Chronicle of Higher Education in response to this. If they reject I'll post it here. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social

This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.

I turn 35 today and would love nothing more than to raise $350 for the Greater DC diaper bank. WIC doesn’t cover diapers. Please donate here. greaterdcdiaperbank.org

Wherein I make the case that Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of the Star Wars Universe Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social ! 🗃 journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. n.pr/48udkF5

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Eric’s book is an important part of the conversation that is being silenced by the political wonks who haven’t left the 20th century.

If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page. Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).

What a giant. Yes, the Kurosawa and Kobayashi films, but also outstanding in some of the best by Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs), Teshigahara (Face of Another), Ichikawa (Conflagration), Okamoto (Sword of Doom, Kill), etc. R.I.P.

During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, underground bands played in tiny venues and distributed their music via bootleg cassettes. Artist Iván Navarro is resuscitating their work via his label, Hueso Records. It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says. hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...