People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Autistic people oppose a cure to autism and I have a hard time reconciling why that isn't the end to the conversation about it.

“President Trump and RFK Jr. said dangerous things about autism that are not based on facts. They said these dangerous things at a press conference.” autisticadvocacy.org tells us about all the dangerous things Trump and RFK Jr said, in plain language: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/asan... #autism

I love my autistic son so much. Mace's statement reminds us that she thinks of him as unworthy of love.

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

Bonnie’s book on autism in Britain is a must read too. It was such an influence on mine.

Trump is calling autism “out of control” No… Autism stigma is out of control Ableism is out of control Inaccessibility to basic healthcare and support is out of control

Trump admin cancels special ed grant to UNC-CH to train future Pre-K teachers across NC It's part of the U.S. Department of Education's crackdown on grants promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. #nced www.wunc.org/education/20...

Neurodiversity is looking for a new editor! The deadline for expressions of interest is 5 October 2025. Full details are here journals.sagepub.com...

Fine work by fine scholars!

Cornell University was conducting a long-term study focusing on the barriers to employment for #ActuallyAutistic people. But in May, National Science Foundation funding for the project was terminated. www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

If you watch the video, the professor handles this like a professional. The student, on the other hand, handles this like a child who believes in magic, claiming that the president can simply make laws and declare speech illegal simply by saying things out loud.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

It's also a good time for researchers to speak up if they find their research has been incorrectly used to push "autism epidemic" narratives.

Uhhhhhhh

If you are a federal worker who focuses on #Autism and your work has been affected by RFK Jr., I’d love to talk with you. We can speak on background. My signal is emgarcia.85

If you are an #Autism researcher who has had their federal research grant from NIH/HHS on autism canceled, I'd like to speak with you. My signal is Emgarcia.85 #AutismSky

The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

NEW: For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed discredited theories linking vaccines to autism. Now, scientists studying the condition fear he has preconceived notions that will harm the field and taint new funding for research. propub.li/41JYl7o

“During the course of the 26-day sit-in, the Black Panther Party played a leading support role in providing food for the demonstrators. Over and over again, the disabled protesters credited the BPP with literally sustaining their struggle, “keeping us alive body and soul,” as one person put it.”

Petition in support of foreign-language instruction at Indiana University. Sad but true, even at IU ("we teach more languages than any other university") the language programs are under attack. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My French history students from the last couple years wanted to summer book club @richardivanjobs.bsky.social new graphic novel In the Land of Lacandon and LOVED it! Perfect for undergrad courses on colonialism, science, knowledge and power, mass media, and so much more! 10/10 highly recommend.

I basically built the pizza tracker into my online classes and my colleagues just didn’t get its brilliance.

This makes me wonder what is considered “technology” in a cultural sense, especially the kinds that have vanished. Isn’t a pen technology? A pencil?

“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

According to Aram G. Sarkisian, we cannot understand the scope of working class and immigrant religion in the United States without understanding American Orthodox Rus’. In "Orthodoxy on the Line," he traces the growth of the transnational religious world. Now available everywhere: buff.ly/oWSKsdm

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

Hate to break it to you, but everyone dies. Everyone you love. Everyone you've ever met. Everyone you've never met. You. All gonna die. Losing someone sucks. A lot. The only solution is to come to grips with the fact they're gone, and go on living. Please do not try to rebuild them. It won't work.

Deinstitutionalization happened in the US in my lifetime and now it’s found new adherents in the federal government. #eugenics #disabilty

My first book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation came out four years ago this month. It simultaneously feels like it came out yesterday and a century ago. I did it in hopes that people would take the needs of #ActuallyAutistic people seriously 1/ www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

As an interim admin with this being forced from above, I don’t see any conversations happening. Just binary thinking, which troubles my belief in the liberal arts. And as an interim, I have less power to stop the push. This is the logical conclusion of college as a job training center(it’s not)

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

@hdtgm.bsky.social it’s Morbin’ time

This article lays out the real, tangible harm in cutting funding to already-awarded projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In this case, four student researchers hired with project funds lost their jobs. #NEH #Milwaukee #Wisconsin Keep telling these stories!

Speechless.

A true gentleman who was just so lovely.

Now would be a good time to buy my book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, which explores how cranks and hucksters exploited the increase in autism diagnoses to promote disinformation and stigma around #ActuallyAutistic people. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

I am grateful for Matthew's efforts. The struggle continues.

New Day Rising.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Around the world around the world around the world aroubd the world

IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.

The mothership in distress.

Re: the crisis at UVA. The world notices when a US president connives with local Republican politicians & wealthy MAGA donors to force an American university president out of office. They know that it means very bad things for this country as a whole. 👇🏽

The Punopticon: The Logics of Academic Titles.

Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️

Theo as a puppy finishing his supper