Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that sans serif fonts aren’t suited for world-class diplomacy and ordered the department to drop Calibri in favor of Times New Roman, reversing a Biden-era policy intended to help employees who are visually impaired.

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

The goal of healthcare is not to increase the GDP It’s to make people healthy & tend to the sick. It’s not supposed to be a money making scheme Dr Oz saying that to “flourish in life” you must engage in the workforce is useless eater rhetoric He wants you to see the sick & disabled as expendable

Remember our mantra: Don't Engage, Just Block.

UPDATE: President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. There is little strong scientific evidence for either.

live your life in such a way that it won’t be considered an insult to your memory to post unedited direct quotes of things you said in public repeatedly

Nothing like RFK Jr's nonsense to make you feel awkward. Over the years, I have come to appreciate and celebrate my autistic-ness, and it really sucks to continually see headlines that imply that being like you is devastating or the worst thing that can happen to someone. I think I'm pretty cool

Oh. Look. Special education students are being stripped of their accessibility devices due to the gen ed need to ban cellphones in the classroom. Exactly the thing I’ve been warning about bc I know how SpEd gets treated. I. TOLD. YOU. SO.

It’s easy to speak up for those who are the same as you For people you like or empathize with The true test is whether you will speak out for those you don’t care about or identify with For those who you don’t like Everyone deserves the same basic rights & we must fight for all or we all lose

I'm thinking a lot lately about Hadrian's Wall, which had hypocausts. After the Romans left, it took England 1,300 years to reinvent steam heating. If we think nothing like that can happen to us, we are delusional.

Is assaulting law enforcement in the room with us right now?

Anyone who has ever lived in LA county will not be surprised it was the sheriff's department that escalated

Not only can working from home make you happier, for many disabled people it allows them to remain in the workforce It gives them autonomy & independence. Flexibility to attend doctors appointments and care for their health It’s a crucial accommodation, and removing it will harm disabled lives

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

Keeping the most, overtly ignorant and hostile people in charge is part of the plan, because it's about pushing the line to make sure everyone knows the hierarchy, "Our least capable and deserving will get more than the best of you."

For kids with complex health issues, Medicaid is the difference between staying with family and being forced into a nursing home as a child. Private insurance doesn't want to cover home care. Medicaid has to.

I am again begging people to understand that "that's illegal!" only matters if somebody does something about it. This includes "that's unconstitutional!" Turns out that these things are all agreements, not immutable laws of the universe.

People want to believe that health is 100% in their control... That if they do the "right" things, they'll stay "healthy". Truth is that it doesn't work like that. Most of our "health" is out of our control. We can only reduce risks

News: RFK Jr is refusing to come to an autism roundtable hosted by @autisticadvocacy.org, @awnnetwork.org, @aapd-disability.bsky.social, @thearcus.bsky.social, @nacdd.bsky.social, and more. You know, disability organizations that actually hire autistic people. www.aapd.com/autism-round...

Making lists of disabled people like this never, ever results in good things. There is no good intent here.

Was recently on an interview panel in which we were told em dashes indicate AI use. Y’all, no. Just no. Em dashes aren’t archaic. They’re standard punctuation used by many, many ppl use them every day. Stop your nonsense. It’s not AI. It’s just punctuation.

The premise of all the concern over pediatric transgender medicine is that it's being given too quickly to too many children, and I continue to find it odd that every scrap of evidence I can find suggests that this isn't happening and never was.

FYI: In the U.S., Head Start is an educational program for preK kids. It focuses on connecting families to necessary resources, as the most successful students are housed, fed, healthy, supported, & given early educational opportunities. It’s a federal program. $0 have been allocated for 2026.

Despite promises of cuts from Trump and Elon, the U.S. spent about $220 billion more in the first 100 days than it did last year. We’re spending far more and getting far less. So where is all the money going?

There are three kinds of people: People who think suffering is okay as long as it's borne by the right people; People who think suffering is okay because they had to suffer; People who think suffering isn't okay. Be in the last category.

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

Today, SCOTUS hears a case on whether hearing a story read about a child who has a gay uncle constitutes a violation of freedom of religion. Why should we care? Because public education belongs to all of us, and all means all. Kids with LGBTQ+ families are part of the all.

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

Look, Pope Francis did some great things. I appreciated him. But Francis also called women selfish for not having kids. Told gays their marriage wasn’t valid. Called trans folks the ugliest threat to modern times. So, let’s not mistake progress for perfection. Just sayin

Disabled people have the right to exist even if we can’t work. To believe we don’t have that right is eugenics and ableism.

RFK Jr. has directed the health service to research autism cures by clicking on every link that says "Try this one weird trick doctors don't want you to know!"

Today I'm finding out which people believe that if you're part of a population that is a small overall percentage of humans on the planet, it's okay to strip you of rights. I wonder if they have considered how easy it would be to classify *them* into a small overall percentage, and do it to them.

Elon Musk now admits his Department of Government Efficiency will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

I keep seeing posts and online articles asking "how can he . . . ?" or "why is he getting away with . . . ?" Because the MAGATs control the White House (including DoJ and federal law enforcement), Congress, and the Supreme Court and because the right has been planning this for decades. That's why.

As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.

This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.

So remember how I said we weren’t getting updates about changes to policy? Yah well they’re for real about that. Yesterday we got confirmation that SSA will not do press release or Dear Colleague letters anymore. All announcements will be posted to X. Yup. True story. I want a new timeline. 🤬🤬🤬

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

Look, I’ve been in higher ed for close to 30 years. One thing I’ve learned is that thinking your sacrifice will be rewarded is a losing game. If you don’t stick up for yourself, your colleagues, your students, your department, your college, and your mission, you will be strangled to death.

Been thinking of old Letterman clips for some reason.

FYI, education is becoming increasingly privatized. A LOT of teachers are leaving districts so they can sign on with an agency & make 4x the pay for the same job. Public schools just aren’t competitive in terms of salary, benefits, or retirement (a whopping 2% of your wage). Just sayin

New report shows it’s largely officials and organizations demanding books be banned - not parents #Booksky #BookBans www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Reminder that (a) the current share of U.S. workers in the public sector (working for government agencies) is at historic lows (b) It was not until the 'post'-Civil Rights era, when Black workers gained footing in public sector jobs, policymakers began to frame public sector workers as "waste"

We are living through the consequences of having an uninformed and ill-informed citizenry. Our founding fathers warned us about this danger.

If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back. How can anyone defend this?