Regardless of the decision about expelling the IUSW, the fact that #NASW does not acknowledge the genocide in Gaza that multiple expert organizations have found plausible does, in fact, "diminish the seriousness of the humanitarian crisis in Palestine." @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social

#NASW's opposition to expelling the IUSW from the IFSW is not surprising, but I am particularly incensed by their argument that invokes the precedent of expelling South Africa during Apartheid-- 1/

Not me reading multiple Steinbeck novels last year and being uncomfortable with how fucking relevant they are to our current moment (and also, man, remembering what an incredible writer he was)

that HHS video is the most recent but not the only time I’ve ever been like, “oh it would be much better for the whole world if I’m just hallucinating this right now” but I understand you’ve all seen the same surreal episode of MTV’s Cribs that I just saw

Jesse Jackson's 1988 letter to the "Deaf President Now" protesters at Gallaudet University. "The problem is not that the students do not hear. The problem is that the hearing world does not listen." gallaudet.edu/museum/histo...

At this point, I don't think the democratic party platform is even about trying to turn centrist voters so much as convincing republican legislators be nice to them.

Folks that this label would be applied to have both autism & intellectual disability. There doesn't need to be a new label. It doesn't provide the labeled person with any new benefit, and imo it is a way for grievance parents to distance their child from ID & simultaneously stigmatize autism. 1/

My phone has inaccurately assessed that I want updates about Duke basketball. I only want updates about Carolina beating Duke at basketball. This isn't difficult, algorithm.

In-person early voting for the 2026 primary election begins today in all 100 counties of North Carolina. Voters will have until 3 p.m. on February 28 to cast their ballot before the Primary Election Day on March 3. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

I have a monthly cheeseboardgame day with my best friend from fourth grade.

Honestly surprised it has taken this long.

MEMPHIS @repcohen.bsky.social to Bondi: "You tried to investigate Ms. Good's widow, and you tried to investigate Mr. Pretti. They were executed like Kristi Noem executed her dog." (H/T @atrupar.com )

The first five-star book I have read this year (out of 13 so far) was The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. What a gorgeous execution of the epistolary. Also definitely talked about it for my entire therapy hour today.

"I know and have long admired Noam. He is, arguably, our greatest and most principled intellectual. I can assure you he is not as passive or gullible as his wife claims. He knew about Epstein’s abuse of children. They all knew. And like others in the Epstein orbit, he did not care." Thoughts in🧵

And now TB tuberculosis is so incredibly contagious horrific

RFK Jr talking about curing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder makes me so angry I cannot even think straight. This “man” is such an absurd asshole I cannot believe that we are discussing keto diets for manic depression are you fucking serious? I hate him. I hope he trips on an expired ICE dildo.

How about those states' rights now?

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

Made baked banana-cardamom french toast for breakfast, and it was an excellent use of a week-old sourdough loaf.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

#StarfleetAcademy is the Star Trek we need right now.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

holy fuck *actual parental responsibility* entirely aside (!), being a parent does not excuse you from also being a member of society.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

State vaccine requirements for school entry are absolutely essential if we have any hope of maintaining herd immunity. It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.

I keep thinking about how some of these people really don’t think it will cause lots of people to die but many of them actually do and want that because they’re eugenicists

"power holds no value unless it is exercised"

I don’t believe he’s deranged, as some many people say. I believe he knows he has a large following of people who believe everything he says, and he’s lying to them. And they will believe the lies. It is intentional.

I deeply do not wish to get back into yelling about #FacilitatedCommunication, but there really are people out there 1) fully discounting the value of science to evaluate it AND 2) fully embracing the ESP of it all that is the way some practitioners "know" FC works.

Twice this week, I have been surprised by people I've previously trusted to provide good information about autism defending Facilitated Communication & its offshoots. Is there new science to support the more recent methods, or is it just a continuation of the great bamboozle of The Telepathy Tapes?

Georgia Fort is another independent journalist being arrested for documenting/reporting on this church protest. Pretty straightforward authoritarian move here. Hope those who spoke up for Colbert speak up here too.

You may not know what the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee is, but it's the central advisory panel for autism in the federal government. @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports that RFK Jr. is loading it up with autism conspiracy theory cranks. www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...

Bill Cassidy’s legacy

The right thinks of community solidarity as "nefarious" because they can't imagine anything but their empty meanness. It is the tragedy of outsized and overemphasized individualism, what Ayn Rand called "the virtue of selfishness." It is their core moral failure. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Just amateurish" is an interesting way to pronounce "utterly sociopathic" but go off Thom

Frances Perkins was a badass.

BREAKING: Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, call for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Woke Star Trek, am I right? #StarTrek #FuckICE #StarfleetAcademy

We have started #StarfleetAcademy and I love it with big old heart eyes. Now that shit is #HopePunk.

I know that these folks are not trying to abolish ICE and of course that's what actually needs to happen And I am glad that there's even this

Welp, unfettered access to Instagram and Threads while snowed in during a crisis of our democracy is so bad for me, so uninstalled both. Threads is a cesspool. I read An Ugly Truth last wknd so know that Meta designed it that way. Bad-for-us content keeps us inside the ecosystem longer.

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

I've been watching some posts on Threads that talk about how there need to be strikes in the sports and entertainment industry in light of ICE's occupation of Minneapolis (ie, canceling the Super Bowl & such). 1/ #labormovement #fuckice

It is hard to imagine someone's MAGA uncle having a problem with a VA ICU nurse who honored military veterans in this manner. I know they believe whatever these liars say, but there is plenty of counter-evidence. Tell your ICE apologist relatives the truth. Don't shut up.

Okay! This is more like it. Call your senators, even the useless ones. Do your part to encourage Democrats to do theirs.

The only thing that Democrats in Congress should be doing in this moment is obstructing fascism in a coordinated, united way. I'd love for functional governance to be an option, but we are not living in functional times. Get in the fucking way. The Republicans have shown y'all how to do it.

I sure am exhausted from a decade plus of watching unaccountable agents of states kill people (including kids) and not be held accountable despite ample documentary evidence. Also exhausted of a significant portion of the electorate endorse nonsensical justifications for why it has to happen. 1/2