The reality is: disabled children are the first to lose services. They talk a big talk about caring for innocent helpless kids, but children are the least valued members of society. They’re expendable. They can’t fight for themselves. We are awful to children and the people who care for them.

Honestly I chose the wrong pull quote for the post. The right one is: “by making bigotry explicit, Trump and his closest imitators create a permission structure for people to be their worst selves.”

This should be unspeakably terrifying for many, many lawyers.

The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Weissand Effect

One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself

If you're struggling to navigate California's health care system, this tool can help. Search for any hospital, nursing home, clinic or other facility to see recent inspection reports, violations and potential references to patient harm.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is the reporter version of "I SAID what I SAID"

“Evictions are implosions on people’s mental and physical health,” he said. “This is why I really don’t see this outside the lane of health care — we are really focused in on people’s health and survival.” As a disabled person currently facing housing insecurity, I’m thrilled to see this.

OK I would like to revise *down* the number of latkes I brashly told my husband we should make before I remembered we do not have a food processor

The ACLU's Lee Gelernt has been at the front lines of immigration horrors for longer than most anyone. Here he's giving a map not only of what it means to fly hundreds of Venezuelans to a lawless prison, but more pointedly what it means to defy judicial commands. swap.fm/l/AmicusWith...

I have four weeks off from law school, please recommend the best "beach reads" you know

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Big news out of Montana: Dr. Thomas Weiner has lost his license and will never practice medicine there again as the medical board finally responds to reports that he hurt and mistreated people. They noted Scott Warwick, who got 10 years of chemo etc, died from it, but never had cancer. Context 👇

This is a real disaster in the making. Babies are going to die. Full-stop. "Why Denmark’s vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States." www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d... via @statnews.com

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/

No trans kid is having phalloplasty. That $150,000 surgery is being performed on *intersex* kids without their input. And that's something that they keep making carve outs in every trans care ban to preserve, the right of parents to force a genital configuration on kids, even in infancy.

RSV??? They really want tons of tiny babies coughing in children's hospitals? I shouldn't be surprised anymore but inflicting harm on *babies* is grotesque

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

A former law enforcement officer in Tennessee is suing his county and sheriff after he was jailed for more than a month for posting a meme related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

My local airport has signs reminding people that not all disabilities are visible to outsiders. A good reminder. There is also no evidence anywhere in this piece of a single person faking a disability, just TikTok videos and speculation by others about who "really" needs a wheelchair.

it is not possible for random assholes in line to tell whether someone is able bodied or not. the bad outcome in these situations is when someone who has a disability doesn't take advantage of the service because they worry about being judged. (this happens all the time.)

the smallest man in the world

@nytimes.com: no one is proposing to stop "gender-related care": The vast majority of kids who get the same specific hormones—cisgender kids who are trying to conform to their assigned gender or slow early puberty—will get the drugs. The ban will single out and apply exclusively to trans kids.

At last we have created the Hunger Games from the classic dystopian novel Don’t Create The Hunger Games

Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.

More reporting: WaPo implies that all healthcare providers, not just hospitals, would be barred from participating in Medicare & Medicaid if they provide GA care to youth. It also notes that Medicaid/CHIP would stop paying for care for those younger than 19. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US

On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.

yeah, they like, accurately quote the terrible things you say

Read @elliotspagat.bsky.social's piece on the lawsuit here: apnews.com/article/san-... @uclacilp.bsky.social

Proud to be alongside @uclacilp.bsky.social challenging ICE's cruel practice of luring immigrants into arrest traps in San Diego. It violates basic due process, which requires the gov't to justify re-detaining previously released ppl at a hearing before taking their freedom & tearing families apart.

Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do

this is worth reading even if you don’t think it will be

I didn’t anticipate how undignified living through history would be

guys I hate to say this but I think the president might be a pretty bad guy

American anti-Semitism is not primarily a partisan phenomenon, but a generational one. Jews constitute just 2 percent of the American population, but they’ve assumed much larger and more sinister proportions in the imagination of the country’s youth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

"The Wisconsin Deafblind Project was penalized for prioritizing “applicants from underrepresented and historically marginized groups,” according to a letter from the Trump administration" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

This entire weekend

stop the news cycle I want to get off

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

The world is a mess, but also my 5-year-old just tried hot chocolate for the first time

One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her. The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan. They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents. One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

He's been identified. He was shot twice in the arm and hand, but it is doing well and expected to recover fine. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/bon...