I'm keeping a list of cowards and collaborators who've helped destroy public health and biomedical research: who would you nominate? From Ta-Nehisi Coates: "If none of us are here, If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were."

I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...

Get your pre-orders while they’re hot!

Can't wait for the "deaf cures" to start being promoted by such luminaries as BeerBiceps and the Doctropraneur Academy.

Quick q. for @drewmagary.bsky.social. My 11 year-old secretly stole this book from me and read the whole thing directly after purchase. What are my options here?

For my family, it's telling my kids "Did you know that UC Berkeley stole these buildings from California School for the Deaf and back in the 70's?" berkhistory.org/berkeley-in-...

Deaf standard time is so embedded in #Deaf culture that the Summer Deaflymics being held in November feels like a cultural statement. Good luck to Deaflymic athletes this week!!

View from the reading chair. (I’m the reading chair.)

The ongoing dismantling of the DoE.

On that note, any authors here have experience getting their books translated into Spanish for the US market, or sold in Spanish in the US? I'd love to get your perspective the rights issues and how it happened. #translation

Just spent an enlightening morning talking with a board member from handsunitedor.org. Really underscored the need for orgs to offer multilingual services—half of my son's class at CSD, and half of all California families with #deafkids, use Spanish at home.

The younger one is sick this morning, but not sick enough to stay in bed. He's building a city out of the recycling, and put me in charge of billboards. So far, he's requested Safeway and Sweet James. #bayarea #deafkids

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

As @raeoflion.bsky.social and I wrote in this article featuring Rae's video: A report from the California Health Care Foundation found that 10 percent cut to HCBS programs would lead to $1 billion more in Medicaid spending in the state... due to the greater overall costs of institutionalization.

This Department of Ed is attacking nurses and eliminating nursing programs, per Project 2025.

This order also lumps in kids seeking cancer treatment, Deaf individuals, and anyone else who is "not normal." What a gross group of individuals claiming to defend the US Constitution.

Raining today and the younger kid doesn’t want it to end, so he says, “I hope the rain STOPS and we go out in the playground for recess. It’s irony luck.”

#eugenics is pervasive in the sciences, but it’s not science. So glad researchers are doing this work.

It's RRRREEAAADDDYYYY! The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual is now available for pre-order. It's a modern parenting guide for hearing families with deaf or hard of hearing children. Makes a great gift for parents, family members and educators, and a useful weapon for throwing at an LEA or admin,

Working the outreach table at my son’s school. Giving the ol’ ASL a workout.

Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.

Okay but owning a dog when you’re a deaf parent with a newborn baby is absolutely busted. Every time he cries, my dogs notify me. Like yeah, I have devices to help but holy heck this is way more efficient 🥹 Bonus pic of the two dogs in question ♥️

Have I mentioned my love of Jon Klassen lately? I think he's Edward Gorey's natural successor and one of the best children's book authors of our time. But what I LOVE about reading his books to #deafkids is how they cultivate theory of mind...

The older kid was in art class today when the teacher said, “I’m tired.” He apparently answered, “In the grand scheme of things, we are all tired.”

Gave my 9-year-old nephew The Cartoonists Club by @scottmccloud.bsky.social and @goraina.bsky.social last night and he has already finished it and is excitedly describing it to his parents. 🙂

Anna Wintour and Roger Lynch are union-busting and fascist-appeasing here. Notice that WIRED's White House reporter is one of the fired union leaders.

Need a way to search Bluesky for "deaf" that excludes "tone deaf" because, well...

A big win for the disability community today as US District Judge Amir Ali orders the White House to restore ASL interpretation to press briefings. They ruled that ending the accessibility measure illegally excluded deaf Americans from government updates. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

People of BlueSky! Let's get to know each other better! What is your all-time favorite TV show?

Really important reporting on the DeafBlind program funding issue.

Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper. He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult. In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.

If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I can’t believe it’s cancelled. They had the best flavor and the worst texture of any gum on the market—delicious fruit flavors dissolving into barely-coherent paste in a matter of moments.

really wish you used alt text on your cool posts so all cool people could appreciate your cool posts 🥲

Happy Halloween to all who celebrate (me.)

Hell of a Parthian shot on the back of Nikki Giovanni’s last book.

A culture of institutional disability discrimination within the Metropolitan police is exposed today by the former head of its disabled staff association. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/former-detec...

Milo has something to say, and he feels strongly about it.

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

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Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, authors of THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED, had their elementary school author visit canceled when they arrived and students were waiting for them. Why? Because they wouldn't *not* talk about book bans–inspiration for their book. bookriot.com/the-day-the-...

Johnny Boo can help kids learn to read? @topshelfcomix.bsky.social #kidlit

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

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