Disabled folks feeling guilty for not protesting today: *it is not your fault* that organizers don’t make an effort to make protests accessible and don’t encourage masking And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way

So many folks in my mentions feeling terrible for not being able to protest today b/c of disability, illness, or mental health: GIVE YOURSELF GRACE It’s GOOD for us to find as many ways to fight as possible. The bigger the variety of resistance the better. All you have to do is anything. That’s it.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

So I started scouring the internet. TikTok, Instagram, court docs, and local news sites, in Spanish and English. It was hardly scientific. But I found senior citizens tackled. Pregnant women handcuffed. Kids detained. A veteran pulled out of his car on the way to work. The videos were everywhere

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan

Cats by Shou Xin

there are people in big ass positions of power who are enabling this shit and the mass power of the people can convince them to rescind their complicity and that’s the only way a regime collapses

I'd kind of thought that there was no way the Epstein files could be, like, *that* bad but then the speaker of the house dramatically refused to swear somebody in for a month to keep them quiet and the billion year old King of England disinherited the guy eighth from the throne for being in them

Took me awhile to read this excellent, deeply researched and reported piece. So grateful to @emcahan.bsky.social and @rollingstone.com giving Long Covid in kids the attention it deserves and for highlighting the difficulties of getting a diagnosis and support. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.” Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights Our @rollingstone.com investigation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

the difference between a wonderful audiobook performance by a gifted voice actor and this "digital voice" horseshit masquerading as legit audiobooks makes me steaming mad. good narration is important and deserves to be paid for!!!!!!

This woman's husband was a social worker in a nyc nursing home in 2020. She reads texts from her husband during that time to explain why her family won't be voting for Cuomo. Warning, there's a lot of death references (she says rank but it's a recent post)

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.

We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life. And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

You know… for years people have said “ignore them” they’ll go away. But they didn’t go away. They just kept getting more emboldened because people didn’t draw a line in the sand and say, enough. I’m exhausted of feeling like we have our hands tied behind our back when it comes to fighting back.

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

the part about that “i love hitler” groupchat is that it’s not surprising that all young republicans are nazis, this is just the average rightwinger these days. they’re all extremists who love every extreme position possible and everyone needs to realize that

I read a lot of news stories that are some version of "a pedestrian was hit and killed; the driver was not hurt". My reaction is always "well, no shit". We need to design our infrastructure to better protect people outside the car.

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

I just can’t with calling these horrible humans “kids.” Ever notice when it’s a Black 18-year-old male, he’s a “man,” but when it’s a white 27-year-old male, he’s a “kid.”

Always fascinating how young girls or teens who experience sexual assault are "women" but 30 year old dudes dropping racist hate speech in the group chat are "kids" 🙄

This is a devastating account of what ICE is doing to our friends, neighbors and fellow US citizens. Incredible work by @propublica.org. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

"Epstein not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care."

Fascinating new paper: higher levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater correlate with higher health-related absences from work. "COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic," the authors write.

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”. Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Universal basic income is a government's promise to its citizens that they will always be able to get by. It's a promise to its citizens that the exploitation of their labor has ended and that they can have freedom. Ubi is part of the American dream because businesses have failed us in it

Water Avalbabity will be low everywhere soon enough if people keep using this shit

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

When your year runs from October to September, this is what annual temperatures up to 2025 look like. We are reaching the point that anyone eyeballing graphs can see acceleration of global warming. No more statistics and natural variability corrections needed.

You know you're in trouble when your chart runs out of space. Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature 1850-2025 (measured annually, every September). #climate #ClimateChange

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

They locked the doors at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to prevent the fire from spreading. The rest of the city was saved by their heroic actions.

“… we will never get clean air without public pressure, and there will never be public pressure without public awareness that COVID is dangerous. As long as the public continues to treat COVID like a cold the government has no incentive to move on clean air.” — @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the federal shutdown offers evidence that her agency is “unnecessary.” Advocates say firings at the U.S. Department of Education threaten to disrupt the flow of federal money to America’s schools. https://to.pbs.org/4n7sBRx

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Even if someone doesn’t end up in the hospital because they got your sick, they might be forced to miss work when they can’t afford it. My attitude on this is basically: You don’t know and you’re not following up with everyone you encounter. So suffer the minor inconvenience for the greater good.

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is. Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

Working on a reported essay on inflammation rhetoric espoused by MAHA etc, and it's hitting me how much this harms chronically ill people, both for putting blame on ourselves for being sick and clinging to pseudoscience sometimes out of desperation.

lastly, a common rebuttal to contaminant reporting is that there are unavoidable levels of lead in lots of foods. some context: taking just one serving of one of the powders we tested would expose you to 45% more lead than the average american gets from everything they eat/drink in a day combined

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

More on microplastics: They're "released from exposure to heat," like when you pour coffee into a foam cup, brew a cuppa in a tea bag that has microplastics, & wash polyester fabric on high heat. So "keeping your plastic away from heat is a low-hanging... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...