life is a dumpster fire, but im not alone -alice wong #alicewong is a fighter be like alice @teamaoc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Life is a dumpster fire, but I'm not alone." In her latest interview, disability advocate Alice Wong reflects on activism, resilience, and finding hope in sci-fi. www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #AliceWong #DisabilityAdvocate #MacArthurFellow #SciFiInspiration #Activism #Resilience #Community

COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life. Disability Visibility is a column on being disabled in a nondisabled world. www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-... #AliceWong #DisabilityVisibility

Oof. Feeling the first part hard. From Crip Class by Gabrielle Peters #CurrentlyReading #DisabilityIntimacy #AliceWong #CripClass #GabriellePeters #books #reading #BookSky

Alice Wong is a Chinese American activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Born with SMA, she fights for access, media inclusion, and justice for disabled people of color. Her work uplifts voices too often erased. #AliceWong #DisabilityPrideMonth #AccessIsLove

Our Advisory Council Member #AliceWong appeared on a #Radiolab episode called #Voice! Listen for her amazing insights and a shoutout to CommunicationFIRST (1:00:48): lnk.to/rlab. Alice starts speaking at 00:32:47 and 00:58:45. Transcript here: lnk.to/rlabt. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social 📷 Photo… (1/2)

People use glue guns to fix lots of things. Now researchers have modified one to help fix broken bones. https://www.snexplores.org/article/glue-gun-heal-broken-bones?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=snesnsocial

Wasting a COUPLE OF BILLION of taxpayer dollars on a silly name change for a department that’s already bloated, wasteful, & can’t pass an audit is a fitting symbol of the Trump administration.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Reacting to the newly revealed messages where sex predator Jeffrey Epstein says Trump “knew about the girls” and had “spent hours” at his house with one of the victims, the White House is decrying “selectively released emails.” Well then, easy fix: Release the damn Epstein files in full!

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling? They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns. What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

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If your response to someone asking you about how C19/LC affect a topic you are presenting on is “we don’t have much research on C19/LC” please stop, admit you just don’t know the answer, and actively learn about C19 and its chronic effects. Because 5+ years in we do know A LOT. You just don’t.

If you’ve been following the latest research on C19 and its effects, you’ll know this is actually a good thing 👀

It’s called term limits. Congress should have them.

Congressional term limits, no pay during shutdowns. Overturn Citizens United/reform campaign finance. Raise the federal minimum wage. Ban insider trading by elected officials. Raise the SS pay cap. All things Democrats could work on to preserve democracy long-term that most Americans support.

But the latter is key. Dems need to run on actual policies that working class people care about and LEAD when they get power. Not just say “we aren’t the other guy” and keep status quo. All they have done the past few election cycles is to be anti-Trump (and nothing else).

Every day, more details come out that show just how deep this plot to protect the wealthy and powerful goes. They are being shielded from justice. Rep. Thomas Massie and I are fighting to bring them to justice and release the files.

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The entire conversation around the minimum wage is framed as a question of entitlements or “handouts” when the issue is really this: of the value produced by a worker per hour, how much should employers be prevented from stealing?

I’ve taken metformin for LC for 2 yrs; it was the only thing my GP would prescribe from a list of possible research-backed treatments. I also took an increased dose for a recent reinfection; no baseline decrease. Thanks to @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social @thesicktimes.org for a great piece! 👏👏👏

We’ve now passed one month into the U.S. government shutdown—and one month without COVID-19 or other infectious disease data updates from the CDC. COVID-19 levels seem to be in a lull between waves in much of the country, based on available sources, but the situation is uncertain. bit.ly/3JuWhdv

Disabled Americans experience the highest rates of poverty of every marginalized group in America. 27% live below the poverty line (12% for ableds). Their median earnings are $18,865 compared to $28,983 for the abled. These numbers WILL get worse. If you can help you will save lives.

Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

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New stats on voting restrictions: Already this year, states have enacted 29 new laws that make it harder to vote. 28 of them will be in effect for the midterms. Learn more in the latest State Voting Laws Roundup from the Brennan Center and @goldmanschool.bsky.social:

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Dr. McKay talked about the need for “art and science” of practicing medicine, especially with multiple unknowns.

From Shlomit Rosenberg from @utoronto.ca on episodic disability research: spirituality was strongest association among energy restoration activities. Not necessarily religion or meditation, but connection to art and nature as well. #LCWSymposium

* COLOMBIA RECALLS AMBASSADOR FROM THE U.S., FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS, AMID DEEP DIPLOMATIC TENSIONS @reuters.com

Everyone on prednisone should be told that they may experience serious mental health side effects, which can include mania and psychosis. It's hard to navigate if your doctor doesn't warn you.

Not for nothing but also love it when the “you should just not go out in public” people then yell at you for spending your time advocating online. Okay. Where should I go then? Not out. Not online. Dead? Would dead be okay?

So our lives as disabled people are worthless? We can’t work, go out and enjoy ourselves, travel etc like you can? Just because we ask you to wear a piece of fabric on your face TEMPORARILY to protect us?

the thing is everyone is at risk of becoming disabled from a sars infection, including you and your family. vaccines don’t prevent infection nor long covid. when you eventually become disabled, what are you going to do then?

“Don’t expect the world to take care of you” what fascists and capitalists want you to think. If you don’t believe you owe care to others in your community, you don’t have a community, and that’s where fascism and overconsumption thrive by filling the void. Community care is radical and subversive

Well fitting masks work very well, but my friend and his wife got Covid at a doctor’s appointment and it caused long term health problems for my friend. If people in the waiting room and clinic masked and used air filters, this wouldn’t happen. I think it’s wrong to get sick seeking medical care.

I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk. And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.

If you are in a medical setting, where vulnerable people HAVE TO BE, you need to wear a mask- whether or not it is mandated, whether or not you are sick. More than half of Covid cases are spread ASYMPTOMATICALLY. Protect the most vulnerable, it’s everyone’s duty. Any medical appointment anywhere.

So many of the people the mainstream would like to relegate to the covid wayside really do have a fuck-ton of beneficial contributions they could make to the world. Yes, worth is not tied to production. But!, there is so much good stuff the world misses out on, shutting us out of society like this.

Here are some actual photos of actual protesters taken by actual people in Detroit yesterday.

Something we don’t talk a lot about is long COVID and madness. When I got COVID I experienced auditory hallucinations again, something I hadn’t dealt with in fifteen years. they went away after a few months but it was really distressing. I didn’t get much help bc of carceral sanism.

Nov. 2021, FOX 57: “Long-COVID could trigger chronic illness” “We found that 57% of long COVID patients have a moderate to severe autonomic nervous system dysfunction,” said Lauren Stiles with Dysautonomia International wach.com/news/local/l...

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

People in prison died at 3.4 times the rate of the free population, with the oldest hit hardest, at the peak of the pandemic in 2020. Data holds lessons for preventing future deaths. Read our analysis ⬇️

Took so much ketotifen that I woke up thinking it was Saturday smh. I swear increasing this med got me in a doozy