Autistic advocates and researchers: please be in my email inbox [email protected] to share what type of autism research could actually be helpful instead of trying to "eliminate autism"

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

Neurodiversity= The potential for differing neurotypes to exist is infinite and a natural aspect of biodiversity. Our bodies are all different, from our physiological appearance to our internal complexities. There is no standard. Let’s ponder why racist authoritarians would focus on attacking it?

It’s also about eugenics and stigmatising autism

Genuinely, and I say this with all my heart, shame on you for repeating this as if it’s not the pure, bigoted garbage it is.

They have moms of autistic kids at this presser and not autistic adults speaking. Very unsurprising.

I know we clown strongly worded statements but every medical professional in the US needs to issue one by tomorrow morning saying "we're not following the bullshit guidance of a lifelong antivax activist & his senile boss"

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

Finally! America’s Nuremberg is coming, and we are documenting what they’re doing not out of morbid fascination, but with a serious intent to prosecute.

Anybody else who was forced to sit through family dinners with vehemently racist relatives, then screamed at for refusing to politely accept their dehumanisation of your friends/ loved ones/ you feeling wildly unimpressed by the threats around the whole “how dare you call a bigot a bigot” charade?

I really wish we as a society had been more able to realize that Kleptocracies, are bad, actually, before being subsumed by one

Time to take off your Opposite Day glasses everyone, the party’s over.

I regret to inform Disney that most people were only signing up to your service to be polite because literally everything is available to stream or download for free online on a wide variety of sites. You quite literally exist but for the will of the people…

This is walking the walk, wow — most candidates would sooner swim in a sewer than turn down a televised town hall

Vanuatu & a core group of States are moving UNGA resolution to operationalize ICJ’s climate opinion to increase pressure to keep climate finance promises. Court ruled climate protection is binding legal obligation owed by every State to all humankind, regardless of political views.

If you work for ABC/Disney and have any insight on how the Kimmel fallout is playing out inside the company, please contact me on Signal at juddlegum.47 I will maintain your anonymity.

Don’t let anyone tell you there’s nothing you can do.

You guys, I’m not an economist I didn’t even graduate from college, though I do have an advanced degree (but not a fancy one) and even I know this is not a good sign

“What I need isn't a cause. I need support. I need resources. I need accommodations. I need a world that chooses care, empathy, and kindness. I need open minds and open hearts.” -Fidgets and Fries 1/4 🧵

PLOT TWIST: KIMMEL COULD BE BACK ON ABC THIS MONTH. Multiple sources say a resolution could come as early as this week. thanks to the blowback against the FCC Goebbels act. There are seven key signs it'll happen GET THE ALL-NEW MONDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/yc7zxw8c

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

Gawd the fact that they’re trying to goad us into this conversation is so emblematic of the moral black hole eating these eugenist supremacists from the inside out. Live in pain meets Don’t celebrate autism as an aspect of natural neurodivergence that society should be taught to accommodate! Gross.

The time to be loud is now. Be part of our ongoing monthly calls for ACLU activists and join us on Thursday, September 25 at 8pm ET.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

The vast majority of people just want to live good lives without war—without hunger—without fear. Why shouldn’t our generation be the one to open the world and the minds of countless people who are trapped by that fear? Imagine—we could finally tear down these walls that imprison and divide us all.

“I was following orders” is not a defence for to human rights crimes. You’re lawyers, right? So you know what Nuremberg was. I don’t need to explain this to you. In post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation commissions in South Africa, judges & lawyers who had enabled racist abuses were struck down.

Any funding deal that continues GOP healthcare cuts or hands Trump a blank check must not pass. Democrats have real leverage in this fight, and the Republicans who control both chambers are the ones responsible for passing a bipartisan funding bill. Make sure your senators hear from you today.

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This Day in Labor History: September 21, 1908. The Industrial Workers of the World met for its 4th annual convention in Chicago. This convention would reshape the struggling nascent organization, moving it clearly from an intellectuals’ movement to a workers’ movement. Let's talk about it!

When we define violence only as physical harm, we overlook how ideologies and institutions not only enable violence but can themselves be violent.

Monday 3pm ET, UN GA will meet on the two-state solution for Palestine. The meeting is organized by France and Saudi Arabia. PM Carney is also set to address the assembly at the meeting. I am attending a meeting with Carney prior to that.

@simonmaechling.bsky.social #medsky Physicians is past time to speak.

International law is about to play a much bigger role in the climate fight. Can’t say more yet — watch this space right before noon.

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social: "the U.S. Dept of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security." An expert who explains that this is troubling because inflation is up & the job market is unstable, both of which increase food insecurity. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

WORLD PEACE DAY 🕊️✊🦋 There is nothing more destructive, more irrational, more useless than war. And that is true for every war: The wars we fight against ourselves, in our families, among allies, against neighbours, against nations, against nature. 🧵 #photography #resist #peacenotwar #worldpeaceday

Solitary confinement is inhumane and part of a larger pattern of systemic abuse against people in ICE detention — this torturous practice must end.

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, is it Trans people?

I watched the funeral and I think that's how the speeches were brainstormed

On October 18, we rise! Not to defend broken systems, but to defend each other! Because our communities deserve more than fear, silence, and billion-dollar bailouts for the powerful. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. FIND or HOST a 10/18 action at www.FiftyFifty.one #NoKings #Oct18 #50501Movement