ASAN is gravely concerned by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reported plans to establish a “registry” of autistic people & to hand over sensitive medical data about autistic people to unnamed researchers, likely without their consent. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/asan...

I have been away from social media for a month or two focusing on other things but this has me terrified and I need to know thoughts, options—and I need to know how afraid I should be. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rfk...

I'm heartbroken. My daughter's living community and club will both be affected. She knows people who will be fired because of this bill. We wrote letters and we protested and we called and we were ignored. I HATE this.

The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

I'm signing this because my son depends on school to learn, and this initiative combined with the recent efforts to remove 504 protections will have a real impact on his education.

For one kid in our neighborhood, I am an eccentric old lady. We have this great kid who cuts our grass, but I hate answering the door. He figured that out, and started sending a $1 request through cash app. If I pay, he knows to come cut the grass—we communicate almost exclusively this way. 🤣

Went to the aquarium at the zoo today. I needed that. ❤️

To this day, I don’t know what I did to make Bells hate me, and I still think about it sometimes when I’m trying to go to sleep. Brains are so fun.

Like I needed more proof JD Vance is human garbage. www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/1o4...

Because we miss a lot of the local resistance: www.reddit.com/r/Charlotte/...

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Yeah this is great optics, shocking that every Dem isn't jockeying and fighting to earn their own version of this picture with increasingly bold disruptive actions

There are little interim things for people with low bandwidth that don’t want to make calls: Vote Forward is letter writing and Postcards to Voters is postcarding for elections in a variety of states including help for special elections outside of your own. You cover supplies and postage. And time.

See, this is actionable. This is something I can do. Stop saying “do more” and come up with ideas of things to do.

All the people saying Americans should be resisting more—what should we be doing? Truly, I’m asking. There are protests and marches and demonstrations, but they are local and aren’t being widely covered. Many of us can’t get to D.C. easily because we literally can’t afford it.

I wish we could just leave this country. I wish it were easier for everyone who wants to escape.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

Just sent a committee at my state house a letter because they are discussing a bill to remove state funding from any state institution that has any DEI protections in place. My daughter lives in the queer living community on campus. If they pass this bill, the school would likely shut it down.

Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme it’s a promise that every American pays into so they can retire with dignity. Get loud and tell Elon Musk to keep his hands OFF social security.

literally every time I talk to friends

Kiddo and I often do his schoolwork cuddled up under the blankets in my bed, and Taco has gotten used to this and curls up with us. This morning, we had class later than normal—I didn’t understand why Taco was meowing at me until we came in for class. 🤣

Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

Somewhere out there, Eliana has been looking for a job for at least the past 5 years. I’m sorry to say that I’m finally unsubscribing from this list. Good luck, Eliana. 🥲🤣

Wait say that part about Moms for Liberty again?

Do you want to know why I read about what Trump’s doing and saying instead of watching it? Because the blood pressure can’t take it. youtu.be/zOd_SfbgA-4

Touching Grass 🥰🌲

I joined Chaotic Aftermath halfway through Dragonflight because some friends asked if I was interested, and this season I got to be there for their first CE as a guild! :-D youtu.be/0Xe-3wtDArg

I am the worst cat mom ever. We left our house at lunch time, and on the way out, I noticed the dryer door had been left open, so closed it so that Taco could get to his litter box. He was IN THE DRYER. We got back just in time for raid. It wasn’t until I was going to bed that I went looking.

All of the people who worked at Twitter before Elon took over are having some serious deja vu right now. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, he is still doing to the government what he did to Twitter.

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Y’all Muskatwat is doing to the government what he did to Twitter. The steps are the same; I have no reason to believe the outcome will be different. We were planning on leaving the country anyway; we might be doing it sooner. We might need a real-life BlueSky.

It’s staggering to me how many people didn’t read the Mueller Report because if they did, they would know Putin was desperate to put Trump in power. Now we have an entire world policy built to help Putin.

What a roller coaster of a day. For the first time since BFA, I'm a CE raider again!

My honeh brought me a sweet present this afternoon; I’m naming him Poindexter. ❤️

Dad’s going to the graveyard for Valentine’s Day and life feels unfair sometimes and I miss my mom.

I've created a GoFundMe for my car repair fees. I didn't want to have to do this but here we are. Please share and help if possible. gofund.me/0cc47469

I've done all the doomscrolling I can for the moment. The heartbreak and worry is so, so real. I've written more letters to state officials this week than in my entire life. Pulling something from my vault-of-things-I-keep-to-encourage-myself, hopefully it will encourage you too.

The suit to repeal Section 504 as well as the plan to dismantle the Department of Education could have a real and immediate effect on my child, so thanks for that, you MAGA troglodytes, and an extra special fuck-you to democrats who vOTeD oN tHEiR MoRAlS.

For those of you I’ve been friends with for over a decade at this point, please feel old with me. The LRL has a big birthday today!

Just left my MIL’s funeral, and I think it was what she would have wanted. For the first time, I understand the point of caring about what happens at your funeral, and I think it’s time to consider what I want at mine. It’s about legacy; it’s about how I want people to remember me.

We found a home for my MIL’s dogs with someone my BIL knows. It’s great because they’ll have a family again and they get to stay together, but it’s hard to say goodbye to them. 💔

Lol my son’s math teacher is wild. On Monday, she introduced the kids to diameter, radius, pi, and both circumference formulas. I’ve sat in on every math class these kids have been in for over three years; this was all new information for them. They’ve never touched on circle geometry.