Thank you, Senator Erin Maye Quade. @erinmayequade.bsky.social

Beautiful to read; beautiful to see my doctor’s name among the co-authors.

Donald Trump’s executive order targeting gender-affirming care is illegal and deeply hurtful, so I'm suing to end it. I will not stand by and let Trump weaponize the federal government against young people trying to be themselves and against doctors providing the best care they can.

POV: home with my disabled child looking at my wife's labs as she lays in a hospital bed begging the nurse to get imaging of her chest cuz I’m begging her to beg, & the nurse making excuses to avoid putting in the order all night. This morning the CT they finally gave her found clots in both lungs.

My thoughts on the new Hechinger Report article re: Inclusion. “Equal academic performance is not a reasonable goal across Special Education and shouldn’t be the measure of successful inclusion. However, successful inclusion could be a measure of academic integrity.” tinyurl.com/483wer9k

Any other autistics just so bored of this vaccine-autism misinformation campaign? Like, this busted ass old thing again? Really?

Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day. This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.

Can we talk about the Grammys a little bit more? Just another day or two, then I’ll get right back to the dystopia doom feed-o-matic, I swear.

Sometimes I write on that other place.

Janelle Monae ATE that tribute my god

New EO this evening pertaining to K-12 Ed. I have reached out to the Chair of my Board, the office of our Supt, and leadership of our educators’ union. Let’s go. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

1. Getting word that we have another anti-trans EO tonight, this time targeting teachers. It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license." From a RW source:

I don’t know all the details of the litigation over the past years, but this outcome is a heartbreaking atrocity and does not seem to be the will of the majority of this body’s constituency. For shame. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Classic deli tuna macaroni salad with candied jalapeño relish mixed in. Can recommend.

Purchased and queued up. Really excited to get into it.

As a high school student, Stop The Reroute, Minneapolis, late 90s. Rad documentary here: tinyurl.com/yc232ycz As a U of Wisconsin system student in the early 2000s, membership in United Council, a USSA org. It was neat to come across this recent article referencing that work. tinyurl.com/3hvbb6m2

Kids are such great comrades when you forget what you’re even fighting for anymore.

My Medicaid WAIVER funds disability support services in my home and community, which I receive having WAIVED my right to an institutional placement funded by the state. If state and federal cuts to Medicaid and disability service are substantial, I won’t be able to WAIVE that right any more.

In a major victory for Minnesota House Democrats, the state Supreme Court ruled that 68 House members must be present for a quorum, which means the lower chamber has had no official proceedings during a Democratic boycott.

And we all gasped simultaneously at the idea of Janelle Monae playing Jareth the Goblin King in a Labyrinth sequel and fell silent for several seconds because we all instantly wanted this to exist SO BADLY.

Minnesota SF 507 protects access for parents with disabilities and parents requiring linguistic assistance in their children’s IEP process. tinyurl.com/yuunu8c8

I get that we need to stay aware, but a couple national politics news pit stops a day is good for me, what else y’all got?

Being wildly unpopular for being extremely effective is SUCH an autistic mood.

Again, if you need actions at the community level (and you do), here.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I'm gonna live to outlive this malignancy, and even if they live in its shadow my kids have their whole lives ahead of them with the next four years in the rear view. It's not choosing escapism or ignorance to focus on building a bridge to *that* world starting today.

As an educator, as an organizer, as an advocate! #specialeducation #iep #iepadvocate #disability #autism #adhd ##learningdisability

I sometimes talk about patterns in our processing or our sensitive, multi-dimensional sensory processing systems. But honestly when caregivers of newly identified kids ask me what they should know, the first thing I say is that we get tired and need a lot of time for recovery. True for most all.

It can be hard to find information on gender affirming care in language that is easy to understand. We’ve got you covered with our resource “A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Gender Affirming Health Care,” available in plain language and Easy Read:

Question for #edusky re: #ungrading. As a student, I didn’t care about grades. Parents not engaged enough for threat of consequence, didn’t perceive college was an option for me generally. Only neg outcome was disappointing teachers I respected, so coping=disengaging from teacher relationships. 1/

I understand the argument, especially at earlier grades, that some of that process needs to be bounded for students -- not that I agree with it, but I understand the argument! it's just no one then plants the flag and goes "at this age, kids will finally generate and revise a Montaigne-ass essay"

In the perpetual conversation about which kids experiencing which conditions are able to learn at which academic levels of rigor, this is what nobody but nobody seems to get: YOU CAN DECREASE DEMANDS WITHOUT LOWERING EXPECTATIONS. And that should be a tier one reality.

Please support the removal of subminimum wage but also don't act like it affects all disabled people equally. It doesn't.

This is wild.

10.) Prisons Must Fall by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball, illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/pris...

So…is this like the MN Nice version of Jan 6th, or?

Calling back this podcast episode of Integrated Schools where @shubhab.bsky.social and I talked about Disability Justice and Special Ed. integratedschools.org/podcast/s9e1...

This is one of the reasons queer history is so important. It's also why our interpretation of queer history must extend past an archive that reduces queer lives to a series of interactions with the state.

Favorable, but not to be misconstrued as ruling that contract language aiming to protect workforce diversity is legally defensible. Instead, that a taxpayer’s complaint about disbursement of public funds is not grounds to dispute collective bargaining agreements. sahanjournal.com/education/mi...

This is my union and my contract. Care work is work. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Aaron Scott is a beloved friend & mentor. Buy his book! “For White folks alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism comes this mouthy, practical guide to resisting, organizing, and holding conversations with…anyone who has been misled by White Christian nationalist ideas.” tinyurl.com/225sjr9s

Aaron Scott is a beloved friend & mentor. Buy his book! “For White folks alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism comes this mouthy, practical guide to resisting, organizing, and holding conversations with…anyone who has been misled by White Christian nationalist ideas.” tinyurl.com/225sjr9s

Perpetual (hot?) take: The mis-categorization of The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” as a romantic love song does not hold a candle to all of us singing our hearts out to Alanis Morisette’s “Hand’s Clean” like it was a cute offbeat crush bop. I still love it but the horror hiding in plain sight.

After seven happy and comfortable bonus months on palliative care after kidney disease and GI cancer dxs, it was excruciating to say goodbye to our baby this week, exactly 11 years to the day after we brought her home. Edward was a cat who loved her humans more than anything. We miss her terribly.

New pub today, focused on the ethnoracial diversity of the special ed teacher (SET) workforce. We found that -- at current rate of change -- the SET workforce will NEVER be ethnoracially representative of the population of students w/disabilities. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/VPMXC...

Baking began tonight. The trajectory: our usual five plus one new variety. The line up represents years of family curation. It’s ritual now. First, the dough for the Pfeffernüsse, a frosted german biscuit with the whole spice cabinet tucked into an unassuming pale brown lump. Last year’s pictured.

A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it. She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid." I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.

Curious about the training on the language of disabilities @mx-joyner.bsky.social helped provide education reporters at @edwriters.bsky.social national seminar? They and their co-panelists were fantastic. VERY grateful they pushed reporters to include sources with lived experience. Game changing