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Of the nerd variety| Writer. Disability Educator. Bylines/thoughts all over the internet. Probably typing away on my laptop. https://t.co/5DhuNPKqcE
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ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak

The Trump admin is gutting firefighter health and safety programs. The Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program, the CDC’s National Firefighter Registry for Cancer, the Health Hazard Evaluation program and more have all lost much of their staff. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

I'm pretty sure a giant alarm just went off.

Finished "Dying For Sex" and it was so good! Omg!

New York mask ban update: Our advocacy efforts are working! Gov Hochul is failing at convincing lawmakers to include a proposal that criminalizes masking in the budget, and some legislative officials predict it will be dropped from budget talks as negotiations drag on. Keep calling your electeds!

Cool cool actually the disabled are "mad as fuck" and "doing a ton of activism" and they'd know this if they ever talked to a disabled person

So we just gave jobs to everyone on the high school football team who peaked in high school?

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www.instagram.com/reel/DI1hG3F... This is the greatest thing the Internet has given me today

Alarming new study in JAMA modeling measles in the US: If we stay at CURRENT vaccination rates, measles will become endemic again over roughly 20 years. If rates drop by even 10 percent (and they're sliding), there would be 11 MILLION cases over the next 25 years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s the racism

I'm a Waymo Democrat. Waymo School Funding Waymo Childcare Funding Waymo Taxes on the rich Waymo Voter Protections Waymo Universal Healthcare Waymo Trumpers in Prison

The defunding of the Women’s Health Initiative halts vital longitudinal research into heart disease, cancer, and aging in women. Not a fiscal adjustment, but a strategic abandonment of evidence-based, gender-specific science.

If Republican lawmakers roll back Medicaid expansion funding it could lead to over 34,000 more deaths every year, according to new research from The Center for American Progress. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Guys, I have bad news: Lowering tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 65% still destroys the economy. It appears totally lost on people just *how* absurd 145% is. This is like saying we're no longer going to shoot you 15 times. Only 7 times. You are still dead, but please thank us.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b) that achieved 100% PROTECTION in preclinical trials. The vaccine is under development for potential use in BOTH veterinary AND human medicine. 🧪🧵⬇️

The Trump administration is ending federal civil rights enforcement, including in higher education. The regulations being repealed here are the basis for the withdrawn science funding at Columbia & Harvard. They specifically accused them of Title VI violations. 🧪 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Society messed up when they decided you grow out of needing nap and snack time during the day. Adults would function so much better.

A woman and her child whose remains were among other bodies discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from Long Island's Gilgo Beach were identified by police Wednesday, nearly three decades after the double homicide.

🚨📢 URGENT: The next 24 hours are crucial for #NoNYMaskBan. Gov. Hochul updated her NY mask ban, but it’s STILL dangerous, STILL criminalizes masks, and STILL a threat to New Yorkers. We need to show MASSIVE opposition to the update. Here's how to fight back: ⬇️ 🧵1/5

important to clarify that despite Butlers comments the protestors were young Black people. this is nasty revisionism.

I ONLY NEED $50 TO COVER THIS BILL! IF 2 PEOPLE HAVE $25 THATS GOAL! linktr.ee/jskylerinc

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

We could have had him....

The bellend in the White House can't repeal the Civil Rights Act via executive order. It's absurd.

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

Children in red states didn't vote for this. Black and Indigenous people in red states didn't vote for this. Queer and trans people in red states didn't vote for this. Guess who in red states will feel the most hurt? The people who "deserve" this will be just fine. Collective punishment is wrong.

I'm going to tell you again. There is NO REASON to vote for this man and if you do, everything you hold dear in this city is going to be destroyed.

I keep thinking about what this part of my life would be like if I were an able bodied person... And I can't stop.

I need a break. We all do.

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.