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I feel represented for the first time, idc. Not all of us like cats.
Reading this as a Jewish American with Israeli family is like looking into a strange mirror.
I dislike how many griefing mechanics there are. I am playing with a friend who won’t do me like that but I can see this being really unpleasant with strangers.
PEAK is fun and also I am very bad at it.
Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.
A large immigration detention camp in Texas has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, a lawmaker said.
New:
Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS.
But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
An accountant and a businessman who didn’t finish 8th grade.
Judge Murphy: “Is it your position that is totally unreviewable? If [RFK Jr.] said instead of getting a shot to prevent measles I think you should get a shot that gives you measles, is that unreviewable?”
Department of Justice: Yes
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
This and the fact that we can’t currently estimate with any accuracy how many Black people, let alone Black women, have Tourette syndrome were the two things that shocked me when I was reporting this out.
It’s not great because I am out of the loop on some cultural stuff, especially as the disability community leans more heavily on influencers for news. But also. Man. TikTok seems like it is turning some people’s brains into paste.
I’m not normally one of those “disability is a super power” people, but my vision impairment makes TikTok extremely unpleasant at best, impossible at worst, and I have only benefited from that.
Black women with Tourette syndrome have long felt invisible. A shocking moment at the British Academy Film and Television Arts awards ceremony, involving a racial slur broadcast to millions, has thrust them into the spotlight.
A lot of ink has been spilled about what happened at the BAFTA’s this year. Instead of continuing to litigate that, I dug into racial and gendered disparities in Tourette syndrome and the experiences of Black women with the condition. My latest @19thnews 19thnews.org/2026/03/blac...
Source: Dude, trust me.
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
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I don’t think they’re actually going to do it. But even just saying that out loud is like ????????
I think I gotta take a closer look at some blue states next. Idaho just stuck out to me because “what if we just cut home care completely” is kind of bananas.
They’re optional because Medicaid requires nursing home care for a certain level of disability, but not home care — The law was passed before the Independent Living and Disability Rights movements picked up steam. There have been attempts to fix that, but none yet successful.
I’m planning a lot more coverage of the fallout from the OBBB Medicaid cuts this year. Pretty much every state is making hard choices that are going to hurt people who don’t deserve it.
I didn’t ask how any of my interviewees voted because it wasn’t relevant, but Republicans are also disabled or have disabled kids. Especially in red states.
Home and community based services are technically optional. Optional stuff gets cut first. It isn’t even about ableism or eugenics in the strictest sense — It’s about a shrinking pot of money that was already spread thin.
Also as I note, similar conversations are happening in blue states right now. Because OBBB made *massive* cuts to Medicaid over the next decade, and every state is figuring out how to make that work, budget-wise.
It is genuinely distressing to me how many people are sharing this with some variation of “FAFO.”
I dunno man, I think it is bad for disabled people to be left out to dry whether they or their families have politics I agree with or not.
Really glad to see @rosebroderick.bsky.social digging into exactly wtf is happening with durable medical equipment and Medicaid. I know this announcement scared a lot of people (for good reason). www.statnews.com/2026/02/26/c...
Town meeting days, a day-long form of deliberative democracy that reads as the antidote to authoritarianism, are a New England tradition.
However, they also predate all disability civil rights laws, which can be painfully clear to disabled people, who face a wide range of prohibitive access issues.
The second thing, but also I just thought a lot of people I know and in some cases had previously respected were smarter than this. More fool me.
I don’t want to be a bummer, but it’s also just not true? The part about eight “genders” is chazal noodling about whether people with various intersex conditions or who were physically altered (ex. Eunuchs) count as men or women in ritual and observance.