Lawrence Carter-Long

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I am somebody!

Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street reminding us that no matter the circumstances, we are somebody

The political world of caregiving Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

TY, Julia Métraux, for this interview w/Laura Mauldin in #MotherJones. Like it or not, ready or not, #caregiving is increasingly political. Discover why and how here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@juliametraux.bsky.social @lauramauldin.bsky.social @motherjones.com @harpercollins.bsky.social

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | Kentucky’s Real People Radio WMMT radio in Kentucky reaches some of the least heard communities in America

WORLD RADIO DAY: An unexpected joy to stumble across this delightful, comprehensive profile of "Real People #Radio" Whitesburg, Kentucky's #WMMT FM on the #BBC podcast "The Documentary." #WorldRadioDay
www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

To many of us, and you know who you/we are, forever our Harold. Bye, Bud. And thank you.

#BudCort
#HaroldAndMaude
#RIPBudCort
#TCMParty
#SingOut
#BeFree

The political world of caregiving Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

TY, Julia Métraux, for this interview w/Laura Mauldin in #MotherJones. Like it or not, ready or not, #caregiving is increasingly political. Discover why and how here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@juliametraux.bsky.social @lauramauldin.bsky.social @motherjones.com @harpercollins.bsky.social

The purpose of pointing out systems is to give us a concrete goal for dismantling them and putting something new in place.

Our solutions need to be based on an understanding of how people turn into monsters in the first place. Leaving the systems intact will create an endless supply of new monsters

EVERY white man in these files is like "he was so brilliant just the smartest man I ever knew" and then the emails are just completely unreadable nonsense. They mean rich. When they say smart they mean rich.

Toni Morrison understood what freedom demands.
She taught us what freedom is for. And who it’s meant to serve.

American novelist and essayist. The first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Black History. Always. 🖤

#SheShed #Voices4Victory

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Dog Day Afternoon.

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?

An entrepreneur from one of the U.K.’s wealthiest families has set out to re-create a mangled cinematic masterpiece using A.I. Will he right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xEngq7

Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team. Not even JD Vance’s motorcade. Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.

American star Alysa Liu overcame a delay en route to the Milano Skating Arena caused by Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade and finished second in the women’s short program at the Olympics team event.

“We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.

How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts Learn who Medicaid helps and what happens to individuals and families who will lose benefits

MEDICAID/DISABILITY/FUNDING CUTS: #PBS looks at how #Medicaid funding cuts could fall hardest on #disabled people, especially the home and community supports that make #disability independence possible.

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Pioneering disability activist Judy Heumann and LCL pose side-by-side, holding hands, smiling for the camera. Three vintage movie posters with disability themes (El cochecito, Titicut Follies, and Crippled Masters) are visible on the wall behind them.

Taken on this day, eight years ago...

Miss you, Judy.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

ICE dragged me from my car after I told them I’m autistic. Exclusive Details: Aliya Rahman speaks to Eric Garcia about her ordeals — on the streets of Minneapolis, in a grim ICE detention center where she was mocked over her condition and through the public t...

I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The auditory processing issues described here are basically me all the time and I spend a non-zero amount of time stressing about what and whom I should be listening to to avoid making people angry/confused

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

DISABLED. #SayTheWord Went Viral 10 Years Ago What It Revealed, What I’ve Learned, and What Still Needs Work - Able News at The Viscardi Center In February 2016, my friend Barbara King messaged me after a Facebook post caught her eye. That small moment helped highlighted a necessary shift far beyond its humble origins. What I realized long af...

A DECADE AFTER #DISABLED #SayTheWord went viral, what was learned, and what still needs work? My latest for #AbleNews. Agree? Disagree? Not sure? Pls share YOUR thoughts and experiences with a comment. All best! ablenews.com/disabled-say... #Disability #DisabilitySky

@reelabilities.bsky.social

What Happens When Advertising Stops Expecting Disability to Inspire? - ABILITY Magazine There is nothing advertisers love more than an “inspirational” story. And many disabled people are tired of seeing advertising use them to inspire others. Apple’s recent campaign, “I’m Not Remarkable,...

Too often, #Disability is feel good pablum, a shadow in someone else's spotlight. Now imagine disability as ordinary. Not a lesson. Not a plot twist. What #advertising campaigns get it right? Signal boost & share. Pls post a link in comments. Thx!

abilitymagazine.com/what-happens... #DisabilitySky

Texas and Eight Other States Renew Attack on Section 504 and the Right of Disabled People to Live in their Communities - DREDF Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

HEADS-UP! TX + 8 states (AK, FL, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, SD) are suing to weaken #Section504 & the right to services in the community, instead of institutions. If you live in those states, tell your AG + Governor to withdraw. Info at: dredf.org/texas-and-ei... #DisabilityRights #Olmstead #DisabilitySky

Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!

Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.

His health is declining.

Public outrage might save his life.

Say his name:

Searching for Memories of a Brother Lost to an Institution

This is why #disability-forward reporting matters.
Because history is not abstract.
Because families are still searching.
Because journalism can help restore memory, dignity, and connection. Support this work. #DisabilitySky #Disabled #DisabilityJournalism #DJA

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/i...

Moving Special Ed to HHS Will Treat It Like a Medical Problem. It’s Not Hinds & Floyd: Shifting the focus from education to diagnosis could mark a return to low expectations and lack of services for kids with disabilities.

A move like this would be retro in the worst possible ways.

Shifting inclusive ed oversight to HHS shoves #disabled folks back into an outdated medical model, a framework we rejected by passing laws like IDEA nearly 50 years ago.

www.the74million.org/article/movi...

#disability #DisabilitySky

Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

middle age be like
“oh! my career should be about me not what others said is best!”
“oh! i should do art!”
“oh! i’m autistic!”
“oh! my childhood was actually cruel and traumatizing!”
“oh! i’m a woman!”
“oh! i have adhd!”
“oh! i’m a dancer!”

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.