Jess M. F. Hughes

Share Your Voting Story The Center for American Progress (CAP) is seeking to understand disabled people's voting experiences. Rarely are disabled voters highlighted when talking about their right to vote. CAP's Disability Ju...

The Disability Justice Initiative at @americanprogress.bsky.social is collecting stories from disabled voters about voting access nationwide. Sign up to share your story here!

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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Where do we go to grieve, together?

Space for Grief is an invitation to remember, feel & shape beauty from what’s been lost.

Want to support us? We are trying to grow our presence here. Please RT & follow as we turn public spaces into places of healing, ritual, and connection. 🙏🏽
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Growing up in a virtually all-white rural New England town, PBS was basically my window into this multi-cultural, multi-racial country and I suppose that's why they hated it so much.

The Human Toll The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change. If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story! To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US [image of a person with their face in their hands]

If you want to share your story--or share what you'd say to the people responsible for the current changes in the US--you can do so at the link below. And please share widely! It's essential that we document the human toll.

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Judge extends TPS expiration dates for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal A California judge is extending migrant status protections ended by the Trump administration for more than 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal.

BREAKING: Judge extends the protected status ended by the Trump administration for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal.

More than 70 aid seekers killed as starvation worsens in Gaza The UN has warned aid entering the Strip remains far below what is required.

Israeli attacks have killed at least 71 Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid, while hospitals recorded seven more deaths from famine and malnutrition aje.io/1p0bp5

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies.

"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system."

It will use AI and "monitor wellness": apnews.com/article/trum...

There’s so much evidence that course evaluations are biased against women & faculty of color, so this is yet another aggressively regressive authoritarian tactic to destroy academic freedom. It is incredible to see how university admin have let down the faculty, staff, & students they represent.

thanks to that “trans kids in field hockey is complicated—let’s compromise!” thing folks are so keen to do, brown will rehouse trans women with men, per sex definitions in EO14201 “keeping men out of women’s sports.”

if you’re a brown alumni, today’s a great day to call, yell, & never donate again.

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

London Trans Pride sees ‘record-breaking turnout of 100,000 people’ Organisers and participants said this year’s Trans Pride event was of particular importance in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in April.

Over 100,000 people took to the streets of London on Saturday to show their support for trans+ people and yet it wasn’t deemed important enough to be covered by any TV news channel.

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#trans #transgender #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights

"Dr. Badar Khan Suri was returning home from a campus iftar on March 17 when masked [ICE] agents jumped out of an unmarked car and detained him outside his home. He had not been charged with any crime."

Our colleague speaks out in @hammerandhope.bsky.social
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Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke."

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Israel intercepts Gaza-bound Handala ship; 5 Palestinians starve to death Israeli forces seize the Handala aid ship as the total number of Palestinian deaths from starvation rises to 127.

Israeli forces seize the Handala aid ship as the total number of Palestinian deaths from starvation rises to 127.

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

Blue and orange watercolor background with a light rounded rectangle. Inside, text reads: Today is the 35th Anniversary of the ADA! The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a law that protects the rights of people with disabilities. The disability community fought hard to get the ADA passed into law, and we continue to fight hard to protect it.

Today is the 35rd Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the most important civil rights laws for disabled people. Celebrate the anniversary of the ADA by reading up on your rights with our Easy Read and plain language toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/policy/toolk...

The destruction of public infrastructure like transit and radio feels like it’s targeting something beyond immediate suffering of users and workers, a message that none of us should expect to live in a place that functions or sustains us, none of us should even imagine it

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

Parents Were Paid To Care For Their Children With Disabilities. Those Days Are Over For years, parents in one state were paid to serve as caregivers for their children with disabilities, but with that program ending, many are facing challenges finding others to take on the job.

For years, parents in one state were paid to serve as #caregivers for their children with #disabilities, but with that program ending, many are facing challenges finding others to take on the job.

Inside a Gaza hospital: A British surgeon on what he's witnessing firsthand Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

'They are deliberately killing many, many, many thousands of innocent civilians...They are destroying the whole infrastructure of living here...It's not just bombing the hospitals. They're going in and dismantling all the laboratories, dismantling all the dialysis machines.'

Questioning AI Resource List Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Can someone tell me why it's so bad to think that every person on this planet deserves a roof over their head, food in their belly, and a chance to get an adequate education and healthcare?

The Sick Times continues to trailblaze in medical and science journalism, are unrivaled in much of their coverage of healthcare and disability issues

All donations are matched so if you want to support independent journalists doing lifesaving work, this is the moment! Help good people help people ✨

sorry but I’m 43 and I knew this word wasn’t okay by the time I was in kindergarten and first learned about mean words. this is NOT NEW. it is absurd to pretend like this is just another breezy colloquialism baked into our culture which the woke police are suddenly just now trying to take away

It's not that Americans don't *want* to think. It's that our culture of overwork disincentivizes Americans from spending time on "unproductive" tasks. And because of capitalism's cost disease, those "unproductive" tasks include the task of caring for others and caring for ourselves.

Early childhood education is not a “public benefit”. It is a right.

Access to food and healthcare are also fundamental needs for all children.

As pediatricians, we are appalled at policies that restrict these basic needs for children in immigrant families. The chilling effect will be devastating.

Wait. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Medicaid recipients could replace immigrant farmworkers. Is she daft?

Does she have any idea why folks are on Medicaid? Or what’s involved in picking crops? My goodness.

Hands Off Central TX

Rather than simply talking about horrible responses to the flooding in Texas, let's share some vetted and trusted avenues for support, and donate if we can. Hands Off Central TX is raising funds and resources for mutual aid including housing, food, transportation (gas), and medical needs.

It’s absolutely not a matter of “just saying no” — not only because the repercussions of refusal are inequitable, but also bc it’s wrong to create individual responsibility for increasing systemic dysfunction: more + more service work spread across fewer folks in a guilt-powered volunteer economy