Immigration agents detained a schizophrenic man — then dropped him miles from home. blockclubchi.co/4qAtK75

How one legal team is building support for people with cognitive disabilities The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with defendants who have cognitive disabilities. The office helps these people access treatment.

The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with defendants who have cognitive disabilities. The office helps these people access treatment. n.pr/4oj2jNz

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Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...

NEW: The states with the highest proportion of people relying on disability benefits are West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama — all states that lack their own aid programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

Thugs.

YouTube video by Tod Maffin I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

THE VIDEO IS OUT! Enjoy! 😁
youtu.be/9k7OUowPPMQ

A 13 year old and ICE Weeks ago I wrote about 13 and 17 year old sisters who went missing in the world after ICE abducted their mother from a Worcester, Massachusetts street, leaving them parentless and in state care.

A few weeks ago, a 13 year old was abducted by ICE and he is still not home. The trauma caused to this child is unfathomable.

I wrote this piece in lieu of filing a child abuse report. Because where do I file it when the perpetrator is the federal government? open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...

Reagan’s words about tariffs are going viral after Trump’s insistence that they are “fake” created a “Streisand Effect”

Thanks! Yes, at Minnehaha Creek

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

Powerful call: we need to ensure that everyone in our societies has the chance to develop their full potential. That's morally right, and also essential to our capacity to deal with the many crises we face

Illustration of a lion with wings in profile, coloured with six different colours on different sections. The colours represent phases of casting, and phases 1 and 2 (the majority of the main body) are ascribed to the original Tang sculpture.

A real globe-trotting cat for #GlobalCatDay 🐈

Isotope analysis of the Winged Lion sculpture in St Mark’s Square, Venice suggests it began life as a tomb guardian in Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907) China, travelling to the floating city via the Silk Roads.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

This should be a bipartisan issue; Republicans, Democrats, and even independents all have children with special needs who need help getting their education. Vouchers won’t help because many private schools won’t take these students.

I’ve been enjoying the K-drama Bon Appetit, Your Majesty on Netflix. It is a Korean historical drama with subtitles, if that might be an interesting change. I like that it is fairly lighthearted, and involves cooking and food (always a plus for me!)

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

The only way this sort of thing makes sense is if they are against the entire concept of a “public good.” That is, something paid for by the public via taxes, owned by the public via government, and benefitting the public as a whole.

If you’ve never been to a big protest like No Kings before: It feels great to be part of a big gathering of people who want to change things. It sparks joy, and resolve for the long fight ahead. Sometimes there are dance parties. You could be the one who starts the dance party! Just show up!

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

The human costs of Trump's war on government For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

“Since this new administration took office, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities has increased at triple the normal rate of unemployment."

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Trump admits what we knew all along - the shutdown is happening because they want to repeal Obamacare by choking off funding for it. Project 2025.

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.

"The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. It’s lucrative, selling supplements, e-books, courses and products." macleans.ca/longforms/co...

I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened What happened when a public health scientist overheard four men sharing misinformation about Covid — and decided to talk to them about it.

@unbiasedscipod.bsky.social: Jess Steier--it's not only your mom who is kvelling. Amazing story, amazing work. We all kvell for brilliant science communication. www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...

Labor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’ Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories.

“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...

"An estimated 4.7m small business owners and self-employed workers relied on the Affordable Care Act Marketplace to obtain health insurance in 2023 ... But the tax credits ... to offset their health insurance costs are set to expire at the end of December"
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...