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Rabbits too! Our rabbit absolutely knows that I'm the one who gives him vegetables and will circle around me when either I come inside from outside (becuase I often get them from the garden) or I'm cutting up vegetables. He also foot flicks as he hops away from something he dislikes.

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The feeling of having a mission that desperately needs to be done and being kept from doing it is so depressing.

Kid lit is some of the best! You have to do so much with such a limited vocabulary and space.

Alice Wong fought tirelessly against institutionalizing disabled people.

She understood that we deserve autonomy over our care.

That healthcare is a basic human right and people should receive the support they need to remain in their homes & communities.

Fight for universal healthcare now!

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

My husband was telling me a story that one of his college professors told him (about 20 yrs ago now). The professor saw Watson at a party many years prior. Watson turned to his wife and said, “Finally, someone worth talking to.” The professor was like “oh nooooo.”

Believe it or not, a city planner in Paris said almost those same words to me about 20 years ago. “Parisians will never give up their cars” were his words. And yet…

Brand new data:

Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).

These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.

Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

A lot of people talk about how the NYC subway “feels dangerous” but please allow me to present the Dinosaur Bodega that was installed in my local stop

The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network does an excellent job describing policies in plain language so that it can be accessible to as many of their members as possible.

I've been explaining what I've been writing about (I'm a science writer) since my kids were little and it's made my writing so much better!

So true! And then begs you for greens because “you were outside and didn’t get me a snack!” There’s still some basil left, but not for long..

If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it.

He responded. The people have the upper hand.

Our school district sent a one-pager home about it. I was glad they did it but horrified that they had to.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

I wonder if she was partly inspired by Gravity Falls (which came out in 2013). There’s a girl named Mabel on the show who is quite charming.

My heart just breaks every time I see this mentioned. It could have been one of my kids, easily. Safe streets infrastructure shouldn’t have to be written in blood.

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

The unbearable heaviness of being funny at the end of the world Leslie Gray Streeter is having a hard time writing about joy because of the turmoil being caused by the federal government.

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Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

This was definitely one of the "Oh God, that story is now burned into my brain" ones. Bradbury is the master of those. And yikes….

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Saying that Tylenol causes autism is about as accurate as saying ice cream causes polio - and yes, people did believe that before the polio vaccine was introduced. They are both conflating correlation and causation.