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I have no words for the incandescent rage at the casual erasure of disabled folks, because this shit happens far too often. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was fierce about living life & speaking truth in ways we can all learn from. Honour her memory by masking up & protecting public health.

I know Teen Vogue’s heel turn has been pretty hard but if this is true it’s indefensible. Alice Wong was a force and I will miss her voice 💔

Alice Wong, writer and disability activist, has died. She was an educator and a communicator and a warrior who lit the way. I’m grateful to have crossed paths with her. Rest in peace.

Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

A border patrol questions an elderly man with a cane in a parking lot before taking him.

Border Patrol has been targeting the elderly heavily. Today in Santa Ana, that’s almost all they took, including this man and his cane.

Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Sandwich Terrorism Is Now Legal. Also, Here Are Some Sandwiches We Like COYOTE does not condone violence, only sandwiches.

Are you in the Bay Area and looking for a sandwich to gift to your friendly neighborhood federal agent? We've got a guide for that! www.coyotemedia.org/sandwich-ter...

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

"a guy": Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted prolific sex offender with hundreds of victims, including minors
"a reporter": Landon Thomas Jr, financial reporter for NYT
"someone": Donald Trump, the current president of the United fucking States

Valeria Fernández, 2009 Fi2W Fellow and Founder and Executive Director of Altavoz Lab, says: "Fi2W played a really big role in giving me the courage to write in English...it opened my world, big time."

When Valeria Fernández joined Fi2W as a fellow in 2009, she produced her first story in English. Today, she’s an award-winning journalist and the founder of @altavozlab.bsky.social, mentoring others to do the same.

Support us & donate by Dec 31 to double your impact: fi2w.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Teen Vogue changed how a generation saw politics and inclusion. That era could be over. Journalists who cover race, gender and inequality are often the first to go, raising deeper questions about who gets to tell the news.

Journalists who cover race, gender and inequality are often the first to go in layoffs, raising deeper questions about who gets to tell the news.

cc @patrickhwillems.bsky.social

I can’t let down the 32,00 people in my district now facing skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Their tax dollars should be spent on them, and I’ll keep fighting to make sure they get the healthcare funding they need.

I became an AI skeptic bc the only cogent use cases AI boosters gave were, "a better search engine". but regular search engines already worked fine for 99% of people. the few folks who needed something more were like, me and my colleagues, none of whom found tremendous value in AI search tools

YouTube video by Technology Connections I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it

Folks, I have a new video today where I'm very excited to announce a new dishwasher powder on the market.

Why am I so excited? Because it's vindicated every single one of my detergent opinions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...

That being said, English has some terrible "how it's spelled" to "how it sounds" relationships in its writing, and so for those learning the language (younger and older) I can see how just guessing might let you just get by even if it's costing you crucial fundamental skills development.

I'm a child of immigrants but grew up bilingual, and I learned reading early (heavily through sound-character-connection). I already knew anecdotally people have trouble reading sounds from the actual characters, but I didn't realize the pedagogy was actively encouraging the "fuck it" approach.

I mean deeper critical understanding/literacy aside, this explains a lot why people just lock up when seeing new words or words and names of non-English origin -- they can't even power through the letters to form possible sounds and are limited to previous knowledge and already-formed context.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

Omg, is this why people can't read and don't understand nuance on the internet????

I hope these are studied in future English Language and Composition classes; these have been a masterclass.

“Why is literacy important?”

Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*

Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!

Fine, I'll do it: Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the Medicare for All and Congressional Progressive Caucuses who represents Silicon Valley, is the first sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵

When the Conservative Party in Korea declared martial law, the Korean Democrats knew if they didn’t send them to hell there would be no opposition afterwards. And look at them. They’re taking the ex conservative president and ensuring he never breathes free ever again.

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir

yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir

no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

"Yes popular support is in our favor now, but what if we try not living up to that support? WHAT THEN??" *proceeds to not live up to it*

Tonight was a very bad night.

MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.

My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.

Trump was boo’d by 60k people in unison today.

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare