Felix Bunke

Today is July 4th, Independence Day. In Canada it means something different - a day to celebrate our independence from the US. 🇨🇦

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

“RFK is a disgrace to the Kennedy name” Joseph Kennedy lobotomized Rosemary for being “difficult”, developmentally delayed, and clearly neurodivergent

He’s just embracing his granddaddy’s love for eugenics and cruelty

Grievance-Based Parent Organizations Are Autism's MAGA Movement — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM Horrified by the misinformation peddled by MAGA truthers? You should be just as concerned about grievance-based autism parent orgs.

Autism grievance parents keep topping themselves in cynical awfulness, including cozying up to fellow autism disinformation-spewer RFK Jr. So we’ve updated our explainer on how these parents harm autistics, meaning their own kids as well as ours. Thread.

thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie... 1/

NEW: FUN is hosting an emergency organizing call this SUNDAY, to coordinate a response to the biggest attack on union rights in a generation.

This is why we march. This is why we organize. Every worker deserves protection, respect, and a union to back them up. #UnionsForAll

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

Alfie Kohn: Autism and Behaviorism: New Research Adds to an Already Compelling Case Against ABA When a common practice isn’t necessary or useful even under presumably optimal conditions, it’s time to question whether that practice makes sense at all. For example, if teachers don’t need to give g...

“It is nothing short of stunning to learn just how widely and intensely ABA is loathed by autistic adults who are able to describe their experience with it.” From @alfiekohn.bsky.social:

nepc.colorado.edu/blog/autism-... #BetterWaysThanABA #neurodiversity #autism

Ffs.

Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.

(KyleKulinskiShow@bsky.so.... @KyleKulinski 20 minutes apart. On top of being a fascist this is door knob IQ shit. Elon Musk @elonmusk • 58m One of the first things Hitler did upon gaining power was apply aggressive censorship Elon Musk x @elonmusk • 38m 60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence.

I present to you the high intelligence of President Musk.

This is my page. It's mine.

Bluesky Mine.

...OK, you might need to be a Midnight Oil fan to get that...

Here's a tip: Now that RFK, Jr. has been confirmed (on top of everything else), this is probably not a good time to do anything that might upset an autistic person. There's a very good chance you'd quickly regret having done that.

The Senate just gave us autistic people the middle finger.

The Senate just gave us autistic people the middle finger:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-senate-just-confirmed-rfk-jr-to-lead-hhs-heres-what-he-said-he-will-and-wont-do-at-the-agency/ar-AA1yZKPY

And just looking for these words will inevitably result in getting rid of a bunch of "false positives," i.e., things that don't even discuss what they're trying to target. For instance, it's not as if discussing transgender issues is the only time one might discuss pronouns!

They don't know what "confirmation bias" means, huh

what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.

When they tell you 'Oh no we don't hate LGBTQ people, we love them and wish for their repentance," remember how they fussed when Bishop Budde asked simply for mercy on LGBTQ people. Which is something we're all supposed to want.

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

Rage Against the Machine Celebrate Leonard Peltier's Freedom Rage Against the Machine celebrated the commutation of Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier's life sentence.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This is a good way to provoke a recession: withdraw federal infrastructure spending and do it at the same time as imposing a massive price hike throughout the economy due to tariffs.

Community involvement in PhD students’ autism research projects: Challenges and opportunities

journals.sagepub.com...

There is NO evidence that vaccines cause autism. The doc who said they did lost his license, and got sued, and lost. Now he's some sort of ignorant anti-science folk hero...?

It's bizarre. It's frightening. It's irresponsible.

People will die if this man's plans begin to come to fruition.

With Utah’s statewide book bans, 2 school districts have steered the conversation According to a KUER analysis of public records, 25 books are teetering on the edge of being banned statewide.

Fourteen books have already been banned in Utah’s K-12 schools.

Another 25 are on the shortlist.

The bulk of the reports to the Utah State Board of Education come from just two school districts.

www.kuer.org/education/20...

In the coming years, things are going to get particularly bad for autistics, given RFK's autism demonization. This means it's going to be open season on autistics in school yards (more than usual), and a lot more ableism in general. Here is a thread of some ways to meaningfully support autistics.

Law Restricting Teachers' Unions Falls After More Than a Decade The Wisconsin law, a poster child for efforts to curb collective bargaining over the past decade, was deemed unconstitutional.

There are many fights still to come, but this decision stands to make a huge difference for educators. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Repetitive Behaviours in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults: Associations with Sensory Sensitivity and Impact on Self-Efficacy - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Purpose: Restricted and repetitive behaviours are a core feature of autism diagnoses but have not been widely studied in adulthood. This study examined the rates of and associations between repetitive...

“Stimming had a SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE impact on autistic adults’ self-rated self-efficacy”

“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”

“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”

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Dane County judge strikes down Act 10 Judge Jacob Frost ruled that certain sections of the law were unconstitutional.

BREAKING: Collective bargaining powers for public workers in Wisconsin have been restored by a judge's ruling.

Judge Jacob Frost ruled that certain sections of Scott Walker's notorious Act 10 are no longer enforceable.

spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...

Many lefties I know left when Musk bought it. I had an account that I rarely used and probably should've deleted by then, already, so I did likewise. I just never took to Twitter. I'm trying Bluesky now, but we'll see how much I end up using it.

#tl;dr -
• Wikipedia's main entry on autism is overlong, poorly structured and mostly ignores decades of autistic insights

• Epistemic injustice is a widespread problem: too many are not believed about their own experiences, or given the tools to understand them