Michele Cadigan, Ph.D.

My old landlord proudly told me how she has cameras all over her house - outside AND inside - so she can track everything her preteen & teen daughters do (plus phone tracking & use monitoring, airtags in backpacks and cars, car vids).

Including Disabled People in Upward Mobility: Leveraging Local Data To support upward mobility from poverty, policymakers must specifically consider the unique challenges people with disabilities face when designing and implementing policies.

To advance upward mobility in #communities, having access to #data that incorporates information about #disabilities is critical.

Learn more about current challenges with including disability data and how Urban’s Upward Mobility Initiative tools can help.

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens GAO confirms ICE deported U.S. citizens due to systemic failures — and the agency still doesn’t know how many more it’s wrongly targeting

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

TikTok video by 🩵🩵moon child's musings🩵🩵

People are using Waze to report “icy conditions” in SoCal. Brilliant www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjv83UGD/

🗣️Bluesky, we're now $800 away from our goal!! We only need eight $100 donations or forty $20 donations to reach our goal. Any amount helps. Help us cross the finish line.

Florida Sheriff Who Threatened to Kill Protesters Has History of Corruption, Racial Profiling and Bribery Accusations Florida Sheriff Wayne Ivey and his office have been sued multiple times throughout the years, including for false arrest and imprisonment.

"Sheriff has history of cop-like behavior"

Remarkable.

MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."

Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.

Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

I just picked this up last week & am already half way through, love it!

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo.

It’s cowardice.

In case you weren't aware, the greater LA metropolitan area is the size of Portugal and contains 80% more people.

They cannot constitutionally do this, but also, they cannot physically do this.

New Zealand's Rich Listers climb above $100 billion despite 'tough' times 11:41 am on 9 June 2025 [Photo of toy company Zuru co-owner and troglodyte, Nick Mowbray.] NBR's 2025 rich list sees the total valuation pushed to $102.1 billion The collective worth of the 119 individuals and families profiled is the equivalent of more than 40 percent of the nation's GDP There are around a dozen new Rich Listers, worth $4.3 billion altogether Two women, Anna Mowbray and Lucy Liu, have made the list for the first time since 2019 The National Business Review annual rich list has found Aotearoa's wealthiest people are collectively worth more than $100 billion - up from $95.55 billion last year - despite a tough 12 months financially.

'We are deeply heartbroken': Free food service shuts doors after 15 years 4:56 pm on 11 June 2025 By Maisie Arnold-Barron Free Store Wellington, which has operated next to St Peters church on Willis Street for more than a decade, has announced it will permanently close its doors. The service redistributes food for free every weekday to hundreds of people, donated by more than 60 eateries. The store said in 2024 it rescued 42,000 kilograms of food, contributed to 126,000 kilograms of CO2-equivalent emissions reductions, and racked up 15,000 volunteer hours. Spokesperson Scott Reeve said he was "heartbroken" but the decision was made after a significant drop in regular donations. "We've tried really hard to keep it going, and we are aware of the huge impact this is going to have on people that really need it," he said. He blamed the increasingly complex needs of clientele, intensified by national policy shifts which made life more difficult for people who were struggling, and the toll on his staff who worked alongside those highly vulnerable people.

Two stories, two days apart

LA Times headline: Federal agents use vehicles to trap and arrest driver in Boyle Heights, leaving child and passenger behind. By Christopher Buchanan and Richard Winton, June 11, 2025, updated 4:51 pm

Two unmarked vehicles pinned a car in Boyle Heights today. Officers then shot tear gas into the car where a one-year-old and a woman were passengers. All to arrest a man who allegedly assaulted a CBP officer.

I was at those protests. That officer likely assaulted him www.latimes.com/california/s...

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

This is the paper I thought of when I first heard about the Massachusetts millionaire tax and look, the findings still hold!

www.boston.com/news/local-n...

This is Government Censorship in its Plainest Form, States EveryLibrary EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.

"In this ruling, a majority of the Fifth Circuit has embraced a doctrine that not only permits but also constitutionalizes the removal of books from public libraries by government officials for ideological reasons," reads the statement from EveryLibrary.

It's an authoritarian takeover:
1. austerity bill to facilitate theft & clientelism
2. destroying sites of dissent - law firms, unions, unis
3. attacking independent institutions - Congress, courts, states
4. will require violence - militias, ICE, Nat'l Guard, military

None of it is a "distraction"

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

Opinion | The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It. (Published 2020)

Just bringing this one from @jamellebouie.net in 2020 back (gift link)

You are an amazing human 💜

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

Provision in GOP budget bill puts millions at risk of losing SNAP benefits

In the budget bill, SNAP for kids over 7 will require even single parents to work. This will be devastating for already stressed single moms. And the GOP doesn't care because their solution is always pushing women to marry and/or stay in bad relationships. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Also just to point this out:

Banks keep lists of people who are INVESTIGATED not convicted, not even charged, with financial crimes.

You do not need to have done ANYTHING wrong to end up on "Do Not Bank" lists that get circulated and find yourself shut out entirely.

I developed a killer workshop on commonly made mistakes in evaluating evidence in sexual violence cases. And I want to take it more places.

If you work with survivors in any capacity—including as a journalist or academic who writes about these issues—I would absolutely love to share this with you.

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"

www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

my dog does this too haha likes when I hold his paw while we’re driving haha

They care about merit until it's someone they hate earning accolades and honors.

They care about merit until they impose the least qualified people in this country into positions of power.

They don't care about merit.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage