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I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

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That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic. (Note for free subscriber...

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:

It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!

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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Athens Pride defeats far-right activist in lawsuit, defending freedom of speech | Athens Politics Nerd Athens Pride and Queer Collective, an LGBTQ+ advocacy and support group, has successfully defended itself in court from a lawsuit filed by Julie Mauck, real

local bigot got her shit rocked in superior court & by three panel court of appeals. i look forward to the ruling on attorney's fees 🙏🏻🤌🏻

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when my kid (gets SSI) is hospitalized for more than 30 days, his benefits amount changes to $30 monthly. lol.

My husband got me a ninja ice cream
machine for my birthday and googling recipes brings up almost exclusively protein ice cream recipes. I am trying to eat ICE CREAM, you perverts. It should be decadent. Not protein-maxxed.

the first thing I’m gonna do when I get collapsed into the singularity is find ray kurzweil and kick his ass

An AI slop bicycle, labelled "AUTISM" and rated a "score" of "0.93". the spokes of the wheels are fine and strangely like fibres or a spider web and the seat features a strange cross that would make it uncomfortable to sit on. About a quarter of the rear wheel is tinted orange, like a pie chart.

Please don't make me ride the autism bicycle. That seat looks ouchy and the wheels are made of spiderwebs

Only $373 remains! I’ve been paying as donations come in. Im so grateful, thank you all so much for donating 😭

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Donate to Critical Healthcare Support for Victoria, organized by Vee Copeland Hello everyone, My name is Victoria and thank you for checking out my gofundme.… Vee Copeland needs your support for Critical Healthcare Support for Victoria

Because of the ice raids, I haven’t been able to find a caregiver through medicaid since June. For three days a week I have to hire one from a company, and it cost $39.50 an hour. I owe $898 from my last bill and I’m struggling. If youd like to donate I would appreciate it ❤️

I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.

Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country. Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

Previously: His wife visited him ICE in detention on his 50th birthday. She couldn’t even bring him the card she’d made. They could only speak through a phone, divided by a thick pane of glass. It was one of few times she’d ever seen him cry.

Injunction ruling provides new look at ‘Blitz,’ from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write report A federal judge on Thursday issued a scathing opinion that takes a deep dive into the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” revealing new information glean…

NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling.
Story here:
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Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it

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Also, at the end of the day, the other GJ members would leave and I stayed behind with a clerk of courts staffer who had a document that recorded total number of indictments we voted on and the breakdown of true bills, no bills and split bills.

When I was foreperson on a GJ, I signed indictment immediately after the vote, kept indictments in a stack next to me, and turned them in to clerk when our session was done (we heard ~10 cases per day).

GBI Arrests Braselton Police Chief for Harassment and Stalking Braselton, Jackson County, GA (November 19, 2025) – The GBI has arrested and charged Braselton Police Department Chief Michael Steffman, age 49, of Braselton, GA, with Violation of Oath by Public Offi...

"The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office requested the GBI to investigate allegations against Chief Steffman. The investigation revealed that Steffman misused the automated license plate recognition systems to harass and stalk multiple individuals."

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still nothing for food today 😵‍💫 if a few ppl matched $15 I could order more meal shakes!

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That's so gross.

It's totally feasible they presented the foreman with a fresh indictment and had them mark it up as if it had been voted on by the full GJ. There was a juror member as secretary who sat w/ me but he didn't do anything. All the completed indictments went from my hands to clerk to judge.

Also, I spent way more time at the courthouse as the foreman than anybody else on the jury. They would all leave when we were done for the day and I had to stay after and go over the indictments with the clerk (?) to make sure they were all complete and tallied before delivered to the judge.

Oh, that is so fucked up.

BUT -- You can do your best to expose your fellow jurors to your arguments about the system, you can annoy the fuck out of police officers and catch them lying, and if you're lucky, the prosecutor running your grand jury will be fired. Mine was 🙏🏻

When the prosecutor came back, he told me that if we had no-billed that charge, he would have quit on the spot.

Anyway. Serve on a grand jury if you're summoned to. You will be horrified. You will maybe crawl under your desk & cry when you get home. You will not receive fair compensation at all.

We wanted evidence beyond officer testimony (we never saw any evidence, the entire three months we served, except maybe one time a photo of a knife?). The prosecutor got so fed up with us, he stormed out. We voted. That charge just barely passed (I think 1 vote away from no-billing).

I more or less told him to fuck off. And he was just a gross local prosecutor, so I would not be surprised at all if feds did what Sean is suggesting.

We had another case where we were asking a lot of questions about one of the charges that was the foundation for the entire police encounter...

I was the foreman on a local grand jury. We indicted every single case brought before us. However, on a case where we no-billed one of the charges, the prosecutor came to me after we voted and asked me why we no-billed and if we had additional questions they could answer to flip our vote.