Kate Caldwell

The Complex Future of Post-Pandemic Work The COVID-19 pandemic showed that remote work is possible for many industries, but it’s still unclear what the future of remote work is five years later.

Being part of a Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice Wong co-edited with @freeblackgirl.bsky.social was really special, even more so now. My piece was republished in the @theflytrapmedia.com today (with some updates to make the piece more current). the-flytrap.ghost.io/complex-futu...

busta rhymes on a float at the macy's thanksgiving parade with the ninja turtles

thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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MAiD promises safeguards, but the system relies on coercion, paperwork, and little oversight. Providers self-report, algorithms amplify bias, and people choose MAiD because they can’t afford care or housing. That isn’t consent—it’s economic coercion.

Learn more: CRDJustice.org/MAiD [1/8]

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This is so fab!!! Congrats

Illustration of a diverse group of people standing before a bright city skyline and the Statue of Liberty. Two people hold a large banner that reads “HEALTH JUSTICE FOR ALL.” Below, a Medium preview card displays the title “Health Justice for All: Your Job Shouldn’t Decide If You Live” with the CRDJ logo in the top left corner.

Health care shouldn’t depend on your job or being seen as “productive.” Linking care to employment reinforces racist and ableist inequities, shutting out disabled people & communities of color. Health justice means decoupling care from work.

Read the full blog: nlawcrdj.medium.com/health-justi...

A blue slide with a large white “3” on the left and the words “Report Out” and “Legalizing Ableism” below it. On the right is an image of three people smiling and sitting on a porch, holding mugs. The text on the report cover reads “Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Report” by Kate Caldwell, PhD. A white arrow icon is in a dark blue circle at the bottom right. Footer text: “CRDJustice.org | 1.”

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) reframes disability as “suffering,” treating disability as the problem and death as the solution. When society denies access, support, & care, those failures get labeled “personal tragedy,” and death becomes the relief.

Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/10]

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

The orange poopskitch's plan to dismantle the dept of education has unfortunately moved forward with a move to shift educational offices to other departments in a move that makes no logical sense from an educational standpoint & is profoundly concerning.

#Pinks

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Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility DHS proposes to rescind the 2022 public charge ground of inadmissibility regulations. The 2022 regulations are not the best implementation of the statute, inconsistent with congressional intent, undul...

Hey y'all, DHS just dropped a new proposal this morning to rescind the 2022 public charge rule change. You can read and comment on the proposal at the link here.

www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-20278

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.

That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.

Wow.

LAW dork = I am certain that someone thought this was particularly witty when they came up with the name, but it's honestly one of the more offensive possibilities these hateful authoritarians could have used. Even on its face, using the name of a beloved children's book as the name of your anti-immigrant, mass-arrest operation is appalling. But, to use a book authored by E.B. White as your name is an offense to history. White was a leading voice for American democracy and freedom and against fascism and tyranny. Abusing his life's work like this cannot stand without a response.

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.

Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

It will never stop bothering me that it is "pleaded" and not "pled" 😣

Rest in power, Alice Wong.

A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.

She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.

We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.

“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:

Health and care funding crisis will create pressure to choose assisted suicide, MPs and peers are told Many terminally-ill people would feel “duress” and “pressure” to choose an assisted suicide if it is legalised, because of the lack of funding for the NHS, palliative care and social care services,…

🚨Liz Carr's evidence against the Assisted Dying Bill

"Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity"

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MAiD passed in the wee hours of the night in Illinois w/out giving disability advocates & orgs a chance to weigh in. It now heads to @govpritzker.illinois.gov's desk. Its important to understand what the research actually says. Its clear this legislation is coercive and legal safeguards inadequate.

MAiD | CRDJ

@crdjustice.bsky.social has been putting out a lot of info on MAiD, including findings from our report and toolkit that might be helpful: www.crdjustice.org/maid

🎁✨ Makers + creators it’s time!
The 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide is open

If you’re a disabled entrepreneur (or know one), send your info by Nov 21 to be featured this holiday season!

Submit here: forms.gle/L6jFZifLhUeH...

Boosts + reshares appreciated 💙♿❄️
#DHGG #Disability #ShopDisabled

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.

An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice. In Mexico, a growing Indigenous business network set forth a transformative vision of an economy rooted in community ownership and offers practical steps to get there.

An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico: “When you reclaim your culture, history, art, traditions, land…then things are different. You can talk about who you want to be.” nonprofitquarterly.org/an-indigenou... @steve-npq.bsky.social

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When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight.

Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]

Ontology vs epistemology perhaps? Either way this is a highly ignorant take.

Knowledge should be critiqued. Science is different. If the scientific method was followed correctly then a study should be able to be replicated multiple times and come to the same conclusion. If it cannot, then its results should not be accepted. This could not be more different.

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”

Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies