Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟

On a burnt sienna background, large bolded text reads “NDEAM, National Disability Employment Awareness Month” with a person sitting at a desk using a laptop and wearing a headset. There are some abstract shapes and dots around them, but the entire color scheme of oranges and tans fits together.

This #NDEAM, we’re affirming what real employment means.

True equity means fair pay, inclusion, and opportunity for disabled workers.
If it’s not competitive and integrated, it isn’t employment.

#DisabilityEmployment #DisabilityJustice

Conversion therapy is wrong. The guy who created it also made a version for Autistic folks called ABA. It is also wrong. Listen to the people impacted by these harms. @autisticadvocacy.org @thinkingautism.com

This is totally not a priority but... why are ugly "dad" hats in style right now? Like with the cord across the front and the cursive writing and often nautical theming. Super confused. I mean yeah I got on the ironic trucker hat bandwagon years ago so guilty there but this one... nah no thanks

YOU BROKE IT! YOU CUT NEARLY $1 TRILLION FROM MEDICAID WITH OBBBA!!! Prior to that Medicaid and Social Security were very efficient and cost-effective programs. Now you are threatening people's lives and livelihoods. Not to mention the impact that not extending ACA subsidies will have!

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

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I'm pretty sure the show was Northern Exposure too hehe 🤓

The UN calls conversion therapy 'torture.' Could the Supreme Court greenlight it anyway? In the first of three blockbuster LGBTQ+ cases on its docket this term, the Supreme Court is about to hear a challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

The Supreme Court might overturn some states’ conversion therapy bans. Here’s what you need to know, from @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social and @19thnews.org

A silhouette of a man with his head down is framed in front of carceral bars. This illustration of containment fades into a drawing of a historic-looking institution. Over these elements, a white border and box contain the blog's text, reading "The Return of Asylums: Why H.R.4022 Endangers Disability Rights." Under this, the Medium logo and gray text read "CRDJ Staff" with the Center's all-white logo at the top-left corner.

Congress may soon reshape behavioral health. H.R.4022 would let Medicaid fund more institutions, but without real community investment, it risks re-institutionalizing disabled people. We must choose community, not #confinement.

Read now on Medium: nlawcrdj.medium.com/the-return-o...

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

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Yeah I've had this happen twice. Once it was a cane and the second time a DVD set for an old 90's tv show.

VOLUNTEERING IS NOT EMPLOYMENT!!!!!! This is the opposite of what you are supposed to be doing for #NDEAM

VOLUNTEERING IS NOT EMPLOYMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #NDEAM

Trump's push to take over universities ratchets up: having failed to bully Harvard, he's now trying to bribe turncoats, offering 9 schools exclusive "priority for federal grants" if they obey orders and teach right-wing views. It's compelled speech: a flagrant violation of the 1st Amendment. 1/

I guess this is why brand meds are being tariffed at 100%?

I would much rather use the money spent on this on Medicaid and Home and Community-Based Services.

Calculator doesn't work due to 'no adults' categories

Trump Is Waging a Catastrophic War on Data A president steeped in lies seeks to cut of the flow of accurate information at its source.

Really concerned about the amount of data that is simply evaporating because of Trump. That's an incredible wealth of information and records that we can't get back.

I truly do not understand people who think taking the whole head-in-the-sand approach here is even possible

Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds…

We are so excited to hear our partners, Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, on PBS today. The #SaveOurSigns crew & DRP steering comm were active in helping them gear up their project! We love supporting citizen preservation efforts.

Have an idea? Come chat with us!

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Health tech is being sold as “modernization.” But in reality, it’s laying the groundwork for a techno-carceral state where your medical data can be weaponized against you.

It’s care becoming control. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/o...

The Kavanaugh Stop

Disappearing Federal Data: Implications for Addressing Health Disparities  | KFF This policy watch reviews recent changes in availability and timeliness of federal data based on a review of publicly available federal datasets that are commonly used to measure health and health car...

As part of efforts to eliminate equity-related initiatives, the Trump administration has removed from federal datasets variables and data relating to race or ethnicity and sexual orientation and gender identity.

A review of some of the changes: https://on.kff.org/48FCPou

ASAN Condemns Administration's Rampant Misinformation about Autism, Acetaminophen, and Vaccines; Calls for Respectful, Fact-Based Approach - Autistic Self Advocacy Network On September 22nd, President Trump, RFK, and other members of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership held a press conference that contained false and harmful information about…

Monday’s press conference with President Trump, RFK, and other members of HHS leadership contained false and harmful information about autism, acetaminophen, and vaccines. Read our full statement in formal language and plain language here: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/asan...

"Equal Pay, Equal Justice: Centering Disabled Bi + Trans Lives" is the bolded title of the carousel, featuring the accessibility symbol overlaid on a combined infinity symbol of gender. The CRDJ logo in a bisexual color scheme with purples, blues, and pink hues is anchored in the top right corner

Disabled women, esp. bi, trans, non-binary, & women of color, face some of the steepest wage gaps compared to non-disabled men. Economic justice must include disabled LGBTQ+ people of color. [1/9]

#DisabledWomensEPD #BiVisibilityDay #DisabilityJustice #PayEquity

Sharing this thread for folks who are wondering what is going on in Broadview, IL right now. For informational purposes ofc

Democratic Committee Leaders Introduce Legislation to Protect Free Vaccines for Americans Bill Introduction Follows Alarming Efforts by Secretary Kennedy to Restrict Access to Lifesaving Vaccines WASHINGTON – Bicameral Democratic Health Committee leaders introduced legislation today that would protect free vaccine coverage for Americans. The Protecting Free Vaccines Act would require private health insurance companies, Medicaid, and Medicare to continue covering recommended vaccines free of cost-sharing for Americans. The legislation was introduced in the House by Education and Workforce Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA). Companion legislation was introduced in the Senate by Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT). “Despite repeated promises to the contrary during his confirmation process, Secretary Kennedy has consistently used his position to make it harder for Americans to access vaccines,” the Democratic Health Committee leaders said. “As a result, people across the country are afraid they won’t be able to get a vaccine at all or if they do, they’re not sure their insurance is going to cover it. The Protecting Free Vaccines Act will help put a stop to the chaos. It will ensure that people’s health insurance continues to cover existing vaccines free of cost.”

New: Legislation was just introduced in the House and Senate to protect vaccine access.

Legislation here: democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Top public worries in the U.S. About three in ten Americans say they are “very worried” about global warming.

More Americans are very worried about climate change than are about crime.

@yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

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More depravity. Yes, depraved is absolutely the right word. bsky.app/profile/kjhe...