Micaela Donabella

I appreciate UTMB's efforts to create opportunities for more runners with disabilities and thought the video they showed on the broadcast was great. But now they need to train their English language commentators how to talk about disabilities in a way that isn't offensive.

This “first Disability Pride Day” was organized by a broad coalition of AIDS, queer, and disability activist groups who refused to acquiesce to the inevitable cooling period after broad legislation has been signed and political capital is spent. As Ann Hausbrouk, a blind bisexual organizer said at the time, “It’s about pushing boundaries, now that the Americans with Disabilities Act ha[d] passed,” just three months prior. And even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month is now marked as an annual commemoration of the ADA, and conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting.

"Even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month [...] conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting." buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.

ICE is getting access to the sensitive data of nearly 80 million Medicaid recipients.

@leahfeiger.bsky.social got the agreement!

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Zohran Mamdani has already heavily ratio-ed Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ad with a donation link and it’s going up by thousands every minute

Health things that talk about "reversing" chronic diseases (and not put them into remission/managing them) are such red flags.

Of course, CHD is a different level of vile.

I have many snarky things to say about this philanthrocapitalist propaganda sponsored by the family that brought you food deserts.

But let’s keep it simple.

Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.

A heavy week.

ICE is targeting people through their medical records, as Alberta sets new COVID policy that would make RFK Jr. blush.

This one will stick with you.

Teaching about and against AI means working with students to analyze the connections between AI and environmental racism. In addition, educators, students, and community members can build coalitions for civic actions against Big Tech and its plans for more extractive, harmful infrastructure.

College Students Struggle With Mental Health Care Under Trump Less access to medication, cuts to Medicaid—young people feel the impact of the administration’s rollback of health policies they rely on.

Fears over losing access to medication, the potential impact of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and attacks on resources: For @rewirenewsgroup.com, I spoke to young people about the toll of the Trump administration on mental health and how it is affecting critical resources.

26 #disability activists were arrested last week protesting at the House committee meeting to cut 10 million off of #Medicaid. One of the lead organizers, ADAPT's Mike Oxford, talks to Bob Kafka of Barrier Free Futures. www.ksfr.org/show/barrier...

Let’s not forget the hurricane season is about to start.

Exactly. Like I wrote back in 2013 about Google Glass, we have to pay attention to what the device does to *other* people.

Facebook's stupid glasses put EVERYONE ELSE under surveillance without their consent.

HHS to build Medicare, Medicaid database on autism, other chronic illnesses | CNN The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of a...

Gonna go out on a limb and say we kinda saw it coming www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/h...

Can we start dating the deletions of websites with info on trans, disabled, BIPOC folks?

The White House Posts AI-Generated Image of Trump as a Buff Jedi: ‘Happy May the 4th to You All’ The official White House socials posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a beefed-up Jedi in celebration of "Star Wars" day.

AI Slop is the aesthetic of contemporary fascism
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Wild to think that a healthcare system based around the question “How much money can we make off of this?” isn’t working.

can’t wait until my apolitically designed police murderbot hits the streets, in an apolitical way

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.

Forero sat on the outskirts filming as police dragged protesters from the flagpole. "And before I knew it, I was completely knocked over," Forero said. "I was just sitting there filming, I'm knocked over, and then an officer steps on the barricade trying to keep me pinned under it. And people immediately rush in (to help), like I said, community has always saved me." That day, photos and videos of her trapped under the barricade began circulating around social media. It would later become one of the many images that would make Forero a target. Unlike other students who can use masks to shield their identities, Forero's wheelchair makes her easily recognizable. And she was already a well-known voice on campus for her past activism for disability rights.

"I knew I was being watched, both from the university (and) from Morehead-Cain. There was nowhere where I was 'safe,' because there was nowhere where I could hide my identity," Forero said. "Constantly being surveilled — that is very much a significant form of oppression. And I wasn't going to let my visibility prohibit me from standing for the things that I believe in. And by doing so, I had to pay some extra costs or at least consider them." In the next year, those costs of being an activist would expand to include Forero being doxxed, criminally charged, and losing her scholarship.

A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism.

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Data centers are the new sacrifice zones

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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The World After Amazon A collection of short, speculative fiction from rank-and-file Amazon workers - in print, online, and as a free audiobook and podcast.

Imagine a world with no Amazon.

many people are saying this

Our NSF grant was canceled at Northwestern Last Friday, our NSF grant was illegally terminated by the federal government.

One week later, and the wounds are very, very fresh. Our NSF grant, which focused on educational justice for Black families in Evanston, was illegally canceled. Read more about it here: sepehrvakil.substack.com/p/our-nsf-gr...

NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all.

It follows intense pushback from courts across the country.

Details TK

$30 million siphoned off the NEA & NEH to build the American Exceptionalism Wax Museum

Ofc!!

Demand for Transparency and Protection of International Students, Staff and Faculty at UM *This petition was created by a group of concerned UM students, staff, and faculty. When it's submitted to the administration, only your name and signature will be shared—your information will not be ...

UM grad students and faculty, please consider signing: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...