Dr. Andrew
@colombodougovito.com
Associate Professor in Texas. Pragmatic radical scholar. Accidental, award-winning author. Disabled punk. Casually vegan. Reluctant podcaster. TEDx talker. 🤟
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We Live in a Disabling Society … But We Don’t Have To | Andrew Colombo-Dougovito | TEDxUNT
Disability affects more than 60 million people in the United States alone. Colombo-Dougovito studies how movement connects to well-being, and how the systems...
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Welcome, new Bluesky friends!
If you want to know what I do, this 👇 is a pretty good synopsis:
If you want to know what I do, this 👇 is a pretty good synopsis:
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Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
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🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
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a zine-letter for inquisitives, justice-seekers, and people who care.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"Nearly 60% of special education teachers reported using AI to develop an IEP or Section 504 plan during the 2024-25 school year."
YIKES. AI has anti-disability biases, so this is bad.
www.k12dive.com/news/artific...
YIKES. AI has anti-disability biases, so this is bad.
www.k12dive.com/news/artific...
Heightened AI use in special education brings elevated risks
Nearly 60% of special education teachers reported using AI to develop an IEP or Section 504 plan during the 2024-25 school year, a CDT report finds.
www.k12dive.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
no no no no no no no no no no no
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In his reelection announcement last week, Gov. Abbott proposed eliminating school property taxes without suggesting how to replace the billions of dollars in lost revenue, much of which is used to fund public education. Instead, Abbott celebrated his new $1 billion voucher program.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In his reelection announcement last week, Gov. Abbott proposed eliminating school property taxes without suggesting how to replace the billions of dollars in lost revenue, much of which is used to fund public education. Instead, Abbott celebrated his new $1 billion voucher program.
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To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...
Why We’re Running a Series About Access
Access is still treated as if it’s a privilege, a burden, or a form of special treatment.
web.archive.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) will turn 50. Please join the community as we celebrate with a week of action. Post your stories at 3pm est everyday this week! #IDEA50
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) will turn 50. Please join the community as we celebrate with a week of action. Post your stories at 3pm est everyday this week! #IDEA50
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
~ Kurt Vonnegut
~ Kurt Vonnegut
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
~ Kurt Vonnegut
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.”
~Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger
Thank you for sharing everything with the world, and for voicing what so many of us struggle to express.
You gave us a blueprint for a better world.
I’m sorry you didn’t get to see it flourish.
~Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger
Thank you for sharing everything with the world, and for voicing what so many of us struggle to express.
You gave us a blueprint for a better world.
I’m sorry you didn’t get to see it flourish.
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.”
~Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger
Thank you for sharing everything with the world, and for voicing what so many of us struggle to express.
You gave us a blueprint for a better world.
I’m sorry you didn’t get to see it flourish.
~Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger
Thank you for sharing everything with the world, and for voicing what so many of us struggle to express.
You gave us a blueprint for a better world.
I’m sorry you didn’t get to see it flourish.
Passive language continues to be the downfall of Western society.
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. n.pr/4pgmAna
As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Passive language continues to be the downfall of Western society.
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In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary.
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary.
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
Hey, it’s Friday and a paper of mine was published earlier this week. Huzzah!
Please read responsibly.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Please read responsibly.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
“Not Everybody Enjoys Physical Activity”: A Qualitative Social Media Study of the Barriers Experienced by Autistic Adults
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d1540805e157">Physical activity (PA) has been suggested as a key modifier for many health concerns
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www.scienceopen.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hey, it’s Friday and a paper of mine was published earlier this week. Huzzah!
Please read responsibly.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Please read responsibly.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
TX repubs are no longer hiding their all-out assault on public education or their distain for the social mobility afforded through education.
They’re fine not hiding anymore because they think there are no consequences.
Deplorable.
They’re fine not hiding anymore because they think there are no consequences.
Deplorable.
Gov. Greg Abbott is promising to destroy public schools by making it almost impossible for districts to raise taxes. He also said voters should have the power to reduce or eliminate school funding entirely. #txlege www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Tomlinson: Abbott promises to starve public schools of tax revenues
Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to cut property taxes will starve public schools while he sends state money to private schools.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
TX repubs are no longer hiding their all-out assault on public education or their distain for the social mobility afforded through education.
They’re fine not hiding anymore because they think there are no consequences.
Deplorable.
They’re fine not hiding anymore because they think there are no consequences.
Deplorable.
It’s Friday, y’all!
A restful weekend to you all—
Except the fascists…all y’all can smother yourselves in a satchel of Richards.
link.deezer.com/s/31xDuqQy1a...
A restful weekend to you all—
Except the fascists…all y’all can smother yourselves in a satchel of Richards.
link.deezer.com/s/31xDuqQy1a...
Forever Yours
Johnnie Carwash - song - 2020
link.deezer.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It’s Friday, y’all!
A restful weekend to you all—
Except the fascists…all y’all can smother yourselves in a satchel of Richards.
link.deezer.com/s/31xDuqQy1a...
A restful weekend to you all—
Except the fascists…all y’all can smother yourselves in a satchel of Richards.
link.deezer.com/s/31xDuqQy1a...
It’s infuriating to watch university after university spend *millions* of dollars on this junk, while freezing staff and faculty pay and downsizing workforces or eliminating entire departments altogether.
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It’s infuriating to watch university after university spend *millions* of dollars on this junk, while freezing staff and faculty pay and downsizing workforces or eliminating entire departments altogether.
Extreme stress can cause a seizure to occur—it is absolutely 🧊 agents fault he seized.
This is absolutely deplorable.
These actors are really stressing my commitment to prison abolition.
The Hague would be too kind.
This is absolutely deplorable.
These actors are really stressing my commitment to prison abolition.
The Hague would be too kind.
ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Extreme stress can cause a seizure to occur—it is absolutely 🧊 agents fault he seized.
This is absolutely deplorable.
These actors are really stressing my commitment to prison abolition.
The Hague would be too kind.
This is absolutely deplorable.
These actors are really stressing my commitment to prison abolition.
The Hague would be too kind.
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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"What radicalized you"
Nothing really, its just that society had redefined radicalized to mean "Basic Fucking Human Empathy"
Nothing really, its just that society had redefined radicalized to mean "Basic Fucking Human Empathy"
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"What radicalized you"
Nothing really, its just that society had redefined radicalized to mean "Basic Fucking Human Empathy"
Nothing really, its just that society had redefined radicalized to mean "Basic Fucking Human Empathy"
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Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness
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Bottom line is that the outcome analyzed was not "autism."
Those "Covid in pregnancy causes autism!!" headlines are misleading AF plus use autistic people as a jump scare—instead of emphasizing that Covid vaccines protect pregnant people AND babies from actual bad outcomes. @ejwillingham.bsky.social, in our latest newsletter:
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Autism and Covid infection during pregnancy: Guess what??
The risks of Covid infection in pregnancy unrelated to autism are sufficient to reinforce public health measures and messaging to prevent Covid infection during pregnancy – including vaccination.
buttondown.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Bottom line is that the outcome analyzed was not "autism."
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It's expensive to be disabled. Those costs can keep people working past the point where it's in their best interest, including for aging adults. www.businessinsider.com/older-americ...
She's 93 and still job searching despite 14 broken arms and other injuries. She can't afford not to work.
America's oldest workers keep clocking in — many despite health issues and disabilities. And some can't afford to retire. We talked to nearly 200.
www.businessinsider.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It's expensive to be disabled. Those costs can keep people working past the point where it's in their best interest, including for aging adults. www.businessinsider.com/older-americ...
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While actions will be taking place on campuses across the country this Friday, you can also participate in this teach-in for the National Day of Action for Higher Education on Zoom! 👏👇
Teach-in November 7th at Noon Come One, Come All!
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
While actions will be taking place on campuses across the country this Friday, you can also participate in this teach-in for the National Day of Action for Higher Education on Zoom! 👏👇
Die Spitz - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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November 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Feeling a lot like the late 1920s…not looking forward to repeating the 30s.
Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Feeling a lot like the late 1920s…not looking forward to repeating the 30s.