HearTheFire
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Neurodivergent teacher of neurodivergent students
Total word nerd
Can we get past "inclusion" already?
Total word nerd
Can we get past "inclusion" already?
This is such a lovely piece. And it quotes heavily and links to other lovely pieces. I just read them all, and they were all just what I needed to read. Thank you, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @anamariecox.bsky.social, and @adamserwer.bsky.social for the gritty optimism.
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
There's a line buried in Adam Serwer's recent Atlantic piece on the Minneapolis resistance to ICE that deserves to be pulled out, examined, and posted on every lamppost in America: The secret fear of the morally…
There's a line buried in Adam Serwer's recent Atlantic piece on the Minneapolis resistance to ICE that deserves to be pulled out, examined, and posted on every lamppost in America: The secret fear of the morally…
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
There's a line buried in Adam Serwer's recent Atlantic piece on the Minneapolis resistance to ICE that deserves to be pulled out, examined, and posted on every lamppost in America: The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. Read that again. It explains so much. Serwer continues:
www.techdirt.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:03 AM
This is such a lovely piece. And it quotes heavily and links to other lovely pieces. I just read them all, and they were all just what I needed to read. Thank you, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @anamariecox.bsky.social, and @adamserwer.bsky.social for the gritty optimism.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Watching the New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy.
Neurodiversity depicted alllll over the place.
But, you know, "Autism didn't exist when we were kids."
Neurodiversity depicted alllll over the place.
But, you know, "Autism didn't exist when we were kids."
January 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Watching the New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy.
Neurodiversity depicted alllll over the place.
But, you know, "Autism didn't exist when we were kids."
Neurodiversity depicted alllll over the place.
But, you know, "Autism didn't exist when we were kids."
So they're saying acetaminophen use during pregnancy protects against neurotypicality. Good to know!
#autism #neurodiversity
#autism #neurodiversity
September 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So they're saying acetaminophen use during pregnancy protects against neurotypicality. Good to know!
#autism #neurodiversity
#autism #neurodiversity
Donald Trump can't stop talking about eugenics.
Even his commentary on the NFL draft isn't benign.
#disability #eugenics #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #adhd #autism #autistic
Even his commentary on the NFL draft isn't benign.
#disability #eugenics #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #adhd #autism #autistic
April 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Donald Trump can't stop talking about eugenics.
Even his commentary on the NFL draft isn't benign.
#disability #eugenics #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #adhd #autism #autistic
Even his commentary on the NFL draft isn't benign.
#disability #eugenics #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #adhd #autism #autistic
I studied poetry as an English major. Later, I got an M.Ed. in special education. Care to guess which program I credit as my best preparation to understand and communicate with my students? (Hint: it wasn't the master's program.) 1/2
#edusky #autism #autistic #disability #neurodiversity #eugenics
#edusky #autism #autistic #disability #neurodiversity #eugenics
April 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I studied poetry as an English major. Later, I got an M.Ed. in special education. Care to guess which program I credit as my best preparation to understand and communicate with my students? (Hint: it wasn't the master's program.) 1/2
#edusky #autism #autistic #disability #neurodiversity #eugenics
#edusky #autism #autistic #disability #neurodiversity #eugenics
A GROVELING APOLOGY to my parents, the American taxpayers, RFK Jr., and everyone who's ever been inconvenienced by my complete lack of baseball skills.
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A GROVELING APOLOGY to my parents, the American taxpayers, RFK Jr., and everyone who's ever been inconvenienced by my complete lack of baseball skills.
Our tax dollars are paying for this.
I am paying for this.
This is being done in my name.
This is awful.
I am paying for this.
This is being done in my name.
This is awful.
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Our tax dollars are paying for this.
I am paying for this.
This is being done in my name.
This is awful.
I am paying for this.
This is being done in my name.
This is awful.
Only a witch will float. If she's a mortal human, then she'll sink to the bottom of the river and drown. Proof of innocence!
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March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Only a witch will float. If she's a mortal human, then she'll sink to the bottom of the river and drown. Proof of innocence!
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Or trans people. Or people with ADHD. Or disabled people. Or immigrants. Or anyone.
#teachers #EduSky #k12 #autism #autistic #disability #disabled #justice #resist #HHS #justice #adhd #ProtectTransKids #TransPeopleAreLoved #science #ssri #DumpsterFire
#teachers #EduSky #k12 #autism #autistic #disability #disabled #justice #resist #HHS #justice #adhd #ProtectTransKids #TransPeopleAreLoved #science #ssri #DumpsterFire
February 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Or trans people. Or people with ADHD. Or disabled people. Or immigrants. Or anyone.
#teachers #EduSky #k12 #autism #autistic #disability #disabled #justice #resist #HHS #justice #adhd #ProtectTransKids #TransPeopleAreLoved #science #ssri #DumpsterFire
#teachers #EduSky #k12 #autism #autistic #disability #disabled #justice #resist #HHS #justice #adhd #ProtectTransKids #TransPeopleAreLoved #science #ssri #DumpsterFire
Seventeen states are suing to declare Section 504 unconstitutional. The central argument seems to be that calling people the names they prefer and making dress codes gender-neutral would be so onerous that they must end all disability-based protections against discimination.
#disability #resist
#disability #resist
law.alaska.gov
February 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Seventeen states are suing to declare Section 504 unconstitutional. The central argument seems to be that calling people the names they prefer and making dress codes gender-neutral would be so onerous that they must end all disability-based protections against discimination.
#disability #resist
#disability #resist
There is no such thing as a "low-incidence kiddo."
Human beings are not incidents.
#disability #autism #education #edusky #teacher #teachers #autistic #k12 #specialeducation
Human beings are not incidents.
#disability #autism #education #edusky #teacher #teachers #autistic #k12 #specialeducation
December 29, 2024 at 8:29 PM
There is no such thing as a "low-incidence kiddo."
Human beings are not incidents.
#disability #autism #education #edusky #teacher #teachers #autistic #k12 #specialeducation
Human beings are not incidents.
#disability #autism #education #edusky #teacher #teachers #autistic #k12 #specialeducation
"High functioning" and "low functioning" are repackaged ways of saying "more human" and "less human."
Stop.
#autism #ADHD #EduSky #autistic #teachers #teacher #disability #k12 #justice #specialeducation
Stop.
#autism #ADHD #EduSky #autistic #teachers #teacher #disability #k12 #justice #specialeducation
November 17, 2024 at 2:56 PM
"High functioning" and "low functioning" are repackaged ways of saying "more human" and "less human."
Stop.
#autism #ADHD #EduSky #autistic #teachers #teacher #disability #k12 #justice #specialeducation
Stop.
#autism #ADHD #EduSky #autistic #teachers #teacher #disability #k12 #justice #specialeducation
School staff: PLEASE USE YOUR NAME!
There's already a Mr. G and a Ms. B, and we've already had three subs who called themselves Mrs. D.
#sped #specialeducation #autism #adhd #iep #disability #disabilities #k12 #teachers
There's already a Mr. G and a Ms. B, and we've already had three subs who called themselves Mrs. D.
#sped #specialeducation #autism #adhd #iep #disability #disabilities #k12 #teachers
July 12, 2024 at 1:45 PM
School staff: PLEASE USE YOUR NAME!
There's already a Mr. G and a Ms. B, and we've already had three subs who called themselves Mrs. D.
#sped #specialeducation #autism #adhd #iep #disability #disabilities #k12 #teachers
There's already a Mr. G and a Ms. B, and we've already had three subs who called themselves Mrs. D.
#sped #specialeducation #autism #adhd #iep #disability #disabilities #k12 #teachers
So this is the bluesky...
July 7, 2024 at 6:21 PM
So this is the bluesky...