Kathryn Waring
@kathrynwaring.bsky.social
essayist | PhD candidate | writing a book about America's 1st epileptic colony | childless 🐱 lady | she/her
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Tim Walz on Meet the Press about Trump calling him "Retarded":
"We have fought, three decades, to get this out of our school. Kids know better than to use it. But look, this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language."
"We have fought, three decades, to get this out of our school. Kids know better than to use it. But look, this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language."
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Tim Walz on Meet the Press about Trump calling him "Retarded":
"We have fought, three decades, to get this out of our school. Kids know better than to use it. But look, this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language."
"We have fought, three decades, to get this out of our school. Kids know better than to use it. But look, this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language."
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I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.
Many thoughts about my cyborg bitch boss goddess accomplice Alice Wong & all the things she meant but there is a tendency for white disabled people to overshadow conversations about disabled BIPOC including in death. I choose to let Alice speak for herself & uplift those she wanted to represent her.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.
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This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…
www.thecrimson.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
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I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
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frog and chewbacca dance to brass solidarity band, the band formed by community members around george floyd square, at no kings minneapolis
October 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
frog and chewbacca dance to brass solidarity band, the band formed by community members around george floyd square, at no kings minneapolis
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ICYMI — @gallego.senate.gov : "The only reason Adelita Grijalva is not being sworn in right now is because he wants to protect whatever is in those files. Arizona does not have a congresswoman right now, during flooding, because Speaker Johnson is covering for pedophiles."
October 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
ICYMI — @gallego.senate.gov : "The only reason Adelita Grijalva is not being sworn in right now is because he wants to protect whatever is in those files. Arizona does not have a congresswoman right now, during flooding, because Speaker Johnson is covering for pedophiles."
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When you read this, you should be angry with the people who lied to you, and told you that it was necessary to reopen the schools without ANY protections/that children were not at risk/that schools didn't transmit COVID/that long COVID didn't exist.
You should be very angry.
You should be very angry.
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
When you read this, you should be angry with the people who lied to you, and told you that it was necessary to reopen the schools without ANY protections/that children were not at risk/that schools didn't transmit COVID/that long COVID didn't exist.
You should be very angry.
You should be very angry.
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.
Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.
Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.
Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.
Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.
Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.
Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.
Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.
Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”
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Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
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UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.
Trump announces 'TrumpRx' website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal
Trump said the move will help improve healthcare access for low-income Americans.
abcnews.go.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.
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This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
Breaking: Donald Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals from October 1
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
www.abc.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.
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calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.
September 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
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Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: melodyschreiber@pm.me
September 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: melodyschreiber@pm.me
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"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.
Anyway watch the stocks of whoever has the patent of leucovorin go up after the announcement. That’s all this is. Promoting Leucovorin so adults force their kids to ingest it to “cure their autism”.
But what is Leucovorin and why are they claiming it cures autism? 👇
But what is Leucovorin and why are they claiming it cures autism? 👇
September 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.
A reminder that every word out of RFK's mouth is eugenics, plain and simple.
Blaming moms for taking Tylenol during pregnancy and portraying autism as something that must be avoided at all costs is how we end up with disabled colonies (or "farms," "camps," whatever you want to call them).
Blaming moms for taking Tylenol during pregnancy and portraying autism as something that must be avoided at all costs is how we end up with disabled colonies (or "farms," "camps," whatever you want to call them).
For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about RFK's desire to send people to 'wellness farms'--and how the US has already tried that.
A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!
A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!
RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.
RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."
www.teenvogue.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A reminder that every word out of RFK's mouth is eugenics, plain and simple.
Blaming moms for taking Tylenol during pregnancy and portraying autism as something that must be avoided at all costs is how we end up with disabled colonies (or "farms," "camps," whatever you want to call them).
Blaming moms for taking Tylenol during pregnancy and portraying autism as something that must be avoided at all costs is how we end up with disabled colonies (or "farms," "camps," whatever you want to call them).