Kate Caldwell
@kcaldwell.bsky.social
Director of Research & Policy, Center for Racial & Disability Justice. https://linktr.ee/k8caldwell
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🎁✨ Makers + creators it’s time!
The 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide is open
If you’re a disabled entrepreneur (or know one), send your info by Nov 21 to be featured this holiday season!
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#DHGG #Disability #ShopDisabled
The 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide is open
If you’re a disabled entrepreneur (or know one), send your info by Nov 21 to be featured this holiday season!
Submit here: forms.gle/L6jFZifLhUeH...
Boosts + reshares appreciated 💙♿❄️
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NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
Reposted by Kate Caldwell
An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico: “When you reclaim your culture, history, art, traditions, land…then things are different. You can talk about who you want to be.” nonprofitquarterly.org/an-indigenou... @steve-npq.bsky.social
An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
In Mexico, a growing Indigenous business network set forth a transformative vision of an economy rooted in community ownership and offers practical steps to get there.
nonprofitquarterly.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico: “When you reclaim your culture, history, art, traditions, land…then things are different. You can talk about who you want to be.” nonprofitquarterly.org/an-indigenou... @steve-npq.bsky.social
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When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight.
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight.
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
Knowledge should be critiqued. Science is different. If the scientific method was followed correctly then a study should be able to be replicated multiple times and come to the same conclusion. If it cannot, then its results should not be accepted. This could not be more different.
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Knowledge should be critiqued. Science is different. If the scientific method was followed correctly then a study should be able to be replicated multiple times and come to the same conclusion. If it cannot, then its results should not be accepted. This could not be more different.
Reposted by Kate Caldwell
WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Reposted by Kate Caldwell
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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If you’ve never read it, you absolutely should. Not a thing happening since 2020 has been a shock to me (Grief inducing? yes. Angering? yes. Shocking? No.), in part because of this book.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you’ve never read it, you absolutely should. Not a thing happening since 2020 has been a shock to me (Grief inducing? yes. Angering? yes. Shocking? No.), in part because of this book.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
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even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
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I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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"Government funding through Jan. 2026" — destroying the healthcare system for 2 months of gov funding
"backpay for federal employees" — existing law signed by Trump in '19 already guarantees this
"Furlough prevention" — I don't know what the fuck this means
"backpay for federal employees" — existing law signed by Trump in '19 already guarantees this
"Furlough prevention" — I don't know what the fuck this means
Outline of the deal:
-Government funding through Jan. 2026
-backpay for federal employees
-Furlough prevention
-A vote on the ACA credits in December
-Undoes reductions in force from the shutdown put in place by Russ Vought
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
-Government funding through Jan. 2026
-backpay for federal employees
-Furlough prevention
-A vote on the ACA credits in December
-Undoes reductions in force from the shutdown put in place by Russ Vought
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Government funding through Jan. 2026" — destroying the healthcare system for 2 months of gov funding
"backpay for federal employees" — existing law signed by Trump in '19 already guarantees this
"Furlough prevention" — I don't know what the fuck this means
"backpay for federal employees" — existing law signed by Trump in '19 already guarantees this
"Furlough prevention" — I don't know what the fuck this means
Reposted by Kate Caldwell
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”
After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city:
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”
Reposted by Kate Caldwell
Well played.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Well played.
Reposted by Kate Caldwell
The police killing of Sonya Massey shows how disability, race, and gender converge in deadly encounters—and why we must reimagine crisis response around care, not control.
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The police killing of Sonya Massey shows how disability, race, and gender converge in deadly encounters—and why we must reimagine crisis response around care, not control.
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
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Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
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Check out our accompanying playlist, Resistance Rhythms. It celebrates the music that carried defiance, joy, and survival across generations—where every beat reminds us that movement itself can be resistance.
🎧 Listen here: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... [2/2]
🎧 Listen here: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... [2/2]
Resistance Rhythms - YouTube
Those classic swing vibes are more than music, they're the rhythms of resistance in motion! Connect with past musical eras through CRDJ's reflection of music...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Check out our accompanying playlist, Resistance Rhythms. It celebrates the music that carried defiance, joy, and survival across generations—where every beat reminds us that movement itself can be resistance.
🎧 Listen here: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... [2/2]
🎧 Listen here: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... [2/2]
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Swing was more than music—it was resistance in motion.
Born in Black communities under Jim Crow, swing became a sound of joy, improvisation, and collective defiance.
📝 Read our new blog, “A Rhythm of Resistance,” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/a-rhythm-of-... [1/2]
Born in Black communities under Jim Crow, swing became a sound of joy, improvisation, and collective defiance.
📝 Read our new blog, “A Rhythm of Resistance,” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/a-rhythm-of-... [1/2]
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Swing was more than music—it was resistance in motion.
Born in Black communities under Jim Crow, swing became a sound of joy, improvisation, and collective defiance.
📝 Read our new blog, “A Rhythm of Resistance,” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/a-rhythm-of-... [1/2]
Born in Black communities under Jim Crow, swing became a sound of joy, improvisation, and collective defiance.
📝 Read our new blog, “A Rhythm of Resistance,” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/a-rhythm-of-... [1/2]
DHS just proposed a new rule letting USCIS collect biometrics from anyone tied to an immigration filing — even U.S. citizens, kids, and sponsors. Includes DNA, iris scans, voiceprints. You can comment by 1/2/2026: www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-19747
🧵 Why this matters ↓
🧵 Why this matters ↓
Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations governing biometrics use and collection. DHS proposes to require submission of biometrics by any individual, regardless...
www.federalregister.gov
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
DHS just proposed a new rule letting USCIS collect biometrics from anyone tied to an immigration filing — even U.S. citizens, kids, and sponsors. Includes DNA, iris scans, voiceprints. You can comment by 1/2/2026: www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-19747
🧵 Why this matters ↓
🧵 Why this matters ↓
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“This is way scarier than any clown or zombie,” reported one guest with a rare chronic illness.
thesqueakywheel.org/hallowee...
thesqueakywheel.org/hallowee...
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
“This is way scarier than any clown or zombie,” reported one guest with a rare chronic illness.
thesqueakywheel.org/hallowee...
thesqueakywheel.org/hallowee...
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The Trump
Administration is creating a backdoor national registry using Social Security data that’s not always sufficient to identify citizens correctly.
Congress never authorized this.
It could disenfranchise legitimate voters.
www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...
Administration is creating a backdoor national registry using Social Security data that’s not always sufficient to identify citizens correctly.
Congress never authorized this.
It could disenfranchise legitimate voters.
www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...
DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The Trump
Administration is creating a backdoor national registry using Social Security data that’s not always sufficient to identify citizens correctly.
Congress never authorized this.
It could disenfranchise legitimate voters.
www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...
Administration is creating a backdoor national registry using Social Security data that’s not always sufficient to identify citizens correctly.
Congress never authorized this.
It could disenfranchise legitimate voters.
www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...
So excited about this!
📢 New Article & Toolkit!
CRDJ’s Dr. Kate Caldwell & Prof. Jamelia Morgan published “DisCrit Legal Studies: A Method for Legal Analysis” in Wayne State Law Review. It introduces DCLS—a framework uniting Disability Justice & Critical Race Theory to reveal how law reinforces ableism & racism. [1/3]
CRDJ’s Dr. Kate Caldwell & Prof. Jamelia Morgan published “DisCrit Legal Studies: A Method for Legal Analysis” in Wayne State Law Review. It introduces DCLS—a framework uniting Disability Justice & Critical Race Theory to reveal how law reinforces ableism & racism. [1/3]
October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So excited about this!
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...