Anastasia Schaadhardt
@sleepystasia.bsky.social
phd candidate @ uw ischool | health informatics + psych hospitalization | union member @ uaw 4121 | she/her | 👩🏼🎓👩🏼🏫👩🏼💻
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This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
My kids go to a "rich" public school. My daughter is 7 and cannot read; she is a sweet, caring, intelligent child, but if you spend a moment with her it is clear that she has ADHD an order of magnitude more serious than what you think of when you hear "ADHD." Anybody questioning her IEP can fuck off
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
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An evil thing to write while the regime dismantles the DOE and ADA.
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
An evil thing to write while the regime dismantles the DOE and ADA.
Julian of Norwich after eating a hazelnut: bro
A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Julian of Norwich after eating a hazelnut: bro
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It's insane because like...there are much better comparisons in our own country's history! The long Redemption of the late 1800s/early 1900s, the Red Scares,
The reason I get frustrated with people who overindex on the example of Nazi Germany and treat it like a note-for-note blueprint for where we are now is that they terrify our people into making terrible decisions, or into quiescence, or, worse, suicidal hopelessness.
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It's insane because like...there are much better comparisons in our own country's history! The long Redemption of the late 1800s/early 1900s, the Red Scares,
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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One of the reasons people--myself included--are upset is the lack of transparency from the Times about this entire situation when they've gone on endless crusades against transgender people on flimsy evidence or ideological whim; we can also talk about the Mamdani/Columbia thing or Claudine Gay.
"I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
One of the reasons people--myself included--are upset is the lack of transparency from the Times about this entire situation when they've gone on endless crusades against transgender people on flimsy evidence or ideological whim; we can also talk about the Mamdani/Columbia thing or Claudine Gay.
I feel like Some People want to think that politicians like Zohran Mamdani or Bernie win because they're charismatic snake-oil salesmen, because that's far less threatening than voters electing them because their policies are popular.
New York Times already trying to discredit Katie Wilson. It’s ironic they try to paint her as boring, which would just mean she won even without the same flair as Mamdani.
Also, look where the “experienced politicians” have gotten us.
Also, look where the “experienced politicians” have gotten us.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I feel like Some People want to think that politicians like Zohran Mamdani or Bernie win because they're charismatic snake-oil salesmen, because that's far less threatening than voters electing them because their policies are popular.
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and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"
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"phillip k dick, but stupid" describes everything now
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"phillip k dick, but stupid" describes everything now
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This is interesting, but I really hope doctors inexperienced with ME/CFS don't use this study's findings to recommend yoga over potential medications. (Also study only had 57 people w/ ME/CFS, so ofc limitations there).
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
A hidden breathing problem may be behind chronic fatigue’s crushing exhaustion
Scientists have discovered that most chronic fatigue patients experience dysfunctional breathing, which may worsen their symptoms. The likely culprit is dysautonomia, a disruption in how the body cont...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is interesting, but I really hope doctors inexperienced with ME/CFS don't use this study's findings to recommend yoga over potential medications. (Also study only had 57 people w/ ME/CFS, so ofc limitations there).
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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oh my god they actually did it lmao
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
oh my god they actually did it lmao
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When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda.
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda.
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
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No thing is just a tool; all tools construct us as their subjects.
> It's just a tool
Tools have affordances. A chair affords sitting on it. Buttons afford pushing. To put it crassly, guns afford pulling the trigger with the barrel pointed away from you.
Tools have affordances. A chair affords sitting on it. Buttons afford pushing. To put it crassly, guns afford pulling the trigger with the barrel pointed away from you.
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No thing is just a tool; all tools construct us as their subjects.
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One of the things I really need to write about is the fact that this current wave of fascism, but most especially its transphobic component, is the product of a tiny number of epistemic elites cooking their brains on social media and group chats.
They're literally bored of us, lmao
It's really only the reactionary centrists like MattY Signal still trying to make fetch happen.
Even moderates like Klein basically agree we should be unapologetically steadfast in our policy commitments without needlessly raising the salience of queer politics.
It's really only the reactionary centrists like MattY Signal still trying to make fetch happen.
Even moderates like Klein basically agree we should be unapologetically steadfast in our policy commitments without needlessly raising the salience of queer politics.
I don't know if it's just me, but I've gotten the sense recently that transphobia a political tool is already played out. Not only is it not a winner, but it really feels like the right overplayed their hand with anti-trans hate and people generally seem sick of it, sick of bulling running on hate.
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One of the things I really need to write about is the fact that this current wave of fascism, but most especially its transphobic component, is the product of a tiny number of epistemic elites cooking their brains on social media and group chats.
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I think it is very clear that the Trump regime sees the right-wing influencers on the ground in Portland as an informal arm of their government www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I think it is very clear that the Trump regime sees the right-wing influencers on the ground in Portland as an informal arm of their government www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
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It's definitely worth observing how it is that, for instance, Ross Douthat knows so much about certain far-right subcultures while sounding so credulous about them.
See here. Ask yourself how he even knew who Keeperman *was*.
See here. Ask yourself how he even knew who Keeperman *was*.
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's definitely worth observing how it is that, for instance, Ross Douthat knows so much about certain far-right subcultures while sounding so credulous about them.
See here. Ask yourself how he even knew who Keeperman *was*.
See here. Ask yourself how he even knew who Keeperman *was*.
Rhys is a real one (we're in the same Quaker meeting), and I love that the article ends with him sharing the most Portland story
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Rhys is a real one (we're in the same Quaker meeting), and I love that the article ends with him sharing the most Portland story
"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"
back-to-back on my feed
October 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
back-to-back on my feed
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Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026?
Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.
Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...
Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.
Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...
October 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026?
Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.
Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...
Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.
Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...
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Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states
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LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
UAW international, auto workers, academic workers
University general counsel, university trustee, university president
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
UAW international, auto workers, academic workers