Happy International Day of People With Disabilities!
Today I'd like everyone to remind themselves that not all disabilities are visible, and that nobody owes a stranger an explanation for how they are using accommodations or aids.

The world is so very scary right now, it's hard to stay functioning.

But knowing warblers like these will be in my life every day for the next month (as they're migrating through to their northern breeding grounds) fills me with awe, peace, and joy anyway.

Thread #birds photos today:

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

One thing that will really help bring industrial production back to America is instability. Capital loves instability. Give it a wildly different and contradictory set of economic policies every 72 hrs and that’s when industry will be like, you know what let’s build some new production capacity.

Thanks, Fox “News.”

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Cybertruck Man by artist Zez Vaz.

Poignant.

Shouout to all of my friends from other forums who are finding me here on bsky! 🦋😁

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:

Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47

Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429

Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3

Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2

Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0

Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0

This may take some getting used to.

I'm here, and I'm no longer an invalid handle--yay!