The dogs on planes thing is a great example because it was being so widely abused that now airlines cracked down and now require you to document that it's a trained support dog, placing a burden on disabled people bsky.app/profile/flas...

It feels like a huge erasure of the time disabled ppl and parents of disabled ppl lose to adm that is ALREADY too onerous to have this conversation be about how to keep out the very small amount of students who may not need them. As both a disabled person and the parent of 2, I don’t care!

… burdens of negotiating the obstacles — a process made adversarial in part because, as Michael notes, disabled people and their caregivers are *more scrutinized* because of mistrust about the need for accommodations — is not something every parent or guardian can navigate.

That's the America I know and love. Hell yeah, we all look different and we all love to pet a baby lamb and eat chocolate chip cookies and corn dogs in the sun.

Anyway the best I've ever felt about America was me (Jewish) standing in line with my friend and her daughter (Irish and Latina) to pet a baby lamb at the Minnesota State Fair alongside a hijabi Black woman and her daughter, an East Asian family, an African-American family, and some white people.

What do the editors of this magazine think their job is?

"Too many kids are getting extra time on tests!" should immediately be followed by "how many kids are getting extra time on tests?" If you don't know, either find out or write about something you do know.

My mother complained for years about how disappointed she was that she didn't have grandchildren (my sister doesn't want kids and I didn't get married until I was 36). Now that she has two grandchildren, she barely sees them because she cannot tolerate more than an hour or two around my daughter.

…have stayed the same or gotten worse.

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So it’s not fentanyl anymore?

The Minneapolis police chief has urged Somali and local residents to call 911 if ICE arrests migrants while masked, warning that obstructing them could lead to prison, Fox reports. “We will immediately respond to it,” the chief says.

Officials are preparing an immigration operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants, AP reports.

I thought the flawed indictment didn't stop the clock and they've run out of time?

And before the widespread use of vaccines a child had only a 50-50 chance of living past their 5th birthday.

But that would’ve required doing the work—probably more work than required—because it was a small n quant study that assessed perceptions + mental health