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The kind of genderfluid that’s basically like if a man and a woman had a baby. The kind of AuDHD that forgets to update my face or my ios
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The thing is, it's not going to just harm those on Medicaid. It'll harm all of us by shutting down clinics across the country, particularly in rural areas. It'll also cost us millions of jobs and harm the economy. The only ones who win are rich people who can afford private hospitals.
The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.
May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"‘Defund,’ if it were properly talked about in the mainstream media, would be referred to as an evidence-based public safety program.”
May 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The U.S. leads the global tally of H5N1 cases. Here's what we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk — including that many of the same precautions, like masking, that work against COVID-19 also work well to prevent the flu. bit.ly/41Xc4IF
April 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My heart is so heavy. What a gentle fire breather we all lost. ✨ Lilac Maldonado
March 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This story of Miyazaki responding to the glib forward march of AI >
The current trending one about how his producer sent a katana to Weinstein. May I never forget the meaning of pain.
One piece of context that’s often missing from the “insult to life itself” quote is that Miyazaki said the simulated zombie movement in the AI demonstration was mocking people who struggle to move like his disabled friend
On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.
March 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.
January 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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What is a viable economic system that’s NOT capitalism?? Let us introduce you to Solidarity Economies! Another worlds is possible, and the work has started - we just need your help.

Learn more:
www.theconsciouscitizens.org/dispatch-13
Solidarity Economies: A Post-Capitalist Vision | CC Dispatch #13
Welcome to lucky Dispatch 13! This week we’ll be discussing a promising alternative vision to our current capitalist system, what we can learn from the Zapatistas of Mexico, and ways you can get invol...
www.theconsciouscitizens.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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“I have done and am doing all of those. And I am exhausted. I don’t really know how to change this because for now, the wound feels like it’s boiling and pissing blood at the bottom of my soul.”
How Neglect Wires Us for Obsession
Holding the "presence of others in absence" and other post-lunar eclipse reflections
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March 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
March 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"You do not have a mandate to cut Medicaid." ~ Rep. Al Green

It doesn't surprise me that a disabled Black person is the one to speak up to power. With a point of his cane, he became an icon for disabled people around the country.
March 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Gather and be gathered in community. Do not tear each other down; build each other up.

Feel every emotion deeply, and bring that with you. Breathe in, breathe out. Now let’s fight.
February 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Get in we’re printing exoskeleton legs for the end times
February 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Thinking about how I have flown with a mask for over a decade, but beginning November 2019 white women on my flights would whisper to the flight attendant to have their seats moved away from me as a masking Asian.
February 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.
February 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Between the Seige and the Sky—Nara’s memoir. A year ago I befriended Nara, a young mom in Khan Yunis disabled from MS and pancreatic cancer. She just got put on the medical evacuation list, but we still have to fundraise for her kids.

Please consider purchasing her memoir.

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Between the Siege and the Sky
Nara is a 34-year-old disabled Palestinian woman living with multiple sclerosis and cancer. Her memoir was written during the worst months of the genocide and captures her love for her family and her ...
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February 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I cannot emphasize enough how we are in an era where everyone is to be treated like disabled people have always been treated.
February 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM