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· Dec 1
Is it really not possible to legalize assisted suicide only for terminally ill patients in a way that doesn’t endanger other disabled people from the misapplication for eugenics
I see a lot of people asking this question, and I want to give a full answer for people who might be encountering this from the disability justice perspective for the first time. 🧵
I think most people who have watched someone suffer a slow and painful death can understand the ideal here.
I think most people who have watched someone suffer a slow and painful death can understand the ideal here.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
The US "pro-life" movement has the blood of American mothers on their hands. Dozens of doctors also complicit in yet another crime of neglect against a Black woman patient.
The US "pro-life" movement has the blood of American mothers on their hands. Dozens of doctors also complicit in yet another crime of neglect against a Black woman patient.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
The US "pro-life" movement has the blood of American mothers on their hands. Dozens of doctors also complicit in yet another crime of neglect against a Black woman patient.
The US "pro-life" movement has the blood of American mothers on their hands. Dozens of doctors also complicit in yet another crime of neglect against a Black woman patient.
honored to call Alice Wong my disabled ancestor
Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
honored to call Alice Wong my disabled ancestor
is NY prop 1 going to fail because people in the city were too lazy to Google it or am I missing something
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
is NY prop 1 going to fail because people in the city were too lazy to Google it or am I missing something
The person who did this is an asshole. Using this space for convenience when no wheelchair user is on the train is understandable, but not making any effort to remove it when I boarded (IN MY WHEELCHAIR) is just disregard for my safety and the safety of those nearby.
July 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The person who did this is an asshole. Using this space for convenience when no wheelchair user is on the train is understandable, but not making any effort to remove it when I boarded (IN MY WHEELCHAIR) is just disregard for my safety and the safety of those nearby.
Any first-past-the-post voting system gives undue influence to the media and unreliable pollsters. This jungle primary stuff is just Trumpian backlash to Mamdani's historic victory in the RCV primary, in which a majority of Democratic voters expressed a preference for Zohran over NYT #1 sellout A.C.
July 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Any first-past-the-post voting system gives undue influence to the media and unreliable pollsters. This jungle primary stuff is just Trumpian backlash to Mamdani's historic victory in the RCV primary, in which a majority of Democratic voters expressed a preference for Zohran over NYT #1 sellout A.C.
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I’ve read a lot of research on air conditioning, heat waves, and mortality, and there’s extremely strong consensus among actual experts about “we need to expand global access to air conditioning at the same time as we engage in other sustainable measures, like better architecture and green spaces.”
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I’ve read a lot of research on air conditioning, heat waves, and mortality, and there’s extremely strong consensus among actual experts about “we need to expand global access to air conditioning at the same time as we engage in other sustainable measures, like better architecture and green spaces.”
NYT is such a fucking rag. have you considered that the only reason people are scared that Mamdani is an antisemite is because you keep printing headlines that go "is he an antisemite?"
June 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
NYT is such a fucking rag. have you considered that the only reason people are scared that Mamdani is an antisemite is because you keep printing headlines that go "is he an antisemite?"
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Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning
An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.
foreignpolicy.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
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June 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'm ranking Brad Lander, Zohran Mamdani, Adrienne Adams, Jessica Ramos, and Scott Stringer.
REMIND YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE, and to rank 5 non Cuomo candidates. The 2021 primary was decided by less than 8000 votes, and the runner up was not who I expected!
REMIND YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE, and to rank 5 non Cuomo candidates. The 2021 primary was decided by less than 8000 votes, and the runner up was not who I expected!
May 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm ranking Brad Lander, Zohran Mamdani, Adrienne Adams, Jessica Ramos, and Scott Stringer.
REMIND YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE, and to rank 5 non Cuomo candidates. The 2021 primary was decided by less than 8000 votes, and the runner up was not who I expected!
REMIND YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE, and to rank 5 non Cuomo candidates. The 2021 primary was decided by less than 8000 votes, and the runner up was not who I expected!
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New Yorkers, this is a great new tool to help remind people of all the reasons that Andrew Cuomo should never be elected to anything for the rest of his life. Everything here is real
Click the button on this page to randomly generate one of Cuomo’s many, many scandals! Fun!
Cuomo Scandal Generator
www.cuomoscandals.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New Yorkers, this is a great new tool to help remind people of all the reasons that Andrew Cuomo should never be elected to anything for the rest of his life. Everything here is real
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I don't say I'm "in a wheelchair" because people think that means wheelchair users never get out of their wheelchair. This is a true fact. I've been asked if I sleep and shower in my wheelchair before.
April 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I don't say I'm "in a wheelchair" because people think that means wheelchair users never get out of their wheelchair. This is a true fact. I've been asked if I sleep and shower in my wheelchair before.
5 people have died in the last 3 months at Riker's Island, and Kathy Hochul is holding the budget hostage trying to keep innocent people there LONGER.
April 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
5 people have died in the last 3 months at Riker's Island, and Kathy Hochul is holding the budget hostage trying to keep innocent people there LONGER.
In protest movements, as in life, you need to start seeing whatever privilege you have as a strategic asset that can be used and shared.
March 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In protest movements, as in life, you need to start seeing whatever privilege you have as a strategic asset that can be used and shared.
people saying science shouldn't be political are MISSING THE POINT
March 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
people saying science shouldn't be political are MISSING THE POINT
people can read books and stuff, but you can't "educate yourself" if you don't know what you don't know.
what we have right now online is education by algorithm. for some people this means really great progressive content produced by brilliant people. but we know that's not the majority.
what we have right now online is education by algorithm. for some people this means really great progressive content produced by brilliant people. but we know that's not the majority.
March 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
people can read books and stuff, but you can't "educate yourself" if you don't know what you don't know.
what we have right now online is education by algorithm. for some people this means really great progressive content produced by brilliant people. but we know that's not the majority.
what we have right now online is education by algorithm. for some people this means really great progressive content produced by brilliant people. but we know that's not the majority.
Can't you guys just eat less eggs? I'm sincerely confused by the egg situation. I know prices are high in general, but bird flu is its own specific thing.
March 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Can't you guys just eat less eggs? I'm sincerely confused by the egg situation. I know prices are high in general, but bird flu is its own specific thing.
I find liberal pro-science/pro-expert rhetoric extremely off-putting, both as someone who is engaged in research on a daily basis, and as someone who has experienced the epistemic violence that experts and scientists do still engage in pretty often.
March 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I find liberal pro-science/pro-expert rhetoric extremely off-putting, both as someone who is engaged in research on a daily basis, and as someone who has experienced the epistemic violence that experts and scientists do still engage in pretty often.
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the New York Democratic Party is completely broken. everyone needs to be primaried
March 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
the New York Democratic Party is completely broken. everyone needs to be primaried
I'm pro vaccine but very anti having to look at pictures of needles on news stories and social media posts about vaccines.
March 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I'm pro vaccine but very anti having to look at pictures of needles on news stories and social media posts about vaccines.
Some of you are never going to get tired of arguing about how much you're allowed to hate people who are varying levels of complicit in whatever crimes are happening.
February 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Some of you are never going to get tired of arguing about how much you're allowed to hate people who are varying levels of complicit in whatever crimes are happening.
I want to state clearly what has been obvious to me since I was about 12 years old:
The pro-Israel lobby (which contains people of all religions) combats anti-Israel--and indeed, pro-Palestinian--speech, protests, and solidarity by making spurious claims of antisemitism and persecution.
The pro-Israel lobby (which contains people of all religions) combats anti-Israel--and indeed, pro-Palestinian--speech, protests, and solidarity by making spurious claims of antisemitism and persecution.
February 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I want to state clearly what has been obvious to me since I was about 12 years old:
The pro-Israel lobby (which contains people of all religions) combats anti-Israel--and indeed, pro-Palestinian--speech, protests, and solidarity by making spurious claims of antisemitism and persecution.
The pro-Israel lobby (which contains people of all religions) combats anti-Israel--and indeed, pro-Palestinian--speech, protests, and solidarity by making spurious claims of antisemitism and persecution.
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
It's interesting that when non disabled writers try to think about disability justice, they so often get bogged down in the question of "what constitutes a disability", rather than asking "what constitutes justice."
February 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's interesting that when non disabled writers try to think about disability justice, they so often get bogged down in the question of "what constitutes a disability", rather than asking "what constitutes justice."