Esther
@mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social
Juneberry enthusiast. Oregon grape apologist. Garlic mustard hater.
Maker of plain language resources. Studies/disrupts white nationalism in disability communities.
Founder of Disability Communities Defending Democracy @dcdd-endingwn
Maker of plain language resources. Studies/disrupts white nationalism in disability communities.
Founder of Disability Communities Defending Democracy @dcdd-endingwn
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Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
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what is the afternoon but the night of the morning really
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
what is the afternoon but the night of the morning really
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👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home
Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...
docs.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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you can now get trans people fired from academia by just turning in unambiguously garbage work for them to grade, getting a bad grade, and then having the conservative propaganda apparatus take it from there
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
you can now get trans people fired from academia by just turning in unambiguously garbage work for them to grade, getting a bad grade, and then having the conservative propaganda apparatus take it from there
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"I felt like I was growing more and more numb... I started just racking my brain to what I could do to restore people’s empathy."
Netflix’s new documentary leaves policy behind to explore the grief and mourning that stays with the families of school shooting victims.
Netflix’s new documentary leaves policy behind to explore the grief and mourning that stays with the families of school shooting victims.
A New Documentary Goes Inside the Untouched Bedrooms of School Shooting Victims
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"I felt like I was growing more and more numb... I started just racking my brain to what I could do to restore people’s empathy."
Netflix’s new documentary leaves policy behind to explore the grief and mourning that stays with the families of school shooting victims.
Netflix’s new documentary leaves policy behind to explore the grief and mourning that stays with the families of school shooting victims.
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This podcast is sooooo good and sooooooo informative, bravo @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
On Jeffrey Epstein
Ryan Grim and Noah Kulwin discuss new revelations about Epstein’s role in international affairs, and how to understand a story that reads like an…
jewishcurrents.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This podcast is sooooo good and sooooooo informative, bravo @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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I wrote this @thenation.com to keep from howling from my rooftop. "After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie." tinyurl.com/2456cc46
After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie
West Virginia’s governor, Patrick Morrisey, is inventing reasons for the National Guard to occupy Washington, DC. We cannot let his outrageous fabrications take hold.
tinyurl.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I wrote this @thenation.com to keep from howling from my rooftop. "After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie." tinyurl.com/2456cc46
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This is gorgeous and important.
fun fact: צדק Tzedek, usually translated as "justice," is also the Hebrew word for the planet Jupiter
fun fact: צדק Tzedek, usually translated as "justice," is also the Hebrew word for the planet Jupiter
This is the latest pass. I corrected at least a dozen mistakes last night.
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is gorgeous and important.
fun fact: צדק Tzedek, usually translated as "justice," is also the Hebrew word for the planet Jupiter
fun fact: צדק Tzedek, usually translated as "justice," is also the Hebrew word for the planet Jupiter
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6) Rosa Parks wasn't meek. A lifelong believer in self defense, her politics were expansive. She loved Martin & Malcolm & Stokely, Ella Baker & Queen Mother Moore, fought for reparations, Black history in every curriculum, prisoner defense, welfare rights—"any move to show we are dissatisfied."
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
6) Rosa Parks wasn't meek. A lifelong believer in self defense, her politics were expansive. She loved Martin & Malcolm & Stokely, Ella Baker & Queen Mother Moore, fought for reparations, Black history in every curriculum, prisoner defense, welfare rights—"any move to show we are dissatisfied."
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5) The Parks weren't middle class. They were living in the Cleveland Court projects when she was arrested. Both she and her husband lost their jobs because of her bus stand. Forced to leave Montgomery 8 months after the boycott's end, they moved to Detroit—"the Northern promised land that wasn't."
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
5) The Parks weren't middle class. They were living in the Cleveland Court projects when she was arrested. Both she and her husband lost their jobs because of her bus stand. Forced to leave Montgomery 8 months after the boycott's end, they moved to Detroit—"the Northern promised land that wasn't."
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4) Rosa Parks wasn't quiet at key moments. In fact when the police asked her why she didn't move, she spoke back "Why do you push us around?" In jail, she met a woman wrongfully imprisoned for defending herself against an abusive boyfriend; Parks smuggled out her brother's number to let him know
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
4) Rosa Parks wasn't quiet at key moments. In fact when the police asked her why she didn't move, she spoke back "Why do you push us around?" In jail, she met a woman wrongfully imprisoned for defending herself against an abusive boyfriend; Parks smuggled out her brother's number to let him know
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3) There wasn't anything to suggest this was a history-changing event. You know that mugshot photo. It's NOT from this arrest but from one 2 months later when she was arrested as a 'boycott leader.' It's often misattributed because we like the version where the right act is obvious when it happens.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
3) There wasn't anything to suggest this was a history-changing event. You know that mugshot photo. It's NOT from this arrest but from one 2 months later when she was arrested as a 'boycott leader.' It's often misattributed because we like the version where the right act is obvious when it happens.
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2) There was nothing to suggest that making a stand that day would do anything. She'd made stands before. Other had too. It was lonely. No one joined her on the bus—worried she would be hurt, that it wouldn't do anything. That is Rosa Parks' courage—the ability to persist amid fear and uncertainty.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
2) There was nothing to suggest that making a stand that day would do anything. She'd made stands before. Other had too. It was lonely. No one joined her on the bus—worried she would be hurt, that it wouldn't do anything. That is Rosa Parks' courage—the ability to persist amid fear and uncertainty.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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The thing about the Oklahoma University student's shitty paper that I keep thinking about is how much it reminds me of when Bari Weiss's sister got national media attention for writing an open letter to all the schools she didn't get into.
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The thing about the Oklahoma University student's shitty paper that I keep thinking about is how much it reminds me of when Bari Weiss's sister got national media attention for writing an open letter to all the schools she didn't get into.
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We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
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Fox News was initially added to the White House's "media offenders" Hall of Shame list -- but was removed after they reached out and asked for a correction.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
White House drops Fox News from ‘media offenders’ Hall of Shame after network objects
The White House is now naming and shaming reporters and media outlets for writing unfavorable stories that the administration disagrees with.
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Fox News was initially added to the White House's "media offenders" Hall of Shame list -- but was removed after they reached out and asked for a correction.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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This also ISNT ABOUT THE RUBRIC,
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This also ISNT ABOUT THE RUBRIC,
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
Man, I'm currently in a Disability in History class and I've seen some bad writing from my (overworked, with real jobs) classmates but nothing quite as middle school as this. She didn't even CITE THE BIBLE. There's plenty of gender essentialist lit she could've chosen and went with nothing.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Man, I'm currently in a Disability in History class and I've seen some bad writing from my (overworked, with real jobs) classmates but nothing quite as middle school as this. She didn't even CITE THE BIBLE. There's plenty of gender essentialist lit she could've chosen and went with nothing.
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I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
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Autistic and other disabled people have always been and likely will always be part of our societies, and are valuable human beings who deserve unqualified love, acceptance, and access to supports. Truth from an older article, since I don't write so much anymore:
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
My Autistic Son Needs 24/7 Support. And That's OK.
We have a good life, because we stopped buying into mainstream notions about what happy families look like.
www.buzzfeed.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Autistic and other disabled people have always been and likely will always be part of our societies, and are valuable human beings who deserve unqualified love, acceptance, and access to supports. Truth from an older article, since I don't write so much anymore:
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.