Micaela Donabella
@mcdonabella.bsky.social
phd candidate @ umiami. teaching/writing disabled futures. she/her. t1d #insulin4all. 💉🤖
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Boys I have some bad news. They’re finally going to be able to try it
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Boys I have some bad news. They’re finally going to be able to try it
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We invite all University of Miami faculty, students, staff, and alumni, to join our letter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
UMiami-AAUP Statement on the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
docs.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We invite all University of Miami faculty, students, staff, and alumni, to join our letter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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"Algorithmic tools force workers to rush their work and ... penalize workers for safe behaviors, like braking suddenly for obstacles or people in the street ... Drivers are then directed to complete remedial lessons on the Mentor apps ... for these infractions"
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Algorithmic tools force workers to rush their work and ... penalize workers for safe behaviors, like braking suddenly for obstacles or people in the street ... Drivers are then directed to complete remedial lessons on the Mentor apps ... for these infractions"
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I appreciate UTMB's efforts to create opportunities for more runners with disabilities and thought the video they showed on the broadcast was great. But now they need to train their English language commentators how to talk about disabilities in a way that isn't offensive.
August 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I appreciate UTMB's efforts to create opportunities for more runners with disabilities and thought the video they showed on the broadcast was great. But now they need to train their English language commentators how to talk about disabilities in a way that isn't offensive.
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"Even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month [...] conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting." buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...
![This “first Disability Pride Day” was organized by a broad coalition of AIDS, queer, and disability activist groups who refused to acquiesce to the inevitable cooling period after broad legislation has been signed and political capital is spent. As Ann Hausbrouk, a blind bisexual organizer said at the time, “It’s about pushing boundaries, now that the Americans with Disabilities Act ha[d] passed,” just three months prior. And even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month is now marked as an annual commemoration of the ADA, and conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:no5iqc2nbi3x4exxjze5cztf/bafkreihrui3fzt3xsroie7iuu2njshs7ludnmjikg2opmrfampmr65iygy@jpeg)
July 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month [...] conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting." buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...
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ICE is getting access to the sensitive data of nearly 80 million Medicaid recipients.
@leahfeiger.bsky.social got the agreement!
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
@leahfeiger.bsky.social got the agreement!
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.
www.wired.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
ICE is getting access to the sensitive data of nearly 80 million Medicaid recipients.
@leahfeiger.bsky.social got the agreement!
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
@leahfeiger.bsky.social got the agreement!
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
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Zohran Mamdani has already heavily ratio-ed Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ad with a donation link and it’s going up by thousands every minute
July 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Zohran Mamdani has already heavily ratio-ed Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ad with a donation link and it’s going up by thousands every minute
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Health things that talk about "reversing" chronic diseases (and not put them into remission/managing them) are such red flags.
Of course, CHD is a different level of vile.
Of course, CHD is a different level of vile.
Type 1 Diabetes is not reversible but acknowledging that would get in the way of the ableism that allows the organization our Health Secretary founded to grift off parents of sick kids
July 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Health things that talk about "reversing" chronic diseases (and not put them into remission/managing them) are such red flags.
Of course, CHD is a different level of vile.
Of course, CHD is a different level of vile.
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I have many snarky things to say about this philanthrocapitalist propaganda sponsored by the family that brought you food deserts.
But let’s keep it simple.
Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.
But let’s keep it simple.
Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.
June 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I have many snarky things to say about this philanthrocapitalist propaganda sponsored by the family that brought you food deserts.
But let’s keep it simple.
Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.
But let’s keep it simple.
Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.
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A heavy week.
ICE is targeting people through their medical records, as Alberta sets new COVID policy that would make RFK Jr. blush.
This one will stick with you.
ICE is targeting people through their medical records, as Alberta sets new COVID policy that would make RFK Jr. blush.
This one will stick with you.
June 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A heavy week.
ICE is targeting people through their medical records, as Alberta sets new COVID policy that would make RFK Jr. blush.
This one will stick with you.
ICE is targeting people through their medical records, as Alberta sets new COVID policy that would make RFK Jr. blush.
This one will stick with you.
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June 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Teaching about and against AI means working with students to analyze the connections between AI and environmental racism. In addition, educators, students, and community members can build coalitions for civic actions against Big Tech and its plans for more extractive, harmful infrastructure.
AI infrastructure may exacerbate past harms that previous fossil fuel industries have imposed upon communities of color, excusing its extractive and harmful impacts in the name of progress and innovation, writes Kapor Foundation tech policy associate Cecilia Marrinan.
Data Center Boom Risks Health of Already Vulnerable Communities | TechPolicy.Press
We must examine data center locations in tandem with cumulative historical and societal contexts, writes the Kapor Foundation's Cecilia Marrinan.
www.techpolicy.press
June 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Teaching about and against AI means working with students to analyze the connections between AI and environmental racism. In addition, educators, students, and community members can build coalitions for civic actions against Big Tech and its plans for more extractive, harmful infrastructure.
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Fears over losing access to medication, the potential impact of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and attacks on resources: For @rewirenewsgroup.com, I spoke to young people about the toll of the Trump administration on mental health and how it is affecting critical resources.
College Students Struggle With Mental Health Care Under Trump
Less access to medication, cuts to Medicaid—young people feel the impact of the administration’s rollback of health policies they rely on.
rewirenewsgroup.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Fears over losing access to medication, the potential impact of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and attacks on resources: For @rewirenewsgroup.com, I spoke to young people about the toll of the Trump administration on mental health and how it is affecting critical resources.
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26 #disability activists were arrested last week protesting at the House committee meeting to cut 10 million off of #Medicaid. One of the lead organizers, ADAPT's Mike Oxford, talks to Bob Kafka of Barrier Free Futures. www.ksfr.org/show/barrier...
May 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
26 #disability activists were arrested last week protesting at the House committee meeting to cut 10 million off of #Medicaid. One of the lead organizers, ADAPT's Mike Oxford, talks to Bob Kafka of Barrier Free Futures. www.ksfr.org/show/barrier...
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Let’s not forget the hurricane season is about to start.
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Let’s not forget the hurricane season is about to start.
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Exactly. Like I wrote back in 2013 about Google Glass, we have to pay attention to what the device does to *other* people.
Facebook's stupid glasses put EVERYONE ELSE under surveillance without their consent.
Facebook's stupid glasses put EVERYONE ELSE under surveillance without their consent.
May 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Exactly. Like I wrote back in 2013 about Google Glass, we have to pay attention to what the device does to *other* people.
Facebook's stupid glasses put EVERYONE ELSE under surveillance without their consent.
Facebook's stupid glasses put EVERYONE ELSE under surveillance without their consent.
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Gonna go out on a limb and say we kinda saw it coming www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/h...
HHS to build Medicare, Medicaid database on autism, other chronic illnesses | CNN
The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of a...
www.cnn.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Gonna go out on a limb and say we kinda saw it coming www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/h...
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Can we start dating the deletions of websites with info on trans, disabled, BIPOC folks?
May 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we start dating the deletions of websites with info on trans, disabled, BIPOC folks?
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AI Slop is the aesthetic of contemporary fascism
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
The White House Posts AI-Generated Image of Trump as a Buff Jedi: ‘Happy May the 4th to You All’
The official White House socials posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a beefed-up Jedi in celebration of "Star Wars" day.
variety.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
AI Slop is the aesthetic of contemporary fascism
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Wild to think that a healthcare system based around the question “How much money can we make off of this?” isn’t working.
May 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Wild to think that a healthcare system based around the question “How much money can we make off of this?” isn’t working.
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can’t wait until my apolitically designed police murderbot hits the streets, in an apolitical way
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
May 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
can’t wait until my apolitically designed police murderbot hits the streets, in an apolitical way
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.
May 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.
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A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
May 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
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Data centers are the new sacrifice zones
May 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Data centers are the new sacrifice zones
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...