Mike Nagel
@mnagel.bsky.social
Autistic disability policy analyst & lobbyist. NoDak to NoVA transplant. Twitter: @mjnags
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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.
"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.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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.
"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.
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Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Number of Trump & Musk-endorsed sexual predators I'm supporting tonight: 0
If the number you support is more than 0, you don't get to say "vote blue no matter who" again for the rest of your life.
If the number you support is more than 0, you don't get to say "vote blue no matter who" again for the rest of your life.
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Number of Trump & Musk-endorsed sexual predators I'm supporting tonight: 0
If the number you support is more than 0, you don't get to say "vote blue no matter who" again for the rest of your life.
If the number you support is more than 0, you don't get to say "vote blue no matter who" again for the rest of your life.
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One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship.
I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.
I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.
This isn’t “cancel culture,” it is markedly way worse
September 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship.
I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.
I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.
I saw the exact same nonsense from RFK yesterday, but I expect that. This is from a prominent voice in the neurodiversity movement, and that makes me sick. AB King is (or at least was at one point) head of A4A Ontario and has a podcast.
August 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I saw the exact same nonsense from RFK yesterday, but I expect that. This is from a prominent voice in the neurodiversity movement, and that makes me sick. AB King is (or at least was at one point) head of A4A Ontario and has a podcast.
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9: People who try to claim that autism should be more than one diagnosis on the grounds that some autistics are more disabled than others are *really* showing their ignorance about other developmental disabilities.
July 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
9: People who try to claim that autism should be more than one diagnosis on the grounds that some autistics are more disabled than others are *really* showing their ignorance about other developmental disabilities.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
July 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
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I am looking to speak to current protection & advocacy agency employees about your concerns if federal funding is cut for a @motherjones.com piece per the HHS draft budget below. You can potentially be anonand my signal is juliametraux.49 insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-a-64-p...
New: A 64-page HHS restructuring proposal outlines sweeping cuts to US public health.
Here it is, in its entirety.
insidemedicine.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I am looking to speak to current protection & advocacy agency employees about your concerns if federal funding is cut for a @motherjones.com piece per the HHS draft budget below. You can potentially be anonand my signal is juliametraux.49 insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-a-64-p...
Imagine living at the closest we’ve ever been to authoritarian fascism and thinking “let’s make id cards for marginalized people” bethesdamagazine.com/2025/02/13/e...
Silver Spring family advocates for driver’s license marker for autism, invisible disabilities
Eric’s ID Law would allow Maryland residents with certain invisible disabilities to “opt-in” to have a special symbol placed on their driver’s license.
bethesdamagazine.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Imagine living at the closest we’ve ever been to authoritarian fascism and thinking “let’s make id cards for marginalized people” bethesdamagazine.com/2025/02/13/e...
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Do Not Buy Into This Type of Legislation! This does NOT keep disabled people safe! In fact, it makes them LESS safe.
An autistic man from Silver Spring was concerned that police officers may not understand how to interact with people with invisible disabilities like his. So he created an ID symbol, and now it's state legislation. My latest: bethesdamagazine.com/2025/02/13/e...
Silver Spring family advocates for driver’s license marker for autism, invisible disabilities
Eric’s ID Law would allow Maryland residents with certain invisible disabilities to “opt-in” to have a special symbol placed on their driver’s license.
bethesdamagazine.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Do Not Buy Into This Type of Legislation! This does NOT keep disabled people safe! In fact, it makes them LESS safe.
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You can tell none of the UT students are armed and dangerous because the cops are there
April 24, 2024 at 11:41 PM
You can tell none of the UT students are armed and dangerous because the cops are there
I asked Dall-E to create "monument to the triumph of the disability rights movement build atop the rubble of the Judge Rotenberg Center."
January 6, 2024 at 1:09 AM
I asked Dall-E to create "monument to the triumph of the disability rights movement build atop the rubble of the Judge Rotenberg Center."
who is more sex positive: a party whose candidate has starred in porn or a party that expels someone for buying porn
December 2, 2023 at 4:31 AM
who is more sex positive: a party whose candidate has starred in porn or a party that expels someone for buying porn
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I'm heading to New Orleans in early November. Any recommendations for which bayou tour is the best?
October 15, 2023 at 3:09 PM
I'm heading to New Orleans in early November. Any recommendations for which bayou tour is the best?
"fire Merrick Garland". Y'all realize that it's a norm for the whole cabinet to resign when a new President comes in, right?
August 24, 2023 at 2:04 AM
"fire Merrick Garland". Y'all realize that it's a norm for the whole cabinet to resign when a new President comes in, right?
Notice how nobody took the bait to talk about welfare? Poor whites are an important part of their base now. They may attack social programs legislatively, but they don't with rhetoric anymore.
August 24, 2023 at 1:19 AM
Notice how nobody took the bait to talk about welfare? Poor whites are an important part of their base now. They may attack social programs legislatively, but they don't with rhetoric anymore.
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twitter users stone age
in 2023 hunter-gatherers
🤝
mastodon attempt failed,
turned to sky worship for sustenance
in 2023 hunter-gatherers
🤝
mastodon attempt failed,
turned to sky worship for sustenance
August 23, 2023 at 4:17 PM
twitter users stone age
in 2023 hunter-gatherers
🤝
mastodon attempt failed,
turned to sky worship for sustenance
in 2023 hunter-gatherers
🤝
mastodon attempt failed,
turned to sky worship for sustenance
Is sitting not allowed at the GOP debate even in the case of disability or is Burgum just afraid he’ll look weak if he’s the only one seated. Either way, it’s a sad commentary on society.
August 23, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Is sitting not allowed at the GOP debate even in the case of disability or is Burgum just afraid he’ll look weak if he’s the only one seated. Either way, it’s a sad commentary on society.