Here's an Indigenous People's Day mutual aid opportunity for those seeking some! 🪶 💕💸

As a disabled teacher (and parent of a disabled adult) who always has disabled students in her classroom, this is terrifying. A vital 🧵...

That sounds like a lovely day! Congrats on the anniversary and the new couch (it definitely is a huge ordeal/deal)...

This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Our view looking down from our seats at the San Jose Barracuda opening game, LOL. Welcome back AHL hockey! 🏒

Listen to this carefully. It’s blatant racism, but with added targets- He’s describing an awful lot of folks who may react differently than law enforcement expects - assault and hate crime survivors, neurodivergent people, many disabled and chronically ill people.

Shabbat shalom from me and from this handsome gentleman who was released by our 6th graders today. (He is chilling here on the ofrenda created by our Newcomers class…)
May you, too, have a place and time to rest.

Here is something to think about. The US National weather service is tracking a major nor'easter that will bring heavy rains winds and coastal flooding with beach erosion to the east coast. The US Government is currently shut down, meaning they are NOT being paid to track a major storm.

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Everyone in my household has one of those 🥰

It feels like they are playing some bigoted game of Mad Libs at this point to “find reasons” for autistic folks’ existence…🤦🏼‍♀️😬

It’s starting to feel like these people are playing a ignorant, bigoted game of Mad Libs, or throwing darts to choose “reasons” for the existence of autistic folks for, well, all of human history. 🤦🏼‍♀️😬

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

A0: Overwhelmed and exhausted, no spoons for analysis today. I'll read everyone's words and re-read later. ❤️
#ParshaChat

After decades of being medically unsafe to fast and being told by my parents that I was exempt, it was great to find A Mitzvah to Eat last year and know I wasn't alone. #ParshaChat

If you’ve never seen the comic, here it is:

Every year, I wait for the first example of this. SIGH.

#YomKippur
For any chronically ill Jews on my feed who may need this...

www.amitzvahtoeat.org/yom-kippur-1

Start of the meeting in my classroom yesterday, the monarch caterpillar was preparing to go into chrysalis form. I kept glancing over and caught it mid-change! Never seen that part before! I am as fascinated as my students.

Internalized ableism is…interesting*. “I feel like everyone is a little ADHD” says an adult standing in my classroom, following that with a panicked, “I mean, I have ADHD, so…” when my eyebrow got raised. 🤨
*exhausting

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”