Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

If you work in the Office of Special Education, have been RIF'd and want to talk to a journalist about it, please hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

my husband did not know about the Portland frog! I GOT TO INTRODUCE HIM TO THE PORTLAND FROG VIDEO

It's amazing that it needs to be said, but we should listen to autistic people about autism. (And autistic people, like any other group of people, also have a range of perspectives and experiences -- this is just one!) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal

Other than the obvious eugenics, I think one of the reasons acknowledging that neurodivergence is actually a normal part of humanity is that it has led to people questioning everything from ableism to child rearing practices to education and even how society functions as a whole.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I swear I have seen one wait at a traffic signal in Los Feliz

everyone should have friends like this

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

@npr.org: About 1 in 100 children in the U.S. is born with a congenital heart defect. But for babies or young kids with the most serious ailments, there is no artificial heart specifically designed for them.

I have returned to the @latimes just to authorize a strike

(no, this is an old photo from when we went on our one-day strike last year!)

NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike.

Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

Eric

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

It's no worse than any other disabilities. But for years, it was billed as one of the most tragic outcomes possible for kids. It was seen as a symptom of schizophrenia or this condition that drove children into a catatonic state. The fact mothers were blamed for it made the stigma worse.

I have a thread, but this is the bottom line: bsky.app/profile/prim...

Beth! 💕

This is all to say -- ableism being endemic among "autism parents" is an entirely predictable result of the lousy, unsupportive and fatalistic way in which we inform parents about an autism diagnosis and steer them to resources. I don't think it has to be this way.

I wish we had a system where, when we identified that a kid was autistic, parents were not handed a report about their kid that ticked off all their supposed deficits. I wish we told parents, "Congratulations-- now you can better understand your kid. Welcome to a whole new world of human experience"