Kate Caldwell
@kcaldwell.bsky.social
Director of Research & Policy, Center for Racial & Disability Justice. https://linktr.ee/k8caldwell
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MAiD promises safeguards, but the system relies on coercion, paperwork, and little oversight. Providers self-report, algorithms amplify bias, and people choose MAiD because they can’t afford care or housing. That isn’t consent—it’s economic coercion.
Learn more: CRDJustice.org/MAiD [1/8]
Learn more: CRDJustice.org/MAiD [1/8]
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
MAiD promises safeguards, but the system relies on coercion, paperwork, and little oversight. Providers self-report, algorithms amplify bias, and people choose MAiD because they can’t afford care or housing. That isn’t consent—it’s economic coercion.
Learn more: CRDJustice.org/MAiD [1/8]
Learn more: CRDJustice.org/MAiD [1/8]
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Health care shouldn’t depend on your job or being seen as “productive.” Linking care to employment reinforces racist and ableist inequities, shutting out disabled people & communities of color. Health justice means decoupling care from work.
Read the full blog: nlawcrdj.medium.com/health-justi...
Read the full blog: nlawcrdj.medium.com/health-justi...
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Health care shouldn’t depend on your job or being seen as “productive.” Linking care to employment reinforces racist and ableist inequities, shutting out disabled people & communities of color. Health justice means decoupling care from work.
Read the full blog: nlawcrdj.medium.com/health-justi...
Read the full blog: nlawcrdj.medium.com/health-justi...
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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) reframes disability as “suffering,” treating disability as the problem and death as the solution. When society denies access, support, & care, those failures get labeled “personal tragedy,” and death becomes the relief.
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/10]
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/10]
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) reframes disability as “suffering,” treating disability as the problem and death as the solution. When society denies access, support, & care, those failures get labeled “personal tragedy,” and death becomes the relief.
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/10]
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/10]
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EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
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The orange poopskitch's plan to dismantle the dept of education has unfortunately moved forward with a move to shift educational offices to other departments in a move that makes no logical sense from an educational standpoint & is profoundly concerning.
#Pinks
#Pinks
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The orange poopskitch's plan to dismantle the dept of education has unfortunately moved forward with a move to shift educational offices to other departments in a move that makes no logical sense from an educational standpoint & is profoundly concerning.
#Pinks
#Pinks
Hey y'all, DHS just dropped a new proposal this morning to rescind the 2022 public charge rule change. You can read and comment on the proposal at the link here.
www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-20278
www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-20278
Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility
DHS proposes to rescind the 2022 public charge ground of inadmissibility regulations. The 2022 regulations are not the best implementation of the statute, inconsistent with congressional intent, undul...
www.federalregister.gov
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hey y'all, DHS just dropped a new proposal this morning to rescind the 2022 public charge rule change. You can read and comment on the proposal at the link here.
www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-20278
www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-20278
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
It will never stop bothering me that it is "pleaded" and not "pled" 😣
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It will never stop bothering me that it is "pleaded" and not "pled" 😣
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Rest in power, Alice Wong.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Rest in power, Alice Wong.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
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“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
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🚨Liz Carr's evidence against the Assisted Dying Bill
"Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity"
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"Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity"
More from @johnpring.bsky.social 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c...
Health and care funding crisis will create pressure to choose assisted suicide, MPs and peers are told
Many terminally-ill people would feel “duress” and “pressure” to choose an assisted suicide if it is legalised, because of the lack of funding for the NHS, palliative care and social care services,…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🚨Liz Carr's evidence against the Assisted Dying Bill
"Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity"
More from @johnpring.bsky.social 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c...
"Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity"
More from @johnpring.bsky.social 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c...
🎁✨ Makers + creators it’s time!
The 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide is open
If you’re a disabled entrepreneur (or know one), send your info by Nov 21 to be featured this holiday season!
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Boosts + reshares appreciated 💙♿❄️
#DHGG #Disability #ShopDisabled
The 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide is open
If you’re a disabled entrepreneur (or know one), send your info by Nov 21 to be featured this holiday season!
Submit here: forms.gle/L6jFZifLhUeH...
Boosts + reshares appreciated 💙♿❄️
#DHGG #Disability #ShopDisabled
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🎁✨ Makers + creators it’s time!
The 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide is open
If you’re a disabled entrepreneur (or know one), send your info by Nov 21 to be featured this holiday season!
Submit here: forms.gle/L6jFZifLhUeH...
Boosts + reshares appreciated 💙♿❄️
#DHGG #Disability #ShopDisabled
The 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide is open
If you’re a disabled entrepreneur (or know one), send your info by Nov 21 to be featured this holiday season!
Submit here: forms.gle/L6jFZifLhUeH...
Boosts + reshares appreciated 💙♿❄️
#DHGG #Disability #ShopDisabled
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NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
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An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico: “When you reclaim your culture, history, art, traditions, land…then things are different. You can talk about who you want to be.” nonprofitquarterly.org/an-indigenou... @steve-npq.bsky.social
An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
In Mexico, a growing Indigenous business network set forth a transformative vision of an economy rooted in community ownership and offers practical steps to get there.
nonprofitquarterly.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An Indigenous Business Network Rises in Mexico: “When you reclaim your culture, history, art, traditions, land…then things are different. You can talk about who you want to be.” nonprofitquarterly.org/an-indigenou... @steve-npq.bsky.social
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When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight.
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight.
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
Knowledge should be critiqued. Science is different. If the scientific method was followed correctly then a study should be able to be replicated multiple times and come to the same conclusion. If it cannot, then its results should not be accepted. This could not be more different.
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Knowledge should be critiqued. Science is different. If the scientific method was followed correctly then a study should be able to be replicated multiple times and come to the same conclusion. If it cannot, then its results should not be accepted. This could not be more different.
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WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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If you’ve never read it, you absolutely should. Not a thing happening since 2020 has been a shock to me (Grief inducing? yes. Angering? yes. Shocking? No.), in part because of this book.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you’ve never read it, you absolutely should. Not a thing happening since 2020 has been a shock to me (Grief inducing? yes. Angering? yes. Shocking? No.), in part because of this book.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.
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even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
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I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.