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Annie Heffernan

@annieheff.bsky.social

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AP in political theory at University of Michigan working at the intersection of disability studies, feminist theory, and democratic theory. she/hers. www.annheffernan.net

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · Aug 7

My article, “‘They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business’: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen” is now up on APSR FirstView!

“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen

www.cambridge.org

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 1d

Is this delta? Somehow they decided to go the Bridgerton route with the instrumental/string quartet pop songs. I am not a fan.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 2d

If you're in London or plan on visiting in the next few months, go see the Design & Disability exhibit at the V&A--it's absolutely phenomenal. The thought that went into it--from the tactile map and texture markers to its expansive understanding of what counts as design--is everywhere apparent.

A bright blue wooden chair against a light pink wall. White text on the bench reads "I need more time. rest here if you agree."

wide shot of a museum exhibit room. The room is a bright aqua blue with various t-shirts, posters, and banners on the wall. A large quilt/banner at the wall reads "Disabled People Fight Back Nothing About Us Without us. A light wood seating area is in the center of the room.

A mannequin posed wearing a black tshirt and baseball cap, khakis, and running shoes. They are wearing a sash with an iphone pinned to it and holding a megaphone. The piece illustrates proxy protesting--"an alternative method of engaging in traditional, site specific protests...[that] pairs one person who is onsite at a protest, with one person who is offsite...broadcasting them into that physical space" (text from proxyprotest.com)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Crucial overlooked dynamic: The MAGA agenda fractures the Trump coalition. The "price of eggs" voters hate tariffs, militarization of cities, masked kidnappings, corrupt weaponizing of budget cuts, censoring of comedians.

Me and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 5d

He's not the first person to make this mistake. Poor Hakeem (Jefferson)

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 13d

Next month a new collection of Pat Parker’s crucial work—edited by yours truly—will be published. Essential Poems by Pat Parker features some of her most beloved writing. Available wherever you buy books. Still feeling so chuffed after receiving my copies!!!

Photograph of copies of Essential Poems by Pat Parker on a box. The cover is purple with a photograph of Pat Parker, wearing a deep v neck shirt, glasses, and rocking a small fro.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 12d

New from me at @rooseveltforward.org Building economic security will require major upgrades to our forgotten and threadbare programs for people with disabilities. I describe the decade of neglect that have left millions on SSI languishing in poverty...1/3

www.firesidestacks.com/p/ssi-reform...

The Cost of a Single Trump Tax Break Would Bring 3.2 Million Individuals Out of Poverty. SSI Reform Could Change Lives.

During the debate on the 2025 GOP reconciliation bill, Republican lawmakers argued that cutting aid for able-bodied adults would free resources for “those that truly need it.” Yet, that money has neve...

www.firesidestacks.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13d

Today I was on the Berkeley campus for two and a half hours and in that time I saw not one, not two, but *three* boomer white men in glasses stumble and drop their bags so that books and papers flew everywhere.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14d

absolutely. That anyone thinks otherwise is amusing. Although I get the sense from this interview that Sunstein is incapable of critical thought. Setting aside the Kissinger bit, his unwillingness to address the current moment because it's "unpleasant" and would make him "grumpy" is wild.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14d

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14d

[I think about your post about sandal at the vet almost daily]

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14d

wait till you get to the parts about Hayek, Rothbard, and Regan

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14d

I am CACKLING. This has made my day.

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14d

I relish the precise moment in each of these interviews when the interviewee switches from talking down to Chotiner to realizing they're screwed.

The hubris to imagine their interview could go any other way is...impressive

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14d

On why his book makes no mention of Trump or any other threat to liberalism:

"To say that there are these people and they have names and they are doing and saying awful things would be, for me, unpleasant."

[the sounds you hear are the muffled screams of political scientists and historians]

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14d

[grabs popcorn]

Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 15d

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 15d

It is by far the least important part of this article—which is refreshingly blunt about the “evidence” on which the tylenol-autism link is based—but I’m gonna need the menswear guy to address this suit jacket:

Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism

www.nytimes.com

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 15d

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in.

Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.

It's like his work never happened.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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ACOG @acog.org · 15d

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 15d

no, but truly: what IS this press conference?!

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 15d

Also: Tylenol is one of the only pain medications pregnant people can take. Forcing them to "tough it [pain] out" and then blaming them "failing" to do so is cruel. This entire press conference is a sham (not that i expected anything less, but we've reached new depths of depravity).

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