@radtimes.bsky.social
Respiratory health, autism advocacy, health equity, health education, harm reduction, music, sci-fi, and fantasy.
It has taken three years since I started this columbine from seed for it to bloom.
May 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It has taken three years since I started this columbine from seed for it to bloom.
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On toileting: "I haven't seen anything that acknowledges that even when one can’t use a toilet, it doesn’t mean there aren’t critical skills one can work on. It's like... you're either using a toilet, or we neglect you completely." -Shubha Balabaer
northstarandcompass.substack.com/p/on-moving-...
northstarandcompass.substack.com/p/on-moving-...
On moving past the “toileting / non-toileting” binary into skills for all autistic kids
Also keyboards speak; Hope canvas; medical models and heteronormativity; more growing; beautiful letter; freedom
northstarandcompass.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
On toileting: "I haven't seen anything that acknowledges that even when one can’t use a toilet, it doesn’t mean there aren’t critical skills one can work on. It's like... you're either using a toilet, or we neglect you completely." -Shubha Balabaer
northstarandcompass.substack.com/p/on-moving-...
northstarandcompass.substack.com/p/on-moving-...
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years of bad actors targeting trans people (Raichik, Singal, every year a new record number of anti-trans bills, now the EOs) with minimal institutional pushback has made these kids think that they have no future, and that no one will stand up for them. there will be more of these. awful.
In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
![The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender
youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and
gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the
Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was
immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that “her joy was clear with every new
milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting
in a way that was true to herself.” But the day before the presidential election, she shared,
“[t]omorrow I get to find out if I’m illegal.” After the election, she asked her parents if they
could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and
worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After
the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and
shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughter’s access
to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have
expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened
to their daughter does not happen to any other children.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreich7jyv3lnkmd5r234itpdhtvavgblc46ai6d47tb4i7oxgfga2ym@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
years of bad actors targeting trans people (Raichik, Singal, every year a new record number of anti-trans bills, now the EOs) with minimal institutional pushback has made these kids think that they have no future, and that no one will stand up for them. there will be more of these. awful.
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Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
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Elon musk could never in a million years be cool enough to play bass in a band but if he were in a band he'd definitely be a bass player that rushes
February 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Elon musk could never in a million years be cool enough to play bass in a band but if he were in a band he'd definitely be a bass player that rushes
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Via @timhenderson.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Black Americans were represented by three groups; those in the rural and low-income South had the worst life expectancies (68 years) compared with those living in highly segregated cities (71.5) and other areas (72.3).
Race and place can contribute to shorter lives, research suggests • Alabama Reflector
Black Americans living in rural and low-income parts of the South had the second-lowest life expectancy of 10 groups studied.
alabamareflector.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Via @timhenderson.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Black Americans were represented by three groups; those in the rural and low-income South had the worst life expectancies (68 years) compared with those living in highly segregated cities (71.5) and other areas (72.3).
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Disability rights (Section 504, ADA, IDEA: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/01/27/s...), Affordable Care Act, and gay marriage are all at risk in the U.S. Of course, so much of government and funding, separation of powers, the democratic republic itself are under threat. Hold the line against tyranny.
Supreme Court To Weigh How ADA, 504 Claims Against Schools Should Be Handled
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up a case centering on what standard students must meet in order to bring claims of disability discrimination at school.
www.disabilityscoop.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Disability rights (Section 504, ADA, IDEA: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/01/27/s...), Affordable Care Act, and gay marriage are all at risk in the U.S. Of course, so much of government and funding, separation of powers, the democratic republic itself are under threat. Hold the line against tyranny.
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The first person to be diagnosed as autistic passed away last year at 89 years old. Please remember this if you find yourself being hypercritical of “all these people being diagnosed as autistic now”. The first documented clinical autism diagnosis was made less than 100 years ago.
January 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The first person to be diagnosed as autistic passed away last year at 89 years old. Please remember this if you find yourself being hypercritical of “all these people being diagnosed as autistic now”. The first documented clinical autism diagnosis was made less than 100 years ago.
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Stopping public health hurts us all. Wish more people know this.
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Stopping public health hurts us all. Wish more people know this.
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
JFC
"And they were informed that any public presentations at conferences or meetings must now be cleared by a presidential appointee."
www.thehandbasket.co/p/nih-travel...
"And they were informed that any public presentations at conferences or meetings must now be cleared by a presidential appointee."
www.thehandbasket.co/p/nih-travel...
SCOOP: National Institutes of Health ordered by Trump admin to enact 'immediate and indefinite' travel suspension
"If staff aren’t able to travel, clinical trials will likely have to be put on hold," a source tells The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
JFC
"And they were informed that any public presentations at conferences or meetings must now be cleared by a presidential appointee."
www.thehandbasket.co/p/nih-travel...
"And they were informed that any public presentations at conferences or meetings must now be cleared by a presidential appointee."
www.thehandbasket.co/p/nih-travel...
Downloading a few years of BRFSS data sets, just in case.
January 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Downloading a few years of BRFSS data sets, just in case.
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#DidYouKnow
More than 1 out of every 10 adults (10.6%) living in #Alabama are living with #Asthma.
www.appli.org/alabama
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More than 1 out of every 10 adults (10.6%) living in #Alabama are living with #Asthma.
www.appli.org/alabama
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January 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#DidYouKnow
More than 1 out of every 10 adults (10.6%) living in #Alabama are living with #Asthma.
www.appli.org/alabama
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More than 1 out of every 10 adults (10.6%) living in #Alabama are living with #Asthma.
www.appli.org/alabama
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Via @caseyquinlan.bsky.social: Trump says his plans would bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. But economic experts say Trump’s proposals will hurt American families’ wallets with more expensive cars, appliances, and technology.
Donald Trump promised to bring down prices, but experts say his tariff plans will do the opposite • Alabama Reflector
Economic experts say Trump’s proposals will hurt American families’ wallets with more expensive cars, appliances, and technology.
alabamareflector.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Via @caseyquinlan.bsky.social: Trump says his plans would bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. But economic experts say Trump’s proposals will hurt American families’ wallets with more expensive cars, appliances, and technology.
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In 2019, RFK called the CDC’s vaccine division a fascist enterprise and said that vaccinating children was similar to sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2024 at 1:15 AM
In 2019, RFK called the CDC’s vaccine division a fascist enterprise and said that vaccinating children was similar to sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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The Great Barrington Declaration and corporate CEO argument against public health protections in a nutshell
November 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
The Great Barrington Declaration and corporate CEO argument against public health protections in a nutshell
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People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.
November 27, 2024 at 9:11 PM
People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.