The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.

Al Green is a NATIONAL TREASURE!!!!

Dear @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedem.bsky.social

WE WANT AN OPPOSITION PARTY!

Do I understand this right? He had a Representative thrown out for booing a speech where he said, "Free speech is back?"

Did this actually happen?

As I know from writing Proof of Cruelty, Donald Trump gets an obvious thrill in describing the rape and murder of women, so he has exercised that rhetorical muscle repeatedly tonight

Because if this night is about anything at all (and it may not be), it is about Donald Trump taking a victory lap

Hi! I'm never on here anymore. - sorry! But yes! I loved your book. Are you on substack by chance?

This is the wierdest thing I could write but I have mad respect for Michelle Obama and Karen Pence right now.

They are being true to themselves. More of this please.

9yo daughter walked in and said: Mom! Is tik tock being banned????

Me: yes, babe.

9yo: But mom! I have a CAREER on there!

People, she has 20 videos all set to private.

Why You Should Spend the Holidays with Your Trump-Lovin' Uncle Bob. Or Your Lib Cousin Judy. And when you do: Ask the same questions, multiple ways.

I wrote a little thing about why you should spend this holiday with your Trump lovin' Uncle Bob (or your devoutly liberal cousin Judy) and why connection matters. Shout out to @podsaveamerica.bsky.social + @MGPforCongress for the inspo.

kimfoster.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...?

Oh my, thank you so much for saying that, Tami. xo Kim

Thanks Tami!

Our Collective Loneliness. Will we be forever changed by the pandemic? Or is this the latest part of a grief cycle?

Another great post from @kiminthewest.bsky.social.
This resonates in many ways as I reflect on groups & gatherings I used to host & attend, traditions passed & transformed & friends who have traveled through chapters and those who remain, both familiar and evolved.
substack.com/home/post/p-...

I was talking to my husband + telling him I didn't get "Hot Frosty" + couldn't suspend belief about snowman love. And my 9yo heard us + pipes up: I love Hot Frosty!!!

Clearly I do not have my finger on the pulse.

Also: it assumes that I'm online because I have to be; that I've a civic responsibility to expose myself to bad-faith arguments, name-calling and willful ignorance. I don't; I really don't. I'm just here for the ideas and, really, the diminishing quantity ot dopamine

Our Collective Loneliness. Will we be forever changed by the pandemic? Or is this the latest part of a grief cycle?

My pal @kiminthewest.bsky.social Stacks some Sub this week on the topic of post-pandemic sociability fatigue, loneliness, and leaning into your agoraphobia as you age -- fewer freestyle dinner parties, more time with select friends and fam. (Includes research.)
open.substack.com/pub/kimfoste...

There hasn't been a crime against women for them to react to. They are "afraid" that transwomen might hurt women in bathrooms.

I'd prefer my daughters have to pee around a transwoman, than be clothed in a room with Gaetz, Trump or Hegseth, who actually have hurt women.

How is this a position?

Scott! Thanks for the plug. I feel this one deeply. :)

Listening to true crime while prepping dinner. I've decided that if one of my friends doesn't return my texts, I'm probably not the one who will call the police. I'd be more like, "They are just busy. Stop stalking her, she'll call when she gets a chance." While my friend bleeds out on the floor.

Thank you! I live in a legal state and defintely take edibles at night to sleep (menopuase) but I need to know more about mirco-dosing, if it gets to that. Thanks for the reminder!

Yes. We know this is all probably true.

But we pretty much accept that men do this + bc men in power often do this, even w/kids, we have to assume that this w/not be a deal breaker bc we simply do not care that men do this kind of awful shit to women/children all the time.

There. I said it.

So I might be having a rheumatoid arthititis flare up. And in pursuit of some pain relief, I had my husband get me a topical tylenol cream.

I just used it and I now officially smell like old people.

I believe this is a thing.

I'm so bummed!!!! I wanted to be there so badly.

Was so bummed to miss this. I love his work around savirorism. How did it go?

Ah! Menopause!

I get it. LOL.

I took this photo a number of years ago and I have absolutely NO IDEA WHY.

its very cool.

One of the thigs i love most is the intricate complexity between humans when they are trying to get it right.

This Thanksgiving Modern Love form last year, hits perfeclty. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/s...

Tweet that says if your concern with trans women is that men might claim to self-ID as trans to gain access to women’s spaces and assault them, then your problem is actually with predatory men and not trans women.

All of this.

For New #Bluesky users, I just found the thing that will keep me here....

Deck.Blue. If you are missing tweedeck, this is going to make your day.

There is a real push to have #PlannedParenthood defunded in the next admin.

My adult daughter was able to get an expensive birth control injection for $20 because of taxpayer subsidy. She is not in a position to be a parent, and that shot is going to prevent an abortion.

PP must be saved.