Two photographs of a disabled man with Brown skin and short gray and brown hair on the floor out of his wheelchair. He is being arrested by three armed Capitol Police. In the second picture they have him turned over with cuffs behind his back. The man is wearing a yellow ADAPT t-shirt and khaki pants.

Two photographs of a disabled man with Brown skin and short gray and brown hair on the floor out of his wheelchair. He is being arrested by three armed Capitol Police. In the second picture they have him turned over with cuffs behind his back. The man is wearing a yellow ADAPT t-shirt and khaki pants.

Disabled people are being arrested in DC today as they're protesting Medicaid cuts.

Source of this photo, ADAPT www.facebook.com/theRealNatio...

♥️ the creative ways communities are protesting ICE.

Here’s a video of Coachella Valley residents playing Mariachi outside the hotel where agents are staying — to keep them awake 😂

A reader asked: Is fire debris being dumped in my neighborhood? LAist investigated Residents are seeing trucks with Army Corps markings far from any sites where fire debris is allowed to go. Here’s what we figured out.

an important reminder from @laist.com and @jacobmargolis.bsky.social that LA fire cleanup continues to be confusing at best: laist.com/news/climate...

This has wide ranging implications- I successfully argued NYPD’s discriminatory treatment of a trans man arrested at Occupy is subject to heightened scrutiny, making precedent in the policing context.

This opinion also opens the door wide open to police violence & discrimination against trans ppl.

How tear gas impacts our health & environment Understanding the very real effects of "non-lethal" weapons

For my latest newsletter, I tried to round up and vet the (sometimes conflicting) info on how tear gas impacts our health and environment, and how best to protect yourself. substack.com/home/post/p-...
stay safe out there

a belated thank YOU for joining me. it was a very informative, and nourishing conversation for me

Arielle Duhaime-Ross on Disaster-Prepping While Disabled A conversation with the science journalist and former correspondent for Vice News Tonight about preparedness and disability

It felt so good to have this conversation with @filowenstein.bsky.social. I spend a lot of time thinking about disaster preparedness and prepping while being disabled — and I clearly need an outlet for this, so thank you, Fi, for having me on the show open.substack.com/pub/fionalow...

this was a beautiful piece. thank you for writing it. been sharing it widely 💙

I have a new feature on Clear Health Costs about #LongCovid as a remitting-relapsing disease. I spoke to long-haulers who have experienced temporary relief or recovery to try to understand what we know (and don't) about the rate of recovery for this disease: clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2023/11...

The Long COVID Survival Guide won the Gold in Foreword Indies Health Category last week! Congrats to all involved! Sad this book is still so relevant (and one of too few vetted resources), but grateful for the recognition 💛

www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winners/2022/heal...

Ms. Paul describes how a leading scientific journal declined to publish an opinion article advocating impartiality in science. Her implication is that rejecting a paper equates to rejecting its premise. This is not the case. Top scientific journals are not dissimilar to the Opinion pages of The New York Times in that the competition to appear in them is intense. The vast majority of submissions are rejected for any number of reasons: The authors’ claims are obvious, trite or poorly argued; they fail to support their claims with rigorous analysis; they are outside the scope or length constraints of the journal, etc. Public understanding of science is essential for democracy. Misleading readers to score political points with an argument that scientists have exchanged merit and objectivity for progressive ideology is a disservice to science and the public alike. Carl T. Bergstrom Seattle

Remember that nonsense in the NYTimes about how science must no longer be a meritocracy because PNAS rejected a (very poor) paper titled "In defense of merit in science"?

No? That's ok. It wasn't memorable.

In any case, my letter to the editor about it was just published.

tinyurl.com/yckpfpv5

Massive, massive win for transgender people out of my birth state of Louisiana.

Louisiana becomes only the 3rd red state to beat back a total gender affirming care ban for trans teens.

Activists there should be truly proud. This was not an easy task.

Louisiana will be an oasis:

The Strategic Fashioning of Casey DeSantis With an eye to the Kennedys, and the Trumps. Sometimes, a wardrobe is a strategy.

Oh, no, not more from the Fascist Fashion beat. Just stop, Times. Stop.

The Strategic Fashioning of Casey DeSantis

On both COVID and climate, the rich and the powerful want you to think that nothing more can be done. That this is as good as it gets. Lies. We have many solutions. But we need to fight for them!

anyway, I've still got brain fog and you all look vaguely familiar, and hello!

trying to find my friends + colleagues on this app rn is like when I returned to my hometown after having COVID and everyone looked familiar and was smiling at me but I didn't know if that was bc the town was small or if I knew them and just didn't remember them bc ~brain damage~