Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Given how many people keep saying that Eric Swalwell's being a creep was an open secret, it makes it even more damning how many elected officials endorsed him.
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.
Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!
🌕 💛
A steamer is not enough either. Sometimes you need a old iron and some heavy starch
Happy Birthday, Chaka Khan 🎂🎉🥳🎈
🗣And now we're flyin' through the stars
![It is inexplicable why the Bastrop County District Attorney’s Office refuses to allow DNA testing of the belt that
was used to kill Stites, despite the very substantial possibility that such testing could exculpate Reed and identify
the real killer. It is also inexplicable why the courts below
did not proceed with more caution and carefully consider
each of Reed’s arguments, especially given that his claim
implicates the “constitutionally intolerable” possibility of
the “execution of a[n] . . . innocent person.” Herrera v. Collins, 506 U. S. 390, 419 (1993) (O’Connor, J., concurring).
The Court should vacate the Fifth Circuit’s judgment and
remand the case for the Fifth Circuit to address Reed’s argument in the first instance. Because the Court refuses to
do so, the State will likely execute Reed without the world
ever knowing whether Reed’s or Fennell’s DNA is on the
murder weapon, even though a simple DNA test could reveal that information. I respectfully dissent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreigzqf7es64cjqwwbmakuxshybiutbqvfgxt3swepisava3n3v4o74)
It is inexplicable why the Bastrop County District Attorney’s Office refuses to allow DNA testing of the belt that was used to kill Stites, despite the very substantial possibility that such testing could exculpate Reed and identify the real killer. It is also inexplicable why the courts below did not proceed with more caution and carefully consider each of Reed’s arguments, especially given that his claim implicates the “constitutionally intolerable” possibility of the “execution of a[n] . . . innocent person.” Herrera v. Collins, 506 U. S. 390, 419 (1993) (O’Connor, J., concurring). The Court should vacate the Fifth Circuit’s judgment and remand the case for the Fifth Circuit to address Reed’s argument in the first instance. Because the Court refuses to do so, the State will likely execute Reed without the world ever knowing whether Reed’s or Fennell’s DNA is on the murder weapon, even though a simple DNA test could reveal that information. I respectfully dissent.
The Supreme Court refuses to review the 5th Circuit's extremely dubious ruling against Rodney Reed's request for a DNA test, which could prove the death row inmate's innocence. (There is a very good chance he is innocent!) All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.
But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.
On a dark teal background, white text reads “Black Futures Month,” with yellow text in all caps reading “Activists Creating Black Disabled History Right Now Pt. 3” below. Below is a circle picture of AJ Link, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (1)
On a dark teal background, white text reads “AJ Link (he/him).” Above is a circle picture of AJ, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. On either side of the picture are yellow framing sections. Below is AJ’s bio in white text that reads “AJ is openly autistic. AJ currently works as the Director of Policy for New Disabled South and New Disabled South Rising.” Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (2).
On a dark teal background is a circle picture of AJ Link, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. To the right is text reading “AJ Link (he/him)” and “Q: ‘What does Black disability liberation look like?’” Below is the first part of AJ’s answer in white text that reads “Honestly, we’re in a collective moment right now where it’s hard for me to dream about what liberation will be for Black disabled people. I think a lot about my elders and ancestors and how I’m privileged enough to live a life that maybe they couldn’t have dreamed of themselves as they fought to make a future that is my present reality.” Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (3).
On a dark teal background is a circle picture of AJ Link, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. To the right is text reading “AJ Link (he/him)” and “Q: ‘What does Black disability liberation look like?’” Below is the second part of AJ’s answer in white text that reads “And I also think about the hope of Reconstruction, followed by the despair of Jim Crow apartheid. And yet, we’re still here fighting for a better future. For me, this moment is not about hope, but rather determination. I’m determined to fight for a future in which my Black disabled kin are free to decide for themselves what their own liberation looks like.” Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (4).
Our third feature for Black Futures Month is AJ Link, Director of Policy for New Disabled South. Re: Black disability liberation, he describes his determination to fight for a better future for Black disabled kin, thinking about parallels between now and the Reconstruction and Jim Crow apartheid.
Important new @worldresources.bsky.social research shows that agricultural expansion isn’t only leading to forest loss - it’s leading to loss of grasslands, savannas, & wetlands too.
From 2005-20, the 🌎 lost 95 Mha of non-forest natural ecosystems to annual crops, and another 95 Mha to pasture. 1/
Many news outlets are reporting that some trans Kansans received letters warning that their licenses were being invalidated overnight.
This morning, Evan Urquhart spoke with a trans woman who found out on Bluesky that it would be illegal to drive her car.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox
They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender
They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...
They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
"In the United States, it is possible to be unhoused even inside a prison. At the South Central Correctional Center in Tennessee, people sleep in doorways, closets, or even in the showers. 'Anywhere that’s pretty much off camera,' said Bishop, a man imprisoned in the facility...."
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
"Established in 2013, California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) has boosted funding for high-need students and increased district autonomy. But schools still face fiscal and academic challenges."
www.ppic.org/blog/whats-n...
“We came here to be safe from being flooded out, but to then try to flood us out through hate, it just makes me really frustrated and upset."
90% of student discrimination and harassment complaints were dismissed last year. Here's why. 19thnews.org/2026/02/stud... via @19thnews.org
One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News:
Angola’s vast highland wetlands feed rivers that deliver freshwater to millions. They just gained global recognition that could help keep it that way.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...
Plans are in the works to develop a pocket neighborhood where people with intellectual and developmental #disabilities can live long-term with family, friends, caretakers or on their own.
She's posted multiple times that this is fake news. You should delete this post and stop sharing misinformation: www.instagram.com/p/DULtfJtAUWc/
Accidentally hit the send button before posting the link to the article, but here it is:
www.disabilityscoop.com/2026/02/02/s...
Another blow to disabled folks, nine states are attacking their rights yet again:
"Nine states are arguing that a 2024 update to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulations related to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act is unconstitutional," particularly the "integration mandate.'"
Apple is so weird because what do you mean I have a new phone for the first time in 6 years, but it looks exactly like my old one (same color and all)?
(The new phone has way more storage, a better camera, etc. so is objectively better, but it's just funny I can't tell apart the old from the new).
Beating out Kendrick, Bad Bunny AND the K-Pop girlies for song of the year?! Nahhhhhhh
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
