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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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

WTF: "An Education Department staffer told USA TODAY the agency laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities. He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland 🔥

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 3d

I would absolutely pay for one (or a few) of these!

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 3d

My iPhone made a lil wizard frog sticker, but this is amazing. Are they available somewhere?

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 3d

This is a wild interview, but it’s almost a relief to get confirmation of this about-face, bc. Benioff was always the one that certain San Franciscans would hold up as evidence that there are “good” billionaires and that maybe technocracy wouldn't be so bad (there aren’t and it is).

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 3d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 3d

Bless.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 4d

“Not an incredible amount of thought went into it at the time, though I did have ideas for the purpose of bringing a costume to an authoritarian consolidation.” Amazing.

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently the opening credits use Woody Allen's "typeface of choice," which....🤢

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 5d

The reviews have been pretty meh, and from the previews I've seen, it's *not* subtle (e.g. the Edebri character's parents are billionaire donors, the Garfield and Roberts characters are going up for tenure, etc). Mostly, it seems like Tàr: academia and a wasted cast.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 7d

"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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 11d

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

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 19d

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 · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 20d

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 · 20d

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 · 20d

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

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20d

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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