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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 2h

Twelve hours to go until the submissions window closes on our disability issue, folks. Keep those poems rolling in.

Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 7h

Yes! This political aesthetics is what the menswear guy so effectively critiques.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 7h

The reason why people care about Leavitt’s Thanksgiving is because this gov’t is going out of its way to sell the aesthetics of MAGAism. From Hegseth’s “no beard” policy to Duffy’s airport dress code, to their support of trad wife content. The movement depends on it. And when it’s gross, it’s funny.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h

The scourge of vanity.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

Physicians and academics often believe that they/we are immune to being radicalised online, but the reality is the opposite. No one is immune, and I saw this happen to Prasad and so many other physicians and academics when covid started. It’s pure hubris to believe anyone is immune.

rheumecraig.bsky.social @rheumecraig.bsky.social · 9h

Prasad is exhibit A of Twitter brain. Someone needs to do a detailed case report tracking his decline from reasonable skeptic of high price oncology drugs with questionable outcomes to COVID mask skeptic to full on vaccine skeptic. It was all in plain site on Twitter, and a hell of thing to see.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

Physicians and academics often believe that they/we are immune to being radicalised online, but the reality is the opposite. No one is immune, and I saw this happen to Prasad and so many other physicians and academics when covid started. It’s pure hubris to believe anyone is immune.

rheumecraig.bsky.social @rheumecraig.bsky.social · 9h

Prasad is exhibit A of Twitter brain. Someone needs to do a detailed case report tracking his decline from reasonable skeptic of high price oncology drugs with questionable outcomes to COVID mask skeptic to full on vaccine skeptic. It was all in plain site on Twitter, and a hell of thing to see.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 17h

To diaeresis or not to diaeresis, that isn’t really the question.
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18h

“It’s one of the biggest heartbreaks I think I’ve ever experienced in my entire life is seeing how people like my daughters are affected by this administration,” Samantha Phillis, an advocate w/Little Lobbyists,whose 2 daughters are on IEPs, one of whom is autistic & one has spinal muscular atrophy.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The federal government has never lived up to its commitment to shoulder 40 percent of the cost. Now, advocates want the feds to pony up, @juliametraux.bsky.social writes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This disability education law turned 50 today. Disability advocates want more.

"Our civil rights are not up for negotiations," Rep. Lateefah Simon said.

www.motherjones.com

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The federal government has never lived up to its commitment to shoulder 40 percent of the cost. Now, advocates want the feds to pony up, @juliametraux.bsky.social writes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This disability education law turned 50 today. Disability advocates want more.

"Our civil rights are not up for negotiations," Rep. Lateefah Simon said.

www.motherjones.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18h

I’m glad Dems are beginning to state the obvious.

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 19h

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

Screenshot of headline reading: Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors. In a rare split with the Trump administration, GOP-led panels in the House and Senate say they want a full accounting in the September military attack.

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 19h

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 21h

Really curious to see who Zohran appoints as the Mom & Pop Czar. Also, I love how food & eating continue to be at the center of how he does politics.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.

Some changes that they can look forward to:

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 22h

Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.

So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage

www.nytimes.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 23h

Your chair? Looks like Dorothy’s chair to me.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.

Some changes that they can look forward to:

Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Also in 2013, Rob Nixon's book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor opens with a critique of Summers' monstrous 1991 World Bank memo: "the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable ... Countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

England rampant against China at Wembley. Already 4-0 in the 25th min. China defense & goalkeeper are shell shocked. China was once a powerhouse in women’s football (Sun Wen was a legendary striker for them), but there has been little investment in recent years, unlike other national teams.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

very dry

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Just noting that in a book published in 2013, Summers appears as an example of monstrous thinking & doing.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

In “Windigo Footprints” about the monster of indulgent self-interest, Kimmerer ends with a statement from Larry Summers: “The idea that we should put limits on growth b/c of some natural limit is a profound error.” She calls this “Windigo thinking”—willfully ignorant of the wisdom of other species.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Fart-walking towards fascism, as they say...

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

The Washington Post headline reads: "Try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal
Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down.

November 24, 2025"

Accompanying the article if a black ad white photo of someone walking on what appears to be a cold fall day. The camera is capturing their back as they're walking in a park with leaves on the ground. They are wearing a black coat and black leggings. The Washington Post has added radiating yellow lines from their butt to suggest they're farting. The photo credit says the image is from iStock.

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT!!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

When university admin has nothing but contempt for its faculty, students, staff, & wider community.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Paulina Borsook's "work has shed light on critical issues such as the complex interplay between technology and culture, traumatic brain injury, and the environmental impacts of spraying insecticides on farms, wildlife, pets, and human health." www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter

Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist

www.gofundme.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

The Paulina Borsook profile notes that she suffered a traumatic brain injury at 14, but doesn't call her disabled, which the Go Fund Me organized to support her does, noting, "What many don't see are the invisible disabilities that have profoundly impacted Paulina's life and work."

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 3d

It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.

Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Reading it now. Loving it!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

In the chapter "The Three Sisters" from her book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, "There are layers upon layers of reciprocity in this garden: between the bean & the bacterium, the bean & the corn, the corn & the squash, &, ultimately, with people."

Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 2d

Among Native Americans and First Nations peoples, the planting combination of corn, squash, and beans is known as "Three Sisters."

In Central America and Mexico, the practice is known as milpa, and it dates back thousands of years. 🧵⬇️

Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 2d

Among Native Americans and First Nations peoples, the planting combination of corn, squash, and beans is known as "Three Sisters."

In Central America and Mexico, the practice is known as milpa, and it dates back thousands of years. 🧵⬇️

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

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