Accessibility services can cost money. And as a society, our reps got together and decided, 'we're going to take some of the money we take in by taxing, and we're going to spend it on making sure kids with disabilities get an education'

Trump is saying, "🖕🫵, give that 💰 to my billionaire buddies"

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

but tbh id heard a number of the explanations for hendrix's tone (strung upside for left handed play, long coiled cable, etc) but since getting into guitar gear a few years ago, the bulk of it is the fuzz face pedal with the guitar volume knob rolled down

allegedly the slightly lower tension just sounds better on a strat

I'm not sure of any staff who are left in OSERS. Maybe there are. Maybe even if there aren't, some will be rehired (like we've seen happen with some, but not all, at CDC).

Congress, the elected representatives of the people, said — BY LAW — that money has to go to disabled kids.

All of our elected representatives, the representatives of We The People, got together and decided that schools should get that money to spend on providing aid, according to a certain system set out by Congress

It's important to explain that Trump is saying "fuck the law + fuck *your* disabled kid"

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

that strikes me as perhaps coincident with the rise of nationalism

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

oh no

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Nice person, painless jaundice."

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Ready to feel old? When Alexander of Macedon gazed upon the Great Pyramid in Giza he was closer in time to its construction than we are to him today! Only 490s kids will remember.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

unplanned EHR down time.

for sale:
house, probably not haunted

"in error"

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"