We have serious issues, that's for sure.
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We have serious issues, that's for sure.
A literal CHILD was shot while running away from a home after a prank, and I've seen people defending the homeowner because he may have kicked the door. I get that it gets loud and can be frightening. You're an adult! You don't get to open fire at children and claim self-defense.
Doctor warns: 'We can no longer trust the CDC because of RFK Jr.' youtu.be/X6krV6hXqaE
Graham Greene has passed 😞 Rest in peace, 🍁 Legend. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
This first line right here: "Universities are not companies" That is so important. HEIs are places of learning and research, not corporate profit machines. They advance our society into the future.
Just saw that Graham Greene passed. Many remember him from "Dances with Wolves." I remember him from his roles in things like "Murder She Wrote" and "Wind River." He's done so much!! I am grateful that he did such a variety of work. He was a truly skilled and gifted actor.
It was the only honest thing he's ever said. An HHS Secretary who has a good understanding of policy and politics but not medicine SHOULD say that. They should defer to medical experts and coordinate the policy. He's neither, though.
It's really frightening. The disabled community has seen similar attitudes over accessibility and health care concerns as well as vaccines.
It really amazes me that there actually ARE people who can't tell the difference between "neighborhood mom" energy and "Mengele style eugenicist" energy. I hate racism.
18K US Doctors Signed Quickly! Remove RFK Jr because he endangers lives. More are signing every minute!
begging the internet not to post weird RFK Jr memes without alt-text, because that is some absolute RFK Jr energy
ICE detains green card holder—days after she passed citizenship exam. She was awaiting the official ceremony—when agents tricked her into coming in for appointment—only to arrest her. She and her husband have owned their Los Angeles balloon shop together for almost 20 years.
Apparently, generative AI is failing at the majority of companies using it according to a study done by MIT. I find this deliciously sweet news on Labor Day as these companies have rushed a new technology, disregarding ethical concerns, to replace workers.
The Pullman Palace Car Company was a company town in Chicago, so they owned the housing and controlled the rent. They kept the employees in wage slavery. While our homes are no longer owned by our employers, many face the same conditions today that those of the Pullman Palace Car Company faced.
Happy Labor Day!! Below is one of my favorite political cartoons from the early labor movement. It's from the Pullman Car strike of 1984 and features a representation of the Pullman Palace Car Company as a wealthy man pressing a worker between two grinding stones labeled "low wages" and "high rent."
Generations of workers in America bled and died to win dignity on the job. They stood together against those who refused to recognize their humanity. On Labor Day, as fascism rises again, we honor those who came before us and carry forward their spirit of solidarity & defiance. Fight like hell. ✊
It is a part of the problem. But we also don't exactly have candidates people can be excited for because when we do, the DNC actually attacks them. Just look at what they're doing to Mamdani. It's a two-part problem.
If you're interested, this was in the comments on a post about the longitudinal study on the impact of aluminum adjuvants in childhood vaccines done by Dutch researchers. It didn't need a control group because it used different amounts of aluminum adjuvants.
I find it really amusing when people who clearly don't know anything about research methodology start talking like they do. Random Guy: Well, this is clearly a meta study, so it wouldn't have a control group. Dear reader, it was not a meta-analysis.
I am no longer apologizing for taking the time to actually explain a topic or idea. Nobody is required to read it, but there are too many people who don't have some very basic knowledge. I just happen to enjoy learning, so have a lot to share.
I've always had to verbally talk through certain things to get to a final conclusion, where others get there with internal thought processes. I got made fun of a lot because I wouldn't always be able to get through my thought process before someone would finish for me and assume I'm stupid.
Where is music about what is happening now? Found another from that time that has never aged…will post that too.
#CDC directors going back to 1977 tell the truth about #RFKJr: he is endangering the health of every American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
It's actually much more difficult for people to be propagandized when they are financially secure, have stable lives, have access to leisure time and activities, and can enjoy hobbies. Propaganda spreads during times of distress. You're not accounting for that.
No, the internet and social media did not cause a fascist uprising. 🙄 These takes are getting more and more cringe all the time. Fascism and authoritarianism rely on mass media, charismatic leaders, and societal breakdowns. Stop blaming social media for everything.
You're just not interested because there's just as much of an anti-intellectual movement on the left as on the right. People like you hate anyone who is more intelligent than them.
That's an interesting take coming from the clown nose factory given historians started the conversation on fascism and Trump as early as 2014. If you were interested in the conversation, you could have a look through BlueSky at various conventions from intellectuals.
Do these people actually KNOW any intellectuals? Historians specifically brought up fascism regarding Trump beginning as early as 2014. Do you know who shut the intellectuals down? Clowns like this guy.
Agreed.
Eugenics allows people to justify some truly horrible acts.
And there's the difference. Journalism isn't necessarily about reporting facts and news anymore all the time, either. There are plenty of media outlets that are more interested in entertaining than informing.
When someone is explaining how our social and cultural environment can lead to specific behaviors, it's not a justification of those behaviors. Until we understand how people are influenced by our social structures, we can't fix anything.
And when ignorance of certain topics is actually reinforced, this decreases the likelihood of people seeking knowledge outside of what is easily accessible. Add to that the mentality of the need to constantly be producing wealth . . . well, we've got issues.
We're you taught about it in school, or did you choose to understand it in order to be a quality journalist? I'm not defending his lack of knowledge. I'm trying to explain it. The harder knowledge and information is to gain, the less likely people are to have it.
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You're welcome 🙂. One of the very few good things that came out of my MS in ABA is an understanding of societal behavior/human behavior as a whole. There's so much we can do for ourselves and each other if we're willing.
You know, of the three fields I've studied in, the historians were probably the most understanding and easiest for me to get along with . . . You'd think psychology and theatre would be welcoming and understanding, but they're really not. In theatre, you have to be the right kind of "weird."
Went back to theatre after 20 years for tech, which meant more classes and a BFA. But now I'm really burnt out. I also didn't know that I was Autistic. Late diagnosis.
B.A. in theatre, B.S. in history, and catering health with no clue what to do. Figured I couldn't act anymore, so I gave up on theatre, did various trainings while my ex was in school, and was told I had to pick a "practical field." Tried ABA (long story).
I have three bachelor degrees because of getting sick. I had to register in school to keep insurance back in 2004 after my first degree, and I'd lost my placement in my grad program. So, second bachelor degree.
I have four degrees in three different fields. Bachelor degrees are really easy for me, though everything got harder after I no longer had eidetic memory. I lost that as I got sick so I had to learn how to study when I went back to school in my late 30s for my MS.
While it's older, it's still relevant. It's not specific to fascism, but I find his theories very beneficial to understanding how our society has been shaped. It's called "Coercion and its Fallout." 3/3 archive.org/details/coer...
So what really happened is that people became more comfortable with being overtly fascist. The attitudes were always there. We actually nurtured them in many ways. Dr. Murray Sidman wrote a fantastic book about how our society creates societal dropout back in 1989. 2/3
There's been a lot of discussions about that. These behaviors were much more covert prior to Trump's first term in office. He engaged in them publicly, and nobody really stopped him or said much of anything, which normalized these behaviors. 1/3
And if you think you're somehow not anti-vaxx when you spread misinformation about the history of vaccines, the scientific community, and vaccine injury, you're also wrong. You're spreading lies that harm us all.
There is always work to improve vaccines in hopes of reducing their risk of injury or harm, as well as ongoing research for better alternatives. So, if you think that I will support any post or comment that says otherwise, you're wrong.
Harm and injury from vaccines is taken VERY seriously and always has been. The necessity of vaccines to improve our chances of survival meant the good outweighs the harm. That doesn't mean nobody cares.
🧵 I can't believe I have to say this as someone who has "AuDHD" in my name, but I don't support ANY anti-vaxx rhetoric, even from the disabled community who have experienced vaccine injury. Science has ALWAYS recognized the risks to a small minority from vaccines. There's also funds available.
What about the head of the Department of Special Education at a university who, in 2018, asked me why I didn't have guardians signing off approval for participants with SUBTLE cognitive decline. It didn't start with COVID. 3/3
What primed us for Clinton's heavy cuts to welfare programs because the poor were seen as "undeserving?" The abusive institutions that disabled folk were forced into? And sometimes still are? 2/3
Then what primed people for COVID? Or the anti-vaxx movement? The core of the anti-vaxx movement is the idea that a dead child would be better than an Autistic one. How about the forced sterilization laws that have mainly impacted disabled and Black women? 1/3
Don't use my words to push a eugenicist, anti-vaxx agenda, and think I won't correct you.
Vaccine injury isn't ignored and is fully recognized. There's even a fund to assist those who experience vaccine injury. There's a great deal of compassion around that as it has to do with overall community safety and survival. Pretending there's not is harmful.
And, yeah, this is a "go ahead and block me, fuckers" post. Because if you feel the way this person feels, you comprised away MY rights.
There are varying degrees of evil. The Democrats have compromised away women's rights, Trans rights, workers' rights, and disability rights. If you are going to try to tell me that compromising away the rights of ANY person is NOT evil, I really don't want to know you.
We have a rich oligarchy that wants more money, so they don't care if we die. They've completely redefined the 2nd Amendment so they can sell more guns 😡
Thank you. I had some major struggles getting my MS. Between being told what I should focus on because disabled people should want to be "fixed" rather than have tools to help to having a committee member insisting I cite her when she was wrong . . . it was aweful.
Depends on the state you live in and sometimes your gender because some of those laws are REALLY old.
Excuse me? You think someone who has the ability to get published in both Salon and The Rolling Stone writing on a topic they have no actual background in has no real power? When people like you fail to take people like him seriously, that's how they wind up in the CDC!!!
I may only have an MS, but even I know that an article that draws its conclusions based on correlation and not causation shouldn't get published, but they do. I think maybe it's time to take a critical look at how science shares information, maybe? 4/4
In addition, it's well known that students are penalized for raising any questions about research done by mentors or big names in science, further eroding trust. Then, there are the articles that get past the peer review process that shouldn't. 3/4
Think about how many times the average person has been promised something is safe by scientists working for a corporation only to find out later those very same scientists knew all along it wasn't safe at all. This has severely eroded public trust. 2/4
I think that the issue is that 1) the US had monied interests negatively influencing the education system, 2) leisure time and access to reading materials is on the decline, which reduces time spent reading/language skills, and 3) there's lost trust in science for good reason. 1/4
The problem is that it's always been about eugenics, but they've been "softening" the language to convince people it's not. If someone prefers a dead child to an Autistic child, that's eugenics.
Eugenics never went away. They just changed the dialogue.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
I was aware that Annette Charles was Latina. I grew up watching movie musicals, so Grease was a staple. Even if Cha Cha wasn't supposed to be "likable," I fell in love with her for her dancing. I was not aware of much more than that, so I'm very pleased to learn that she was an LGBTQ advocate.
Sadly, the worst part about this story isn’t that the Trump administration cut funding for research to prevent cancer in children No-the depressing thing is, it’s not the first time www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
So much of what we see that causes pain and suffering is a choice. It doesn't have to be this way. But we let it happen. Admitting that means being responsible for the pain we see, though. That's a lot. 3/3
Eugenics is learned superiority and indifference/dehumanization. It's not even hate, really. It's just seeing certain people as lesser. Prejudice is learned hatred. Violence and aggression are often caused by environmental factors that we can eliminate, but choose not to. 2/3
People always want to blame destructive behaviors on mental illness. It's easier for them to deal with if those behaviors are caused by something "other" and beyond human control. Meanwhile, it's almost always because of choices we have made as a society. 1/3
. . . also said her writing was terrible. He published her first book because he said that the political message was "too important not to be published." I was never able to finish the one book of hers I started. I thought it was just me. It's not. She couldn't write. 2/2
I wonder if Ayn Rand was into eugenics . . . She came to the US at the right time to get involved in the movement. Random bit of info: she got rejected from numerous publishers who cited her writing as atrocious. The publisher who finally accepted her . . . 1/2
But he's rich, which STILL puts him up above the rest of us on the eugenics hierarchy of human value.
Yes, they do. It's called "eugenics. "
He's already doing that to those of us with mental health disorders. He's in charge of planning care for those detained under Trump's July 24th EO. Do you REALLY think anyone getting institutionalized under that EO is going to get REAL treatment?
And we need to have a discussion about why so many people were genuinely blindsided by the extent of their malfeasance. We have an issue with the way information is simply blockaded by media outlets.
He got involved in the anti-vaxx movement early on, supporting Wakefield, despite the early controversy surrounding his published article (he never had permission to use the names of the other authors nor did they agree with the conclusions).
Here are 10 of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s medical theories that are based on eugenics. If you look through the dates, they start BEFORE the 2010 tapeworm incident. And, yes, the whole "vaccines cause Autism" anti-vaxx thing is about eugenics. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
He was always a eugenicist.
Being a eugenicist isn't about being "crazy" or being a "nut job." It's about learned ideology. These individuals have been taught that they are superior and that there is a hierarchy of human value. This view is symbiotic with capitalism, with the rich holding higher value.
There are also some fantastic resources out there. With lists of authors and books. You can start with DisabilityResources.org, but if you search "Disability history by disabled people," you should find some decent resources. I hope that all helps. 3/3
"Unwell Women" covers experiences with misdiagnosis, the history of the "hysterical woman," and so much more. It really helped me to acknowledge my medical trauma as a disabled woman. It may not specifically be about disability, but it's a huge part of our story. 2/3
Start with looking up the disability museum. Also, check out blogs and social media from disability advocates. Crutches and Spice is a great advocate to follow for resources. The book below is a great book about the history of women's healthcare by a chronically ill author. 1/3
The elderly AND disabled. Somehow, we're always left out or forgotten about . . . So many of us are going to die if we even make it that long. Changes to laws regarding detention for mental health disorders have a tendency to impact us.
Self-quarentines are fantastic!! I wish we could utilize them for more. Even the common cold!! Think of how much healthier we would be and how much faster we would recover!!
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Thank you for actually using the correct term.
Hitler also promoted what he called "euthanasia" for all disabled people. Really, it was just straight-up murder. Eventually, some families of disabled folk got angry and fought back against it, but some welcomed it, sadly.
After having so many people provide you with further information and context over the last 17 hours, I would expect a second post apologizing and amending your understanding of fascism. Make sure you leave this one up, though. It's evidence we need to do better.
We've seen it in quite a bit in the online wellness communities in particular. The disabled community is constantly getting blamed for our poor health, most of which is due to environmental and genetic factors beyond our control.
Understanding their ancestral experiences don't necessarily translate over to a broader understanding of the hierarchy of human value within eugenics. It's no different with someone who studies a single genocide or even a handful of them if they are similar in nature.
Writing about a genocide doesn't mean someone knows about eugenics or understands fascism. I've had Jewish people who fully understand genocide try to correct me when I say that eugenics is about so much more than race.
RFK Jr. is just flat out a eugenicist. Eugenics never fully went away in the US. You can look up the influence of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg on forced sterilization laws across the US that are on the books NOW. And, yes, he's the Corn Flakes Kellogg.
Some takes need to be dunked on hard so that society can learn and do better. Imagine if we actually responded this way to genuinely destructive takes all the time. "Hey, let us educate you on this because this take below is a steaming pile of poop." We'd be better people.
Eugenics is at the heart of fascism.
People have absolutely no clue what eugenics actually is or the extent to which fascists go to "purify" their culture.
One of my absolutely massive issues with this is that you want us to celebrate people waiting until our democracy has been shredded to do anything. Gerrymandering has been an issue for a long time. Dems should have supported independent redistricting committees ages ago.