This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last yr.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

While the university has ended the group's special status designation, with the support of the student body, student guides are doubling down on their commitment to share their campus’ history.

UVA Tried To Shut Down Its Historical Tours Discussing Slavery. These Students Resisted.

A conservative alumni group took issue with the discussion of difficult parts of UVA’s history.

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SCOOP: FEMA employees tell WIRED that a rapid erosion of tools, external partnerships, and practices—as well as the looming threat of staffing cuts—is bad news for the country as it heads into the summer, and the official start of hurricane season.

FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say

Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one.

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I’m on my third flight delay for #scms25, but at least I’m sleeping at home and not waking up at 3:30am now?

They can't actually dismantle the ADA. Of course, like all everything else, they're doing it without going through Congress. Just mumbling and pointing to Trump's EO. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses

Multiple pages scrubbed from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website due to a Trump order

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Fascinating example of appropriating access tools to construct misinformation.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · last yr.

Fascinating anecdote about disinformation in the age of TikTok, and a reminder that a common tactic (to mislead) is to overlay subtitles onto short form video that don’t actually match the underlying audio. It can be even more effective when the original audio is ambiguous or in another language.

The world is on fire, so who you gonna call? www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/call... A reminder that many of our emergency resources are actually hyperlocal in their funding and operation, meaning that they may not work seamlessly but they are available for our attention and direct activism.

Call 9-1-1 - With Good Reason

The human obsession with growth has created a planetary emergency. Plus: The darling 9-1-1 is a hyperlocal network of dispatch centers.

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Republicans are going to harm kids who will be future American adults. We can build people up, which helps us all, or tear people down, which hurts us all. Republicans are tearing people down. "Attacks on disabled Americans and the policies we rely on lie at the core of so much of MAGA culture."

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last yr.

"It’s easy to miss the human side of policy, legal compliance, the nitty gritty of efficient government. To get caught up in slogans about fraud or waste. That’s what Musk and Trump are counting on. And yet I see and hear the human side every time my son says “My dad’s name is David.” On @msnbc.com

"How is it possible that so many people in power seem to have such stunted imaginations, so little curiosity for how to build this world to include more of us? I find this particularly repugnant when imagination and curiosity are some of the most defining traits of the very groups at risk."

A Lawsuit Threatens the Disability Protections I've Known My Whole Life

Attorneys general from 17 states have argued Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act should be declared unconstitutional

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Applications are due on March 7! Learn more at this link: labsforliberation.org/2025/01/22/a...

Announcing Labs for Liberation Summer Institute on Disability and Design!

Dates: June 9-July 18, 2025. All sessions are online. ASL and CART available. Summer Institute directors: Moya Bailey and Aimi Hamraie Accessibility coordinator: Angela Stanley  Funded by: The…

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Critical Design Lab@criticaldesignlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Announcing the Labs for Liberation Summer Institute on Disability and Design! Are you a student, designer, or activist who is invested in designing a more accessible world? Join us July 9-July 18 for a virtual, free, and accessible online summer program.

It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.

The US Access Board--who creates and maintains access standards for buildings, telecom, transit, web, etc--has a legally-mandated annual meeting. Was supposed to be next week. Now "postponed" with no reason given and no reschedule date. www.access-board.gov/about/meetin...

Proud to announce I've joined the newly formed editorial collective of Communication, Culture & Critique. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and call on our colleagues to stand against Israeli apartheid and the effects of genocide in Gaza. doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

We're wrapping up the week by spotlighting some fresh releases from NYUP! Leading the lineup is "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" by @tupur.bsky.social, highlighting how multiplex cinemas have reshaped the dynamics of theater space and culture in New Delhi.

Syllabus time! I'm updating a grad-level Histories of Media Technologies course, and would like 2-3 new readings on game history (ideally, showcasing a diversity of eras, nations, platforms, and/or identities). What's new? What's good?

"Ableism isn’t just about disability. It’s connected to other forms of structural oppression and has always been," James Salanga says. "If newsrooms want to cover that seriously, they must begin analyzing ableism seriously — across journalism’s culture, history, and frames."

Investing in the disability beat

"Using the right language isn’t the be-all and end-all of better disability reporting."

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I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.

What happens when the internet disappears?

Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

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I've felt like getting really into zines lately, here's another good excuse to do so!

Anne Pasek@apasek.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey aca-zine appreciators: We're doing a zine festival at 4S 2025! You can apply to a peer reviewed track, or you can just show up with zines and add them to our library. The former will be published online for folks who can't make it to Seattle. More info here: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

"Around three out of every four PDF versions of scholarly papers are largely inaccessible to low-vision and blind readers, a study has found." "academic journals rarely provide information about accessibility for scientists with visual impairment" #accessibility #disability #science

Alive And Able@aliveandable.com · 2y ago

Accessibility worsens for blind and low-vision readers of academic PDFs alive.ws/y6w9y #Disabled #Disabilities #Accessibility #SpecialAbliities #AliveAndAble

We made a zine! Artist Katie Drackert created a printable mini-magazine of our first year’s highlights! We wanted to bring The Sick Times offline and into coffee shops, art fairs, community centers, mask bloc distributions, and anywhere else our readers want to share our work. bit.ly/3AVNltG

Special edition zine: One year of The Sick Times - The Sick Times

We made a zine! To celebrate our first anniversary, we commissioned artist Katie Drackert to create a printable mini-magazine of our first year’s highlights, as well as top Long COVID and COVID-19 res...

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This issue’s Spotlight introduces the Disability Caucus—origins, leadership, and goals for the future of @scmstudies.bsky.social

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies@jcmsjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lights, camera, autumn! JCMS 64.1 is here, featuring cutting-edge takes on AI’s growing role in the moving image industry, online archives, and media studies scholarship. Full issue: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/issues/ In Focus: AI & the Moving Image quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image...

Two years into the AI boom, it's imperative we understand the true power of "AGI"—as a narrative tool useful for winning investment, talent and headlines. My report for AI Now details how OpenAI used the story of a rising AI that will replace humans to replace the need for an actual business model.

AI Now Institute@ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway. Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...

OK, here it is! My zine, Stop Surveilling Your Kids: A Privacy Manifesto is done and scanned and ready to share! drive.google.com/file/d/1sEJV...

Essay about the distribution of expanded cinemas using rental archival records from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative?! Count me in! Look forward to reading Josh Guilford’s “Projection Instructions + the Distribution of Expanded Cinema” in new issue of jcmsjournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1353/cj.2...

Really excited about this great resource—available open access!—in the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social

Stefania Marghitu@dearstefania.bsky.social · 2y ago

Do check out @jcmsjournal.bsky.social highlights of new research on AI, yours truly and @jomeara.bsky.social made the list quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/18261...

"Institutions of higher education see productivity as a sign of success and wellness, but that pressure to be productive is actively making students unwell... I’m beginning to realize that being a good student isn’t worth sacrificing my own wellness." -student op-ed on dear elia and mental health ❤️

We Need to Talk About Academic Unwellness

Student mental health is precious, and we should be working just as hard to protect our mental health as we work to protect our grades.

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