Reposted by Shanon TaylorDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 19596902392
Reposted by Shanon Taylorlongislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The Clark County School District operates about 1,900 buses, the largest district-owned and operated fleet in the country." 011
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wonder if one bot will yell at another one, “REP-RE-SENT-A-TIVE!!!!!” 010
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So … just saw a commercial for TIAA wealth management using the Blister in the Sun guitar riff. I mean, I love me my Femmes and all my retirement “wealth” is in TIAA, but it just seems weird to combine those two things. 000
Reposted by Shanon TaylorBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.gizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 1401267046704
Reposted by Shanon TaylorIoannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Andrew Wakefield is one of the biggest fraudsters in medical history. So, it tracks that he is pals with rfk jr. 431285
Reposted by Shanon TaylorProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026Some of the nation’s first statewide voucher programs were created specifically for students with disabilities. But most legislatures haven’t required private schools that take this public money to accept even a few kids with such needs.propublica.orgVouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ... 13386131
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Not lying y’all, if I didn’t show up for work for 100 days, I’d have to file FMLA paperwork. Not partisan here, but if ANY representative can disappear for this long, they should have to explain it. Or stop getting paid. 032
Reposted by Shanon TaylorCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire. 486236974255
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Perfect for all my Reno friends who have avoided the grocery store and/or Costco for the last week. 0181
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026To make fun of adolescents taking part in a skills development program takes a special kind of horribleness in a person. 030
Reposted by Shanon TaylorCBS News Sacramento @cbsnewssacramento.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Researchers and disability rights advocates warn that the dismantling of the Education Department and its erosions of civil rights oversight risk widening the disparities autistic children face.cbsnews.comTrump puts autistic kids in the spotlight and cuts agencies built to protect themResearchers and disability rights advocates warn that the dismantling of the Education Department and its erosions of civil rights oversight risk widening the disparities autistic children face. 021
Reposted by Shanon TaylorJoseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Back to school. ❤️ 282566549
Reposted by Shanon TaylorMark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"Cross’ employees ultimately got paid with university funds for the rest of the week after the cancellation. Eventually they lost their jobs altogether. Two suffered anxiety attacks that landed them in the emergency room. Several no longer work in education." www.edweek.org/policy-polit...edweek.orgTrump Cut Their Education Grants. Here’s What Happened NextGrantees whose work ground to a halt last year lament broken promises and abandoned projects. 063
Reposted by Shanon TaylorU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 18/08/2026Helmets! 1746494
Reposted by Shanon TaylorThe Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 18/08/2026OPINION by Kenyon Andrews: Special education funding for Nevada schools is under threat — but special needs students aren’t going anywhere. When we decide only certain students are worth teaching, they all suffer. thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...thenevadaindependent.comOPINION: Special needs funding in Nevada is education funding, period - The Nevada IndependentOPINION: Special needs funding in Nevada is education funding, period. Read more at The Nevada Independent. 063
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026People who write headlines like this really need to go outdoors, outside of cities more often. I go to a number of places where not only do I not have WiFi, I don’t have a cell connection. apple.news/Ax3DUVVc4R2m...apple.newsOur Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone — The AtlanticSubpar connectivity on airplanes was a gift, in a way. 110
Reposted by Shanon TaylorSimon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This pretty well illustrates that academic misconduct, when construed as a problem of public rather than professional interest, is covered in highly inconsistent ways by a bloodthirsty media that manufactures scandals as much as it hunts for them. 319365
Reposted by Shanon TaylorDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/08/2026🚨BREAKING: In a win for Nevada voters, a court dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling, which came shortly after the 6th Circuit rejected to rehear the DOJ's Michigan case, marks the 22nd loss in the department's hunt for such data. 9570160
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This is horrifying. We’re fully back in J. Edgar Hoover territory 010
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Holy moly, if I were a lawyer and a judge said this to me, I’d start praying for the earth to open up and swallow me. 000
Reposted by Shanon TaylorProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A great day for the disgraced doctor Wakefield, who was struck off the medical register for serious misconduct—he pushed for spacing RFK Jr says statues should be built in Wakefield’s honor; he welcomed him here in the US, bringing him into MAHA A terrible day for kids apnews.com/article/vacc...apnews.comTrump to sign executive order calling for spacing out childhood shotsPresident Donald Trump will sign an executive order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three dif... 610740
Reposted by Shanon TaylorCongressman Dwight Evans @repdwightevans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’m proud to reintroduce the VITAL Act! More than 1 in 4 adults have some type of disability, yet less than 6% of our housing supply is designed to be accessible. My bill would help increase affordable housing that is accessible for our most vulnerable communities! 185
Reposted by Shanon TaylorRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Pretty soon the FDA is going to put out an alert saying: “We’re just gonna need everyone to stop eating for a week or two while we figure this stuff out.” 711769386
Reposted by Shanon TaylorJennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Researchers at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark have conducted multiple landmark, population-wide studies tracking hundreds of thousands to over 1.2 million children using national health registries to examine potential links between vaccines and autism. Every major study found no connection.en.ssi.dkLarge Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditionsA new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o... 13748542019
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Holy moly, this is a stunning figure. Every Democrat running should use this. 111
Reposted by Shanon TaylorRachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Trump administration today unveiled a radical proposed overhaul of Head Start, framed as “expanding access” but achieved through larger class sizes, fewer staff and credential requirements, reduced health and family services, and potentially shorter hours 11613
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Great new addition to the policy world & disability scholarship, primarily done by people with disabilities. Share with students, scholars, disabled people, anyone interested in policy - share with everyone! 112
Reposted by Shanon TaylorNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.nytimes.comJudge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath KeepersThe judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.” 21434401623
Reposted by Shanon TaylorPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Yaaas! Good news on a Sunday! The senate moves to temporarily ban the OMB proposal that would allow political appointees in charge of approving federal grants, especially #NIH grants. Recall that the OMB rule yielded 500k comments, 95% of them against it. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...politico.comSenate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaulLanguage is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval. 20907254
Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026static.klipy.comAlycia Debnam-Carey as Nikki: I Don't Wanna Go BackAlt: A woman with long blonde hair shakes her head slightly and text reads I Don't Wanna Go Back 010
Reposted by Shanon TaylorDisability Scoop @disabilityscoop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A musical reimagining the events of a 1977 San Francisco sit-in that pressured federal officials to enforce the first major disability rights law is set for its world premiere. #disabilities #DisabilityRightsdisabilityscoop.com'504: The Musical' Revisits Protest That Advanced Disability Rights MovementA musical reimagining the events of a 1977 San Francisco sit-in that pressured federal officials to enforce the first major disability rights law is set for its world premiere. 033
Reposted by Shanon TaylorRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 30/07/2026The Senate HELP committee passed a bill that would block the Trump administration from transferring many functions (including postsecondary education) out of the Department of Education, but would allow student loans to be transferred to Treasury.politico.comSenate education committee blocks parts of Trump’s Education Department breakupSen. Tim Kaine negotiated a bipartisan bill to stop the department from offloading special education, K-12 programs and additional functions to other federal agencies. 14011
Reposted by Shanon TaylorCara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"The Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics lost nearly all its employees last year, as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing plans to dismantle the department. NCES shrank from about 100 staff to just four employees last year" #EdResearch h/t @palapid.bsky.social 079
Reposted by Shanon TaylorThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Dr. Fauci is a hero. He really is. He helped guide America thru a mass death event. Millions more could have died but they did not, thanks to him. Everyone over 70 owes him a debt. It is disgusting that we live in a country that not only dishonors him but actively smears his good name. 417150693592
Reposted by Shanon TaylorAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba... 362926733
Reposted by Shanon TaylorThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/07/2026Read Jonathan Cohn's exclusive reporting on the potentially destructive changes the Trump administration is considering for Head Start:lnk.thebulwark.comExclusive: Trump Preparing a New Attack on Head StartThe administration is considering a proposal to gut the program’s instructional standards while adding new restrictions tied to immigration. 58331
Reposted by Shanon TaylorRev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026We are living in a time when advocating for children to not be starved and bombed is more controversial than starving and bombing children. 216462
Reposted by Shanon TaylorTracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026"The legislation would block the department from transferring special education and functions of the offices of Elementary and Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education and Indian Education to other federal agencies." www.politico.com/newsletters/...politico.comThe Senate hiccup to Trump’s Education breakupHouse Republicans blessed the Trump administration’s Education Department breakup. Those prayers likely won’t be answered in the Senate. 032
Reposted by Shanon TaylorMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026If the media were serious about covering higher education in 2026, the actual National Conversation™️ would be “How have universities managed to retain such a high level of trust, relative to almost all the other institutions in 🇺🇸, amidst decades of assault from the far right authoritarian party?” 🧐🤔 426068
Reposted by Shanon TaylorCouncil for Exceptional Children @cecmembership.bsky.social · 26/07/2026CEC is proud to support the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 36th Anniversary. On July 26th we celebrate this important civil rights law that works to ensure all people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. Celebrate with us by visiting: adaanniversary.org 031