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Shanon Taylor

@drspedinnv.bsky.social
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Professor of special education at Univ. of NV, Reno. All posts mine. Former teacher of E/BD students. Mom, WIFE + 🐈‍⬛ ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8542-1765 www.unr.edu/education/about/faculty…

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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longislandtonv.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."
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wonder if one bot will yell at another one, “REP-RE-SENT-A-TIVE!!!!!”
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What an embarrassment.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So … 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.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
News you can use: MORE CATS!!!🐈
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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Andrew Wakefield is one of the biggest fraudsters in medical history. So, it tracks that he is pals with rfk jr.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s a cancelpalooza. Cancelception.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
Some 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.org
Vouchers 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 ...
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not 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.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before 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.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Perfect for all my Reno friends who have avoided the grocery store and/or Costco for the last week.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
To make fun of adolescents taking part in a skills development program takes a special kind of horribleness in a person.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Why is it always our toilet paper?!? 😩
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CBS News Sacramento @cbsnewssacramento.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Researchers 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.com
Trump puts autistic kids in the spotlight and cuts agencies built to protect them
Researchers 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.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school. ❤️
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is appalling in so many ways.
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Mark 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.org
Trump Cut Their Education Grants. Here’s What Happened Next
Grantees whose work ground to a halt last year lament broken promises and abandoned projects.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 18/08/2026
Helmets!
A picture of a watermelon partially cracked open. The text reads: Helmets! Prevent skull fractures! (watermelon for dramatic effect). Protect your brains. Wear a helmet when riding your ebike, scooter, hoverboard, etc.
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The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 18/08/2026
OPINION 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...
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OPINION: Special needs funding in Nevada is education funding, period - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: Special needs funding in Nevada is education funding, period. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People 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.news
Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone — The Atlantic
Subpar connectivity on airplanes was a gift, in a way.
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Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This 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.
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Democracy 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.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is horrifying. We’re fully back in J. Edgar Hoover territory
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Holy 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.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A 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.com
Trump to sign executive order calling for spacing out childhood shots
President 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...
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Congressman Dwight Evans @repdwightevans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’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!
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Pretty 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.”
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Researchers 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.
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Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions
A 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...
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Holy moly, this is a stunning figure. Every Democrat running should use this.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The 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
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Great 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!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A 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.com
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The 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.”
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yaaas! 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.com
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Alycia Debnam-Carey as Nikki: I Don't Wanna Go Back
Alt: A woman with long blonde hair shakes her head slightly and text reads I Don't Wanna Go Back
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Disability Scoop @disabilityscoop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A 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 #DisabilityRights
disabilityscoop.com
'504: The Musical' Revisits Protest That Advanced Disability Rights Movement
A 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.
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
More 👏 of 👏 this 👏
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Very good sign for grants
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 30/07/2026
The 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.com
Senate education committee blocks parts of Trump’s Education Department breakup
Sen. Tim Kaine negotiated a bipartisan bill to stop the department from offloading special education, K-12 programs and additional functions to other federal agencies.
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Cara 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
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dr. 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.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
if 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...
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I love when they satire higher ed 🤣
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/07/2026
Read Jonathan Cohn's exclusive reporting on the potentially destructive changes the Trump administration is considering for Head Start:
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Exclusive: Trump Preparing a New Attack on Head Start
The administration is considering a proposal to gut the program’s instructional standards while adding new restrictions tied to immigration.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We are living in a time when advocating for children to not be starved and bombed is more controversial than starving and bombing children.
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Tracy 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.com
The Senate hiccup to Trump’s Education breakup
House Republicans blessed the Trump administration’s Education Department breakup. Those prayers likely won’t be answered in the Senate.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If 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?” 🧐🤔
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Shanon Taylor @drspedinnv.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The power of great teaching!
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Council for Exceptional Children @cecmembership.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
CEC 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
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