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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the additional costs of homeownership.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished the website for our fall Public Study class on alternative schools, radical pedagogy, and learning communities! Need to fix one little technical glitch in the chronological session listing and upload my intro lesson with theoretical framing :) crc.metro.org/course/publi...

Screenshot of the class webpage, featuring a header with an illustration of cubist kids painting, followed by a chronological list of our class sessions

A grid of images -- one for each class sessions; each image features a lined-paper background and a public domain image capturing the topic or vibe of the day

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Dani Welch 🎃 @daniwelch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2029. ICE detention centers can be built at lightning speed, but sure, let's allow 3 increasingly hot years to add air conditioners to address unconstitutionally cruel, life-threatening heat.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

By Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Trump brushed off McCrery's concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
"I am the code," Trump said.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?

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Disability Culture Lab @disabilitylab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

For this #TDOV, disabled Trans folks need liberation and joy. Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown @lydiaxzbrown.com of Autistic People of Color Fund finds disabled Trans joy in food, because gathering to eat reflects abundance, care, and a future where nourishment fuels resisting, dreaming, and building.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 18/06/2026

It was definitely Ethiopian and I’ m still happy that I had the opportunity to share space and food with you. 🪷

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/04/2026

Lý Xīnzhèn Brown (@lydiaxzbrown.com) is a Democratic Socialist running for the Maryland House. They are a longtime advocate, policy analyst, and scholar working in disability and technology. If you want people in politics who actually understand issues AND the stakes, Lý Xīnzhèn fully fits the bill

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Ly Xīnzhèn Brown for State Delegate – I'm running to represent District 7A because we deserve better.

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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I had a great time with my DisCo friends at @lydiaxzbrown.com campaign fundraiser last week! If you live in MD District 7A or don’t but you care about disability justice, interdependence, economic stability for everyone, and more, check out Ly Xīnzhèn's campaign website: brownformaryland.com

Kenrya, Casey, and Meier pose together and smile. Behind them is a vining tree, a brick wall, and a darkening cloudy sky.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/10/2025

In the meantime, the rich profit and capitalism further entrenches itself. And even those of us who are decolonizing ourselves struggle to release the "bad people/good people" narrative and centre a more human, and accurate, appreciation of systems and structures. Organize and fight back, beloveds:

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Anti-Capitalist Resources

These are people and projects that have been essential for my own journey of unlearning capitalism.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/10/2025

A side effect of that is we live in denial about the complex systemic reality of why harm happens. We are terrified of admitting we've done harm, because that would mean we're "bad," or our loved ones are. And thus we remain unhealed and stuck in the same cycles. We are hiding from ourselves

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/10/2025

As an abolitionist anthropologist, I offer that this is a result of our carceral culture. We have been convinced, to the benefit of capitalists, that some people are "bad" and only "bad people" do harmful things. Thus we collectively let them throw racialized men in prison & invade "evil" countries

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

a whole lotta very serious climate people will tell you all day long that public health and climate are not competing priorities air pollution is a massive driver of death and disease, disproportionately in poorer areas, and climate action takes powerful aim at that climate change drives pandemics

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This week’s cover of New York Magazine is absolutely brutal.

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The article below is so important — and it’s good to see the critical work of @lydiaxzbrown.com, @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social and Olga Akselrod highlighted!

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

If you have extra money above what you need to take care of yourself and immediate kin, even if it's just $5, please consider giving directly to individual people.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

If you or someone you know is relying on SNAP and needs grocery funds, please feel free to drop your links and payment information below:

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

This is eugenicist social policy. It means they want disabled people to die. They want poor people to die. They want elderly people to die. Starvation is murder, by policy and by design. This is all on purpose. And it is 100000% unnecessary. Take care of each other.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

The federal government announced they won't fund benefits as of November 1. States are refusing to release funds to cover the gap, citing (rational) fear that the federal government won't reimburse states for money spent covering SNAP benefits. Remember this started when Republicans cut Medicaid.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

SNAP benefits mean that the disabled people (and all others) using them have more autonomy, privacy, and dignity in choosing what to eat, without the paternalistic judgment of others deciding what's best for someone else. Or assuming what's needed.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

Added costs of living with a disability are both (1) Things that disabled people need that are specifically disability-related, like assistive technology, medication, or mobility aid (2) Things that disabled people pay for because of how their disabilities manifest, like paid help or food delivery

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

Disabled people must spend more money to stay alive. On average, disabled people must earn 28-29% more to have the same standard of living as otherwise comparable nondisabled people. These added costs of living with a disability (the "crip tax" or "disability tax") show up in all parts of life.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

Food apartheid is also particularly catastrophic for people who * have mobility impairments that affect opening food * are autistic or have ARFID that affects what foods are safe to eat * have difficulty preparing their own food due to physical or mental disabilities * cannot travel to a food bank

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

Food apartheid is particularly catastrophic for people who * strictly observe religious requirements like a Jain, halal, or kosher diet * have Celiac or even non-Celiac gluten sensitivity * have literally any severe or deathly allergies * are vegan * have high animal protein needs...

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 27/10/2025

SNAP benefits make it possible for the many disabled people (especially those who are multiply marginalized) relying on them to buy specific foods necessary to stay alive and stable. Food pantries/food banks often do not offer food reliably or at all that meets specific dietary requirements.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 30/09/2025

Storrow Drive, which is not only narrow but has a height limit that’s low and matters.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025

Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/09/2025

Alaska has an incredibly precarious food supply chain and it's facing a pretty grim future thanks to the Trump admin.

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The messy reality of feeding Alaska - High Country News

After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state's food supply chain.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 07/09/2025

Just a reminder that abolition means prisons are harmful for everyone, even people you dislike, even people who've perpetrated violence, even people who've traumatized us. Locking up people does not solve domination, oppression, or interpersonal violence.

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 07/09/2025

We want to uplift the critical work of Migrant Equity SouthEast in supporting the community impacted by this raid. Their efforts on the ground are essential, and we encourage others to follow and support their work. #TogetherWeFight

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 06/09/2025

If you are stopped by ANY variety of law enforcement in the United States, you should ID yourself if you're in a stop and ID state, ask if you're free to leave, and say: I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025

We need a better sociotechnical and -cultural paradigm than this. This shit is so untenable

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The litfic convo is reminding me of a conversation I recently had with a student who was having a "poetry is worthless" moment and after talking with her I found out some professors are still assigning TS Eliot to first-years, so I showed her some Danez Smith and she was like "oh!"

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Aren’t tree roots brilliant?

Tree roots close to the River Dart (which means “place where the oak trees grow”) in Devon

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 15/08/2025

I believe there is no such thing as a defective person. Ableism and sizeism go hand in hand.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/08/2025

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

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AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The U.S. government is deploying an AI tool, called SweetREX and developed by DOGE, to gut federal regulations. (More specifically, the tool was developed by an undergrad who took leave from college to join DOGE...) www.wired.com/story/sweetr...

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A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation

Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 13/08/2025

A clerk told me today in arraignment court when I checked in "You can't be a lawyer, you're too exotic looking. You're obviously an interpreter." And then the clerk handed me the interpreter registration pass. We really are just saying whatever inside thoughts pop into our heads now, huh?

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 14/08/2025

Thank you! Would you consider adding The Autistic People of Color Fund? We are a 100% trans, BIPOC, autistic led group and we support individual autistic people of color (Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, multiracial people) with direct microgrants.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 14/08/2025

If you are writing about me or mentioning me, please inform me. Use my full name and non-gendered pronouns (they/them in English). If citing old work published under my former name, please use “L. X. Z. Brown” or “Brown, L. X. Z.” Thank you!

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 14/08/2025

If you are encountering my work for the first time or re-encountering my work after it’s been a while, please note that I have changed my name. My name is Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown. My first name is Ly Xīnzhèn, not Ly. Much of my work was published under my previous name, Lydia X. Z. Brown.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 14/08/2025

I do not know you. My argument is not that use of the terms is inherently ableist or eugenicist, but rather that a particular pattern of some usage of these terms is. You are welcome to disagree and if you are bothered by what I have written on my own page, you were also welcome to disengage.

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