Reposted by Rob SpirkoThomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome. 913188396200
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 25/04/2025That would be an interesting legal defense: "I wasn't obstructing justice, because what ICE is doing is not justice." Man, I wish that would work. 141
Reposted by Rob SpirkoFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths 361171195017
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025DREDF page about the lawsuit and what to do: dredf.org/protect-504/dredf.orgTexas v. Becerra: What it is and How You Can Help Stop the Attack on Section 504 - DREDFDisability Rights Education & Defense Fund 020
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Original article: www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...forbes.com17 States Sue To End Protections For Students With Special NeedsThe suit challenges a Biden administration decision that considered "gender dysphoria" a disability and goes even farther in questioning assistance for students. 121
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/202511/ from them, and you're licensed to do whatever you want to them. And we can still do plenty of harm, plenty of harm, to people short of the excesses of Germany in the 1930s. The time to draw the line is not when we get to the "gassing children in death asylums" phase. The time is now. 100
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/202510/ the gas chambers. Overdramatic? Sure. Given the example of the Nazi regime, we may reign ourselves in before we go that far. But I will tell you: once you define a class of people--immigrants, transgender people, disabled people--as less than human, you strip the protections of the human away 100
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20259/ Disabled children in particular. They were defined as useless, as drains on society. That allowed the Nazis to ship them off to other facilities. Facilities where these children were treated exaclty as one would treat someone with no value: they were killed--this is where the Nazis came up with 100
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20258/ what effect that will have, but I damn sure want all of them on notice that their constituents are watching their evil choices, choices that will increase the harm and suffering in the world. Accuse me of being dramatic if you will, but I will still say it: first they came for the disabled. 100
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20257/ Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia--to make a call tomorrow to your state attorney general's office and voice your displeasure with their anti-disabled, anti-child actions. I don't know 100
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20256/ than IDEA does. This is dire, friends. If 504 is declared unconstitutional, the ripple effects on education and the disabled community will be awful. Kennedy's HHS won't defend it. McMahon's DE won't defend it. Listen: I need you, if you live in one of the seventeen--Texas, Alaska, Alabama, 120
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20255/ on bathrooms than classrooms. Both Trump and Musk are on the record with ableist and eugenicist statements. And now, the final piece: Seventeen states suing to have Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act declared unconstitutional, which is broader than IDEA and covers more students (and adults) 110
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20254/ TheTrump/Musk regime is gutting the Department of Education, which oversees IDEA enforcement. It's the Civil Rights office of the Dept of Ed that ensures disabled students have recourse if they're discriminated against. Good luck with your recourse if the department is a hollow shell more focused 111
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20253/ scale at the UT audiology clinic tucked under Neyland Stadium. Without Voc Rehab to help pay for my hearing aids. All of it part of a system that had to be initially forced to accept disabled kids as equal in their rights to an education, but in my experience was very supportive once activated. 100
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/20252/ But I strongly suspect that I would not have gotten as much support in a small town in rural-industrial Appalachia without the guarantees of IDEA. I might not be standing in front of them as Dr. Spirko without it. Without years of speech therapy and audiology appointments. Without the sliding 100
Rob Spirko @rspirko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025🧵 They're coming for disabled kids. The IDEA act went into effect in 1975, the year I started kindergarten. I tell my students: I had parents willing to support me, and I was a good student, so my teachers liked me. So who knows? I might've been ok as the weird little half-deaf kid who read a lot. 140
Reposted by Rob SpirkoKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Absolutely hate “we went too far” revisionist history. “We all believed women and it went too far.” No we did not all believe women. I was there 223143511757
Reposted by Rob SpirkoDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/11/2024"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire. SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1harpercollins.comOathbreakersThe authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou... 27414352
Reposted by Rob SpirkoTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/11/2024“Freedom means you decide who you are, and then when things change around you, you continue to be that person. And in so doing, you do constructive work. You set an example for other people. You meet new people who are also trying to remain themselves.” www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...msnbc.comTimothy Snyder: ‘You have to be in the moment in order to get through the moment’In a time when many voters feel despair following the presidential election, it’s key to remember this is not the end. Americans still have their freedom and there are ways to remain politically activ... 163102881828
