@rosebroderick.bsky.social
disability reporter @statnews words/audio @radiolab @sciam hard of hearing, so i will ask you to repeat yourself 🏳️‍⚧️ email: rose[dot]broderick[at]statnews[dot]com signal: rosebroderick[dot]11
@rosebroderick.bsky.socialoh eric, i'm so sorry. your work means so much to so many! i hope you are able to find a new gig soon
@ericmgarcia.bsky.socialReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialSome ~personal~ news:
After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is [email protected]. My signal is emgarcia.85
@rosebroderick.bsky.socialYou can reach me via DM, email ([email protected]), or Signal (rosebroderick.11). Thank you!
@rosebroderick.bsky.socialThe aim with this story is to hear from folks currently navigating the complicated web of information on what does/doesn't help autistic kids and adults. If you are autistic and your parents used these kinds of treatments on you, please reach out, as well.
@rosebroderick.bsky.socialSource Request: I'm looking to talk with parents of autistic kids who are currently trying or have recently tried any of the following as treatments: bleach, chelation, stem cells, hyperbaric oxygen, special diets, leucovorin.
@rosebroderick.bsky.socialThe Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee has opened a portal for anyone to submit their bid for the most consequential research on autism published in 2025 and 2026. Deadline is Oct. 21. Link below:
@sarahebond.bsky.socialReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.social184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...
@19thnews.orgReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialIn 1999, Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson brought a challenge to the Supreme Court, which ruled in their favor and agreed that people with disabilities have a right to live outside the walls of asylums, state hospitals and nursing homes. More than two decades later, that right is under threat.
@rosebroderick.bsky.socialdude was a legend maybe my favorite non-Reds baseball player of all time
@npr.orgReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialResearchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
@garnethenderson.comReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialSCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties.
One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
@esqueer.netReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialWe've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.
@mikehixenbaugh.comReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialWe’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
@rosebroderick.bsky.socialThe CDC wants to redesign its annual health survey. Their proposed changes would make people with intellectual and developmental disabilities "invisible."
@jpbrammer.bsky.socialReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialjust secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life
@maggieastor.bsky.socialReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialThe 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
@kissphoria.bsky.socialReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialthis post is designed to be an example of the kinds of things happening to trans people right now. nobody is asking for new stuff, they're asking for the stuff happening now to stop getting worse
@joycelaurie.bsky.socialReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialwhat a terrible failure of both our sanctuaries
@sal.gayReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialShout out to the nyt for enthusiastically laundering and mainstreaming anti trans extremism these last several years
@assignedmedia.orgReposted by @rosebroderick.bsky.socialLate last week, the HHS released a report claiming to show a link between "transgender ideology" and political violence.
Among other bizarre features of this unpublished, non-peer reviewed paper it included a grand total of 13 transgender people.
