@Scaramucci@YourItalianHope Another cool thing about being a journalist is occasionally you get to edit people you respect. I thought a ton about this piece I edited by @DrTedJ after Joe Biden won South Carolina and picked Kamala Harris as his VP. washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-m…
One of my favorite things to do is point out hypocrisy in various political groups. I am really grateful that @RebeccaCokley and I got to work on this piece about how liberals calling Trump unwell only further advances disability stigma. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
President Biden announcing the end of the pandemic purely for political reasons, combined with the failure of to pass SSI reform AND the death of home and commmunity-based services spending, it's pretty fair to say people with disabilites won't see anything change post-Covid-19.
Some people ripped me when I said that home care was dead earlier this year, but it was dead as soon as Manchin killed Build Back Better and Democrats slashed it long before BBB died. Policy changes necessitate political moments. Covid was the only time this could pass.
The big problem was Republicans likely got cold feet on the price tag on SSI reform and no Democrats were willing to make home care their line in the sand on Build Back Better, so it got slashed and cut little by little.
RIP to the @washingtonpost Outlook section. I wrote one of my first big pieces on autism for the section. Many things I've written have aged terribly. But if anything, I'm more strident in my belief in teaching #ActuallyAutistic men about sex and consent. washingtonpost.com/posteverything…
I don't think I've ever written anything as personal as this. Nor has anything I've written since ever been read as much as this. Honestly? If that's the case I can die happy. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
The Obama-Biden friendship is genuine. But so is the tension between the two, @tylerpager reports. The wonkier Obama has never really adopted Biden's gladhanding style, while Biden is a creature of Washington. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Obama and Biden occupy different eras. Obama was president when there was still a desire to lower the deficit but he had a bigger Senate and House majority. Biden's Democratic Party is far more liberal, but he has a slimmer majority. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Obama also clearly had more in common with Hillary Clinton stylistically and in his approach to politics compared to gladhanding Joe. Look at how the Pod Save America bros kind of looked down on Biden during 2020's primary. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
For what it’s worth, plenty of students with disabilities adamantly oppose being segregated from their peers because they fear it means they get a deficient education, and there’s plenty of history to show that’s the case. All this to say they don’t know what they are saying
There are legitimate questions among disability rights advocates, self-advocates and others about how to give specialised education vs integrated settings. But the way that Alonso says it shows me she doesn’t know the first thing about disability education
Oh, and this is my regular reminder that the federal government has never fully funded its end of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. It’s supposed to fund about 40 percent of it and only ever spent about 14.5 percent.
Butterfly effect of how Lyndon Johnson led to the rise and fall of Liz Cheney: In 1961, Lyndon Johnson vacated his Senate seat to assume the vice presidency. In turn, John Tower won a special election became the first Republican to represent Texas since Reconstruction 1/
Cut to 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominates John Tower to become his Defense Secretary. But his drinking and womanizing leads the Senate to sink his nomination 47-53. 2/
In response, Bush nominates House Minority Whip and Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney to become his Defense Secretary. Cheney earns tons of praise for his management of the Gulf War in 1991. After being CEO of Halliburton, Cheney leads Bush's VP search committee 3/