Rachel Donegan

Disability studies, mental illness, writing programs, progressive politics, baking, crafts, accessibility. Nashville born & raised. Has crumbly bones. She/her.

[Rachel Donegan @rachdone]

I am so deeply proud to be in this issue, where I write about the death of my grandmother.

Thank you so much to @rorhetorician, @ProfJMale, and @vymanivannan for letting me tell this story. The labor and care y’all put into this issue is astronomical.

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

Disability activists told us how we handled COVID and public health around it, was the blueprint moving forward. This shouldn’t be a shock. Dropping all protections and basically going in reverse has brought back eradicated illnesses. Now lookie here.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

The “you’re required to carry ID already” people need to get a grip. You’re not. I leave the house without it all the time. I go for a run, walk to a coffee shop, or go to a park. There’s no federal “keys, phone, wallet, papers, please” law. Stop justifying a descent into fascism

[Strong Bad @StrongBadActual]

The Washington State University Cougar Marching Band played Trogdor at halftime this weekend! And made ME! My husky head finally gets the spectacle it desoives!

[Rachel Donegan @rachdone]

I love TN’s tradition of community supported weather. So excited for this!

[Upper Cumberland Weather @CumberlandWx]

Introducing the Upper Cumberland Weather App: Launching August 2025!

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Boycotting is a privilege.

Prepping is a privilege.

Protesting is a privilege.

Leaving the country is a privilege.

Not all solutions are accessible to everyone.

We need robust community care to ensure people aren’t left behind.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

The rage I feel cannot be expressed

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Been begging people for 4+years to not exclusively put COVID at the center of every medical narrative nor to begin the history of chronic illness and disability in early 2020.

You should see the brain fog I had with sustained 400+ blood glucose before T1D diagnosis in … 2010.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Stop shaming people for using AC while you gobble up AI.

Air conditioning is literal life and death for many people, and wouldn’t even be necessary if not for climate change.

AI is destroying our environment and people are using it to “own” folks on the hazards of AC

[Nathan Smith @nrs82]

The term 'genius' is thrown around often, especially in the arts, but Brian Wilson absolutely qualifies. At his best, he was on par with Beethoven, Mozart, or Bach. RIP to the greatest American composer to have ever lived.

[Jammer @acrossthemersey]

2021: a highly transmissible but milder variant.

2022: a highly transmissible but milder variant.

2023: a highly transmissible but milder variant.

2024: a highly transmissible but milder variant.

2025: you’re going to fall for it again aren’t you?

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Watching Trump and Elon fight:

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

IMO, thinking they can “fix” having fake citations by simply changing the citations, without reviewing or altering any of the text, is proof of how little they care about using actual scientific research to support their claims in the first place.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

Mask up NOW

“A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.”

https://t.co/F3mYlkd4Gl

[Rachel Donegan @rachdone]

In my dating app days, posting with any kind of a dead animal (fish included) was an automatic “swipe left.”

[Jamerican SW @castrowas95]

I’ve been meaning to ask…if this reaches White women

Do yall actually get turned on by pics of White men holding fish?

This seems like something they always include on their dating profiles and I’m curious about this phenomenon

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

Said it before and I'll say it again until you assholes listen: AI being built on slave labor in Africa and data centers polluting Black neighborhoods in the US should be the no.1 reason not to use this shit

Now is the time to put these supposed values of yours to work

[Darth Dog Mom 🖤 BuccaNole 🏈 @DarthandDogs]

Remember the episode in the Handmaid's Tale, where a brain dead, black handmaid is kept on life support long enough to give birth?

This is happening in Atlanta, GA right now. Her name is Adriana Smith. She was only 9wks when the state kidnapped her body from her family.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Disability isnt bad, but disablement? Disablement is a mark of collective failure. The US disables its populace every single day through forced poverty, food insecurity, environmental pollution, and a lack of protections re: food, air, water. 1/3

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump, convicted of 34 felonies, was given immunity by the Supreme Court — and then his stolen classified docs and Jan 6th insurrection cases disappeared.

If truly "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW" then he'd be in prison right now instead of the White House.