Katharine Klabusich

FIY. Immigrants do not get tax benefits, they pay into our taxes, paying for us. But get NOTHING in return!

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

Committee for the First Amendment

I've been hoping and wanting more high-profile public figures to speak up (beyond Jimmy Kimmel's buddies speaking up for him). Here's the organization itself. If you're Hollywood, there's a sign-up link. www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

CNN on Vance remarks: So first of all, hospitals have been required for decades under a law signed by Republican president Ronald Reagan to treat undocumented immigrants and anyone else who shows up in the E.R. with an acute condition, regardless of their ability to pay, regardless of their legal status. This was not a Joe Biden decision. Secondly, the federal money for this emergency care goes to hospitals to help them cover the cost of the E.R. Visit. It is not comprehensive health care for undocumented people. Third, Jake, the trump law reduced this federal funding to hospitals. It did not eliminate it. And fourth, and I think this is the biggest point Democrats push to reverse this trump move and give the hospitals back level of reimbursement, would not give extra services or money to undocumented people. They would get the same emergency care Hospitals have been required for decades to give them. Hospitals would just get more help—the old level of help in covering the cost of that treatment.

And right on cue, Vance has been hating on immigrants again. While violating the commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."

Vance's most monumental achievement to date has been being told off by two popes in one year.

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

And now it's the Resentment Administration whose motto should be "In God we trust it's someone else's fault."

Using the framework of war against non-state actors and an abstraction (terror itself as the enemy) for the Global War on Terror gave the Bush Administration devastating free rein to violate human rights and trash everything. Here comes more of same.

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

Zohran Mamdani once again delivered a thoughtful, appropriate holiday message that displays familiarity with actual Jewish people to Jews in New York City, and most of the replies are about ... Israel. Which, last I checked, is not in New York, and is not particularly influenced by Jews in the US.

This is the vaccine & cancer research Trump cancelled.

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.

I‘m sure glad I’m not Former COVID Czar Ashish Jha or his favorite blogger Gideon the “Health Nerd,” who told parents to turn a blind eye to pediatric COVID-19 infections www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

This is the thing I can’t wrap my brain around. Not that there are fascists in the GOP, but that the party of long game strategies and dog whistles no longer gets embarrassed when someone says the soft part loud.

In some senses it’s harder to defend. If you get your news from RW media, you aren’t being exposed to most of Trump’s perfidy. Or you think they’re partisan gripes. But everyone knows Trump doesn’t take his constitutional office even remotely seriously.

I’d like to see someone press Vance on the total lack of seriousness of this regime with its constant stream of dumb memes and partisan “jokes.”

The press rarely holds them accountable for their fascism but they never, ever call them out on their utter clownishness.

Rural white Americans: This administration doesn't like 🫵 YOU either.

Veterans are speaking out against ICE's "mob tactics" in Broadview.

"Our democracy is being crushed." blockclubchi.co/475z6iV

ONE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS

When did this timeline merge with an Austin Powers movie??

I feel like there is no real metric by which this Substack has a $150M value. This is just a billionaire failson offering an insane payout to his "friend."

Ah yes, the idyllic life of living in a town where older men have a secret sex ring where they abuse young women without consequences

Welp

i hate brain fog pic of skeleton holding head] fuck this thing [throws his head]

People talk a lot about what the Founders would make of Trump but here we have him firing a govt employee as part of an effort to give a gift to the literal King of England

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Two new polls confirm it: Out of the shutdown gate, Americans STRONGLY support extending the enhanced ACA tax credits (updated) Via NBC News: A Washington Post poll conducted on Oct. 1, the first day of the shutdown, found that 47% of U.S. adults blame Trump and Republicans in Congress, while 30% blame Democrats and 23% said t...

📣 UPDATED: Two new polls confirm: Out of the gate, Americans STRONGLY support extending the #ACA tax credits.

🚨 Meanwhile, 58% of enrollees barely knew about the looming danger as of a week ago.

acasignups.net/25/10/03/two...

Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

ANNOUNCEMENT: #Autism is not a tragedy. Therefore there’s no “blame” to assign. We can discuss what the administration is doing to pregnant people without reinforcing the harm inflicted by using their language. Disability advocates have long used the phrase “nothing about us without us.” And yet, I’m seeing stigmatizing language EVERYWHERE even from people who have used that phrase themselves. Why arent #ActuallyAutistic people getting asked to pen these op-eds? Why do people who would never speak for or over others groups think nothing of speaking “for” me? It’s even National Disability Employment Awareness Month. If you’ve been speaking over us, sharing articles and memes that do, or chuckling about Tylenol being a silly target (we’re the target; debunked science is just the weapon), consider supporting Autistic creators.

Thanks to easy to hide discrimination in hiring practices, only 1/5 Autistic adults is employed and its legal to pay us sub-minimum wage. So, most of us have Venmo (KCKlabusich)/etc and substacks/Patreons. Learn, laugh, and enjoy our art while giving the admin the finger! Mine (plus wish lists for people who prefer sending an item to sending money) are all at linktr.ee/kattyautistic. I’m rolling out four new projects on my substack next month and am finally available for collaborations and contract work (easy does it as my medical recovery road is still long). Its daunting fighting ‘allies’ for space as my right to exist is (again) up for debate. I’m relying on community care to bridge the gap. Thank you so much to everyone who has kept me alive, kept my cats alive, and given me hope. You’re instrumental in keeping me going.

I’ve hit my limit on #DisabilityJustice ‘advocates’ who have routinely invoked the #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs philosophy in the past thinking nothing of speaking over #ActuallyAutistic people — and not seeing anyone outside my community push back.
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As someone who didn’t start exploring my queerness until my mid 30’s & dealt with ten years of imposter syndrome (via cishet-adjacent life via dating couples),
conversations like this have done so much for my journey.
I’m not the only GenXer/Xennial #ComingOutLate!
Super excited to listen!

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.