Not knowing if there will be services for people day to day. Trying to help people realize that ending programs as fraud prevention is punishing victims and harming people. Convincing people these choices are life and death.
Imagine someone steals your identity and instead of helping you, the government just closes all your bank accounts. When you ask them why they say well no one can steal from you if you have no money!
That’s what JD Vance is doing to disability services in Minnesota. Punishing the victims of fraud.
I’m also disabled and have two disabled kids and if we really lose all of the services going forward, I don’t know if it can be any worse anywhere else because people are gonna lose their homes and die. Not my family, but so so many.
So much love to you.
The most beautiful way to remember a reader.
What a beautiful way to remember and spread remembrance. Left me breathless.
Being a disability rights advocate in Minnesota right now is breathtakingly difficult.
My 5 and a half year old awoke in the middle of the night with terrible jaw pain. After some poking, I alerted him he was getting a new molar.
“WHY DO I HAVE TO KEEP GROWING TEETH?!” he wailed.
Why, indeed.
I tend to drink the broth and then leave half the noodles cause there’s too many noodles.
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She writes SO DANG WELL. The line "boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon" still ROCKS ME. One line summing up a whole universe of emotion. Beautiful.
I'm a leftist Italian Catholic eldest daughter. Like. CMON NOW.
Immediately transported to 9th grade where I only listened to Little Earthquakes and I'd settle my head against the bus window and click play for Crucify to start at full volume.
OMG they played it in the reshow playlist at Brandi Carlile and like I was pre-sobbing. I wore that CD out in my little discman.
I've always hidden my religiousness because as a leftist it is seen as a flaw. But now it's important for me to acknowledge that what radicalized me was my childhood Catholic education. My politics is very different than my family because I was religious and they were just participating in religion.
fuck yes
good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords
One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés
You could tell she saw herself in 2022 in Nakai and just wanted the best for her. So much love radiating off all the skaters for each other.
Alyssa getting out of the winner's chair to go get her bestie. I love them all.
There has never been a figure skater that I would have been BFFs with until Alyssa Liu. I mean, she dropped the f bomb on her way off the ice. I adore her. She's by far my favorite skater of all time.
A car almost hit ours on the highway today. Everyone did exactly the right thing and no one was hurt, but I had my hear turned and when you go from 50 to stopped in 2 seconds, do not have your head turned.
I always have takes
I wonder when we'll learn that putting insane amounts of pressure on literal teenagers just to sell ad spots is the problem.
I am terrified of fire so this is like otherworldly levels of fearlessness to me!
She saw a video camera and was like "Oh, let me go burn this building on TV." That is even more brutal. She's basically like "Oh, there's no laws anymore? GUESS THERE'S NO LAWS ANYMORE."
Alyssa Liu as a medal is being placed around her neck "I like your earrings!"
May we all be this wholesome.
me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk
But who is the CD3 delegation?!?! Help a Bloomingtonion out. 😂
and there are more of us every day
My family arrived from Southern Italy between 1895 and 1924. They were escaping poverty and political instability brought about by Italian unification.
They entered without restriction through Ellis Island. This ended in 1924 because the US severely restricted Italian immigration due to nativism.
