Leslie Templeton

You're invited to YDA National Candidate Forum. June 11 at 8:00PM EST. Your chance to hear from the candidates running for National Office at the Young Democrats of America's 2025 National Convention in Philadelphia! RSVP at the link in our bio! Hosted by YDA's Black and LGBTQ+ Caucuses.

Join us on Wednesday, June 11 for a YDA National Candidate Forum, hosted by @ydalgbtq.bsky.social & YDA's Black Caucus!

Candidates and attendees, RSVP at the link in our bio!

The power of clemency is life-changing.

And this data affirms that commutations for people serving unfair & outdated sentences is a critical step toward justice & healing.

I applaud President Biden for using clemency to bring thousands of individuals home & reunite families.

"Make America Healthy Again" is a wild slogan for an administration trying to cut funding to things like food stamps/free lunch/Medicaid, attacking vaccines, defunding major health research, stigmatizing medications, and attacking disabled people. #Disability #CripTheVote #DisabilityJustice

Republicans really don't care about the everyday American because they will cut vital resources just to make billionaires, who have more money than they will ever need, richer by giving them tax cuts

Congressional Republicans’ Health Care Plans Will Rip Away Coverage and Increase Costs Republican plans to slash Medicaid funding and let the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits expire will increase insurance costs for millions of Americans.

Congressional Republican plans to slash Medicaid funding and let the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits expire will increase insurance costs for millions of Americans. The latest from Natasha Murphy and Andrea Ducas:

There's nothing like your health being really bad and watching your government debate whether they should let people like me keep our desperately needed healthcare OR cut it and make their billionaire friends richer

I feel so old because Bluesky confuses me and idk how to like make my feed more disability justice related and I feel like I'm not seeing any of my fav accounts

Substance use disorder is a disability so people should be ENRAGED by Trump's attacks on narcan access.

All rescue meds, like epipens or naloxone, should be READILY available. This is a disability justice issue!

The Trump Administration Has Invited Power Plants to Emit More Toxic Pollution in a Giveaway to Corporate Polluters In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has offered fossil fuel power plants and industrial sources the opportunity to ask, by email, for an exemption from the Clean Air Act, enabling them…

The Trump administration’s actions to exempt polluters from compliance with air pollution standards show their willingness to feed corporate greed at the expense of American families’ health. More from CAP's Leo Banks and @lucerowx.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

I am so frustrated. So angry. So heartbroken.

Why is the government allowed to use my tax dollars to do illegal shit.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

If they take away my Medicaid while I'm trying to navigate this new wave of health issues, I'm scared I'm going to die. I am 28, I don't want to die. Keep your hands off my healthcare please.

It sucks being sick, the idea they would make that worse by attacking Medicaid is so insidious

My health is getting so much worse and it just frustrates me. I hate being 28 and watching other 28 year olds think about marriage and kids and my biggest concerns are will I be able to access healthcare and coverage & if not, what will I do if I have a medical crisis.

I have never felt uneasy about immigrants being in my neighborhood, but I feel incredibly uneasy about the government kidnapping my neighbors for their immigration status.

I feel sick to my stomach.

Follow the amazing @davidsonjess.bsky.social immediately, thanks 💕

Remote proctoring software, which 36 percent of teachers report their school uses in some form, has also had discriminatory impacts on disabled youth.39 There are reports, for example, of disabled youth being removed from exam sessions for “atypical eye movements,” which can disrupt the educational experience and potentially be considered a violation of federal statutes, including the ADA and Section 504.40

There are many great parts of this report from @cendemtech.bsky.social and @aapd-disability.bsky.social on building a disability inclusive AI ecosystem, but I want to highlight this part of how remote monitoring software can be discriminatory.

Full report here: cdt.org/wp-content/u...

"The world is falling to fascism, I have a hernia, and I'm stressed the fuck out but I'm doing great, hbu?"

If you say the r word or voted for someone who is attempting to take away my rights as a disabled person, I don't want to hear a PEEP out of you about Jasmine Crockett's "hot wheels" comment

Ask disabled people what they think, and hold those old white guys dismantling my healthcare to the standards you are apparently holding a black women who does relatively well on disability rights 🫠

Yeah I rolled my eyes at the "hot wheels" comment but some of y'all attacking her are the same people casually dropping the r word on the reg or voted for people who are trying to dismantle disabled peoples healthcare...

so like...

shut up 🤍

RFK Jr's "Wellness Farms" idea sounds wayyyyy too similar to Hitler's T4 experiment, where they took disabled people from their families to "help them" and then would kill them.

For a @motherjones.com story, I am looking to speak to a veteran whose healthcare was interrupted as a result of VA firings/people being put on administrative leave. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.

As a Medicaid recipient, having a medical emergency right now, I am so scared that I will lose my healthcare in the future that will create barriers to the care I need

Great, the hospital dismissed my symptoms 3 days ago and now I'm having a medical emergency... FUCK MEDICAL SEXISM. I'm not even nervous I'm just angry, this was so preventable.

I don't think people understand what 2020 did to my anxiety levels lol