@AmyKriewaldt

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

These practices undermine such regulatory agencies’ accountability to the American people and prevent a unified and coherent execution of Federal law. For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President.   Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register.

Yesterday 🍊’s team put out an executive order, demanding the current president be given more power than any president before him ever had.

Today he called himself a king & officially decided to ignore court orders.

A slideshow of my daughter’s art. She was 8 when she drew all of these last summer. I found her notebook while unpacking moving boxes last night.

#art #autisticcommunity #rainbow #cats

Autistic women face barriers to safe and supportive maternity care – new research Autistic women report feeling unheard, misunderstood and even unsafe during pregnancy and childbirth, according to new research.

Autistic mothers in maternity care felt many staff didn’t understand how autistic people communicate & experience pain, & can "feel pain at the same level as non-autistic people—but often show it differently, including having fewer outward signs of pain."

theconversation.com/autistic-wom... #autism

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

A black and white photo of a woman with light skin and dark hair with silver highlights. She is holding up an irregularly-shaped pendant that is hanging around her neck from a thin chain. The stone has distinct etching on it.

I’ve been writing up a storm, lately. So I splurged on this meteorite pendant from one of my favorite Etsy jewelers — an early Valentine present from me to me. It’s a little nod to my late father, who worked on Project Mercury.

#WritingCommunity #AutisticCommunity #Jewelry #Meteorite #Nerd #Writer

A photo of 7-year-old Amy, a girl with dark hair and light skin wearing a Dirndl, sits at a walnut-case piano with her hands shaped into claws hovering above the keyboard. Behind her is an electric organ, a table full of trophies, and stacks upon stacks of papers. White text gives the title of her essay and address of her blog: AmyKriewaldt.Substack.Com.

The day after the election, I was overcome with emotion. This is what I wrote but never shared until now.

#WritingCommunity #Writer #Blogger

Disability rights are human rights—needless to say, yet still necessary to say.

#Disability #HumanRights #SDGs #HumanRights #Equity #Poverty #Accessibility #WeAreBillionStrong #AXSChat

As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.

Background photo shows a jade green and black cup and saucer with hot chocolate and a gingerbread person lounging inside of the cup as a treat for writing.

Writing: A first draft isn't ever going to be your final story draft, nor should it be. But it needs to get done, so you can review the story, find the best ways to enhance it, and have follow-up drafts after it to make a book possible. - Wrtr #amwriting Be #Writing. #author #writer ~ #authorsky

“I coached football long enough to know that, when somebody draws up a playbook, they plan on using it.” @governorwalz.mn.gov

We told you.
We told you.
We told you.

Now we are surrounded by inexplicable pain and death, no death is more mysterious or portentous than others, because every death which is not the fruit of a long life is now unaccounted for, since we cannot or will not account for it: not just because, taking local examples, we no longer know why a society may put its own people to death for breaking its rules, nor when it may intervene with death in a foreign place, nor because highway deaths need not happen, nor because the pollution of our air and water has become deliberate, nor because poverty has become inflicted—but because we do not know our position with respect to such things.

Now we are surrounded by inexplicable pain and death, no death is more mysterious or portentous than others, because every death which is not the fruit of a long life is now unaccounted for...

- Stanley Cavell on King Lear and the avoidance of love

Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew one another. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.” -Carl Sagan - Keep Writing. ~ Background photo shows the back of a person wearing a hoodie looking out over a reflecting lake at night, trees show in the distance with stars in the sky.

Authors are the best people. We write despite all the people and things in the world saying not to. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting Keep Writing. Be Writing. #author #writer #writing ~ #authorsky

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“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

three kittens sitting in individual pink cardboard boxes labeled ‘Kitten.’ The kitten on the left is dark with a fluffy coat, the one in the middle is white with black markings and blue eyes, and the one on the right is orange, peacefully sleeping

they are labeled just incase you didn’t know

I love this. 🩷

a cat sits beside the numbers ‘2024.’ In the next panel, it looks intently at the numbers. In the final panel, the cat knocks down the ‘2024,’ signifying new years and in typical playful cat fashion!

happy new year! 🎊

Thank you!

😆 I’ve tried to go back to edit way too many times and then just dealt with typos or lack of hashtags. Editing is an accessibility feature for me with my ADHD. 🫠

A black splotchy border surrounds a teal background. There is a an image resembling torn beige paper taking up most of the graphic with dark red quotation marks at the top. Black text on the paper reads, “Sometimes I think we give away what we don’t need in an effort to forget what we don’t have. We don’t assuage our guilt, we feed it.” Beneath the torn paper is the title of the essay and year, “Hearing Silence, 2013.” A round logo in the lower right corner has curved text reading “Amy Kriewaldt Writes” around the outline of a red typewriter, surrounded by blue circles decorated with stars.

I had plans in early 2024 to self-publish a collection of old essays on March 21st, but my life was upended by an illness in the family and multiple moves. Now that I’m settled back home, I decided to mete it out in memes instead.

The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time

Hey, at least they’re giving the land a vote in their maps—finally, representation for dirt and trees!

Thank you. 🙏🏻 I appreciate that understanding and encouragement. 💖

An iPad open to a page of Memoir As Medicine by Nancy Aronie on Kindle app. It is open to Chapter Three, which is entitled, “Why Write?” The iPad is sitting on the bookstand of an elliptical machine, which is in use by the poster.

A blue background with light yellow stars and yellow quotation marks at the top. White text reads, “If I hadn’t written it all down, I would have forgotten so much of the hardest thing I’ve ever done. But the biggest healing, the biggest teaching, the most surprising thing: I would not have known how exquisitely beautiful the whole trip was. That’s how I know writing your memoir is medicine.” Quite attributed to Nancy Slonim Aronie, from Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story

Since my mother died in 2022, I have been stuck as a writer. I’ve dumped all my energy into being an advocate and lost my voice. Even after attending a workshop with Nancy in late ‘22, I wasn’t ready to heal.

But now I’m home.

And I’m ready.

#WritingCommunity #DisabilityCommunity

URGENT CALL TO ACTION STOP RIGHT-WING ATTACKS ON TRANS YOUTH: TELL CONGRESS TO KEEP RESTRICTIONS ON GENDER AFFIRMING CARE OUT OF THE NDAA! Action link is in the main post Background is an image of people protesting for trans youth in DC Bottom of the image has the Metro DC DSA Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy logo as well as the National DSA TRBA logo

‼️Urgent ‼️

Please take action to let your congresspeople know that the gender-affirming care bans in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act are unacceptable.

mdcdsa.org/ndaa

The absence of a disabled tech professional org reflects systemic biases & low disability visibility in tech.

We need a space to champion accessibility, innovation, and leadership by disabled professionals.

#WeAreBillionStrong #AXSChat #HumanRights #Disability #Technology