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A sign saying: Don’t Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Poor.

What you see on Capitol Hill on a muggy summer morning when the Senate is going to vote on a Bill to strip health care away from almost 17 million people.

A photo of the U.S. Capitol with a crescent moon over the dome.

What you see on a muggy Sunday summer evening when the Republicans have delayed a vote on a bill that will cut $930 billion from Medicaid and remove almost 17 million people from health care coverage.

She’s just going to help some people die faster.

A bed of red tulips at night with the Capitol dome in the background.

A late evening view of the Capitol.

Jamie Raskin Announces FOIA Demands for Personal Data Held by Doge and Elon Musk - Jamie Raskin for Congress Federal District Court Decision Opens Up Path for All Americans to Check on Their Personal Data Held by this New Federal Agency

U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

Citizens need only fill out the form and mail it in to DOGE.

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Trump blaming people with disabilities really makes the lack of an outspoken advocate for people with disabilities in the Senate like a Ted Kennedy or a tom Harkin or a Bob Casey or a Sherrod Brown felt. Or an Orrin Hatch or Bob Dole.

Thanks, too, to Chad in Sen. Brown’s office and Sam in Sen. Wyden’s office.

Thank you, President Biden!

FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle claims that it falsely advertised its AI-powered web accessibility tool as capable of making any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Every child deserves safety, dignity, and care. Restraint and seclusion practices in schools are harming vulnerable disabled children. Read to understand the issue, please share to raise awareness. Together, we can protect our children. #AgainstRestraint
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Elton John isn’t even a bathroom fixture.

Brown haired dog on a porch waiting by a table.

Fox on a corner sidewalk.

“the Report”

Watched this last night!

Tom McCormick in a dark green Eagles sweatshirt.

Happy New Year! Miss my Dad.

John Lennon, a white man with longish hair and glasses wearing a tuxedo, next to Muhammad Ali, a Black man in a Tuxedo, with Yoko Ono, an Asian woman in a white dress. They are surrounded by other people.

A pic that goes hard: John Lennon and Yoko Ono with Muhammad Ali at Jimmy Carter’s inauguration in 1977.

Photo credit: Wally McNamee for Corbis via Getty Images

Jimmy Carter Dies at 100: News and Reactions (Gift Article) The former president, a peanut farmer and Democrat from Georgia, was known as much for his charity and diplomatic work later in life as he was for his single presidential term, which ended in 1981.

Jimmy Carter has died. A remarkable man who has been on our minds a lot lately, for many reasons. What an example he set for everyone who has had to ask themselves, “Now what?”

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

Pic of brief column in the New York Times Book Review “Newly Published” section highlighting “Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe” by Matthew Gabrielle and David Perry.

@lollardfish.bsky.social Congrats on the NYTimes Book Review blurb this morning.

Justice?

Portland to pay largest-ever settlement in suit over excessive police force The settlement could set a precedent for future excessive police force lawsuits.

A disabled protester (with the same disability as I have, Osteogenesis imperfecta) was awarded $400K after being kicked in his wheelchair during 2020 racial justice protests. Let this be a precedent: www.axios.com/local/portla...

With Sherrod Brown and Bob Casey losing, Democrats lost two big voices for disability rights. Sherrod Brown was a huge advocate for lifting the asset limit on SSI. Bob Casey supported special education and spending more on Medicaid home services. #PASen #CripTheVote #OHSen

YouTube video by Baltimore Orioles Every Strikeout by an Orioles Pitcher in 2024 | Baltimore Orioles

Orioles just put out a video of every O's pitcher strikeout from 2024. Tucker Davidson's 1 k is at 1:26:43 for all you sickos

youtu.be/GMKpxw_dh4s?...

I would run out of walk before I found a way to calm my swirl of post-election emotions about this.

Painting of a fox and tree on a driveway done by a 9-year old and a 7-year old.

Art everywhere.

Complete list of shortstops in MLB history with 2000 hits, 200 home runs, and 400 stolen bases:

1) Jimmy Rollins

Opinion | Trump's embrace of RFK Jr. is demoralizing for autistic people like me Kennedy sees autistic people as problems to be solved, not as people with disabilities who deserve to be accepted.

I’ve spent the last decade chronicling the #Autism rights movement and #Neurodiversity as a political movement. It had slow but gradual gains. But RFK Jr.‘s nomination to HHS takes a sledgehammer to those hard-won gains.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

A dark blue card with gold lettering attached to the corner of a computer screen that says: “Keep calm and count every vote.”

Thirded

Seconded. Love @lollardfish.bsky.social