Calling for Occupational Therapists to participate in this graduate student thesis research project:. Thank you for your help! This is 15 minutes of your time for the good karma of supporting graduate students ☺️

Thank you, Senator Van Hollen

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Shot, chaser

Powerful, heartfelt words from Yuval Abraham who is so very articulate.

There is another way. #NoOtherLand #Oscars2025 #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

I'd donate to support this effort if it's a funding issue!

👀 DOJ acknowledges making two significant errors during a court hearing last week on efforts to dismantle USAID

1) It said only 500 employees had been placed on leave. Actual number was 2,140.

2) Said only future contracts were stopped. Existing contracts were also stopped.

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

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Overwhelmed by the flooded zone? This tracks executive orders and you can sort by category (such as education):

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Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Jamie here. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Sticking around meta but..... Much less frequently

YouTube video by MSNBC RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive

This is a good time to bring up RFK Jr's role in a major measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019.

Over 𝟴𝟬 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 died. 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣.

RFK Jr has blood on his hands. He's not fit to have any say about vaccines.
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The link from the Department of Education about 504 plans no longer works. www.ed.gov/laws-and-pol...

Thank you, Inspectors General

January 25, 2025 We have all earned a break for this week, but as some of you have heard me say, I write these letters with an eye to what a graduate student will need to know in 150 years.

January 25, 2025

I'm so excited to have the Awkward Yeti here!

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Likewise!

I'm excited finding such an active OT community here! It was always buried on Twitter.

That sounds wonderful! All organizing and developing these skills are so valuable.

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Currently the focus is to prepare OT students with knowledge on how to contact legislators to support relevant legislation - usually in coursework it's focused on programs that support disabled residents, or DME billing support, or to advocate in favor of insurance covering OT services.

It's definitely a slow process towards better quality care with an eye on equity. We're trying to develop better advocacy with our students in contact with legislators.... Although it's unclear what will happen over the next four years here 🫣

The US system is unfortunately very messy and broken (besides bankruptcy the recent gun violence reactions?!?!). I teach OT higher education and explaining our (US) system to my students is awful, they can barely believe our reality!

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Fixing our healthcare system would address poverty across the lifespan! It's endlessly frustrating that we haven't managed to figure this out at a legislative level.

Let’s spread some positivity on this Sunday Funday! Shout out to the Mexican government for sending firefighters to help with the California fires, we see you and we appreciate you so much. We need to stay united in these troubling times. MAGA will not divide us.

I’m with Denmark.

I'm proud of Massachusetts and our public education system!