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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

It’s time, Skylights!

However you plan to participate today, THANK YOU. We need your voice.

America doesn’t do kings. 🇺🇸

❤️ Stay safe, stay connected.

(@vjaybomb.bsky.social outdid themselves last night)

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital.

“Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

Carr in 2022

From the FCC's own website(!), citing 47 U.S.C. § 326, explicitly declared:

"no regulation or condition shall be promulgated or fixed by the Commission which shall interfere with the right of free speech by means of [over-the-air] broadcast communication."

www.fcc.gov/consumers/gu...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Photojournalist Bill Biggart died when the second tower collapsed on him on 9/11, but the film he shot that day and his flash card were recovered from the debris and developed, along with his flash card.

You can see his amazing photos of 9/11, the last photos he took while alive, here:

Hochul to let pharmacists prescribe COVID vaccines amid federal policy shift An executive order comes as access tightens and lawmakers eye state-level solutions.

“New York will give pharmacists cover to dispense COVID-19 vaccines this fall in the wake of uncertainty over federal immunization policy, a state official said.”

From Jimmy Vielkind:
gothamist.com/news/hochul-...

EyeGaze AAC for Autistic 2022 AAC in the cloud presentation AAC in the cloud presentation 2022  on EyeGaze AAC for Autistics,  below is the video and under the video of the presentation is the script/...

"Motor skills vary a lot for every Autistic, it's also important to realize, that someone can have both really good, and really bad, motor skills, because there are so many different types and areas of motor skills"

autisticaacunderground.blogspot.com/2022/07/eyeg... #autism #neurodiversity #AAC

Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy still has seats for rising 2nd and 3rd graders available.

NYC Families - Pls share! Limited seats still available at Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy for rising 2nd and 3rd graders; and at South Bronx Academy for rising 2nd graders.

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no…

The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.

This week, we published that list.

“What they did there was torture us” Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.

Now free, several men sent to CECOT talked to @nlanard.bsky.social and @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social: “What they did there was torture us” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yes! Yes! And Yes! With a fully developed program for grades 9-12.

Enraging story from @alexzimmerman.bsky.social. NYC hasn’t paid its ~1,000 Teaching Fellows the entire 7 weeks they’ve been working this summer, forcing some to go into debt to cover rent and food. This at a time the city is trying to hire in historic numbers: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

CREW sues to challenge destruction of CDC FOIA office - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington The closure of the CDC's entire FOIA office violates both FOIA and the Administrative Procedure Act and the CDC must be compelled to follow the law.

The closure of the CDC’s entire FOIA office is unacceptable and in fact, illegal.

Americans shouldn't be left in the dark about how the CDC is operating.

Transparency matters. So we're suing.

ASAN Appalled by Hiring of Quack David Geier for HHS Study - Autistic Self Advocacy Network HHS, under the direction of RFK Jr., has hired known conspiracy theorist and quack David Geier to run a planned study which will investigate the thoroughly disproven idea of a link between childhood v...

autisticadvocacy.org/2025/03/asan...

Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021. @propublica.org found sepsis rates shot up over 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the 2nd trimester.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.

yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff

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After we sued, the National Endowment for the Arts temporarily dropped its requirement forcing grant applicants to certify that they won’t promote “gender ideology.”

We’re in court today with @riaclu.bsky.social to ensure the NEA keeps protecting artistic freedom.

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

👏👏👏 Yaaass.

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses.

Let’s not make it harder to learn.

Whelp NYC’s OCR will be closing/ is closed.

A woman in a wheelchair cries out as she is manhandled by four police officers, pulling her out of her chair.

A man with a red and white cane shouts as he is dragged on his knees down a hallway in the Capitol building.

CW police brutality to disabled people

As we see calls for civil disobedience ramp up again, I want to remind folks that 50% of excessive force deaths in police custody are disabled people. There is a misapprehension that cops are hesitant to harm disabled folks. That is not true.

Wanted: New Hochul running mate Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado announced that he would not run for reelection next year, leaving open a spot on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ticket.

The Hochul/Delgado breakup that we've all been waiting for finally happened after the LG said he wouldn't run on her ticket again www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...