I’m glad that in my lifetime I am finally witnessing the shift of people understanding that it’s not that countries and people needed to be liberated by the United States, but that they need to be liberated FROM the United States.
We could end homelessness and hunger tomorrow if we wanted to.
We could agree that everyone should be fed and housed.
We could admit that being disabled, poor, homeless or unemployed is not a moral failing.
That society would be better off if everyone’s basic needs were met.
A long covid clinic in my city has drs who don't mask with LC patients... and they also "aren't covid specialists & can't treat LC". They only do research (which they don't advertise, hoping to bring more patients through). I think for many researchers the grants are what they care about.
On this Disability Day of Mourning, let’s honor Wael Tarabishi, a disabled man who died when ICE took his caregiver away.
Wael told them he would die without his father who was his “arms, legs & lungs”.
ICE took him anyways.
Wael died 3 months later:
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Of course they wouldn't have to be, if @cmadocs.bsky.social recommended & strongly advocated for #CleanAir in schools -
This is ableism and eugenics and it’s most ugly.
Rodney has suffered for a year with almost no media coverage.
No one cares about disabled lives.
Please fight for him. He’s got the attention of Congress now, let’s make sure they keep up the pressure.
You can sign a petition for his release too!
🫂 Im a softie too! In the ongoing process of unlearning internalized ableism. I'm still surprised how far the concept of "living a life" can be stretched. Glad my efforts can be of support!
Or.... you don't have to 🤷♀️ there are plenty of wonderful things for softies too!
I called her a beast for returning to the sport after 16 years retired & trying PAIRS. Yeah, she's an idol.
You get used to it? My 1st time back on the ice a few years after ending my skating days, I had the gentlest fall ever & was in pain for a long time 😅 i once hit the boards mid-air while rotating, took a minute to make sure I wasn't injured, then tried the jump again! No idea how our bodies do that.
It seems as though Deanna also skated that program with an injured nose, possibly broken? I guess there was a nasty fall on warm-up. She is the EPITOME of determination.
AND, let's remember that this is basic human decency. Comparing leaders in this way & putting one on a pedestal for this is a bit dangerous bc it can create a blanket trust that is not earned.
The rebuttal to this is that Star Trek is not a show about how the future could be but how the present should be. To eradicate disability, rather than accept and accommodate it, is a eugenicist ideal.
I hope he CAN process this effectively & recover his mental game. He's been so consistent for so long. It was an extremely rough performance, not even just for him. Oof.
Yep! And the kid has a mostly consistent quad axel in the mix & is learning who he is creatively in his performance. He'll for sure win again. A particularly hard loss this one was, not just being the Olympics, but also how far off of his game he was.
You think? I thought that at first, but I've seen more maturity over recent years. An arrogant skater would've blazed past his opponents after that loss, but he took the time, in what must've been a dysregulated moment, to congratulate & share seemingly kind words. This exp will humble him further.
Yeah, he didn't only fall... It was an unprecedented disastrous performance. The kid hadn't lost a single competition, winning by a long shot, since Nov 2023. Here's to hoping he can overcome the mental toll this must've caused.
Ilia hadn't lost a competition since 2023. Olympics is a different kind of pressure, but there also might be something to there having been 2 days btwn their competition days. SO many consistent skaters were quite off, which is rare. They're not trained to withstand 2 days of waiting & not skating.
Bits of relief help take off the overall load. I try to find them where I can & think its often the most attainable goal. Its a frustratingly slow process to be sure ❤️
Holy hell! Im not a doctor & I wouldn't prescribe "exercise"... this idea that LC is simply deconditioning is so absurd! Many of us literally wake up this way. Im so sorry it took 4 years & I hope the BB's are helping!
Amazon made a choice to partner with Flock and feed data to ICE.
They chose to allow their popular ring cameras to spy on people’s neighbours for the purpose of sending them to camps.
The damage is done.
Don’t buy a Ring camera and don’t support Amazon.
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Oh I will. Wish others would step up to make it a more accessible option to purchase necessities elsewhere. Ive initiated a hyper local community care collective, but there's not enough buy in for this sort of network or regular support.
As a disabled person, I do my best, but it's not always possible.
She’s listing the names of people shot & killed
Executed by agents who aren’t being held responsible
Let’s also remember the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025
The deadliest year on record
Countless more have been disabled
Children are being exposed to measles in detention
It must stop:
The measles outbreak in the Dilley Detention facility will disable and kill children.
It’s not a flaw or an accident.
This is the system working as intended.
Fascism and eugenics go hand in hand.
They want the “others” to die.
Disease spread is a tool of the colonizer.
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!
Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.
He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.
His health is declining.
Public outrage might save his life.
Say his name:
Many of his citizens and the indigenous people of this land are "on the menu".
Re-instate a disability minister position. It was hard to make adequate improvements WITH a disability minister.
