Kathy Flaherty

Blind woman denied benefits because she attended DWP interview with help of mother Charlotte Easton says she was told that as she had been able to travel to her assessment, she must be able to work

“More than half (51%) of disabled people surveyed said they felt humiliated by going through the benefits process. 45% said it had made symptoms of the condition worse.”

What a shameful indictment of our social security system. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

What Will Increase Everyone’s Well-Being? Mariame Kaba explains Transformative Justice and why it is essential to improving the lives of all humans. From Mariame's opening statement at the Abolitionist Gathering at the 2022 Allied Media Confe...

"…Harsha Walia asks a question I often turn to: 'Is what we’re doing increasing the possibility of freedom?' If my answer is NO, then I’m not doing it.

We have a lot to learn. Defund is the floor. We’ve moved on."

Mariame Kaba
@prisonculture.bsky.social

forgeorganizing.org/article/what...

Screenshot of text Today 3:59 pm. URGENT The updated COVID vaccine is not yet available and your appt must be rescheduled. Reschedule at cvs.com/vaccine

Was excited to have scheduled my flu shot and updated Covid booster for tomorrow but this afternoon I received this text. 🤬

Disability community says royal commission a turning point, but action must follow The disability royal commission's report has been described by advocates as a turning point towards a fully inclusive and de-segregated Australia — but they warn the recommendations must be acted on...

Disability community says royal commission a turning point, but action must follow for meaningful change

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...

The Physical and Mental Toll of Living With Long COVID: ‘I Feel Like Amid many unanswered questions and the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency declaration earlier this year, long COVID patients remain in limbo as they continue to manage and live with t...

The Physical and Mental Toll of Living With Long COVID: ‘I Feel Like We’ve Been Abandoned and Forgotten’

Yikes!

California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease The booming popularity of countertops made of engineered stone has driven a new epidemic of silicosis, an incurable lung disease, researchers have found.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Advocacy didn’t start with a lawsuit and won’t end with a settlement https://www.courant.com/2023/09/20/alicia-abramson-advocacy-that-didnt-start-with-a-yale-lawsuit-wont-end-with-a-settlement/

Fear over council policy that could force disabled people into care homes Disabled activists have said they are “very frightened” by council plans that could force people who rely on social care into residential homes against their wishes, and which they believe breach ...

A return to warehousing has always been the end game for this government. They have a lot of pals with a lot of money in private care homes, and given how little publicly-owned care remains, this is just another money funnel from the public purse to private corporations.

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@johnpring.bsky.social

The implications of state mandated mental health treatment are to violently rob people of autonomy & restrict freedom. I've had court mandated treatment, been committed involuntarily in-patient & out-patient. Hands off our bodies & minds.

There was a complete disconnect between Free Britney & a dismantling of institutional sanism & or cultural sanism. The same people who got on the bandwagon for her freedom mocked her for her mental health before & after. And zero consideration of the systemic harm done to people who aren't famous.

Picture of a frosted dill pickle donut from The Big E (pic courtesy of a friend)

Pickle donut from The Big E (I haven’t had this, but I would definitely try it. I know there are people on here who wouldn’t but why not restart the pickle discourse)

So, so very true.

After reading through your thread and Eb’s responses I want to thank you both for providing something else to think about and how none of these discussions can be had without nuance. (social media rarely lends itself to that.) also shows how out-of-whack the x algorithm is bc I missed it entirely

The UAW Strike Matters for the Entire US Working Class The United Auto Workers, headed by a new reform leadership, are set to strike the Big Three automakers at midnight tonight. The entire working class will be watching to see if autoworkers can claw bac...

Here’s my latest update on the UAW negotiations. T-minus six hours until the Big Three contracts expire!

I feel like the definition of being at “high risk” from covid really needs to include “high probability of messing up your health and life for months or years” not just “likely to immediately kill you.”

A 9% chance that I’m gonna be sick for at least three months is a pretty high risk!

Anwar FB Live: Harm Reduction in Mental Health | Senator Saud Anwar... Senator Saud Anwar was live.

Grateful to State Senator Saud Anwar for hosting a Facebook Live tonight about harm reduction in mental health and peer respites https://fb.watch/n23kFCX1qf/?mibextid=qC1gEa

It was a few years ago that I had this pizza, but it was actually delicious.

It shouldn’t take a lawsuit for Yale to change its student mental health policies, but it did. Great work Disability Rights CT. https://tinyurl.com/3fcp5zck

The Big E foods of 2023 include pickle cupcakes, dessert pizza When the Big E returns to West Springfield, Mass. on Sept. 15, vendors will be offering...

Ok, pickle cupcakes are taking this pickle thing a bit too far. But, if you’re going to The Big E this fall, they’ll be there https://tinyurl.com/2p8v2w6s

Oh, I misread your original post. Yay CT!

So depressing to see CT on this list

Hospitals are killing patients because they don't feel like doing infection control We now know COVID is fully airborne. We also know how to control airborne disease. So why are vulnerable people still dying of hospital-acquired COVID?

We know COVID is airborne. We know what airborne infection control looks like. But we’re so committed to the “back to normal” delusion, we’re refusing to implement it in hospitals - and killing patients

Read my latest on Substack:

thegauntlet.substack.com/p/hospitals-...

I think that’s a huge part of it. I have a few friends who don’t have invites here yet and I’m just waiting until I get my next code. Pulling them here one at a time every other week because that’s how often I get a new code

Ouch this truth hurts

You are such a good and kind person to think of others 💜 that’s one of the things that was so special about the bird app — I don’t know that most people have any idea of how much love/mutual aid/support/community was present on that platform. All most know is the outrage & the toxicity.

I haven’t left that platform fully yet because I don’t like feeling forced to give it up. (When the day comes that I’m unable to use the app without updating it, that will likely be the day that I leave.)