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Poverty and disability often go together.

It’s difficult to “try harder” your way out of financial problems when you lose your health.

The pull yourselves up by your bootstrap mentality goes out the window if you’re bedbound.

It can happen to anyone at any time.

They aren’t moral failings.

nobody ask me about whatever trump said about autism I will just direct you to read neurotribes and @ericmgarcia.bsky.social’s book we’re not broken and to follow @slooterman.bsky.social @juliametraux.bsky.social as well

I invite you not to waste your time with it either unless you have to

#Healthcare

Call Congress, 202-224-3121 for the next CR cycle. Community Health Centers are on the edge too.

For @resist.bot here’s a handy petition to sign by texting ‘sign PFCLQT’ to 50409. Or write your own!

resist.bot/petitions/PF...

some thoughts on Newsom:

1. the reason I am desperate for Literally Anyone Else to be the standard bearer is specifically his stance on trans rights - he's been bad on other issues, like homelessness, but I really worry he'll lead the Dems towards Labour if he's the guy in charge

Meredith Lee Hill on Twitter: “Speaker Johnson this morning acknowledges he doesn't have the votes to pass the rule yet - "we're working on all that right now" he tells @nicholaswu12 "working through everybody's concerns and letting them know this is the best possible product we can produce."”

As of right now, House Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass Trump’s Tax Scam that would gut Medicaid to give billionaires more tax cuts.

Keep calling GOP representatives: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Join a phonebank to contact voters in key GOP districts: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

🚨NEVER FORGET: The House is capable of stopping the bill now. It’s time to turn our attention to our house representatives. Please call 202-224-3121 & tell them to vote: No! We all must call so this bill does NOT pass.

I am just a microscopist with social anxiety. But seeing #Covid impact on the brain through the lenses of the microscope has affected me. It’s hard not to feel for the millions sick everywhere.

Below is a 2021 video about our research. Can we please keep talking about #LongCovid?

hi, cis folks!

the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people!

if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵

One big one is to submit a public comment by Monday morning about the DOE’s move to remove accessibility requirements in public buildings.

This massive violation of the ADA and disability rights has flown under the radar.

Please share far & wide and let’s make sure they hear our voice!

Brother Of Disabled Man To Canadian Hospital: He Is ‘Dying In Front Of You’ The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital – which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water.

Roger Foley has been speaking out about coercion within Canada's MAiD (medical assistance in dying) program for years.

He's been pushed to access it, despite repeatedly telling hospital staff he doesn't want to die.

He's had his accommodation for special lighting removed. Food & water restricted:

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

Also thinking this :/

now is the time for universities to announce that they collectively will not disenroll any international student who has their visa revoked, and that they will ensure remote degree completion is possible

stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE

A doctor in France administered lethal doses of morphine plus a benzodiazepine to a disabled patient who had NOT requested euthanasia.

This is not only eugenics, it’s murder.

Make America Sick and Diseased @altcdc.altgov.info @alt-hhs.altgov.info

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture There are endless ways to resist authoritarianism. You get to choose the ones that work for you.

Can't protest in person? Can't stop shopping from Amazon? There are endless ways you can actively resist the Tr*mp regime. Your contribution is needed. Your contribution matters. We need you.

Constant reminder that preaching about getting off the internet ignores the thousands of people running around unmasked has consigned here.

It’s great that YOU feel better out in “the real world”, but don’t pretend it’s something everyone can do and the only way to be.

Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

I'm seeing a lot of people announce they're leaving the country if habeas corpus is indeed suspended. That's understandable, especially for racialized, disabled, and trans people. But leaving is a privilege most people don't have.

Can you post a link to their link tree or something?

google search for "best n95 for crying in"

Sources for this?

Vous naviguez sur le site de Radio-Canada

A 66 year old quadriplegic man died via MAiD (Assisted Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in a Quebec ER

His advocate was threatened with removal because she was fighting to get him a mattress to prevent sores

A second patient at the same hospital ended up on Palliative care due to bedsores

We're going to hear lots of talk about comfort and convenience as the tariffs hit. Remember, an instant pot or a microwave might look like a convenience to some clueless politician, but for a parent it's a fundamental tool to cope with a world that doesn't afford them time to do anything but work.

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

I EP’d "Pretty Gay" for 2 reasons: 1) out of love for my friend Catherine; 2) to see if the Dropout model was replicable on a smaller scale. After 21 episodes, it's now successful enough that Catherine can make it her FT job. 🤗

Season 3 premieres May 7, only on Patreon.

If you're in California, here's a bill to protect your legal right to wear a mask.

These bills need our support. Mask bans pose a threat to public health, but they also encourage ableism and discrimination.

Everyone needs the legal right to keep themselves and their families safe.

After New York COVID play reporting vanishes, artists launch global cultural intervention, call-in Eric Bogosian In recent weeks, a small but pointed COVID-based theater project has triggered a strange trail of digital disruption.

“SARS-CoV-2 is not just a virus. COVID is not just a pandemic. It’s an aperture, a breach in the fabric of our shared reality.

It makes things visible.

And once you see it — really see it — you can’t unsee anything.”

This. Once you step out of the denial bubble, you really can’t go back in:

remember: they are testing boundaries, not enforcing laws

if we show them we won't take it, their options are to give in or crack down, and so far they haven't had the will to crack down