if this is not the country you know then you’ve never known this country how nice of her to let you sleep so long while so many people could never go to bed

"What can I do?" I think we often ask ourselves that, not knowing each of us matters. Some of us rally, some speak -- some run for Congress. Join @thetattooedjew.com and me tomorrow to help get @hartzell.bsky.social to DC! We're featuring speakers fighting for disability justice.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

This! Including masking up with high-quality N95 or better respirators during marches and rallies to protect yourself and your comrades. We can’t march or get much done if we are down with flu, long COVID, etc. Eugenics and ableism does not belong in progressive circles.

fascism will disabled a lot of people, particularly folks who are organizing and resisting. so what will it take for the left to actually care about disabled people?

You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.

Hey, y'all! Come join me on Sunday, Jan 25, at 3 pm Central for a virtual campaign fundraiser for @hartzell.bsky.social! We'll be focusing on disability justice, and I'm proud to co-host with @thetattooedjew.com. Let's rock this vote and get Hartzell to DC!

It’s time for the world to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the U.S Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation

Reminder that two weeks ago, the US government had $900 billion to give to the military to be able to do things like commit war crimes in Venezuela, but they cut precisely the same amount in healthcare for poor and disabled folks in July, and millions more people are losing healthcare as we speak.

"The impact of ending the subsidies, alongside the myriad other attacks on health care access, is hard to overstate." My latest for @prismreports.org: prismreports.org/2025/12/10/a... Thanks to @thetattooedjew.com @jz-or-not.bsky.social @seemiaroll.bsky.social for your comments and advocacy!

Over 12 million people across the United States are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, a status called “dual eligible”. Meet Kayla R., a young disabled woman in Georgia navigating life, work, and the complex reality of being dual-enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid- youtu.be/xLsbvujX7oo?...

what a gift it was to have @sfdirewolf.bsky.social as a friend in this life. her wisdom, her genuine care for her people, her thoughtfulness, her deep deep love for community. i am really not sure how the world keeps turning without her, but knowing her, she’ll figure out a way to keep us going.

shoutout to all the Dems who sold out the American people tonight, but a huge “fuck you” goes to Senator Fetterman for being an especially giant, unbreakable piece of shit from the dehydrated ass of the Democratic Party 🥰

‘A shutout for parents’: Looming SNAP, WIC, and Head Start cutoffs threaten children’s health, advocates say www.healthbeat.org/atlanta/2025... by @rgrapevine.bsky.social via @healthbeat.org CC: @mbinderman.bsky.social @ifefinchfloyd.bsky.social @thetattooedjew.com

we closed this application yesterday. we got an unbelievable 18,588 applications totaling $4,157,600 in $100 and $250 requests. we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more. if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!

Doing this work is the honor of my life. The state ain’t gonna save us. We save us.

We are offering one time payments to disabled folks in the South who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month. If you need help, please find more information and details at ndsdj.org/snaphelp. If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate We take care of each other ❤️

So proud to be part of this collective working toward accessible futures. Thank you @sfdirewolf.bsky.social for making this possible and thank you @drsamischalk.bsky.social and the wonderful folks at @newdisabledsouth.org for organizing what I hope will be one of many events to come.

You actually don’t have to hand it to Donald Trump. You don’t have to give him credit for anything. He’s a horrible human being who has never known a day of suffering in his life. Nor does he care an ounce about the suffering of anybody else. Hope that helps.

you should be asking yourself why you want a cure for autism. be honest with yourself. what is it that makes you believe autism and autistic people should not exist. and side note: tylenol does not cause autism

Over the last 5+ years, the COVID-fighting “toolkit” should’ve expanded, not narrowed. Now, RFK Jr's attacks on the COVID vaccines throw into harsh relief the reality that we only have one "tool" left. Where is the institutional mitigation? My latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

I don’t have much to say about the Georgia political news except this: a lot of y’all expected near perfection out of a Black woman but seem to give every bit of grace and a pair of wide open arms to a white man who was an active part of so much harm in our state. Maybe you should think about why 🤗

we really need to do something about white on white crime huh

Dozens of husbands and fathers were murdered today in Gaza with your tax dollars. Goodnight.

How many Palestinians in Gaza were shot and killed today? How many of them were children? How many of them didn’t ask for nor celebrate nor perpetuate the kind of violence they’re subjected to on a daily basis? How many of you care?

Come join my team! We at @newdisabledsouth.org are looking for a digital fundraising manager. Apply at go.newdisabledsouth.org/digi-fundraising

There are four questions on the federal background check that every federal employee/candidate must answer. We've got a big problem, don't we. 1/5

when i was 6 years old, i woke up on september 2nd and found my triplet brother paul — my best friend since we shared a womb and truly one of my soulmates in life — had died in his sleep. 28 years later, there has never been a single day since that i haven’t thought about him.

we at @newdisabledsouth.org dropped some new merch. the last shirt is a reference to trump’s executive order that said disability diagnoses “poses a dire threat to the american people and our way of life.” store.newdisabledsouth.org

I didn’t actually believe it was true but for a brief moment I had this feeling. It was kind of like the moment I experienced love at first sight. Butterflies fluttering. A clear vision of the future. A warmth like a long hug in the bitter cold of winter. What was this feeling? It was hope.

today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."

For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about America’s favorite bipartisan pastime: starving people at home and abroad. As officials confirm what we already know, that there is a famine in Gaza, I hope we can all remember that none of this is unavoidable. It is a choice.

"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy. It’s more than policy, though. It’s woven into the fabric of this country since its inception." Read our latest op-ed from @thetattooedjew.com ⤵️

Thrilled for this convo with terrific guests Dom Kelly, @thetattooedjew.com and Patrick Cokley this Thursday night at 7pmET! Sign up here: bit.ly/FairFightTog...

So excited for this conversation on Thursday night!

Take some time today to sit with @newdisabledsouth.org's @thetattooedjew.com's words from @caringacross.org's 60-hour Medicaid Vigil: "The passing of this bill while funding endless wars & genocide says clearly that Congress's favorite bipartisan pastime is starving & killing the world's children."

we have to stop letting these disabled people live on government healthcare forever and leech off taxpayers.

July is Disability Pride Month! In a recent episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, our BMP colleague Adaku Utah spoke with Dom Kelly (@thetattooedjew.com) from @newdisabledsouth.org about lessons from disability justice movements:

also y’all are talking about disabled, Black, other POC, and queer folks because our region has the most of all of those groups out of anywhere in the country.

anybody who says people, particularly and especially children, in the South deserve to die because they’re in “red states” can get fucked.

they tell you you don’t need to wear a mask or do anything to protect yourself from a disabling airborne disease, they “end the pandemic” which means back to work in the office, and then they cut a trillion dollars from medicaid. are you getting it now?

It doesn’t have to be like this. We don’t have to die at the hands of corrupt politicians, billionaires, and wealthy corporations. We can build a different world. While we do that, we have to care for each other and help each other survive this. We’ve done it before. @newdisabledsouth.org

🥹 Thank you so much, that means the world!!

Congrats to Dom Kelly @thetattooedjew.com and @newdisabledsouth.org, and also everything Dom said.