‘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.

My reflections on me and @newdisabledsouth.org being named to the Forbes Accessibility 100 list. This took me a few days to write, and even though it may come with consequences, I think it’s important. Thanks for reading y’all.

Excited about this

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Join us on Monday, July 14th to learn about organizing for change at a local level with @thetattooedjew.com! Details and registration: www.disabilityvictory.org/events/71425...

We’re excited to announce Disability Unbound: A Lecture Series! Join us via zoom, June 17, with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha to explore Care Webs—what they are, why they matter, and how we build them together!🫂 Register for FREE here: www.newdisabledsouthrising.org/lectureseries

Nobody working a full time job should be paid below $70,000 a year. Ideally, in the wealthiest country in the world, I don’t think anyone should make below $100,000 a year. It’s the billionaire class that has convinced us that the working class expects too much. That’s a lie. We all deserve more.

For @mondoweiss.net, I wrote about how those claiming to do the work of disability rights and justice while staying silent on the genocide of Palestinians are actually doing no such thing.

Liberals Stop Stanning Anybody and Everybody Who Turns Against Trump But Especially The Literal Worst People Ever 2025 Challenge

Thank you, @thetattooedjew.com for talking about disability justice! I especially appreciate you mentioning those with invisible disabilities. #mecfs 'Closer Look with Rose Scott' on the WABE app! Now at www.wabe.org. bit.ly/44aAa28 Brought to you by your WABE

It pains me that the Star of David, whose origins in Jewish history lie with the shields of King David’s army and was re-invoked to represent the decolonial Judean revolt against the Romans, has now been warped by Zionists to be associated with colonial oppression against our Palestinian cousins.

Y'all refuse to accept that MAHA is a eugenicist project. You want to ascribe to ignorance what is actually malice.

There is no disability justice without a free Palestine. You cannot claim to do the work of disability justice if you’re not fighting for Palestinian liberation.

Peter Singer was honored by TIME on the TIME 100 Philanthropy list as an "innovator", and I dream of the day when we stop awarding eugenicists like Singer and start awarding those who are in the crosshairs of the attempt to erase disabled people but fight back against it with everything they have.

If you're going to call your Representative, if you're going to ask anyone else in your network to call their Representative, you have to do it now. We expect a floor vote relatively soon — we're down to the final few hours.