Learn why many labor unions fight against probationary periods and instead advocate for just-cause protections cwalocals.org/gass/probati...

💡 What is a labor union? What rights do workers get when they form a labor union? We made a plain language guide that talks about what a labor union is and why they matter. Check it out below!

Our second bargaining meeting begins today! Bargaining is when a labor union and their bosses set rules to make the workplace fair. We are excited to keep going. And we will keep the community updated on our progress! Learn more here: cwalocals.org/gass/pledge

In honor of Juneteenth, plz buy raffle tix to help a beloved Black & multiply disabled Chicago community member who's preparing for an upcoming surgery, grieving the loss of 5 loved ones in the last year, & navigating the shit healthcare system. DM me a screenshot of your contribution to be entered

Register now for the next CommunicationFIRST webinar on June 26: Policy Advocacy 101 for #AAC Users and Allies - featuring @jordynbzim.bsky.social, Bob Williams, Angelica Vega, Dean Strauss, Toby Latham, and Samuel Habib! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DisabilityRights

🚨 Big news: GASS just kicked off our first bargaining session on May 27th! 💥 Our bargaining committee is ready to fight for what matters to all of us. It might take time — but we’re in it together. ✊ Every member of GASS believes in this pledge! 💪 #UnionStrong

I'm a proud member of this labor union!

Do you want updates about what's happening with the Guild of Autistic Self-Advocate Staff (GASS)? Sign up for our newsletter: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

This is the power of collective organizing! Much love to my fellow union members!!!

LET'S FUCKIN' GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

I scroll and get sadder.

Just $21,240CAD, $4264USD, and £2000 until we break even. We are already sending new eSims using points thanks to your donations! We can definitely get there by the end of the month, if not sooner. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention facility: "The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent." mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett... #Palestine #Israel

Every person or child martyred is a universe extinguished. Every martyr was someone’s entire world. The heaviness of these moments are unbearable and incomprehensible. For the genocide in Gaza to continue while the world watches, feels like the end of the world as we know it.

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!

Is it too late to get hamantaschen in Chicago? Any recommendations??

Instead of March Madness this year I’ll be doing Starch Sadness which is where I just eat potatoes until I feel better

BREAKING: Barnes & Noble workers have ratified historic, first-in-the-nation union contracts at three NYC Barnes & Noble stores! RWDSU Prez @stunyc.bsky.social said: “A union is the only way to ensure workplace protections are secure – especially now, while laws protecting workers are under attack.”

please sign to tell ASAN management that "nothing about us without us" includes ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR UNION!!! #union #unionstrong #actuallyautistic actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

[about to become even more wrong] to be clear,

Q: Why is it so much easier for the US right to organize and be unified than the US left? A: Anti-Black racism. The only consistent thing that the right agrees on, is this. It's what unifies them. But the US left is very anti-Black too! So they try to get the benefits, without helping Black folk.🤷🏿‍♂️

I’ve never felt older than the time I was disappointed because Potbelly stopped offering *malt* as part of their milkshakes

TOMORROW ➡️ Letter carriers, labor unions & allies will rally to sound the alarm on the White House’s plans to dismantle USPS. We say #HELLNO! Join us as we #FightLikeHell to protect the universal service that keeps our communities connected. 📆 Mon, Feb 24, 1 P.M. 📍 Taft Carillon (across from NALC)

The thing I hate about Star Trek Enterprise is that lacks any ethical curiosity or cultural humility. They're always the 'good guys' with nothing new to learn or questions to consider. In contrast, The Next Generation does this ok and Discovery or Strange New Worlds do this superbly.

If you send funds to my friend, Ry, and if you tell** me about it, I’ll tell you which Star Trek character reflects the vibe of your profile/posts ** I just learned you can’t DM screenshots (or pics more generally) on BluSky, so I’ll verify by checking the contributions to the Fundrazr page

Like it's very conspicuous that, in the lore, Vulcans developed their emotional suppression because their emotions were so much.

Mr Spock always had emotions. So did Data. So does every autistic person you've ever met.

I cannot emphasize enough how we are in an era where everyone is to be treated like disabled people have always been treated.

If you send funds to my friend, Ry, and if you tell** me about it, I’ll tell you which Star Trek character reflects the vibe of your profile/posts ** I just learned you can’t DM screenshots (or pics more generally) on BluSky, so I’ll verify by checking the contributions to the Fundrazr page

BREAKING: Los Angeles fast food workers are ON STRIKE. As activists and immigrants across the nation are learning their rights, the fast food industry is lobbying against Know Your Rights Training for 50,000 LA fast food workers.

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, rather those who are inflicting it upon me.” -Frederick Douglass

Someone should mention to Governor Hochul that in addition to it being the right thing to do, it would also be very, very funny of her to remove Eric Adams from office.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

Mariah Guevin is seeking input (from all people with Long COVID) for a story about how fatphobia impacts the experience of seeking healthcare for Long COVID. bit.ly/3Eyzg6E

"Most Long COVID cases- over 90%- began w a mild infection, due to the much larger number of mild infections. Recent studies found that the risk of developing Long COVID is cumulative: 3 infections are more dangerous than 1, 5 are more dangerous than 3,and so on" www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

A hard thing about this time that doesn't get talked about enough is seeing many people act as if everything is unprecedented when it's not. These are issues that movements have worked on for so long. It can be frustrating, even as welcomed sincere outrage builds. Find support amongst your people.

Tomorrow, I'm doing a webinar for clinicians who want to advocate for Medicaid with their federal elected leaders, as Medicaid faces existential threats. Clinicians are some of the best possible advocates for Medicaid, and I am really, really good at this. We won't waste your time. 🧵

"Medicaid waiver programs" pay for medically necessary treatments and services that commercial insurers will not cover. Cigna will, quite simply, let kids die.

There are a lot of important skills sets we will need in the coming months/years, but one of the most important will be generative conflict. As the conditions get worse, we will see more conflict and being able to navigate it well, without loosing each other, will be invaluable.

I’ve found that people in “elite” positions of power often crumble when they face a tiny amount of pushback, criticism, or god forbid, the type of online abuse and harassment that many of us deal with regularly. They also conflate the two and use their power to suppress legitimate criticism

On this week's Still Here, podcast producer @hashtagjames.bsky.social talks with @megkrausch.bsky.social about how the ongoing pandemic has impacted friendships. Also, @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social and @mileswgriffis.bsky.social on the latest #LongCOVID research + COVID-19 data. bit.ly/3EvIIYu

When ‘leftist’ organizers require masks at their events but don’t, like, mask up + do mitigations everywhere else, they’re saying, “hey disabled people, come to our events but you’re not really our friends or actually part of our lives.”