Mal (unwell to begin with)
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She/her 🌈 Public health + social work.
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📍Pittsburgh
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've never seen a MoCA Toolkit that uses a picture of a giraffe.
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When you're a hater, the real treasure is the enemies you made along the way.
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It may seem contradictory that the "food is medicine" crowd (derogatory) cut SNAP benefits, but their reasoning has always been based in shaming/blaming people. It has never been about access to healthy food. It has always been about punishing people for having the gall to live with a
#disability
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3 months ago
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When I was a D1 student-athlete, I was strictly prohibited from betting on any sport at any level that has an NCAA championship. But members of Congress can trade stocks in the industries that they regulate through the policies they pass.
3 months ago
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If you're a worm, I'm a worm.
5 months ago
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Why does Kristi Noem look like that?
5 months ago
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When I explain gastroparesis to people, my partner likes to lighten the mood by saying "what happens in the vagus nerve stays in the vagus nerve." It's funny because there's a whole framework that suggests the exact opposite, lol.
5 months ago
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Is the US Open... golf? Or tennis?
5 months ago
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I am BEGGING the person who created yard signs for Dennis Very to check the contrast before submitting another design.
7 months ago
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Dana Hull
7 months ago
Friendly reminder: — Personal devices only — Don’t leak from work, on a work device, or from work Wi-Fi — Use Signal and Signal’s camera — The reporter should recreate any image you leak before displaying it to the public
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How to leak to a journalist
Planning to leak? Read these tips first.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/
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TIL that Dexc*m received a warning letter from the FDA for changing materials used in their sensors, which made them less accurate.
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Dexcom, Inc. - 700835 - 03/04/2025
CGMP/QSR/Medical Devices/Adulterated
https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/dexcom-inc-700835-03042025
7 months ago
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A spending reform by any other name is still a Medicaid cut.
7 months ago
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I cannot overstate how much I enjoy it when I'm on a Zoom and the facilitator says "I see we have some new workgroup members joining us today. Mal, what is your cat's name?"
7 months ago
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MAHA in a nutshell.
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8 months ago
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I don't think I'm going to vote for the guy who my college slumlord wants to be the Mayor of Pittsburgh.
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Mayoral candidates point fingers on developer donations and affordable housing
O'Connor's campaign fundraised with Walnut Capital, bringing in over $90,000, but Gainey's campaign accepted thousands from area construction firms.
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news/corey-oconnor-and-ed-gainey-have-taken-thousands-from-developers-including-walnut-capital-27629042
8 months ago
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Data Against Fascism
8 months ago
This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
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Aparna Nair
8 months ago
Its not that using ableist language is "offensive" alone, it is in that using ableist epithets, we normalize the idea that disability is a state of undesirable, laughable inferiority and otherness, and that disabled people deserve to the butt of the joke for some intrinsic reason--its insidious
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Why is the first line treatment for gastroparesis girl dinner?
8 months ago
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Celebrating my raise with an upper endoscopy, let's fucking gooooo
8 months ago
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Medicaid cuts are not an incentive. Disabled people who need assistance to shower or meal preparation need this assistance, whether they're employed or not. In fact, people may need more assistance with these tasks to join the workforce.
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8 months ago
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False, Pennsylvania has two Republican senators.
8 months ago
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Pennsylvania residents should leave a voicemail Senator John Fetterman TONIGHT and urge him to vote NO on the Continuing Resolution and the Cloture. Call now: (202) 224-4254 You will be asked to provide your name and contact information.
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8 months ago
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WHY ARE THEY IN FIVE GUYS?
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8 months ago
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there's nothing dignified about boot-licking
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8 months ago
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Spotted on Fox News: Linda McMahon and Laura Ingram. Competing to for the most coveted title in conservative politics "Least Prepared for Live Interview." Did LM think she would never have to learn what those pesky acronyms mean if she eliminates "the programs for disabled and uh needs?"
8 months ago
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You don't realize how much you love to lie down after a meal until you're medically prohibited from doing so.
8 months ago
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Ceej
8 months ago
joke's on you I DID 'go cry about it' and compassion has made me more powerful
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Mia Mingus
8 months ago
What we are witnessing in real time is eugenics. Eugenics is not a historical term or practice. From the sacrificing of high risk people during the on-going COVID pandemic to the attacks on trans people and their right to exist to ethnic cleansing via mass deportations.
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The radioactive eggs they give you for a gastric emptying study are the LaCroix of eggs.
9 months ago
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Sean Morrow
9 months ago
Killing Medicaid should be seen as the 9/11 of class war. Working people need to look at the ultra-wealthy and their enablers the same as they did the perpetrators of that other act of violence.
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Let's compare! In 2024, there were 16 measles outbreaks in the US. These included a total of 285 cases and zero deaths. In the first two months of 2025, there have already been four measles outbreaks—124 cases and two deaths.
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9 months ago
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The world is so bad that social media has become an aversive stimuli. Scrolling no longer provides dopamine.
9 months ago
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Taking away safe and effective treatments that allow folks to function and participate in society is Eugenics.
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9 months ago
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For those of us who couldn't get into the community briefing because IT IS FULL
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9 months ago
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I will lose my health care.
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9 months ago
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No, I definitely classified this as a red flag.
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9 months ago
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austin_walker
9 months ago
y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services should know when to use prevalence and when to use incidence to measure disease frequency.
10 months ago
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Using the term "juvenile diabetes" to describe all young people will all types of
#diabetes
should disqualify RFK Jr. This man is woefully unqualified to be the Secretary of HHS.
10 months ago
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In the Senate Confirmation Hearing, RFK Jr. stated that most folks on Medicare are on Medicare Advantage Plans, which is untrue. Only about 1 in 10 Medicare recipients are enrolled in Medicare Advantage Plans (which are a huge scam, by the way).
10 months ago
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The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (which has the power to investigate/resolve ADA complaints and file ADA lawsuits in federal court) has been instructed not to file any new complaints.
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10 months ago
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Fin Leary
10 months ago
Wild Ramp Publishing
@wildramppublishing.bsky.social
offers four $250 grants to disabled zinesters to cover printing costs for zines with a disability justice focus. Application Deadlines April 18, September 12
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Man Who Makes Baseless Statistical Assumptions is Really Into AI
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10 months ago
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You know the Sunday Scaries? Well, have you heard of the Friday Furies? Get it?
10 months ago
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This is your reminder that Medicaid work requirements don't work.
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10 months ago
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Eugenics 4.0
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10 months ago
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If I die of a highly communicable disease like COVID or the flu, please remind my loved ones that I had underlying medical conditions—surely that will soften the blow.
10 months ago
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Older people and those living with underlying medical conditions are worth protecting.
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10 months ago
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Disabled people in the U.S. have been saying "nothing about us without us" since the 1990s. We have not been searching for a "charismatic outsider."
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11 months ago
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Why does Real Life think it's in competition with Speculative Horror?
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11 months ago
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