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Polite menace. Disability advocate. Inclusive education. Public Schools, NYC.
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5 Calls
30 days ago
Senate Minority Leader Schumer has promised that Democrats will NOT provide votes to pass a government funding package that includes the DHS bill. Hold them to it...
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me!
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings
On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/891782/?referring_vol=12480188&rname=Rachel&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5746462
29 days ago
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Brad1356.bsky.social
30 days ago
If your Senator or Congress Person Votes to fund these MURDERERS, Vote them OUT.
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Aaron Rupar
30 days ago
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙
about 1 month ago
We are underreacting.
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ACLU
about 2 months ago
Our case challenging President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship in front of the Supreme Court is one of the biggest cases of the century. We’re fighting to preserve the very fabric of this nation.
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Kelly
4 months ago
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨
4 months ago
It’s time, Skylights! However you plan to participate today, THANK YOU. We need your voice. America doesn’t do kings. 🇺🇸 ❤️ Stay safe, stay connected. (
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Till Eckert
5 months ago
2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.
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paulpro
5 months ago
Carr in 2022
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Nolan Hicks
5 months ago
From the FCC's own website(!), citing 47 U.S.C. § 326, explicitly declared: "no regulation or condition shall be promulgated or fixed by the Commission which shall interfere with the right of free speech by means of [over-the-air] broadcast communication."
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Bill Kristol
5 months ago
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Ashton Pittman
6 months ago
Photojournalist Bill Biggart died when the second tower collapsed on him on 9/11, but the film he shot that day and his flash card were recovered from the debris and developed, along with his flash card. You can see his amazing photos of 9/11, the last photos he took while alive, here:
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September 11th — Bill Biggart Photographer
https://www.billbiggart.com/september-11th
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Jon Campbell
6 months ago
“New York will give pharmacists cover to dispense COVID-19 vaccines this fall in the wake of uncertainty over federal immunization policy, a state official said.” From Jimmy Vielkind:
gothamist.com/news/hochul-...
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Hochul to let pharmacists prescribe COVID vaccines amid federal policy shift
An executive order comes as access tightens and lawmakers eye state-level solutions.
https://gothamist.com/news/hochul-to-let-pharmacists-prescribe-covid-vaccines-amid-federal-policy-shift
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
6 months ago
"Motor skills vary a lot for every Autistic, it's also important to realize, that someone can have both really good, and really bad, motor skills, because there are so many different types and areas of motor skills"
autisticaacunderground.blogspot.com/2022/07/eyeg...
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EyeGaze AAC for Autistic 2022 AAC in the cloud presentation
AAC in the cloud presentation 2022 on EyeGaze AAC for Autistics, below is the video and under the video of the presentation is the script/...
https://autisticaacunderground.blogspot.com/2022/07/eyegaze-aac-for-autistic-2022-aac-in.html
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NYC Families - Pls share! Limited seats still available at Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy for rising 2nd and 3rd graders; and at South Bronx Academy for rising 2nd graders.
6 months ago
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ProPublica
6 months ago
The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories. This week, we published that list.
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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no…
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drugs-banned-foreign-factories-list?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-15
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Rachel de Leon
7 months ago
Now free, several men sent to CECOT talked to
@nlanard.bsky.social
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@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social
: “What they did there was torture us”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“What they did there was torture us”
Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/cecot-interviews-torture-venezuela-bukele-trump-neri-alvarado-zombrano-el-salvarado-bukele/
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Yes! Yes! And Yes! With a fully developed program for grades 9-12.
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7 months ago
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Mike Elsen-Rooney
7 months ago
Enraging story from
@alexzimmerman.bsky.social
. NYC hasn’t paid its ~1,000 Teaching Fellows the entire 7 weeks they’ve been working this summer, forcing some to go into debt to cover rent and food. This at a time the city is trying to hire in historic numbers:
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
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CREW
10 months ago
The closure of the CDC’s entire FOIA office is unacceptable and in fact, illegal. Americans shouldn't be left in the dark about how the CDC is operating. Transparency matters. So we're suing.
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CREW sues to challenge destruction of CDC FOIA office - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The closure of the CDC's entire FOIA office violates both FOIA and the Administrative Procedure Act and the CDC must be compelled to follow the law.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/lawsuits/crew-sues-to-challenge-destruction-of-cdc-foia-office/
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DrDinD.bsky.social
10 months ago
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/03/asan...
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ASAN Appalled by Hiring of Quack David Geier for HHS Study - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
HHS, under the direction of RFK Jr., has hired known conspiracy theorist and quack David Geier to run a planned study which will investigate the thoroughly disproven idea of a link between childhood v...
https://autisticadvocacy.org/2025/03/asan-appalled-by-hiring-of-quack-david-geier-for-hhs-study/
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Bryan Dawson
about 1 year ago
Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared. Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021.
@propublica.org
found sepsis rates shot up over 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the 2nd trimester.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Christopher Webb
11 months ago
If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.
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jamelle
11 months ago
yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
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Jon Cooper
11 months ago
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff
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Maura-resister
11 months ago
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ACLU
11 months ago
After we sued, the National Endowment for the Arts temporarily dropped its requirement forcing grant applicants to certify that they won’t promote “gender ideology.” We’re in court today with
@riaclu.bsky.social
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Nick Kristof
12 months ago
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&smid=url-share
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👏👏👏 Yaaass.
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12 months ago
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Governor Tim Walz
12 months ago
Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.
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12 months ago
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Whelp NYC’s OCR will be closing/ is closed.
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12 months ago
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Anna Holmes
12 months ago
CW police brutality to disabled people As we see calls for civil disobedience ramp up again, I want to remind folks that 50% of excessive force deaths in police custody are disabled people. There is a misapprehension that cops are hesitant to harm disabled folks. That is not true.
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Rebecca C. Lewis
12 months ago
The Hochul/Delgado breakup that we've all been waiting for finally happened after the LG said he wouldn't run on her ticket again
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Wanted: New Hochul running mate
Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado announced that he would not run for reelection next year, leaving open a spot on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ticket.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/02/wanted-new-hochul-running-mate/403235/?oref=csny-homepage-river
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
12 months ago
Work requirements are meant as cuts to Medicaid. They make it harder for disabled people to get the services we need to survive. We can stop this — call or email your elected officials NOW and tell them
#HandsOff
Medicaid! We can show you how:
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12 months ago
Rob the poor to feed the rich. The wealthy does not need additional tax cuts
#DontCutMyMedicaid
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
about 1 year ago
A new must-read YA book on being Black and autistic! "All the Noise at Once tackles so many issues with such care and thought, including racism, classism, and class segregation, the stress of excellence & being a 'model citizen'." By Meg Eden Kuyatt, at TPGA.
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/02/all-...
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A Review of All the Noise at Once: Being Young, Autistic, and Black — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
All the Noise at Once tackles so many issues with such care and thought, including racism, classism, and class segregation.
https://thinkingautismguide.com/2025/02/all-the-noise-at-once.html
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Via @denisesmarshall / @COPAA Law professors share letter 2/20/25 to university OGCs and administrators explaining why their DEI programs remain lawful, Trump’s “ending illegal discrimination” EO & the Feb. 14 Dear Colleagues letter notwithstanding.
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Governor Hochul’s proposed changes to the Foundation Aid education funding formula would result in NYC schools receiving nearly $350M less than they would without these changes. Tell Governor Hochul and the NYS Legislature not to shortchange NYC schools:
bit.ly/DemandFairFunding
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Tell State Leaders: Don’t Shortchange NYC Schools
Governor Hochul’s Executive Budget proposes changes to the formula used to decide how much education funding, or Foundation Aid, school districts get from the State for each student. While the Foundat...
https://bit.ly/DemandFairFunding
about 1 year ago
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Kiera Butler
about 1 year ago
I wrote about how RFK Jr. is targeting SSRIs in his first 100 days plan, and his history of spreading disinformation about antidepressants.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants
The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/?_thumbnail_id=1116516
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Indivisible ❌👑
about 1 year ago
🚨 Your House representative is now back home through February 23. That’s where we come in. With Trump and Elon Musk pulling off a billionaire coup in real time, this congressional recess is about turning up the heat like never before. Let’s get to work:
indivisi.org/muskorus
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Tristan Snell
about 1 year ago
Dear Governor Kathy Hochul: It's time. You have the power to remove Eric Adams from office as NYC mayor. Take a stand -- and stand up for cleaning up corruption in New York. REMOVE ADAMS NOW. Sincerely, A New Yorker
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Tiffany Cabán
about 1 year ago
Haven’t we seen enough? Corrupt & compromised. This Mayor needs to be removed. It’s past time for Governor Hochul to step in here. And if she won’t, the city’s Committee on Mayoral Inability should. Enough is enough. New York deserve better & shouldn’t have to wait any longer.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
about 1 year ago
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to restore CDC, FDA and HHS webpages that Trump had ordered to be deleted. This comes after doctors sued the Trump administration for interfering with their treatment of patients.
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Judge orders HHS, CDC and FDA to restore deleted webpages with health information
The NGO Doctors for America argued that HHS, CDC and FDA violated federal law in removing medical information from public-facing websites.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-orders-hhs-cdc-fda-restore-deleted-webpages-health-information/
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
about 1 year ago
"The role of the Treasury Department — and of the executive branch more broadly — is not to make determinations about which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep, and which it will not."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
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Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion/treasure-secretaries-doge-musk.html
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Dave Levitan
about 1 year ago
Fully acknowledging that I don’t know the physical, on-the-ground details of how all these things go down, but… why aren’t more people, especially after a couple weeks of this, just saying no, fuck off
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Catherine Rampell
about 1 year ago
Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders
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Lauren Thompson Dyslexia Interventionist
about 1 year ago
This mayor's days are numbered. Next search: how to impeach nyc mayor.
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