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The only link I can find other than The Daily Moth on Facebook: liamodell.com/2025/11/08/d...

This guy…. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Weekly Update + Action Items for 40-42: www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/11/06/w...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before. They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Always exciting to play, "Will Rule of Law Matter Today?"

Almost 42 million people are losing their food aid today.

The Trump admin is rewriting disability eligibility rules. Changes would fall disproportionately on some of Trump's most loyal supporters in red states. Most affected would be 50- to 60-year-olds without a high school or college education who have, for decades, toiled in physically grueling jobs.

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 ❤️

The Trump administration is delaying the release of new national dietary guidelines after the government shutdown disrupted efforts to finalize the overhaul by the end of October, officials said. Read more: https://cnn.it/48P5fgb

Starting tomorrow, Monday, October 27, our WCK food trucks will be stationed in D.C.’s Navy Yard southeast neighborhood from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with meals for federal employees and their families with a valid ID. Read more: wck.org/news/first-alert-shutdown-25 #ChefsForFeds (2/2)

Important note in here that the USDA has a 5 billion dollar emergency fund, which would cover about 2/3 of the month's shortfall, but are choosing not to use it. www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

Still here, still 😩 www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/10/20/w...

This one goes out to all the people who said states will pick up the legislative/financial slack for disabled kids' education without DoEd 🤡 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Template/script for contacting your Reps with respect to the DoEd cuts. I feel as disheartened about it as you, but the least we can do is take a moment to absolutely melt their servers exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things" - Peter Drucker

“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.” For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Proof that public outcry can still be helpful, if temporarily. The money was rerouted to the National Center on Deafblindness, who will then distribute to the other programs. But it is only one year's worth, so keep an eye on it.

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WTF: "An Education Department staffer told USA TODAY the agency laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities. He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward." www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Mainstream news has entered the chat. Hello and welcome abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress. Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We're back, with a lot of action items for you, and none of them is RSVPing to a protest 😉 www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/10/05/w...

Without congressional action, 7 million people who buy health insurance on Affordable Care Act marketplaces will pay much higher premiums next year. Close to 5 million wouldn't be able to absorb the price hike and would lose coverage, a new analysis shows ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/24/r...

WHO rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism

Today's HHS announcement is expected to be that tylenol during pregnancy causes autism, and that the cure is folinic acid. Where do you get the cure? From Dr. Oz's iHerb supplement grift of course! I've been waiting to see the grift angle for this nonsense, and here it is.

Oh look! It's two weeks' worth of bad news! 😵‍💫 www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/20/w...

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

As always, great thread from @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social Important points on how Florida dropping vaccine reqs will not only lower vaccination rates... but also lead to missed screenings for asthma, anemia, vision/hearing, nutrition, and developmental delays.

I will say, if an overview is the most helpful format for you, @thesicktimes.org is doing a great job with that. (It’s just different from providing access to the full details of the conference.)

BREAKING: Susan Monarez, forced out by RFK Jr as CDC director, to testify in front of Senate panel next week. Monarez has said RFK Jr pressured her around vaccines. RFK Jr has said she was untrustworthy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Are we just an RFK hate site now? www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/07/w...

RFK Jr. on a special kind of eugenic rampage this week (and other horrors) www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/08/31/w...

Did you know Trump is launching AI death panels for Medicare? His admin. is hiring private companies to use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. The AI companies will get a cut of the “savings,” incentivizing them to deny care. open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

It's eugenics and that is a key component of fascism in all modern iterations. Both Trump and RFK Jr have been saying and doing explicitly eugenicist things things for years, but many didn't pay attention to them/probably bought in a little because they were "just" targeting disabled people🤷🏻

Call your Senators/Reps to impeach/fire RFK Jr. before he kills us all. www.5calls.org makes it easy to reach them and has a script. CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on Covid Vaccines in Many States www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Here's what happens when you try to schedule a Covid vax in PA at CVS. It shows the shot as available, then asks if you have a high risk condition. Then, no matter what you press, this popup. Walgreens even less, just a blanket nope(screenshot also in thread.)

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COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

Party of pro-life stops monitoring for listeria, a food-borne bacteria known to cause still birth.

Thank fuck this was a really annoying one.

It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...