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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 6h

A 1971 case brought forth by @thearcofpa.bsky.social
was the first to establish students with disabilities' right to education in the United States.

@thearcus.bsky.social

The Arc of the United States

Our nation's commitment to education for all is being tested. The Arc was there when students with disabilities first won the right to learn, and we will do everything in our power to defend it.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 14h

"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 2d

Today's lesson from Broadview: Seems that churches can cross the line to feed state police but not to give Communion to the detained. (Salvation Army is a church.)

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 3d

How much of parenting is listening to your kid explain why they need to pack 3 different toothpastes for your trip (they all have different purposes!) after arguing with them the night before about whether teeth actually need to be brushed every night?

Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 3d

Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 4d

Somebody Feed Phil

Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 4d

In addition to contacting the CILs in the area, try a call to the state Protection & Advocacy organization. Every state has one, if you need help looking it up lmk.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 5d

"Of the 60,199 deaths recorded by July 2025, 18,457 or 31% were children."

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, but maybe crowdsourced?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 6d

YOU BROKE IT! YOU CUT NEARLY $1 TRILLION FROM MEDICAID WITH OBBBA!!! Prior to that Medicaid and Social Security were very efficient and cost-effective programs. Now you are threatening people's lives and livelihoods. Not to mention the impact that not extending ACA subsidies will have!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6d

After passing $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Mike Johnson now has the gall to say Medicaid is underfunded.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 7d

The college version of me blasting the Wicked soundtrack couldn't have imagined this would ever exist much less that I would... really want it.

A green Le Crueset dutch oven with Elphaba from Wicked embossed on the top.

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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 11d

Boo Baskets are so stupid. Kids are not supposed to receive a pre-made basket of Halloween gifts, they are supposed to beg strangers to give them candy while also lightly threatening them. It’s tradition.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 13d

Same! I took half a day of sick time and slept for nearly three hours straight. I will pay later this week making up the work. 🙃

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 13d

A pretty fun article coming out of war ravaged Portland:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/d...

How an Ice Cream Obsessive Recreated the Choco Taco

www.nytimes.com

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 14d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Caring Across Generations @caringacross.org · 15d

The only things we should be gutting right now are pumpkins. 🎃 Happy #ProtectMedicaid Fall 🍁 🍃 🍂

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 16d

Monster-devoured Naperville is sending me. 😂

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 17d

Capitalism?

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 17d

Printing to PDF and reading it on a tablet in dark mode.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 17d

"...atrocities do not begin with action; they begin with imagination, with the suggestion that some lives are worth less, that their removal might even be merciful...we survive by insisting that our lives have value, that our consent matters, and that history will not repeat if we refuse to let it."

Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 17d

All new guest essay for the DVP by Shannon Pagdon:

“When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s ‘just kill ’em’ thinkable”

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/09/26/w...

Photo of a memorial plaque at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin. The inscription reads: “Honor to the forgotten victims. At this site, at Tiergartenstraße 4, the first National Socialist mass murder was organized starting in 1940, named after this address: Aktion T4. From 1939 to 1945, almost 200,000 defenseless people were killed. Their lives were described as ‘unworthy of life,’ their murder called euthanasia. They died in the gas chambers of Grafeneck, Brandenburg, Hartheim, Pirna, Bernburg, and Hadamar; they died by firing squads, by deliberate starvation, and by poison. The perpetrators were scientists, doctors, nurses, members of the judiciary, the police, and of the health and labor administrations. The victims were poor, desperate, defiant, or in need of help. They came from psychiatric clinics and children’s hospitals, from nursing homes and welfare institutions, from military hospitals and camps. The number of victims was vast; the number of perpetrators convicted was very small.”

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 17d

Follow for the journalism, stay for the dad jokes.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 18d

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18d

Whewwww

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• Bluesky
"A WOMAN I did not know in the cubicle next to me broke down. She was literally wailing, inconsolable, because she could not get into a childcare facility she could afford on such short notice. She literally had to choose between her little child and working. Her explaining to her manager the way her child cried and begged Mommy to stay home broke me. Then, as if on cue, an email from a person whose account said they were the acting IRS commissioner arrived in our inboxes, reminding us that it was
"Mental Health Awareness" month and that we can do such helpful things as
"practicing gratitude" and breathing techniques to deal with stress. It also reminded us we can take time off to seek professional help ... I never saw her again, and her cube is now empty."
-IRS employee
wired.com

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