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Sam Erin 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @hearts530.bsky.social · 8h

Well, I didn’t expect to cry today. Reasons why I really need this man in office and also reasons why I’m never fucking leaving this city.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 9h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 8h

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Darkrose @darkrose.bsky.social · 9h

Too bad no journalist will ask a Catholic official—like say, the Vice President—to comment on ICE refusing to allow a priest to administer the sacraments. That sounds pretty anti-Catholic to me.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 17h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 9h

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...

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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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 9h

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 9h

While professionals continue to insist that ABA is the gold standard for supporting autistic kids, "most autistic participants who had experienced or observed ABA view it negatively, with only a small minority mentioning neutral or positive effects.” At TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/when...

When You Have No Choice But ABA Therapy — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

You may know that ABA is a questionable therapy. But since not every parent can avoid ABA, what can those parents do to protect their kids?

thinkingautismguide.com

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 11h

who could have seen it coming

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jan 16

The extent to which speech pathology groups are a shit show right now really cannot be overstated 😂

People are like “we will lobby Trump and RFK to think of the speech therapists before they screw up the DHS and the Dept of Ed” and I’m just laaaaaughing and laaaaughing …

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jan 16

“Oh he doesn’t mean it when he said over and over for years that he would dissolve the department of education”

mmhmm. oh totally, he appointed the former head of the WWF bc he wants to make sure yall are safe

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 11h

This is just unreal. The level of panic in speech pathology groups is off the charts

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 18h

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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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

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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Miriam Grace @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 11h

“(They) analyzed the world’s largest 250 oil companies’ ownership of (renewable-no ☢️) projects according to data tracked by the NGO Global Energy Monitor. They found the oil industry’s renewable contributions to be “anecdotal” and their own diversification toward clean energy projects “negligible.”

Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 1d

A new study in @nature.com shows the world’s biggest oil and gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to renewable energy capacity — despite claiming for years to be leading the energy transition.

one law prof said it "could influence a jury" in climate lawsuits

www.exxonknews.org/p/study-oil-...

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’

New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

www.exxonknews.org

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Craig 'VI' Slee: VALIS, right? @mrvi.cold-albion.net · Aug 31

"The don't accommodate "X" like they would with a wheelchair."

*stares into the camera*

They do. They absolutely DO. They performatively gesture with "oh we have a ramp" "oh we have a lift".

A ramp that is too steep, or blocked. An elevator that is locked. A toilet used as STORAGE.

THEY DO.

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AshlEEEK ShoooOOOooo, our region's third most haunted body @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 9h

The university administration “suspended” Pathway 7: Critical Analysis of Identity and Equity in the U.S. from student curriculum requirements on October 1 at @virginiatech.bsky.social. No faculty vote.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 13h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 13h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 18h

A Nobel story just popped up on one of my memories feed things. Still makes me laugh.

"They're like, 'Sir, there's something in your bag.'
I said, 'Yes, I think it's this box.' They said, 'What's in the box?' I said, 'a large gold medal, as one does.
So they opened it up and they said, 'What's it made out of?' I said, 'gold.'
And they're like, 'Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?'
"The King of Sweden.'
"Why did he give this to you?'
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.'

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 10h

🚨🚨🚨🚨

If you go to some federal websites right now, this is what you see.

I also heard they are playing something similar at airports.

So illegal bc of the Hatch Act but also CRZY

But don't call it fascism. 👇

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters. trib.al/4vE1zjf

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Jeff @jeffhovis.bsky.social · 15h

So apparently CDC Disease Prevention and Controls efforts are "Democrat Programs".

So what are the MAGA Republican alternatives, Pestilence and Plague?

Didn't we try that route already in Trump Season 1, the Pandemic.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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