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HearHerHands
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She/Her | Deaf, chronically ill, disabled | Fiber Arts | Service Dog Handler 🐕‍🦺 (Opinions my own) in MD 🦀 profile pic: a beautiful artistic profile of Jennifer as a mermaid with her hair in a long fishtail braid wearing a fluffy shawl- by @bybyony
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The most popular candidate is a socialist in a time where fascism is sweeping the nation. He represents politics and policies that have felt completely impossible. And his wild popularity has inspired the country and created hope where none existed. That’s why.
Does the mayor of New York have access to nuclear weapons or something? Is there no council or anything to restrain them if they decide to go to war with Boston? Other than that or them gaining the keys to the portal to Hell via election, I'm not sure why this election is constantly everywhere.
I am really afraid to look. 😑
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The City of Boynton Beach is ending free little libraries and food pantries when they are needed most. Please speak up and support these hundreds of community support outreaches in neighborhoods next door.

www.change.org/p/amend-city...
Sign the Petition
Amend City Code to Protect Boynton Beach's Little Free Libraries
www.change.org
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starving people a month before thanksgiving seems ill-advised but what do I know
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
The average American (US-ian) has only been to 4. With alt text. I have been to 18 of the 20.
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We’ve already seen quite a few examples of ICE agents trying to kidnap someone and eventually giving up and running away because a crowd had gathered and shouted them down. That’s EFFECTIVE.
A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.
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A few more pics from yesterday's absurdly adorable press conference.
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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The reason I’m talking so much about the food at food pantries is because I want people to go. I want the stigma to be removed. Imagine it like a community garden. Feeding our neighbors is a great thing.

I know folks who were too proud to go. Let’s end that.
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taking an actual wrecking ball to the White House is a little on the nose as far as metaphors go
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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It may be hard to believe, but for the better part of 40 years, Republican presidents frequently signed legislation promoting special education. Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. George H.W. Bush signed the Individuals with Disabilities Educastion Act
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities
The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.
www.msnbc.com
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This is the thing that has been most shocking for long-time advocates. The CEO of my agency has been doing this work for 40+ years and she consistently says how support for policies supporting the disabled has long been bipartisan.

(Caveat in the next post that I can't fit in this post!)
It may be hard to believe, but for the better part of 40 years, Republican presidents frequently signed legislation promoting special education. Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. George H.W. Bush signed the Individuals with Disabilities Educastion Act
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities
The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.
www.msnbc.com
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It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid
I am so glad you shared that - what a timely read <3
And probably the government will bail them out like it has in past crashes so they have no incentive to do better. :/
this sounds suspiciously like something we've tried before. does nobody ever learn?
Oh good, what could possibly go wrong:

“We think the Trump administration is kicking off a major wave of deregulation, unlocking a huge amount of capacity, which will give a massive economic boost and an earnings uplift” said Fernando de la Mora, co-head of financial services at Alvarez & Marsal”
Bank deregulation set to unlock $2.6tn of Wall Street lending capacity
US lenders expected to cement global dominance by a significant easing of post-financial crisis rules
www.ft.com
My brain melts at the direction the current Kennedy is taking the Kennedy legacy on this. :/
also these acts were wholly bipartisan so you asses saying that 'Democrats never did anything for disabled people' are loudly and extremely wrong.

"The original Americans with Disabilities Act was the result of a broad bipartisan coalition and a collaborative effort across party lines. "
My parents were Republicans because George H.W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilites Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. A generation of people with disabilities went to college, got jobs and lived independently because of IDEA.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...
Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
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My parents were Republicans because George H.W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilites Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. A generation of people with disabilities went to college, got jobs and lived independently because of IDEA.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...
Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
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My tenets:

1) no one is free until we're all free

2) revolution requiring vulnerable members of society be disposable just to GET to the cishet white oligarchs you really want to target Feels Bad, Actually

3) be clear if you are trying to change a mind OR score points when you engage
again - adding ALT text so everyone has access