Kathleen Mazzola Beals Abarca
@kateabarca.bsky.social
Retired Pediatric Occupational Therapist specializing in Deafblindness. 25 years serving children with multiple, complex needs for support. Mother of autistic adult son who sings karaoke every Saturday night. Boycotting companies that eliminate DEI/A.
To the Senate Dems: VOTERS TRUSTED YOU — DON’T BLOW IT!!! FIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE or get ready to be PRIMARIED! Senate leadership — STEP UP! Use your power NOW. No more talk. If you oppose this, SPEAK UP PUBLICLY! SHOW SOME FIGHT! HOLD THE LINE OR RESIGN! 3/3
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
After all the gut punches, it feels good to have a good day. But that feeling comes with a choice: ease up, or swing harder. Now’s not the time to let up. It’s more important than ever to boycott.
Share the guide. We've been adding new cowards almost daily tinyurl.com/mpnahwaj
Share the guide. We've been adding new cowards almost daily tinyurl.com/mpnahwaj
Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.
psychopete1.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There was a “what’s next” call with #NoKings & the ultimate goal is MASS MOVEMENTS of non-compliance such as @generalstrikeus.bsky.social
The protests build solidarity & GROW THE OPPOSITION. They gave MANY things we can do now. VERY useful call. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/live/4v2p3Nw...
The protests build solidarity & GROW THE OPPOSITION. They gave MANY things we can do now. VERY useful call. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/live/4v2p3Nw...
Mass Call: What’s Next After No Kings?
YouTube video by No Kings
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The non-Substack version of the living boycott guide is now fully updated with Spotify, Pandora, Motorola and other fascist enabling corporations. Don't feed the monster:
buymeacoffee.com/psychopete/p...
buymeacoffee.com/psychopete/p...
buymeacoffee.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
October 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This gorgeous rose grew in my yard in spite of me. I hope it helps you feel a little more hopeful.
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This gorgeous rose grew in my yard in spite of me. I hope it helps you feel a little more hopeful.
Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you’, the pope said.
October 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
NEW: Three students and the SC Association of School Librarians are suing SC Education Superintendent Ellen Weaver to challenge her book banning and classroom censorship policies. During Banned Books Week and every week, we’ll show up to defend the freedom to read. www.aclusc.org/en/press-rel...
Students and librarians take S.C. superintendent to court over school censorship rules
COLUMBIA – South Carolina public school librarians and students filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block enforcement of the state’s unconstitutional book banning regulation and a
www.aclusc.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.
We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.
Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.
Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
No money for Bezos this week or any week. Read the boycott guide here:
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.
psychopete1.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My latest: Why early interventionists -- who provide critical therapies and care for developmentally disabled babies and toddlers -- may be the only professionals in America who haven't gotten an absolute pay raise in 30 years: www.the74million.org/zero2eight/3...
30 Years Without a Real Raise: New York’s Early Intervention Pay Crisis
New York’s early intervention providers haven’t seen a substantive raise in three decades — and vulnerable young children are losing out.
www.the74million.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If the Trump administration has its way, nearly *four million* people—half of them children—will be at imminent risk of eviction and homelessness.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan
Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...
www.propublica.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Anyone who follows me here knows I’m committed to honest, fearless commentary & will not capitulate to an immoral authoritarian regime. My longer-form work is at America, America. Independent media & community building has never been more important. I hope you’ll subscribe:
www.americaamerica.news
www.americaamerica.news
America, America | Steven Beschloss | Substack
Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency. Click to read America, America, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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September 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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They’re getting better! Practice, practice, practice
September 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Please listen and share
Powerful
"Is violence against the truth"
Powerful
"Is violence against the truth"
September 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In case there’s any interest in what ACTUAL psychiatric physicians have to say about autism, vaccines, acetaminophen, and Leucovorin.
Can we stop playing MAGA games with children’s health?
www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ne...
Can we stop playing MAGA games with children’s health?
www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ne...
APA Statement on White House Announcement on Autism
In reaction to today’s White House announcement, the American Psychiatric Association issued the following statement:
www.psychiatry.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Seems like a very good time to listen to my colleague, the brilliant, wonderful, inspirational Dr Lauren Franz, discuss research findings on autism
“Franz stresses the importance of involving the autism community in research and decision-making processes”
dcri.org/blog/s2-ep-1...
“Franz stresses the importance of involving the autism community in research and decision-making processes”
dcri.org/blog/s2-ep-1...
S.2 Ep. 1 | Understanding Autism: Insights from Research and Practice
Ushering in the second season of Beyond the Endpoint, Lauren Franz, MBChB, MPH, interim director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, joins Manesh Patel and Emily O'Brien for an in-dep...
dcri.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM