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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 3d

Link, truly the Hero of Time. #freelink

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 5d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · 5d

This #NDEAM, we’re affirming what real employment means.

True equity means fair pay, inclusion, and opportunity for disabled workers.
If it’s not competitive and integrated, it isn’t employment.

#DisabilityEmployment #DisabilityJustice

On a burnt sienna background, large bolded text reads “NDEAM, National Disability Employment Awareness Month” with a person sitting at a desk using a laptop and wearing a headset. There are some abstract shapes and dots around them, but the entire color scheme of oranges and tans fits together.

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 5d

Conversion therapy is wrong. The guy who created it also made a version for Autistic folks called ABA. It is also wrong. Listen to the people impacted by these harms. @autisticadvocacy.org @thinkingautism.com

Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 5d

Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging Colorado’s 2019 ban on dangerous and discredited “conversion therapy.”

So-called “conversion therapy” is an abusive pseudoscience that has been rejected by EVERY major medical and mental health organization.

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 5d

This is totally not a priority but... why are ugly "dad" hats in style right now? Like with the cord across the front and the cursive writing and often nautical theming. Super confused. I mean yeah I got on the ironic trucker hat bandwagon years ago so guilty there but this one... nah no thanks

Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 5d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 5d

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 5d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 5d

I'm pretty sure the show was Northern Exposure too hehe 🤓

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 6d

The Supreme Court might overturn some states’ conversion therapy bans. Here’s what you need to know, from @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social and @19thnews.org

The UN calls conversion therapy 'torture.' Could the Supreme Court greenlight it anyway?

In the first of three blockbuster LGBTQ+ cases on its docket this term, the Supreme Court is about to hear a challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

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Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · 6d

Congress may soon reshape behavioral health. H.R.4022 would let Medicaid fund more institutions, but without real community investment, it risks re-institutionalizing disabled people. We must choose community, not #confinement.

Read now on Medium: nlawcrdj.medium.com/the-return-o...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

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

Yeah I've had this happen twice. Once it was a cane and the second time a DVD set for an old 90's tv show.

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 9d

VOLUNTEERING IS NOT EMPLOYMENT!!!!!! This is the opposite of what you are supposed to be doing for #NDEAM

Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 9d

VOLUNTEERING IS NOT EMPLOYMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #NDEAM

D Magazine @dmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

The two-day event, held during National Disability Employment Awareness Month, features a kick-off breakfast and volunteer projects at nine local nonprofits.

NTXDC Launches Disability Days of Service to Connect Businesses and Nonprofits

The two-day event, held during National Disability Employment Awareness Month, features a kick-off breakfast and volunteer projects at nine local nonprofits.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 10d

Trump's push to take over universities ratchets up: having failed to bully Harvard, he's now trying to bribe turncoats, offering 9 schools exclusive "priority for federal grants" if they obey orders and teach right-wing views. It's compelled speech: a flagrant violation of the 1st Amendment. 1/

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 12d

I guess this is why brand meds are being tariffed at 100%?

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 12d

I would much rather use the money spent on this on Medicaid and Home and Community-Based Services.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

Perfect image for this moment -- Pete Hegseth wasted millions of dollars flying military leaders from across the globe to hear him blather about gender-neutral physical fitness standards and appearance, and the chryon in the corner notes the government is about to shut down.

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 12d

Calculator doesn't work due to 'no adults' categories

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 12d

Really concerned about the amount of data that is simply evaporating because of Trump. That's an incredible wealth of information and records that we can't get back.

Trump Is Waging a Catastrophic War on Data

A president steeped in lies seeks to cut of the flow of accurate information at its source.

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 13d

I truly do not understand people who think taking the whole head-in-the-sand approach here is even possible

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 15d

We are so excited to hear our partners, Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, on PBS today. The #SaveOurSigns crew & DRP steering comm were active in helping them gear up their project! We love supporting citizen preservation efforts.

Have an idea? Come chat with us!

Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds…

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Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · 13d

Health tech is being sold as “modernization.” But in reality, it’s laying the groundwork for a techno-carceral state where your medical data can be weaponized against you.

It’s care becoming control. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/o...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13d

The Kavanaugh Stop

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 13d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

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