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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 7h

It is beyond well established that stress causes health problems in otherwise healthy people, so anyone positing any other priority besides making sure disabled people have their basic needs met, is not actually trying to help anyone except themselves and their bank account.

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 7h

This incessant focus on employment, even for people who can potentially work, is ridiculous in my view.

The primary focus for any disabled person should be supporting them to maximise their quality of life before anything else is even considered.

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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 7h

Just tested positive for covid. My abusive father, the only person I have been around, is still pretending he didn’t give it to me and going out every day unmasked.

His abuse and refusal to get me medical care made me disabled in the first place.

TS doesn’t know shit about sacrificial lambs.

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🏴 Elder 🏴 @eldergodsdoom.bsky.social · 1d

It is completely absurd that we have advertisements for drugs.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 19h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 2d

It seems like the US just effectively cancelled everyone’s passports who has an X gender marker on them (unless I’m reading this wrong).

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 17h

Every time you put more restrictions or processes to claim disability benefits, it only harms the people they claim to support.

It won't prevent the (tiny number of) people who will still find ways to circumvent the system.

It'll prevent disabled folk getting what they need.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 20h

prescription drug commercials uphold ableism. MANY of them contain a line about how, “i won’t let my diagnosis stop me,” which is simply not how complex diagnoses or medications work (especially bc the 2nd half of the ad is just horrific side effects)

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

You shouldn't only care about the rights of disabled people because it may be you one day.

You should care because it's the right thing to do, for other humans who deserve life, love, and support.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

unfortunately, you do not believe in science if you think getting vaccinated is enough to stop the spread of disease and that there’s no way you could ever develop long covid so catching covid (while vaxxed) must be harmless. that is not what the science has been saying at all.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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abby @zing-thot.bsky.social · 1d

the world would be a significantly nicer place if stans channeled their energy into their communities or organizing instead of defending former HGs from the mildest critique idk

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 2d

I am so tired of people calling things divisive when what they mean is that they were more comfortable when other people were just being silently oppressed and they didn’t have to hear about it or change anything

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to fight fascism… wear a mask (ideally a respirator like an N95!).

It will help keep you and your community healthy.

It makes protests and other events accessible for disabled & high risk people.

It tells the government you don’t believe that anyone is expendable.

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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 2d

If the government is going to bail out heavy industries, the taxpayer should own a stake in future profits.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 3d

mRNA COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause cancer.

Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t understand immunology, vaccinology, or how to interpret studies.

Hope this helps!

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2d

Independent: '‘Breakthrough’ as scientists develop first-ever test for debilitating condition'

'Academics have made a ‘breakthrough’ in the diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome'

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

‘Breakthrough’ as scientists develop first-ever test for debilitating condition

Academics have made a ‘breakthrough’ in the diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome

www.independent.co.uk

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 2d

I urge every leftist to study COINTEL-PRO and its techniques, and to NOT assume it’s a thing of the past.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Bad Atheist @badatheist.bsky.social · 3d

Air traffic controllers aren’t “calling in sick.”

They aren’t showing up bcs they aren’t getting paid.

The basic equation of employment isn’t being met.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 3d

If you ever find yourself zip tying a child's hands I wanna be really clear with you on what this says about you. You're not one of the "good guys." You're the problem. Your soul is rotten. Your intentions are evil. And whoever is above you telling you to do this is the pure embodiment of evil.

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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody being an asshole to me online has ever changed my mind about anything.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 2d

why the fuuuuudge are we paying taxes to the feds if all they're doing is blowing the money on vanity terror and vanity ballrooms. why.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 3d

someone tell the fucks in charge of the media that they can still be weathy without propping up fascism

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 2006
The Bad Brains performed at the legendary CBGB club in New York City on October 9, 2006, to protest the club's impending closure

That evening, the band performed several songs, including "I Against I," "The Regulator," and "Pay to Cum."

#cbgb #badbrains #punkrockhistory

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