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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 1d

The ACLU's Mobile Justice app used to do the same thing, but I don't see that on the iphone apps either....wonder whatever happened to their app.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

Apple Reportedly Bans App Designed to Document Abuses by ICE

Apple is silent on the matter.

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Alex Taliadoros @alexctaliadoros.bsky.social · 2d

Really disappointing to see how many people on here are defending this.

Katie Porter has consistently shown that she treats her staff terribly.

There are several other progressive Democrats running for Governor in California. We do not need to defend the indefensible.

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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 3d

"'....[E]ach time [PBS Kids did audience testing], there were families with pre-verbal or non-speakers who expressed their hope that we might have a character like them in the show....'"

Disability Scoop @disabilityscoop.bsky.social · 3d

A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. #disabilities #autism #PBSKids #AAC

PBS Kids Show To Feature Character Who Uses Communication Device

A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when we had air traffic controllers?

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Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint @endseclusion.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have experience with grants? We are looking for volunteers who can help with grants and funding proposals. If you are interested in helping, email us at [email protected] #EndSeclusion

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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 3d

"This year, for the first time, California schools will be screening kindergarteners, first- and second-graders for reading difficulties, including dyslexia, under a state mandate signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2023." #EarlyIntervention

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 4d

Signs of dyslexia and reading troubles can be spotted in kindergarten — or even preschool

California schools will begin screening kindergartners and first- and second- graders for dyslexia to combat the state's low early reading scores.

www.latimes.com

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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 3d

Since President Trump's E.O. to dismantle the Department of Education in March, it's "laid off roughly half of its staff, held up billions in funds for K-12 schools through much of the summer, and canceled grants designed to" increase mental health workers.
www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/10/07/a...

Advocates Worry About Federal Impacts On Support For Students With Disabilities

In a state where there is already a waitlist for people with disabilities who need vocational training, schools and disability advocates are concerned about how federal cuts will affect those programs...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 7d

"Give light and people will find the way." - Ella Baker

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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 9d

I didn’t realize he had an Internet channel. Knew he went off radio a few years ago. I’ll have to ask my dad if he still listens then.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

Stephanie and Najia started "Deafies for Zohran" to make this movement accessible to their community. They even created a signature hand sign for “Zohran.”

Sign up for a shift and wave 👋🏻 the next time you’re canvassing in Jackson Heights!

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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 9d

[Hyper specific to ATLiens of a certain age]

Whatever Youngblood was playing on Kiss 104.1

🇨🇷🇯🇲 christopher @astonblake.blacksky.app · 9d

Black people only:

It’s a Saturday morning in the 2000s and your mom just said “we cleanin this whole house”

What music is playing?

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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 9d

I really hate how cars have become mobile video games and social media tablets.

Bring back physical buttons and limit the number and size of screens, please and thank you.
www.theverge.com/news/789622/...

Porsche’s electric Cayenne has so much screen they had to bend it

Haven’t seen this before.

www.theverge.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10d

These stories are expected to land a particular way but we have to remember “rural” is a really broad category with a lot of communities of color and/or poor communities which also informs how this news lands for different communities there.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10d

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity

The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library and school Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism from lawmakers and librarians who say the move will mak...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10d

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.

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Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?” The image shows a woman with dark hair tied back with an orange patterned ribbon, smiling and leaning forward near a window with sunlight coming in. She is wearing a light orange top with thin straps.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11d

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies

A house painter who had been in the United States for two decades had been critically injured in Dallas by a gunman who the government said was aiming at federal law enforcement officers.

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Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 10d

That's cool...but I'm still not shopping there anymore.

Disability Scoop @disabilityscoop.bsky.social · 11d

In a first-of-its-kind move, #Target says it is making self-checkout more accessible to people with #disabilities at locations nationwide. #accessibility www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/09/30/t...

Target Works To Boost Accessibility At Stores

In a first-of-its-kind move, Target says it is making self-checkout more accessible to people with disabilities at locations nationwide.

www.disabilityscoop.com

Anthony @pyrpawed.bsky.social · 12d

Libby and Kanopy are such blessings

Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 13d

The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 13d

The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 15d

Barack Obama to be conferred with freedom of Dublin at ceremony on Thursday

Proposal to grant honour to former US president and his wife Michelle was passed by council in 2017

www.irishtimes.com

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Ben 🇺🇦 @bskolo.bsky.social · 16d

Very cool to learn that everyone is non-binary in Hungary

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 16d

Orban is basically LeBron for Trump

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BKinDetroit @bkindetroit.bsky.social · 18d

Tylenol ain't taking this shit

From tylenol.com

A statement from the Tylenol website stating that Tylenol does not cause autism

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18d

An 11-year-old Michigan boy was expelled from school for a year after he took a gun away from a classmate, disarmed and disassembled it, according to his mother

He’s now enrolled in a non-accredited online program as he tries to keep up

11-Year-Old Expelled After Taking Gun Away from Classmate, Friend Says He 'Acted Out of Courage and Compassion'

The mother of a Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her 11-year-old son was expelled for taking a gun away from a classmate. Savitra McClurkin said her son was expelled after admi...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18d

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 19d

The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19d

The Trump administration is limiting enforcement of fair housing laws, dismissing them as ideologically driven and DEI in disguise, according to interviews and internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws

Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise.

nyti.ms

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