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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 20h

"Of the 60,199 deaths recorded by July 2025, 18,457 or 31% were children."

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but maybe crowdsourced?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kate Caldwell, Hauntological Justice 🎃👻🧟 @kcaldwell.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 2d

The college version of me blasting the Wicked soundtrack couldn't have imagined this would ever exist much less that I would... really want it.

A green Le Crueset dutch oven with Elphaba from Wicked embossed on the top.

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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 6d

Boo Baskets are so stupid. Kids are not supposed to receive a pre-made basket of Halloween gifts, they are supposed to beg strangers to give them candy while also lightly threatening them. It’s tradition.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 8d

Same! I took half a day of sick time and slept for nearly three hours straight. I will pay later this week making up the work. 🙃

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 8d

A pretty fun article coming out of war ravaged Portland:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/d...

How an Ice Cream Obsessive Recreated the Choco Taco

www.nytimes.com

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Caring Across Generations @caringacross.org · 10d

The only things we should be gutting right now are pumpkins. 🎃 Happy #ProtectMedicaid Fall 🍁 🍃 🍂

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 11d

Monster-devoured Naperville is sending me. 😂

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 12d

Capitalism?

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 12d

Printing to PDF and reading it on a tablet in dark mode.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 12d

"...atrocities do not begin with action; they begin with imagination, with the suggestion that some lives are worth less, that their removal might even be merciful...we survive by insisting that our lives have value, that our consent matters, and that history will not repeat if we refuse to let it."

Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 13d

All new guest essay for the DVP by Shannon Pagdon:

“When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s ‘just kill ’em’ thinkable”

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/09/26/w...

Photo of a memorial plaque at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin. The inscription reads: “Honor to the forgotten victims. At this site, at Tiergartenstraße 4, the first National Socialist mass murder was organized starting in 1940, named after this address: Aktion T4. From 1939 to 1945, almost 200,000 defenseless people were killed. Their lives were described as ‘unworthy of life,’ their murder called euthanasia. They died in the gas chambers of Grafeneck, Brandenburg, Hartheim, Pirna, Bernburg, and Hadamar; they died by firing squads, by deliberate starvation, and by poison. The perpetrators were scientists, doctors, nurses, members of the judiciary, the police, and of the health and labor administrations. The victims were poor, desperate, defiant, or in need of help. They came from psychiatric clinics and children’s hospitals, from nursing homes and welfare institutions, from military hospitals and camps. The number of victims was vast; the number of perpetrators convicted was very small.”

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 13d

Follow for the journalism, stay for the dad jokes.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 13d

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13d

Whewwww

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"A WOMAN I did not know in the cubicle next to me broke down. She was literally wailing, inconsolable, because she could not get into a childcare facility she could afford on such short notice. She literally had to choose between her little child and working. Her explaining to her manager the way her child cried and begged Mommy to stay home broke me. Then, as if on cue, an email from a person whose account said they were the acting IRS commissioner arrived in our inboxes, reminding us that it was
"Mental Health Awareness" month and that we can do such helpful things as
"practicing gratitude" and breathing techniques to deal with stress. It also reminded us we can take time off to seek professional help ... I never saw her again, and her cube is now empty."
-IRS employee
wired.com

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 13d

For Vought, it seems like a win-win. More trauma in the federal workforce!

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 15d

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 14d

This is happening to me, too! I thought it was just *gestures wildly at the U.S.*.

a man in a gray shirt is clapping his hands

Alt: Seth Myers gestures all around himself

media.tenor.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15d

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for your voice in this piece, @ericmgarcia.bsky.social. I'm still processing it all, and finding it’s hard to get past the emotional weight right now to what forward progress looks like.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 16d

I study the political sociology of disability. I’m also a former HHS employee.

Personally, professionally, & on so many other levels, I’m appalled by today’s press conference.

These demagogues do not deserve the time of day. And we can build a better world in spite of them. Mir veln zey iberlebn.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 16d

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: I had to leave my home office in the basement today because the deep freezer was making a squealing noise probably nobody else can hear.

A screenshot of a Fox News broadcast with the headline "AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT" next to photos of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Abby Schindler @abbyschindler.bsky.social · 17d

"The quality of human life is not dependent on achievement. The quality of our lives is dependent on love.” -Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo: Our quality of life does not depend on achievement - Vatican News

In a videomessage for this year's ALS ‘Walk for Life’, Pope Leo says that “the quality of human life is not dependent on achievement

www.vaticannews.va

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Amy Colleen (sewistwrites) @amycolleen.bsky.social · 20d

Been a real "why am I so soft in the middle now when the rest of my life is so hard" kind of week

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