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Justine Barron

@jewstein3000.bsky.social

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Author of the book “They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up” (Arcade) I’m on twitter @jewstein3000 Confused to still be alive

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · Apr 14

It is the ten year anniversary of Freddie Gray's arrest and death in Baltimore.

As an author of a book on the case, I am going to *DEBUNK ONE MYTH EACH DAY* about what really happened.

Starting with: How was #FreddieGray actually killed? 1/

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They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up

They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up - Kindle edition by Barron, Justine, Chaudry, Rabia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 1d

Creating AI videos of dead people means people will stop activating their skills in bringing people to life through writing and performance. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but those skills are not easy and they excite me when they are done successfully

Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 2d

Oh six words sorry

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t like their suggestion

Mine is: “I have to throw up now.”

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI: I wrote about, for National Disablility Employment Awareness Month, who really gets accommodations at work. Hint: It's not disabled people! justinebarron.substack.com/p/its-nation...

It's "National Disability Employment Awareness Month." Here's who really gets accommodated.

Part 2 of "I had an accident, my chair broke, and my job treated me like a criminal."

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI: I wrote about, for National Disablility Employment Awareness Month, who really gets accommodations at work. Hint: It's not disabled people! justinebarron.substack.com/p/its-nation...

It's "National Disability Employment Awareness Month." Here's who really gets accommodated.

Part 2 of "I had an accident, my chair broke, and my job treated me like a criminal."

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

But I also don’t think that mayor candidate is actually doing that. This is probably something his opponents just latched on to bc it sounds like scary socialism

Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

I do think just dismantling Exceptional Student Education programs (also a bad name) without understand how they benefit all types of students isn’t a good idea.

That’s a lot of disabled students in fact

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

Socially, the separation is beneficial too. Highest and lowest performing students face less bullying in their own classrooms

Again it’s all problematic, the whole structure. If classroom education was student-led, project based, interesting, there wouldn’t be as many issues

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

Obvi, education should be radically changed altogether. That aside…

Studies also show that separating these groups and giving them tailored curricula results in better outcomes for all students

Calling it “gifted and talented” is out of date tho and harmful

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

… than other students on standardized tests.

BOTH groups have been shown to suffer academically in mainstream classes. The education isn’t appropriate for either group’s pace or needs, broadly 2/

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

The discourse on both sides of the Gifted and Talented conversation is annoying. I want to give a little context as someone who works on education stuff

“Exceptional Student Education” is the term more commonly used now for students who perform much higher or lower… 1/

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon.

There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.

This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Shooting involving federal agents in Brighton Park under investigation

According to the Department of Homeland Security, a woman allegedly "boxed in" federal authorities, who opened fire.

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

What I’ve been dealing with at work. Happy National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

So when it comes to accommodations, it is more socially acceptable to want accommodations rather than to need them. Workplaces are more likely to casually grant accommodations (unusual hours, breaks, extensions, etc.) if they don’t think you actually rely on them to function.
It’s bias. Nothing new. But employers are incredibly unaware of how much it drives them. I was explicitly told by an HR executive that staff are allowed to turn off their cameras during meetings to eat lunch because they should be allowed to “take care of themselves without feeling self-conscious.” That’s a no-brainer accommodation to them. But if I need to turn off the camera because I have to recline while working one day at a meeting (because of my disability or injury), I need to provide medical proof. You see? I don’t get to “take care of myself without feeling self-conscious” unless I can go through an expensive and embarrassing accommodation process.
I think the employer sees the person eating lunch as so

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

What I’ve been dealing with at work. Happy National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 5d

NEW ARTICLE: "It's National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Here's who really gets accommodated."

Disabled people have to fight hard for accommodations that are easily given to non-disabled people all the time.

justinebarron.substack.com/p/its-nation...

It's "National Disability Employment Awareness Month." Here's who really gets accommodated.

Part 2 of "I had an accident, my chair broke, and my job treated me like a criminal."

justinebarron.substack.com