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Bat 🦇 Borus

@matthewborus.bsky.social

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Sociologist, social work faculty Posting topics include community, disability, social welfare, Chicago, social movements, organizing, policy, the state, labor, coffee, and various nerdy side trips. Personal account

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · Feb 26

New from me: A look at four (of many) areas where Trump and his GOP allies threaten to roll back disability policy:

-Disability rights at work
-Cuts to the federal workforce
-Education
-Health care, both in terms of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid

Please check it out!

Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people

Tracking disability policies has long been challenging − this will become a harder task under the Trump administration.

theconversation.com

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 27m

Took the air conditioner out of my window. I guess it’s really October.

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Jacob Lesniewski @jplesniewski.bsky.social · 55m

Stephen Miller feeds gremlins after midnight

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 1h

When the “experts” you invite to your antifa roundtable are fascists, it says everything about your position.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 57m

Yet no one is looking for him, because ew.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1h

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 7h

Stephen Miller is neither excellent to anyone, nor does he party on, dudes.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 2h

I appreciate that caveat. Still, it feels relevant that you have legal training, even while these are fundamentally political questions.

Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 3h

Worth mentioning here that unlike many of us on here, Dr. Halloran is, in fact, a lawyer.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · Jul 8

🎵 Everybody's working for a llama
Everybody wants a camelid.
Everybody's backin' an alpaca
Everybody wants that wool tonight, oh 🎶

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 7d

In 2013, I was furloughed in a government shutdown spearheaded by Ted Cruz, who sought to block parts of a law that expanded access to health care.

Now his party is shutting the government down again, instead of extending health care subsidies under an iteration of the same law.

Feels repetitive.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 19h

Arthur Miller worked as part of the Federal Theatre Project during the New Deal.

He also delivered a lecture commenting on the “arts of performance in the 2000 presidential election.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 19h

Arthur Miller worked as part of the Federal Theatre Project during the New Deal.

He also delivered a lecture commenting on the “arts of performance in the 2000 presidential election.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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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.

www.motherjones.com

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Yup.

Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

It’s clearly and unambiguously required by a 2019 law that MIKE JOHNSON VOTED FOR!

Roll Call 28 Roll Call 28, Bill Number: S. 24, 116th Congress, 1st Session

VOTE QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, DESCRIPTION: Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, VOTE TYPE: 2/3 Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed

clerk.house.gov

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Back pay for furloughs used to be a question. It certainly caused me stress when I was furloughed in 2013.

That changed in 2019 with the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, which unambiguously guarantees back pay.

It passed the House 411-7. Mike Johnson voted for it. Donald Trump signed it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe she was thinking of the scene in Knives Out where Benoit Blanc leans back in his chair and drawls, “Let’s do the fucking clues.”

Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Look folks, Bari was referencing that scene in Blues Brothers, right after Cab Calloway has stepped off the stage, where Jake looks out at the auditorium, then he turns to Elwood, and says, "Let's do the fucking blues."

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

On this site, I suspect enough people will get the reference. :)

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Out of curiosity, do you know if this is from the amendment to the Antideficiency Act that was passed after the 2018-2019 shutdown?

I was furloughed in the Ted Cruz shutdown of 2013, and we were *not* confident that we'd get backpay until a deal was struck.

Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Last I checked, Marjorie Taylor Greene was still a self-identified Christian nationalist. Her anti-Semitism, racism, and conspiracy-theory-boosting are dangerous.

If she's a crack in the Republican wall against ACA subsidies, well...I'm glad it's cracking.

But celebrating her? That's a bad look.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

This one really hits it.

Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller told the Ghostbusters that it was no big deal to cross the streams.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller wants to put Baby in the corner.

Nobody does that.

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