Ruthie
@ruthielb.bsky.social
boston raised & los angeles educated/tor. empath. hype person for hope. coach/consultant. always asking who’s missing in the room?
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See the trailer from a brand new documentary about addressing Washtenaw housing insecurity: THE ROAD HOME.
www.watchtheroadhome.com
www.watchtheroadhome.com
Home | The Road Home
www.watchtheroadhome.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
See the trailer from a brand new documentary about addressing Washtenaw housing insecurity: THE ROAD HOME.
www.watchtheroadhome.com
www.watchtheroadhome.com
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A fast-growing Michigan cash aid program for moms and babies is coming to Detroit.
Rx Kids program to help moms and babies in Detroit
Rx Kids offers $1,500 in cash assistance during mid-pregnancy and then $500 per month for up to a year of the baby's life and already operates in 20 communities across Michigan.
www.bridgedetroit.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
A fast-growing Michigan cash aid program for moms and babies is coming to Detroit.
2025 was a quality over quantity type of reading (still hit my goal and read 36 books). #books @thestorygraph.com
Top Nonfiction: Big Friendship, Wintering & What It Takes to Heal
Top Fiction: My Friends, Maroons, Ancestors, Yours Truly and Great Big Beautiful Life, and Just for the Summer
Top Nonfiction: Big Friendship, Wintering & What It Takes to Heal
Top Fiction: My Friends, Maroons, Ancestors, Yours Truly and Great Big Beautiful Life, and Just for the Summer
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
2025 was a quality over quantity type of reading (still hit my goal and read 36 books). #books @thestorygraph.com
Top Nonfiction: Big Friendship, Wintering & What It Takes to Heal
Top Fiction: My Friends, Maroons, Ancestors, Yours Truly and Great Big Beautiful Life, and Just for the Summer
Top Nonfiction: Big Friendship, Wintering & What It Takes to Heal
Top Fiction: My Friends, Maroons, Ancestors, Yours Truly and Great Big Beautiful Life, and Just for the Summer
Back on BlueSky in 2026!
Starting out with sharing this piece in the midst of new year resolutions readings that include folks like Brene Brown and Mel Robbins but not the BIPOC and disabled folks who said similar things first. #courageculture
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/brene-brow...
Starting out with sharing this piece in the midst of new year resolutions readings that include folks like Brene Brown and Mel Robbins but not the BIPOC and disabled folks who said similar things first. #courageculture
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/brene-brow...
Brené Brown, Courage Culture, and the Co-optation of Black Women's Intellectual Labor
The cycle of exploitation runs deeper than we would like to admit.
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Back on BlueSky in 2026!
Starting out with sharing this piece in the midst of new year resolutions readings that include folks like Brene Brown and Mel Robbins but not the BIPOC and disabled folks who said similar things first. #courageculture
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/brene-brow...
Starting out with sharing this piece in the midst of new year resolutions readings that include folks like Brene Brown and Mel Robbins but not the BIPOC and disabled folks who said similar things first. #courageculture
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/brene-brow...
At the Wayne Resa Diverse Histories Summit, and hearing an example of a professor not afraid of losing his job but of losing his soul. #resist #Dr.Jeffries #OSU #civilrights
August 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
At the Wayne Resa Diverse Histories Summit, and hearing an example of a professor not afraid of losing his job but of losing his soul. #resist #Dr.Jeffries #OSU #civilrights
The ineptly named bill will leave so many people behind. #medicaidsaveslives
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/di...
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/di...
“It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more. “W...
www.democracynow.org
May 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The ineptly named bill will leave so many people behind. #medicaidsaveslives
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/di...
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/di...
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The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.
On Teacher Appreciation Week, union leaders say teachers are underpaid and under attack
The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.
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You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
Excited to be joining Teach Michigan's EmpowerEd weekend representing Detroit Disability Power. I am also speaking on a career panel for the MI Education Policy fellowship, as an alumna! #educators #michigan #policy #disabilityjustice
April 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Excited to be joining Teach Michigan's EmpowerEd weekend representing Detroit Disability Power. I am also speaking on a career panel for the MI Education Policy fellowship, as an alumna! #educators #michigan #policy #disabilityjustice
Congrats to the research team for this launch! www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/publication/... #misinformation #aajc #um #digitalliteracy
Beyond Language Translation
Asian Americans, News and Information Seeking, and the Circulation of Problematic Narratives Online
www.advancingjustice-aajc.org
April 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Congrats to the research team for this launch! www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/publication/... #misinformation #aajc #um #digitalliteracy
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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!
To all our trans friends and neighbors -- I see you and support you. Keep being you! #transdayofvisibility
To all our trans friends and neighbors -- I see you and support you. Keep being you! #transdayofvisibility
March 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!
To all our trans friends and neighbors -- I see you and support you. Keep being you! #transdayofvisibility
To all our trans friends and neighbors -- I see you and support you. Keep being you! #transdayofvisibility
Not gonna lie, seeing so many folks protesting Tesla made me emotional ✊🏽
March 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Not gonna lie, seeing so many folks protesting Tesla made me emotional ✊🏽
Read the first in the trilogy, Grover’s, in one day and Maroons last week. Beautiful writing set in Detroit during a mysterious illness. #novels #blackdawnseries
March 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Read the first in the trilogy, Grover’s, in one day and Maroons last week. Beautiful writing set in Detroit during a mysterious illness. #novels #blackdawnseries
One of my jobs in college was reading teacher contracts in California. Bereavement is on average 3 days. Grief never really goes away and yet people got to get back to work so soon.
March 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One of my jobs in college was reading teacher contracts in California. Bereavement is on average 3 days. Grief never really goes away and yet people got to get back to work so soon.
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More than a dozen Maine teachers, administrators, education advocates and lawmakers testified in support of a bill to increase the state’s minimum teacher salary to at least $50,000 as a way to help solve teacher recruitment and retention issues.
Maine educators ask Legislature to increase teachers’ minimum salary
A bill before the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee would raise the minimum teacher salary in Maine from $40,000 to $50,000 over the next 5 years.
www.pressherald.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
More than a dozen Maine teachers, administrators, education advocates and lawmakers testified in support of a bill to increase the state’s minimum teacher salary to at least $50,000 as a way to help solve teacher recruitment and retention issues.
“I’m tired of playing defense with the #ADA I want to play offense.” Senator Tammy Duckworth (IL).
So many folks I train are surprised that the ADA is under fire, but it is a civil rights issue and impacts 30% of US.
So many folks I train are surprised that the ADA is under fire, but it is a civil rights issue and impacts 30% of US.
February 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“I’m tired of playing defense with the #ADA I want to play offense.” Senator Tammy Duckworth (IL).
So many folks I train are surprised that the ADA is under fire, but it is a civil rights issue and impacts 30% of US.
So many folks I train are surprised that the ADA is under fire, but it is a civil rights issue and impacts 30% of US.
Call Today! Protect Medicaid ✊🏽
TODAY: Make your voice heard! Congress is considering massive cuts to #Medicaid. Call your House members and demand they vote NO. Call your representative now: caring.nu/no-medicaid-... #ProtectMedicaid
Call Your Representative in Congress and Say No Cuts to Medicaid!
caring.nu
February 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Call Today! Protect Medicaid ✊🏽
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
February 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
Where Attacking People With Disabilities Fits Into The Authoritarian Playbook by Scot Nakagawa - great read on how our lives are connected and how to take action!
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/blaming-th...
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/blaming-th...
Blaming the Tragedy Over the Potomac on People With Disabilities is a Warning to Us All
Where Attacking People With Disabilities Fits Into The Authoritarian Playbook
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Where Attacking People With Disabilities Fits Into The Authoritarian Playbook by Scot Nakagawa - great read on how our lives are connected and how to take action!
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/blaming-th...
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/blaming-th...
In good news, this banger is going to be on music platforms in its original form, and EDM remix: www.instagram.com/reel/DFvKltU... #hostilegovernmenttakeover
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February 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In good news, this banger is going to be on music platforms in its original form, and EDM remix: www.instagram.com/reel/DFvKltU... #hostilegovernmenttakeover
Okay rewatched the Kendrick Lamar half time and yet there’s so much to see 😂
February 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Okay rewatched the Kendrick Lamar half time and yet there’s so much to see 😂
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A love letter to California I’m crying
Got Serena out there Crip walking to it while he perform it at the Super Bowl. My goodness
February 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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