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Everything’s coming up Tula! Today this 500-pound baby elephant was named Grand Marshal of the 2025 Grand Floral Parade 🌹

submitted 11 days ago • 85 comments

I don’t know why it needs to be said, but if you feel sick, it is the barest minimum you can do to not go to a crowded event. Yeah, you can be contagious for some diseases (like COVID) before symptoms present. But plenty of people go anyway.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working. What we are getting instead is Medicaid work reporting requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

Fascinating. And extremely unethical.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Praise from @aoc.bsky.social for the disability rights activists who protested: "I think that they have demonstrated a tremendous amount of courage and bravery putting themselves on the line in order to defend Medicaid for people across the country." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

If you think what disabled people did by interrupting Congress was cool today, how about you guys stop judging disabled people for trying to get the Americans with Disabilities Act enforced (aka through lawsuits).

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Hope people who bought into Fauci and Walensky’s “only the sick and disabled will die from covid, so it’s not a problem anymore” campaign understand how y’all materially helped bring us here:

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

No, popular left wing accounts, the video of protesters getting arrested today are not just “the people” getting fed up. These are disabled activists acting deliberately and in a manner we have consistently had to because nondisabled people don’t show up. Every time, it’s on us.

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

More details are emerging as Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the deported family of the 11yo U.S. citizen girl in Mexico. CBP agents confiscated her seizure meds. That’s not law enforcement—it’s abuse. Keep reposting. Keep raising hell. Be a voice for the voiceless. #OnYourSide

submitted 23 days ago • 69 comments

David Tennant, "Keir Starmer talking at the VE Day commemoration event said: we owe the veterans that can never be fully repaid" "He could start by giving them back the Winter Fuel Allowance" #HIGNFY

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

No, you don't get it. And the arrogance of insisting you do? Cory Booker did what good Senators do, he came out to support a family led organization that advocates for medically complex and disabled children who rely on Medicaid to stay alive. An organization that was key to the 2017 fight.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

I fucking love David Tennant

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

New from me at @motherjones.com: Disability advocates, Medicaid recipients (ofc overlap with the first) and politicians are currently participating in a 24-hour vigil to save Medicaid, organized by @caringacross.org. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

This Uncanny X-Men run is so good!!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The more I think about it, the more I think how fortunate I am that I had a mom who cared how I behaved and positive male role models like my dad, my stepdad, my guitar teacher, my scoutmasters and male teachers who would set me straight if I acted like a jerk.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

submitted 31 days ago • 908 comments

Scoop: Democrats have introduced an official inquiry into the decision to closure of the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled and aging adults remain independent. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

I told @rebeccacokley.bsky.social this the other day: In a lot of ways, the autism rights movement has taken a major step back. But one difference between now and the anti-vaccine panic of the 1990s and 2000s is that now, CNN interviews folks like myself and Holden Thorp.

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Happy Doctor Who Premiere Day to all who celebrate!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I am friends with @ronfournier.bsky.social for many reasons. The fact he respects doesn't try to change Tyler makes me respect Ron. "I am nearly certain the reason he has autism is the same reason I have blue eyes and no hair. It's how God made him." convulsions.substack.com/p/in-defense...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Supporting Caregivers, means supporting Medicaid. Read more from us @caringacross.org and @georgetownccf.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

when rfk makes america healthy again, the children afflicted by sickle cell will just be sent to the labor camps…err…work farms where they can recover

submitted 54 days ago • 154 comments

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

submitted 54 days ago • 24 comments

“An autistic young man loses his caretaker as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown expands to permanent U.S. residents convicted of minor crimes years ago.”

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The disability and trans communities have a shared experience of medicalization as a tool for dehumanization—and the key is working towards dismantling it. Story by @sesmith.bsky.social.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Community living is when disabled people live in the same places as non-disabled people, and get to make the same choices every day as non-disabled people. All disabled people have the right to live in the community with the support we need.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

During the Red Scare, Arnold & Porter was one of the only firms to defend people accused of disloyalty. Their courage is a lesson for today. Here’s their story: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments

The ACA was cool because it allowed ppl w/ #disability to leave abusive relationships. It also gave us the chance to go after new jobs without losing pre-ex conditions protections. #HappyBirthdayACA

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

It's live! Help support a crip trans creator making comics with her face! Disabled mouth artist blending DAZ 3D and traditional, mouth-drawn line art. It's a romantasy about a girl on the spectrum at a college for magic, celebrating love and beauty in many forms. www.kickstarter.com/projects/len...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

If more people recognized that they are in fact disabled, our conversations around disability would be entirely different. We talk a lot about how disability can happen to anyone at any time, but we don't talk enough about how stigma means many people don't acknowledge their existing disability.

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

There are many great parts of this report from @cendemtech.bsky.social and @aapd-disability.bsky.social on building a disability inclusive AI ecosystem, but I want to highlight this part of how remote monitoring software can be discriminatory. Full report here: cdt.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

@keahbrown.bsky.social's masterpiece essay collection, which is why I have yet to read the final essay despite starting her book on October 15, 2023! 🥹

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

This International Women’s Day I’m saying Merci Gisele. Her unwavering commitment to ensuring rape & abuse victims know that the shame is NOT theirs has inspired countless women to come forward & share their own stories. Abuse, neglect & medical misogyny are serious issues we must address #IWD2025

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment