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Feeling angry today & looking for a way to help? I’m raising money to cover some costs related to my chronic pain & to donate to #MutualAid for others w/ disabilities. As part of that, you can get some cool (at least I think so) merch to build solidarity for the #disabled community that so needs it.

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Please remember that your money will be much better spent right now giving to mutual aid than donating to any politician.

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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

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New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.

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If you don't trust a Palestinian account, you could just block or mute them, or ignore them. Unless you know for a fact they're not who they claim to be, reporting them is a really shitty thing to do and makes you a horrible person.

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Once again the most antisemitic presidency in generations, an administration with actual Nazis on staff, is determining which Jews are Jewish and which are degenerates (hint: the latter = the vast majority of American Jews)—with the added bonus of using "Palestinian" as a slur.

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Wait I'm sorry terroristic what now

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I’m not even joking when I say I’m one more bad week and a dare away from quitting my job & starting a kickstarter to open a bookstore. I might have already looked at properties and there might be a couple spaces available in a complex that would be a great fit and is super close to my house.

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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

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On a planet where a child dies of malnutrition every 10 seconds, what reasonable person has $900,000,000 and says, "Not enough! I need more!" Being a billionaire should be a malignant disorder. (btw if you have $900M, you can spend $31,000 every single day for 80 years and not run out)

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Follow this group of Indigenous authors, bookshops, content creators and then share this list. Support Indigenous folks in publishingn go.bsky.app/ALbjGXE

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all that commitment to patriarchy, including a critical vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, just for conservatives to still call Amy Coney Barrett a DEI hire lol I wrote about Barrett playing sexist games and--wouldn't ya know it--winning sexist prizes ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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I joked about making a “fight fascism, wear a mask” shirt & I finally did! As a highly empathetic disabled woman, it’s been hard the last few months seeing so many struggling w/ everything going on & not be able to help as much as I want. So much of the #resistance needed is entirely inaccessible 🧵

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This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in. Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.

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For no reason in particular, did you know the shelf life on Plan B is 4 years? So, like, if someone wanted to I dunno stock up for reasons, those meds would be good for years.

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CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

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So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

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He had the nerve to visit Dachau and then meet with the leader of the neo-Nazi AfD in the same 24 hours. The gall of these people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

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NEW: Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.

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The needs of racialized people are more important than the feelings of white people. The needs of trans people are more important than the feelings of cis people. The needs of disabled people are more important than the feelings of abled people.

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People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis. Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.

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What a remarkable self-own. It’s like watching a bunch of firefighters stand around looking at a burning house, annoyed because people keep calling them about it. “What do you want us to do? We didn’t set the fire! Call the arsonist.”

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I have absolutely no time for politicians who don’t respect organizing. This is, quite literally, what democracy looks like. You don’t have to agree with everything the people are demanding, but if you’re going to disparage the people doing whatever they can to fight fascism, you should resign.

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"potentially complicating" is funny. We're going to witness how good the GOP and the Rightwing are at lying and how easily demagogued USians are because there will be no actual competent opposition party who can counter-message.

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I insist you read this, if only because @willbunch.bsky.social is one of the great columnists of our era and because the @inquirer.com is one of the last bastions of real journalism in America. (and also, everyone needs to know this) www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

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Also, a big thing people leave out of all of these discussions is that inequality is a driver of unhappiness. Regardless of whether living conditions are improving in general since hundreds of years ago, if inequality increases that impacts happiness and conflict

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Sahar. Sahar had just finished her studies and internship in marketing before the war. She has 4 children, Hala, Royal, Odai and Talin. They lost their home and are living in a UN shelter, Odai was shot by a paracopter and has a leg injury.

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Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

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Good resource www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

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I got a letter from my cardiologist. He’s one of 2 dysautonomia specialists in my state & has been booking appts 2 years out. He’s now closed to new patients to care for the ones he has. I assume the other dr’s waitlist is just as long. My heart hurts for all the people stuck waiting for answers.

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The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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I had an unexpected vet bill that's going to take out my savings-- which I was going to live on until I get paid next month. I live on a disability pension which doesn't cover everything. I could really use any help you can give. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

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