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If you're honest about being disabled, you don't get hired. If you lie and get hired, you're not allowed to take time enough or don't have enough/any time off for medical appointments or flair ups. Then you get fired or cornered into quitting. The hamster wheel of disability in the USA.

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This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

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A U.S. Economic Blackout — a nationwide economic protest — is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. On this day, participants are encouraged to refrain from making any purchases, both online and in-store, from large corporations.

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Pathocracy: A system of government “wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people.” www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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I will post only once more about this tonight. Whitman-Walker is how I am Erin. I hold this name because of the resources they provided the trans community. I hope what I have written tonight gives them pause, and all orgs who would do this. Because the wave has hit home and I can’t stand quiet.

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Anti-intellectualism has flourished for myriad reasons, but I think a significant one is that knowledge is fundamentally uncomfortable. Once you learn about systems of oppression, you can't unlearn it, you will always be in a little more pain knowing the depth of human suffering. (1/2)

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“Saving democracy” is not the same thing as saving people.

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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The beliefs and policies that disabled people are a burden and are better off dead than disabled are not an abstract devaluation of disabled people. They are discrimination. They are eugenics. They are genocide.

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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The amount of weaponized unreality has increased dramatically. It can have an effect on people at an individual level in terms of cognitive functioning and emotional state. If you’re having greater than usual difficulty thinking clearly and mood variability, that might be part of why.

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"Medicaid waiver programs" pay for medically necessary treatments and services that commercial insurers will not cover. Cigna will, quite simply, let kids die.

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Democrats are being weak. Just like they were weak on not passing Build Back Better. Just like they were weak on not codifying Roe when they had the majority. It’s time for new party leadership at the federal level.

submitted 14 days ago • 67 comments

If the Democratic Party's mega-donors actually had a problem with what's going on, we'd see action. Instead, we get calculated indifference and empty theatrics while right-wing extremists like Elon Musk tighten their grip over us.

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The Democrats have no intention of ever rebuilding anything the GOP destroys. They lack the vision, the courage, and most importantly, the political will. We need to stop waiting for them to act and start preparing for what it means to live in a country where basic governance is deliberately erased.

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I've been talking about this for a long time. Most people I know have gaslit me or simply not taken it seriously in response. I wish it wasn't true, but that doesn't change what's happening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAQ...

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This.

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"[Potential changes to Medicaid] would dramatically alter states’ budgets and could curtail or end care for millions of people with disabilities."

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And apparently record income was a reason to [checks notes] raise prices.

submitted 35 days ago • 244 comments

🚨 Critical Fire Weather Alert Much of Southern California is facing critical fire weather beginning Monday at 10 a.m. and lasting through Tuesday at 10 p.m. Strong winds and low humidities are expected to increase the risk of fire danger. One less spark means one less wildfire.

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The ceasefire deal is not a triumph for Joe Biden. It actually cements his position in history as a bloodstained monster. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/ceasefire-...

submitted 39 days ago • 24 comments

Yesterday, reporter Sam Husseini was dragged out of the White House Press Room for asking questions about Gaza. We should all be alarmed by journalists being forcibly removed from asking questions. It’s a step further towards authoritarianism and must not be ignored.

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"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

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Today's vote in Congress by 81 Democrats to target the trans kids of our military servicemembers should be a defining moment. Mainline LGBT+ organizations will face a moment of truth when they have to now put public pressure on Dems. People who say they've "had our backs" will have to show it.

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Cities are dispossessing homeless people without any fucks whatsoever www.propublica.org/article/home...

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Seriously fucked.

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Not going back to Twitter, even if people only stay here briefly. Fuck musk and everything that he is.

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