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DHH and ASL Teacher, Hard of Hearing 🤟🦻she/her, ISFJ, 4/6 MG. Education activist and disability justice #DeafEd #Disability #edusky Facetime with my students is the best part of my day Community care, accessibility, and collective liberation for all
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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

Leonard Peltier has made it to North Dakota! The temperatures are bitter cold today, but our hearts and spirits are on FIRE for our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard. ❤️‍🔥 Read our press release for more about Leonard's welcome home event tomorrow ndnco.cc/lphomepr

DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi This should be repeated in articles, regularly

Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities. His obsession with targeting the most vulnerable people is so fucking bizarre and it shows what a weak piece of shit he is. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

PSA: authentication via CAPTCHA is not accessible. Having an audio option instead of the visual test does not sufficient as some of us have both vision and hearing impairments. This PSA brought to you by a disability org having a CAPTCHA sign up for their mailing list🙃 do not do this

Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Note this is unfortunately routine practice already--its called the foster care system. We remove more children from their families than any country on earth and 90% of them are victims of poverty, not abuse or violence. What Kennedy is calling for is the expansion of a system that already exists.

Yes @thearcus.bsky.social “Without education, students w/ #disability face higher rates of poverty, unemployment, poor health, and social isolation. Education is the foundation for independence, inclusion, & a future w/ choices.” www.newsweek.com/department-e...

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

🚨🚨🚨 Musk and Trump fired 1000 VA staff, including staff working the Veterans Crisis Line. That’s confirmed. Musk and Trump are firing Veterans across federal agencies. That’s confirmed. NOW is the time to make some noise. NOW is the time to stand firm. Make every day a living hell for them.

Not sure why we’re assuming that gutting disability programs is an accident but I guarantee you this wasn’t a whoopsie of language use, it was a very intentional attack on the disabled.

Trump: I think my disabled relative 'should just go die' T: I want to shut down Dept of Ed, which guarantees rights to disabled students T: Disabled FAA employees may have caused this plane crash GOP: We're suing to dismantle Section 504 The Left: I wonder how the right feels about disabled ppl🤷🏻🤷🏻

This. And holding as @profblmkelley.bsky.social noted, the federal workforce has a large amount of Black folks, one can see how the idea that "federal workforce is doing nothing and getting paid well to do so" is built on anti-blackness. Using racial capitalism allows our analysis to become sharper

The Trump administration is literally just shipping brown people out of the US. They don't care if they are sent back to their home countries or not. Or if they separate families forever. This is so much worse than last time.

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

Section 504 prohibits discrimination against disabled people & guarantees equal access to anything (services, programs, buildings, etc.) that receives federal funding. It paved the way for the ADA. The sit-in that got it passed is an extraordinary moment in US history. I am incandescent with rage.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I can't stress this enough, join groups online or in person with people who clearly see what's happening currently. It will ground you and make you less fearful.

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

"Seeing ruins means they haven't won yet. You are still around to be a witness." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

FACT

#Severance, Irving, John Turturro’s character arch so far over these first two seasons has been exquisite, in part due to tremendous writing but in large part it relies on his impeccable, controlled acting. He must earn an #Emmy. Not up for discussion. Really incredible show, an all timer.

Homework for this week. (sorry I had to speed it up to fit in sixty secs; will post regular speed on IG)

Had my first healthcare worker refuse to mask for me. My chart is documented that I’m immune compromised & require staff to mask. The facility had a policy that if asked, staff will wear. I was told “no I need to breathe to do my job”. I stood firm & said I’m high risk and masks are required 🧵

Keep an eye on what's happening re: immigration raids. You can also use this moderated tool to anonymously report raids you've observed. padlet.com/PeopleoverPa...

Someone on Facebook asked advice for a coverup tattoo for a Gaiman quote (and fair enough!) and a tattoo artist got chatting and said they do so many HP coverups these days too. That made me very happy. Then they said: "I donate the money from hp coverups to trans advocacy groups" and I got happier.

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch

Remember. It’s never: We fight for (these people) because maybe we’re more at risk if we don’t. No more Niemölling. We fight because they are coming for anyone. Every single person matters. Each and every human being’s life and safety is worth the fight.

Following the CDC's removal of critical health data and the potential approval of RFK Jr. as Health Secretary, it is crucial to access accurate health information from independent sources such as the WHO, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, and peer-reviewed journals.

Reminder: "Sometimes, 'bearing witness' feels like the only thing we can do, but the relentless consumption of suffering and injustice does not change anyone’s material conditions. It may feel like we’re doing something, but during such moments, we are experiencing an impact rather than having one."

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

Drop Target. Shop at Costco. www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/b...

Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day. This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.

The funniest part about They Not Like Us winning 5 Grammys is that it's not even the best song Kendrick wrote about how much he hates Drake last year lol Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Humans are NEVER "illegal"

the reason I don’t say I’m an “ally” in my bio is because it’s not up to me. marginalized people aren’t looking for declarative statements, they’re looking for action & evidence. they know who their allies are.

Black American history feels more important this month. Remembering all the ways in which past & present black defenders of this democracy put their blood & tears into our nation holds more purpose today than only informative. Black history helps us remember *why* America is great.

Greg Abbott has spent the past 4 years saying that TX was being invaded by immigrants. Put up barbed wire and booby trapped bouys. Had LEOs stopping trucks. So tell me why, the so-called ICE raids didn’t start in TX, but are in Chicago and NY?

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Black History is American History.

It's February which means it's #BlackHistoryMonth & I've said before I love #BHM. This month, I'm going to share a resource with a focus on Black history that I had a hand in making every day. Starting today with my Slavery & Resistance in NYC Walking Tour: Slavery and Resistance in NYC Walking Tour

Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤

ALL NASA community facing/oriented groups/committees/etc. have been frozen, which tells you everything you need to know. When people get together, they can fight. If we keep people separated, we are easier to keep afraid. Keep your connections, keep talking, and keep fighting.

fuck all the way off with this attempted partisanship gotcha. Michelle Obama didn't sow distrust in vaccines or imply that SSRIs could be responsible for school shootings

I've been posting, on and off, about the need for art to get us through it all. Art and joy and things like that. Though it is bread we fight for, we fight for roses too. Love will see us through, if anything does. "Take the figs to make your body live, the beer to rejoice your heart."