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Alexis Weaver

@alexis-weaver.bsky.social
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*Mom of 3 amazing kids & partner to a phenomenal spouse www.Alexis4Tucker.com *Tucker City Council District 3 Post 1 * focusing on upward mobility and disability equity **Opinions are my own**

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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Powerful and thorough analysis of the challenging terminology “able-bodied” and how it hurts disabled people.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Re-Elect Alexis Weaver, Tucker City Council District 3, Post 1 www.Alexis4Tucker.com
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Re-Elect Alexis Weaver to Tucker City Council, District 3
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
@tiffanydcross.bsky.social preach! Thank you for telling the truth tonight on Abby Phillips! and standing up to the callousness of the male maga caucasity sitting next to you.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
hubs is hoping Baylor football is good enough this year to not make it to Espn+. had to explain to my kids why they won’t be able to watch some of their favorite shows. we are in an emergency and in our capitalist society money speaks. Resist authoritarian dictates on the media and free speech.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Tortured because of the US Government. This is so immoral.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New Urban Institute #upwardmobilityinitiative blog post on why local policymakers need data that include disabled people's experiences & recommendations for identifying and collecting data related to disability: upward-mobility.urban.org/including-di... @sjpopkin.bsky.social
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Including Disabled People in Upward Mobility: Leveraging Local Data
To support upward mobility from poverty, policymakers must specifically consider the unique challenges people with disabilities face when designing and implementing policies.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The United Farm Workers, along with the entire labor movement, stands in strong solidarity with our comrade, labor leader David Huerta. We demand his immediate release and condemn indiscriminate sweeps targeting working class immigrants.
The United Farm Workers condemns the violence against our comrade David Huerta, the President of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW, who was injured and detained while exercising his constitutional rights during an ICE raid in Los Angeles. 

Now more than ever, it is urgent for all working people in the United States to defend the immigrant workers who 
contribute so much to our country. An attack against one worker is an attack on all workers -- union and 
solidarity are our response. 
Si se puede.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/06/2025
"The City of LA's Sanctuary City Ordinance prohibits City resources from being used to aid federal immigration enforcement. However, today, the City witnessed through videos and media coverage Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers within the vicinity of ICE raids."
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/06/2025
Los Angeles ICE protests continues in the quoted post below
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/06/2025
Protesters in Los Angeles covering tear gas grenades with traffic cones and trying to extinguish them with water. Crowd is still growing.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/06/2025
We just rallied at the steps of the Supreme Court to free Andry now! But we're not done fighting yet. Head to freeandry.org to donate and help!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New — Marcelo Gomes da Silva has finally been released from ICE detention where the 18-year-old was held in deplorable conditions. He helped translate paperwork for other detainees that said they were getting deported. Unimaginable. www.wcvb.com/article/immi...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2025
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Summer nights = movies and homemade stovetop popcorn. Also my 13 year old telling me every 30 seconds what is and isn’t a part of the game as we watch Minecraft
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/05/2025
“If Musk is moving fast and breaking things, as the Silicon Valley dictum goes, Vought is taking the shattered pieces of the federal government and reassembling them into a radically new constitutional order,” @mckaycoppins.bsky.social writes:
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The Visionary of Trump 2.0
Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Nice opportunity to watch Texas vs TCU NCAA Tennis Championships tonight at Baylor! #hookem #ncaatennis
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Really thrilled to have this (my first this cycle) national endorsement!
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I’m running for re-election to Tucker City Council! I’m proud of the progress we’ve made together—on inclusion, transparency, and community engagement—and I’m excited to keep building on that work. Learn more or get involved at alexis4tucker.com. #TuckerGA
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2025
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Does #SNAP cover the cost of a meal in your county? #Research shows that many families receiving SNAP benefits are still facing food insecurity, and proposed cuts to the program could exacerbate existing challenges. Access the #data using Urban's tool.
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Does SNAP Cover the Cost of a Meal in Your County?
Amid inflation, SNAP benefits did not cover the cost of a meal in 99 percent of counties in 2022. Adjustments to SNAP narrowed—but didn’t close—that gap.
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What are the effects of dismantling the Department of #Education on students with #disabilities? An Urban Wire post examines the potential impacts of disrupting the Department of Education’s key functions of enforcing critical civil rights laws and distributing IDEA #funding to the states.
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How Dismantling the Education Department Could Affect Disabled Students across the US
Though states and local governments are primarily responsible for K–12 education, the US Department of Education is critical to ensuring disabled children in every community have access to a free, app...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.” 🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Some of the communities I’ve been able to work with on the Upward Mobility Initiative have done really powerful work in their communities. Looking forward to hearing the conversation with folks from Richmond, Santa Barbara, and Kansas City next Tuesday!
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thrilled to be a part of this event highlighting the great ways that RMAPI and Feeding America’s Economic Mobility team have been applying the Upward Mobility Framework in their efforts. Hope you’ll join us!
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This continues to hit too close to home. Debunked pseudoscience. Focus on my child not having or being a “problem” to be “fixed” but instead, understanding how her and other autistic brains work and how our systems (healthcare, education, society) can serve them better and adapt to them!
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Sue Popkin @sjpopkin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Dismantling the Dept of Ed could have major implications for students with disabilities @alexis-weaver.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...
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How Dismantling the Education Department Could Affect Disabled Students Across the US
Though states and local governments are primarily responsible for K–12 education, the US Department of Education is critical to ensuring disabled children in every community have access to a free, appropriate public education.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Black History Month- works from Black authors and artists who changed my life. Day 5. Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley www.instagram.com/blackliturgi...
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
February is Black History Month. Black history is American history. Works by Black artists that changed my life, day 4. “Mississippi Goddam” by Nina Simone youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Black History Month - Works by Black authors that changed my life, day 3: “The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes who Fought for Justice in Our Schools” Vanessa Siddle Walker. thenewpress.com/books/lost-e...
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
February is Black History Month Works by Black authors and artists that changed my life, day 2: “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social MUST get both the hard copy AND the audio version. www.clintsmithiii.com/how-the-word...
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
February is Black History Month; Black history is American history. Books, poems, and art by Black authors and artists that changed my life, day 1: “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” by @austinchanning.bsky.social austinchanning.com
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ICE made an arrest today of a father of two kids at a Spanish-speaking congregation here in Tucker, down the street from our neighborhood. 70 congregants worshipped inside on this Fourth Sunday of Epiphany. www.telemundoatlanta.com/2025/01/27/a...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump/Musk/MAGA/DOGE are not trying to make NIH more efficient, they’re trying to break public health, undermine science, attack academia, and destroy the broader societal role of expert knowledge. Appeasement doesn’t work. And pretending it’s a good faith efficiency effort just helps them sell it.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How can Los Angeles support disabled residents displaced by the wildfires? A new Urban Wire post outlines the impacts of disasters on people with disabilities and shares ways local leaders could help ensure inclusive recovery efforts.
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The Los Angeles Wildfires Pose Great Health and Housing Risks, Especially for People with Disabilities
Disaster recovery efforts often fail to meet the housing and health needs of disabled people, so Los Angeles city officials will need to make a conscious effort to support disabled residents displaced...
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
As the parent of an autistic child with intellectual & developmental disabilities, one of my worst fears is what happens to her in an emergency situation if myself or my husband is incapacitated. She often interprets any loud speaking as anger.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Can’t say enough how insulting it is for people to ascribe that awful behavior to autism.
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
By Sara Gibbs an autistic comedy writer "The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling" thedailytism.com/the-autistic...
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The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling
We’ve all done it. Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be ...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A recently proposed federal rule would phase out a program that allows some employers to pay disabled workers less than the federal minimum wage. Learn more about how subminimum wage employment impacts disabled workers and how to help ensure their economic security in a new Urban Wire post.
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It’s Legal for Some Employers to Pay Disabled Workers Less Than the Minimum Wage. Ending This Practice Is Just a First Step Toward Supporting Their Economic Stability
The Biden administration’s recent proposal to phase out a program that pays disabled people subminimum wages follows decades of state and local actions to end the practice in favor of more inclusive, ...
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Sue Popkin @sjpopkin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
From @urbaninstitute.bsky.social's #Disability Equity team: Ending the subminimum wage is the 1st step to economic stability for disabled workers via @alexis-weaver.bsky.social dana ferrrante & marokey sawo www.urban.org/urban-wire/i...
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It’s Legal for Some Employers to Pay Disabled Workers Less Than the Minimum Wage. Ending This Practice Is Just a First Step Toward Supporting Their Economic Stability
The Biden administration’s recent proposal to phase out a program that pays disabled people subminimum wages follows decades of state and local actions to end the practice in favor of more inclusive, ...
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Hannah’s first snowman on Friday’s snow day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Sign up for a free bystander intervention training here. Learning & practicing what to do *before* a hateful incident happens will give you the skills & confidence to effectively intervene.
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Alexis Weaver @alexis-weaver.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Sic ‘em Bears! Love the new Foster Pavilion! However- Customer service (standing room only tickets when have the seats are empty?!?) leaves something to be desired… definitely doesn’t have the family Baylor feel of the old days…
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