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Angel Powell

@angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social
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Of the nerd variety| In love with disabled people who are in love and hella curious. 📚

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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Neighbor Favor X 32 Days in May Fresh off a new diagnosis and divorce, a professor returns to her job at a liberal arts college where she becomes enamored with a new professor, violating college policy and thus risking her job and newfound health. #A #CI #DVPit
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The grim reaper is grabbing all the wrong heauxes!!!!!!!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Republicans enacted the largest cut to food stamps in the program's history and millions of people have since lost access. The people I spoke to say it's not because they no longer need help; they desperately need it but can't get through new red tape. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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The Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food Stamps
New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Scoop: @duckworth.senate.gov is introducing a resolution calling on DOJ’s pro-institutionalization memo to be rescinded. “This is taking us back to a time when there were forced lobotomies in this country,” Duckworth told me. “We just cannot let that happen.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Senate Democrats rally against pro-institutionalization DOJ memo
The memo—allegedly Stephen Miller's passion project—"is taking us back to a time when there were forced lobotomies," Sen. Tammy Duckworth said.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
HELLO ACADEMICS INTERESTED IN DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO COMPLETE THIS SURVEY. :) It's IRB approved and everything!
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
So, believe it or not, my debut comes out in a matter of weeks... And I'm kicking off a small pre-order campaign. 1) If you pre-order from your retailer of choice, 2) And email me the receipt at celestepewter (at) gmail + mailing address 3) I'll send you a signed bookplate and bookmark.
Square promotional graphic for The Great Pumpkin Pancake Party. A warm yellow-to-navy gradient background with orange confetti dots surrounds the book cover, which shows a child and an older man making tall pumpkin pancakes with pumpkins and festive decorations around them. Large text at the top reads “PRE-ORDER NOW.” Text below the cover reads, “Email your pre-order receipt & receive: A Signed Bookplate + Bookmark.”
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And four days short of Olmstead's twenty-seventh birthday, Donald Trump's DOJ issues an OLC opinion that essentially rejects that ruling and all but directs DOJ and HHS to pull their community integration regulations and end their community integration work: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
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Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund @dredf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Trump Administration plans to move special ed & civil rights offices out of the Department of Ed. These offices oversee IDEA & enforce disability civil rights protections. Congress created the Department of Ed - and only Congress can change it. Our statement on this: dredf.org/this-isnt-re...
Large yellow text reading, “Special Education is Under Attack.” Smaller white text explains that the Trump Administration plans to illegally remove special education and civil rights offices from the U.S. Department of Education, which would leave students and families confused, frustrated, and less protected. Below, a wrecking ball hangs beside a tall stack of books, symbolizing threats to education. A red arrow on the right indicates to scroll. 
A photo at the top shows a student who uses a manual wheelchair with classmates and an educator in a school hallway. Large text asks, “What Is Happening?” The graphic explains that the U.S. Department of Education plans to move the offices responsible for special education and civil rights enforcement to other federal agencies. It states these offices help enforce disability rights, oversee special education services, and hold schools accountable for discrimination. Large yellow text asks, “What Offices Are Impacted?” The graphic explains that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) helps enforce the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), ensuring disabled students receive a free public education that meets their needs. It also explains that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) protects students from discrimination based on disability, race, sex, and other protected characteristics. A photo at the bottom shows students working together in a classroom. A red arrow indicates to scroll. 
 A photo at the top shows a student meeting one-on-one with an educator at a classroom table. Large text asks, “Why Does It Matter?” The graphic explains that families rely on these offices to help students with disabilities receive services, supports, and civil rights protections. It states that moving the offices out of the Department of Education without congressional approval is illegal, weakens accountability, makes it harder for families to know where to seek help when rights are violated, and increases delays in receiving support. A red arrow indicates to scroll.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 16/06/2026
🧪 Keep pressuring every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) 🧪
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/06/2026
From the @dataforprogress.org 2025 archives: Likely voters aren't differentiating between Medicaid "work requirements" and "work reporting requirements" — that's a difference policy wonks see. (All of the differences you see below are within the margin of error)
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voter Support for Medicaid "Work Requirements" vs. "Work Reporting Requirements".
Description: Medicaid is a government-run health insurance program for low-income Americans. Some lawmakers have proposed placing [work requirements / work reporting requirements] on Medicaid, meaning that all non-disabled, working-age individuals must work at least 20 hours per week in order to qualify for Medicaid health coverage. Do you support or oppose placing [work requirements / work reporting requirements] on Medicaid?
"Work reporting requirements" — Support: 58%, Oppose: 36%
"Work requirements" — Support: 53%, Oppose: 41%
"Work reporting requirements" — Support: 41%, Oppose: 54%
"Work requirements" — Support: 40%, Oppose: 55%
"Work reporting requirements" — Support: 60%, Oppose: 34%
"Work requirements" — Support: 53%, Oppose: 41%
"Work reporting requirements" — Support: 75%, Oppose: 19%
"Work requirements" — Support: 68%, Oppose: 28%

2 pooled surveys from May 16 to 19, 2025 and May 22 to 24, 2025 with 2,331 respondent interviews of U.S. likely voters. Respondents were randomly split into two groups: one seeing "work requirements" and the other seeing "work reporting requirements.".
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Vee Astra Mutual Aid @vastramutualaid.myatproto.social · 10/06/2026
- Personal Ask - Still need funds for a new place by the end of the month + Past rent the landlord just noticed wasn't paid + Groceries (SNAP got cut off because we aren't working and aren't registered as disabled) paypal.me/VeeAstra www.venmo.com/u/Veronica-C... ko-fi.com/vastrav $VAstraChevalier
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Donate to Help Veronica get Gender Affirming Care and Dental Work, organized by Veronica Chevalier
Who is Veronica Astra? We are a nonbinary transfem artist an… Veronica Chevalier needs your support for Help Veronica get Gender Affirming Care and Dental Work
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
well I'm sure *this* will be the last shady shit we hear about from Platner's past (set to autopost at 6 pm for the next three months)
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And they want you to have more babies...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The public needs to fully understand the repercussions of giving RFK Jr. access to identifiable medical records from 90% of the U.S. population. He is a eugenicist who wants to “reparent” Black childen, send people with mental illness to “wellness camps”, and to take away anti-depressants.
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Do I know any fellow wheelchair users that volunteer? If so, what is your volunteering gig?
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's free except we want your privacy. Hell nah
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/05/2026
Respectfully, no. This is not about disabled people.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
A photo of Sonny Rollins
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ʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 20/05/2026
These kids cannot say shit to me 🎤 ⬇️
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
call your senators every day if you have to, this is so fucked reps.fyi
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Bad Bunny and the rest have been doing this and getting attacked all over the place for years now, y'all just don't care until the person doing it looks like the Boss
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The hoops that people go through to be able to treat children in an extended family, differently is wild to me. I didn't come from a family like that and I will never understand it.
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Being a fire ass, supportive partner to another fire ass, supportive partner is really the greatest thing on earth. I promise it is.
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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I won’t get paid for another two weeks and this phone will be going down any day. I delayed it as long as I could. Please help me to help others here. I’m hoping to get this cleared up today. If you don’t hear from me much after this you know what happened.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“The move disqualifies loans for those studying for careers as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, social workers, counseling and mental health practitioners,..” www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
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Admininstration Redefines “Professional,” Limiting Loans For RNs, PT, MPH And More
The administration redefined "professional" degrees to limit loans to RNs, PT/OT, CRNAs and more, sparking fears about the worsening healthcare worker shortage.
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Love somebody who likes and loves you. Life is too hard alone.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
An agenda for Supreme Court reform: - 18 year term limits - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Binding ethics rules - Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/05/2026
🛑 NEW: Louisiana is being sued after suspending congressional primaries already underway — with plaintiffs warning the state is illegally nullifying votes to buy time for a new GOP gerrymander.
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Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander
More than 100,000 absentee ballots had been sent to voters across the state. Some had already been completed and returned.
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final grrrl 𓂀 @finalgrrr1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Tw: femicide A Black masc lesbian woman named Alanda Cuffee was murdered last week by her stepfather. Yet another queer woman killed due to fragile male ego.
'He could say excuse me':
Stepdaughter's criticism of stepdad's manners became her final words before he killed her in front of her mom, police say
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I spent time talking to aging adults with disabilities about how they’re aging independently outside of institutions. Their stories highlight the importance of relationships–and the need for continuing research and safety nets. My latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The new frontiers of aging
People with conditions like HIV and brain trauma are now living far longer—and revealing gaps in medical science.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Supreme Court deals a death blow to the Voting Rights Act
The "now-completed demolition" of the law could take us back to the Jim Crow era.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026
We can’t do anything to fix voting rights, repro rights, environmental rights, racial justice, the administrative state, without unfucking the courts. Court expansion NOW. Anything else is bitchmade bullshit. Everyone knew this was coming. What are Dems going to do about it? #Callais
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Alito Pens Decision That ‘Eviscerates’ The Voting Rights Act talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-c...
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Alito Pens Decision That ‘Eviscerates’ The Voting Rights Act
The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/04/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has completed its decades-long project to destroy the Voting Rights Act. It has blessed racial discrimination and further encouraged partisan gerrymandering in the Callais ruling. 1/2
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/04/2026
NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I will never ever ever understand cheating. It will never make a lick of sense to me.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Recently, I looked at the papers of black feminist Barbara Smith, a contemporary of Audre Lorde and Pauli Murray. These pamphlets are from the 70s/80s. I cannot help but reach the conclusion that gender-based violence and mistreatment (a far reaching term, I know) of black women is on the rise now.
A long wide-length sign that says “NO MORE MURDERS! WOMEN FIGHT BACK!” To the left is an illustration of a black woman with her arms crossed. Several copies of pamphlets with the title “Six…Seven… Eight?? Black Women Why Did They Die?”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026
I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There is a music account run by a guy over on Instagram, who is teaching younger generations how to rip and burn CDs and I think it is the coolest thing on earth.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/04/2026
RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵
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Eugenicist RFK Jr Wants To Eliminate Chronic Illness By Eliminating Chronically Ill People | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Eugenicist RFK Jr Wants To Eliminate Chronic Illness By Eliminating Chronically Ill People by Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon. Join Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthe...
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/04/2026
🧵 The MAGA Congress that voted for a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts will never be catheterized by a new grad on a float pool. They will receive VIP care for the rest of their lives while voting to make ours worse. This piece traces the full chain from DC to the bedside.
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How MAHA Fucked Up My Surgery | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon
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Explicitly Anti-Vaxx @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 21/04/2026
There's a reason the people this has hit the hardest have been asking folks to wear masks and clean the air for years. We've seen what's coming for a while now.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠
Royal Darwin Hospital staff use ChatGPT to calculate medication doses, nurses claim
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/04/2026
Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...
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Donate to Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs, organized by Matthew Cortland
I'm writing this from a hospital bed at Tufts Medical Center, where I had … Matthew Cortland needs your support for Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs
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Angel Powell @angelbrittanyxo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Today's manuscript related Google is as followed: what books were popular for 10-year-old boys in 1994?
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