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"Cripped in the head" they say in the country. I work with and for disabled,chronically ill and neurodivergent people. Humaning with an other biology in an ableist capitalist society. 44 years old,living and struggling in Turkey.

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Wally Wookie (FullMetalWookie) 🏳️‍🌈 @wookietron9000.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I understand a lot more about literally kicking your babies out of the fucking nest
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Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Virtual Conference Announcement! The Society for Disability Studies is excited to announce our call for papers, themed Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World. sites.google.com/DisStudies.o...
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SDS Conference 2027
Call for Papers Note: A text-only version of the information below is available as a Google Doc at this link.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
If you were to Google whether the journalist who wrote this article has written about trans issues and the angle she's taken in them, the results would not in any way shock you.
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Autistic workers in our study experienced persistent pressure to survive, particularly under conditions of stigma that positions them as “outsiders within” and neuronormativity that shapes the social, cognitive, and sensory environments of contemporary workplaces" academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
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The invisible labor of assimilation by individuals with stigmatized identities: a qualitative study of autistic workers’ organizational socialization
Abstract. Organizational socialization is challenging for anyone, but especially for individuals with stigmatized identities, such as autistic people. Alth
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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ongoing scandal of NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) cuts in the guise of 'cost-efficiency': Disabled man left "rotting away" in hospital for the last eight months after NHS stopped his care and support at home www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disabled man 'rotting' on a hospital ward - despite being told he is fit to go home
Ravi Mehta says his care could be terminated if he self-discharged. His NHS care board says its decisions have not been driven by costs.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/02/2026
Students in England and Wales launch legal action over online teaching during pandemic
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Students in England and Wales launch legal action over online teaching during pandemic
More than 170,000 seek compensation after UCL Covid settlement opens door to claims across university sector Dozens of universities are facing legal action from more than 170,000 students seeking compensation after their studies were moved online during Covid. Pre-action claim letters have been sent to 36 universities in England and Wales, including Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Cardiff, Leeds, Imperial College London, Liverpool and Warwick, on behalf of aggrieved students. Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/02/2026
‘A lot of vaccine hesitancy’: how north London council is responding to measles outbreak
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‘A lot of vaccine hesitancy’: how north London council is responding to measles outbreak
Health professionals are having to find innovative ways to reach parents whose children have not had the MMR jab * More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak For people living and working in Enfield, the current measles outbreak is a shock – but not a surprise. The borough has struggled with low vaccine uptake for years, fighting against vaccine hesitancy, online misinformation and health inequalities. Working closely with communities to persuade them to come forward for vaccinations is an “ongoing public health challenge”, which Enfield – like many boroughs – is grappling with, Enfield council’s director of public health, Dudu Sher-Arami said. Continue reading...
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Lionel Law @liolaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Outsourced call centre staff at NDIS have to pretend to work for government, workers say
Serco employees also say they are given email addresses identical to public servants, making them indistinguishable
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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
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bianet @bianet.org · 06/01/2026
🟠 Özel: Bu düzeni değiştireceğiz, dünya haydutluğa sessiz kalmamalı Gezi davası tutuklusu şehir plancısı Tayfun Kahraman’ın sağlık durumuna da değinen Özel, ağır hasta bir kişinin cezaevi koşullarında tutulmasına sert tepki gösterdi. bianet.org/haber/ozel-b...
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Özel: Bu düzeni değiştireceğiz, dünya haydutluğa sessiz kalmamalı
Gezi davası tutuklusu şehir plancısı Tayfun Kahraman’ın sağlık durumuna da değinen Özel, ağır hasta bir kişinin cezaevi koşullarında tutulmasına sert tepki gösterdi.
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Ümit Kıvanç @umitk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Perte Çıkmış Bir Yıl: 2025 - Osman Özarslan | Birikim Yayınları birikimdergisi.com/haftalik/123...
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Perte Çıkmış Bir Yıl: 2025 - Osman Özarslan
13 Kasım 2025 tarihinde, 20 rütbeli Türk havacı askeri taşıyan ve Azerbaycan’dan Türkiye’ye gelmek üzere havalanan C-130 tipi uçak Azerbaycan-Gürcistan sınırında düştü ve içindeki askeri personelin ta...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/01/2026
Groups launch court challenge to NSW laws restricting protests after terror attacks
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Groups launch court challenge to NSW laws restricting protests after terror attacks
Blak Caucus, Palestine Action Group and Jews Against the Occupation ‘48 argue the laws restrict the constitutional right to free political speech * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A constitutional challenge has been launched against controversial laws in New South Wales that restrict protest actions for up to three months after terrorist incidents, introduced following the December Bondi attack. The groups the Blak Caucus, Palestine Action Group (PAG) and Jews Against the Occupation ‘48 filed the challenge in the NSW supreme court on Wednesday, arguing in the court summons that the laws are invalid because they “impermissibly burden the implied constitutional freedom of communication on government and political matters”. Continue reading...
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esikplatformu.bsky.social @esikplatformu.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
🔴 Bir kadın daha, “AF” politikalarının bedelini canıyla ödedi. 👇 x.com/i/status/200...
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bianet @bianet.org · 20/12/2025
🔴 Koma Amed'in İstanbul konseri iptal edildi: "Barışa olan inancımızda ısrarcıyız" bianet.org/haber/koma-a...
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Koma Amed'in İstanbul konseri iptal edildi: "Barışa olan inancımızda ısrarcıyız"
Koma Amed'in sosyal medyada yaptığı duyurusunda "Konser, maalesef izin prosedürleri nedeni ile iptal edildi. Buluşmamızı başka bir tarihe ertelemek durumundayız" denildi.
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Wally Wookie (FullMetalWookie) 🏳️‍🌈 @wookietron9000.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Fucking confetties found a way into my trailer. They want (have demanded) a CB radio
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Wally Wookie (FullMetalWookie) 🏳️‍🌈 @wookietron9000.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
5 tiny shelf projects finished, supplies sorted/put in their bins (hardware, projects, supplies). Moar green lights. Some organization of bills and stuff, oven mitt hung on wall, new shelf by bed (head of the bed side-shelves is a nightmare) All stuff put in their homes, it's all clean, life'ing
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Wally Wookie (FullMetalWookie) 🏳️‍🌈 @wookietron9000.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Today I jumped into the middle of a conversation that I only barely understood armed only with feels Teh Cringe
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A'Normal Norm @anormalnorm.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Bu ne be!?!??? Çocuk (ruh) sağlığını da, beslenmesini de korkuyla güdülenen kâr kapısına çeviren; çocuk korumayı yasakla çözen; halkın şiddet/iktidarın suç geliri sorununu "suça itilen çocuk yoktur;öldürün,bunlar doğuştan kötü"ye indirgeyen ülke ekosisteminin ürettiği ve kolladığı şiddete bak.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Disabled people tried to warn you. We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone The new healthcare plan for America appears to be: Don’t get sick If you do get sick, it’s your fault If you can’t pay, die
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A'Normal Norm @anormalnorm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In an ableist and stigmatizing world, people force us to legitimize and prove our needs,biological and pschological limitations,strenghts and capabilities that we have desires and dreams, but also that we are in pain etc Eventually one realizes there is no limit for their demands. Unmasking is hard
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This is exactly why disability activists keep speaking about about medically assisted death. The “safeguards” have come off. Coercion is baked into the system, and in some cases, family members are making the request. A patient’s life ended without them asking for it.
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Dementia patient gets MAID after family member brought forward the request
The MAID provider deemed the woman had given final consent, based on her ability to repeat a question and squeeze the provider's hand.
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BirGün Gazetesi @birgun.net · 29/09/2025
Ücretsiz tedavi sermaye yapılmış Sayıştay’ın denetim raporu ile KTÜ Farabi Hastanesi’nde, kanser hastalarından yersiz ücret alındığı ortaya çıktı. Ücretsiz olması gereken tedaviler için hastalardan toplam 1 milyon 390 bin TL’lik haksız ücret alındı www.birgun.net/haber/ucrets...
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A'Normal Norm @anormalnorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Sayın danışman, bu konunun esas muhattabı otistik yaşlılar, yetişkinler,gençler,ebeveynler mi? İlaç kullanması gereken kadınlar mı? 62 otistiğe bok yedirdiler bu ülkede. Öldürme senede 10u geçti. DSÖ Türkiye ofisi 62 otistiğin aylarca işkence görmesine, engellilere dışkı yedirilmesine ne diyor?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family
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ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says
The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 23/09/2025
If you try to force your autistic child to take a quack cure so they stop being autistic, then don't be surprised when they spend the rest of their life relating to you as a person who only loves them conditionally.
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Lauren @lattsgetlifted.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Autism doesn’t stop at 18. There are plenty of autistic adults that often get left behind during media coverage because the focus is often on moms of autistic children. It’s another way to erase autistic people’s personhood.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Baptist minister: It is up to us to stop Christian nationalism
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A disabled double amputee named Rodney Taylor has been held in ICE custody since January. He’s been denied his new prosthetic legs and is now in solitary confinement. His “crime”? A burglary when he was a teen for which he received a full pardon. 🧵
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Chessa Thinks Regime Change Should Start at Home 🐉🧡📚 @chessawrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"These racist, misogynistic men do not have the right to tell us that we are ‘less than’... to tell us our lives are untenable when most of us feel differently... to act as though being born with a disability is a fate worse than death. It’s not." www.disabledginger.com/p/trumps-big...
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Trump's Big Autism Announcement and What It Means for the Disability Community
The MAHA team came out swinging today against vaccines, Tylenol and more. Their big autism announcement was riddled with eugenicist language designed to blame and punish people for their disabilities.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Disgust, horror, and "elimination": Trump and RFK Jr.'s eugenicist autism conference
The most striking omission from Monday's White House pageant: autistic people.
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Jinia-PTr @jinia-ptr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
“Where have we heard that before? Nazi Germany. They went after disabled people..called them ‘useless eaters’..tested the gas chambers on them. Discarded them because they weren’t economically active, they weren’t strong and fit, and they didn’t want them to reproduce and contaminate the gene pool.”
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Labour council 'gaslighting' locals on toxic asbestos danger as housing developers 'cut corners' Labour has allowed private housing developers to cause a public health crisis by cutting corners on the site of a former asbestos factory www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Labour council 'gaslighting' locals on toxic asbestos danger as housing developers 'cut corners'
Labour has allowed private housing developers to cause a public health crisis by cutting corners on the site of a former asbestos factory
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Mila Daskalova @miladaskalova.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Interrupting the madness of reality to share some exciting news: the first Centre for Mad Culture in the UK will be launched in Edinburgh on 17 October! Below I have listed all the other activities planned by the Centre (including my own poetry workshop). Book your free tickets and see you there!
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Mad Pride, Mad Perspectives: Centre for Mad Culture UK launch night
Be part of the launch of Centre for Mad Culture UK — a night of bold art, powerful voices, and mad cabaret.
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I Should’ve Been a Cowgirl @seizeday.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
And people with profound disabilities like my son will be left to the curb without Medicaid. Republicans are heartless. Wanting to blame some weakness of character on the disability; that one needs to be punished. He demonstrates more courage in one day than any Republican in their career.
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Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network @domesticemployers.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Some beauty of what’s possible and remembrance of those who laid the groundwork. “Rights can be ‘granted’ and taken away. … Justice is about how we live and love and practice everyday interactions. It’s not something that can be taken away” #DisabilityJustice 19thnews.org/2025/08/patt...
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In life and in art, Patty Berne made space for disabled people to thrive
The influential artist and organizer died in May at the age of 58. Her work championed queer people and women of color who felt excluded by the mainstream disability rights movement.
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Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies @ihdps.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Researchers from Brown University have used data from the National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD) to examine loneliness in adults with disabilities Read the new article in the Annals of Internal Medicine: doi.org/10.7326/ANNA... #DisabilityResearch
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Text: Disproportionate Loneliness Burden Demonstrated in Two National Samples of Working-Age Adults With Varied Disability Types

Published in Annals of Internal Medicine   DOI: 10.7326/ANNALS-25-00928
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A'Normal Norm @anormalnorm.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Gag-Laws in Australia seem to be perfect example to study how "protection" of rihts are weopinized against disabled people.
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Adventures with Nurse Jamla @nursejamla.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Disability-Inclusive Disaster Preparedness: What Every Nurse Should Know As frontline responders and trusted community advocates, nurses have a critical role to play in ensuring disaster preparedness is inclusive and accessible-especially for persons with disabilities. A recent post from the…
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Disability-Inclusive Disaster Preparedness: What Every Nurse Should Know
As frontline responders and trusted community advocates, nurses have a critical role to play in ensuring disaster preparedness is inclusive and accessible-especially for persons with disabilities. A recent post from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) highlights how different countries are making disability inclusion a priority in their emergency plans. These global examples offer valuable insights for nurses who want to advance equity in disaster response:
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Desert Flower @crystal159.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
2 months ago, Sloan Meek – a disability rights advocate with cerebral palsy, took the stage at a rally protesting the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Meek warned how $1 trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts would have life-threatening consequences for people with disabilities...
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People With Disabilities Face Unmatched Cruelty From GOP Medicaid Cuts | Common Dreams
Trump’s administration is here to serve the wealthy-elite, not the regular working-class Americans and people with disabilities who rely on Medicaid.
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🇵🇪✊🏽 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Disability history you should know about: - Eugenics movement (ongoing) - Nazi Aktion T4 program (in many ways ongoing) - 504 Sit-in - History of lobotomies - Deaf President Now - “Ugly” laws - Buck v. Bell (USA) & other forced sterilization programs/laws around the world
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Docs With Disabilities Initiative @docswithdisability.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
‪🩺 NEW in @acadmedjournal.bsky.social‬ Medical students uncertain about their disability status face higher burnout risk—with striking differences by race, ethnicity & gender. 🔗 Read: bit.ly/AcadMed_Demo... #MedEd #DisabilityInclusion #Burnout #AcademicMedicine
Blue and white graphic featuring the Academic Medicine journal and AAMC logos at the top. Below, the article title reads: “Demographic Factors and Burnout Outcomes Associated With Disability Status Uncertainty in U.S. Medical Students,” followed by the authors’ names. At the bottom, white text on a dark blue background displays the link: https://bit.ly/AcadMed_DemographicandBurnoutOutcomes.
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Iain Porter @iainkporter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Govt just published the Bill to cut disability benefits for > 3 million people, revealing that mitigations for those with the most severe conditions ministers have been telling MPs about will protect only up to 10% of new claimants from a halving of UC's health element 1/5
Image of cover of Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.
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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Disability benefit cuts introduced to parliament today will remove vital support from people with “severe health conditions – many of whom have virtually no prospect of entering the labour market any time soon”. Read our full quote in @theipaper.com 👇 inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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How many people will be hit by PIP cuts - and how much will they lose?
Campaigners fear over one million disabled people could lose benefits money - as Labour rebels dismiss last-minute ‘tweak’ to bill
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Living as a disabled person in London will cost you an extra £1,469 a month on average. Yesterday, I spoke out against plans to slash disability benefits, removing vital support from my constituents. The government isn't listening.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Big Disability News out of Maine: Janet Mills signed a bill banning the planned use of restraints for adults with developmental disabilities. This is something disability rights activists and #ActuallyAutistic people lobbied for. www.mainepublic.org/politics/202... h/t @thinkingautism.com
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Mills signs bill eliminating planned use of restraints for adults with developmental disabilities
Advocates say the bill is a “civil rights victory” for people with disabilities in Maine.
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WTVY News4 @wtvy.com · 18/06/2025
"I’ve never been arrested for anything ... this would have destroyed me."
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Man says disability caused police to believe he was drunk
Despite telling police he had neuropathy and having a disabled placard on his car, the man was given a field sobriety test using his legs.
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A'Normal Norm @anormalnorm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
ABD, İngiltere ve Kanada'da engelli ve hasta haklarına büyük saldırılar ve tabi ki kesintiler gündemde. Engelli düşmanı ve ayrımcı argümanlar tabi ki havada uçuşuyor. Basında ve sosyal medyada sağlamcılar seslerini yükseltirken sakatlar kendi politikalarını duyurmaya çabalıyor.
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A'Normal Norm @anormalnorm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
So we shall keep on defending the stress creating conditions and then buy anti-stress merchandise... The illusions are crumbling and many are just holding on to the manufactured consent-building "answers". Sick of this shit.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
My Mom's pancreatic cancer was brushed off as 'stress'. My severe protein losing enteropathy was blamed on 'weight gain' My post operative hysterectomy abscess was me being 'dramatic' and 'hysterical'. Very nearly lost my life to that one. Listen to women.
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