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Dialectical Dryad

@dialectical-dryad.bsky.social
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(she/they) Boston area, pro- public housing & for truly affordable & accessible housing, disability justice, eco-feminist (I hate TERFs)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Split screen. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The article should mention that none of this would have been possible without support of Laborers’ International Union of North America Minnesota & North Dakota, which supported the project and ensured it was built by union workers. Learn more about this here awf.labortools.com/listen/minne...
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Minnesota’s largest solar plant will be built with 100% union labor
The AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Kevin Pranis of LiUNA Minnesota and North Dakota joined us on today’s show.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Monsters. This isn't about fraud; its just attacking blue states in an unacknowledged civil war. "CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz said...the $1.3 billion is the agency’s largest deferral ever....CMS recently suspended payments to 800 hospice facilities in California." www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz has repeatedly targeted the state over hospice care.
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truthbytwoheart aka truthbytwo music @truthbytwoheart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I need $280 by today to get a ramp in time for my meeting on Wed w/paratransit, which I need my scooter for. If I don’t bring my scooter with me I won’t be able to use it on paratransit for the next 4 year, til my next redetermination meeting. I need a ramp to make my home accessible, to get in and
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a group of people holding signs including one that says disability justice is social justice
Alt: a group of people holding signs including one that says disability justice is social justice
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Just_a_PupRedBayou @pupbayou.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Unfortunately, this is an ongoing issue for most medical conditions in the U.S.A. But with HIV treatment, being forced to stop your medication—however briefly—can often result in a virus mutation that renders that treatment infective. To build resistance to the most modern meds is death.
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Takaani~Antifa🐺🪶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🇺🇦 @takaanieyes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
ATTENTION THOSE IN PARTS OF TEXAS WHO ARE ON HIV DRUGS THAT YOU GET FROM CVS IT IS CRUCIAL THAT YOU BE PREPARED FOR THE SHITSTORM COMING IF YOU CAN'T GET YOUR MEDS. PLEASE HELP OTHERS TO GET ACCESS FOR THOSE THAT NEED TO GET TO WHERE THEY CAN GET THEIR MEDS #UNITY www.tiktok.com/@mattsrebeco...
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CVS is quietly dropping HIV prevention + treatment meds at certain locations. No alerts. No warnings. If it happened to me, it can happen to someone who cannot afford the gap. Check your pharmacy NOW....
TikTok video by Matt’s ReBecoming 💙🏳️‍🌈
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/12/2025
Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
It's really scary to have to ask someone for help in general. Especially when you're disabled and need accommodations. The expectation that disabled people have to ask and beg for help is messed up. Help should already be available from the beginning to anyone that needs it.
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4WheelMe @4wheelworkout.blacksky.app · 29/08/2023
Imagine living in a world where you have to ASK permission to go into a building, ASK permission to ride public transportation, ASK to go shopping, etc. Welcome to the world of disabled people. When we have to ask for accommodations, we are asking permission to simply exist
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Many get more upset at this than actual abusers and rapists, and we are treated like we are horrible people for not excluding ourselves from social events (yet people so often defend horrible behavior).
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primevil @primordial.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I am once again asking everyone in the universe: Do not make me ask for my accommodations twice. I was afraid to even ask once.
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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The ADA: If you are disabled, you deserve accommodations Autistic person: Asks for an accommodation (after a lifetime of struggling with no support and finally building up the courage to ask)....
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Sam Crane @samanticka.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Robust, visionary DEIA efforts are important - but point is that this isn't just targeting newer, more progressive programs. We're going back to *pre civil rights act* levels of training and support and transfer dollars are going to be wasted defending avoidable lawsuits
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Sam Crane @samanticka.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So when they are going after offices that rename themselves BACK to the names they had 4 years ago, that means they are shutting down programs that operated for decades incl under Trump 1.0, & without which PWD can't get accomodations, and they can't do basic anti-discrimination trainings
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Sam Crane @samanticka.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I don't think these people understand that federal "DEIA" offices are mostly just mainstream HR programs that oversee disability accommodations & tell people stuff like don't use the n word at work, don't ask your admin assistant for a date. (Thread)
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b e x @bookbeaut.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
it shouldn’t surprise me when people do not give a fuck about accessibility but sometimes the magnitude of it still does. just the ways you get forgotten, ignored, deliberately not thought of, shut down when you ask for accommodations. it makes me feel like less of a person.
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Puneet Singh Singhal @puneetsiinghal.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Disabled people shouldn’t have to ask for access, accommodations, or basic civil rights. The ableist system puts nondisabled folks in charge as gatekeepers, controlling what rights we get. That’s not justice — it’s exclusion. #Disability #HumanRights #SDGs #Poverty #Technology
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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Disabled people shouldn't have to be perfectly nice or kind when we ask for accommodations and inclusion. We shouldn't HAVE to ask. Furthermore, we usually ARE being nice when we ask; ableds just take any request that they do the bare minimum for us as if it's a great slight to their honor.
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Structured Success @structuredsuccess.ca · 02/06/2025
Most accommodations in school or the workplace are almost entirely free and have little to no impact on anyone else. The fact that we need to ask for them, or formally request them, is often nothing more than an added burden for disabled people
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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Also, just having to ask for accommodations is exhausting and energy consuming on a good day when everything is going right which…lol.
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Solveig ⚧ - Autistic Acceptance Worldwide @autisticb4mmr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's common when asking for accommodations that people will ask for specific examples of situations so they can "understand better" or something like that. That's what they say. And so I end up having to tell stories I'd rather not share. Which all felt unnecessary. #AutChat A3
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Omg. This is the height of absurdity given how many people are on the verge of losing lifesaving medical care!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
One thing I really think needs to be hammered into “libertarians” & other right wing freaks is the cost of helping other people is almost always less than the cost of not helping them. Because we live in a society & we are all connected & you are SO MUCH CLOSER to being sick and poor than you think!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
brad lander primary chuck schumer
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Men who think they can get away with sexually abusing women can EAT SHIT
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I am weeping
As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“We’re on the precipice of now being able to deliver the greatest prevention option we’ve had in 44 years of this epidemic... And it’s as if that opportunity is being snatched out of our hands by the policies of the last five months."
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Reminder: always but especially during stressful, uncertain times, it’s psychologically protective to have something specific to look forward to. On Thurs, I’m birding with a friend before work and playing D&D with friends after work. Choose to put light at the end of tunnels wherever you can.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 17/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Welp. Senate version of the #MAGAMurderBill would slash Medicaid even MORE than the House version. h/t @edwincpark.bsky.social for the rundown (you should follow him for Medicaid wonkiness stuff): acasignups.net/25/06/17/wel...
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Welp. Senate version of the #MAGAMurderBill would slash Medicaid even MORE.
via Politico: Senate GOP tax bill would hit politically explosive Medicaid provision The Finance Committee is due to brief members on its megabill draft text Monday night. Senate Republicans are seeki...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/06/2025
When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Politicians love saying they value the Constitution and “rule of law”. If so, they should abolish ICE. “Rule of law” depends on those given power to enforce it. ICE has made clear they will violate the Constitution and ignore laws. If politicians won’t stand against ICE, they shouldn’t be in office.
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Please volunteer to do court accompanyiment in your area, it makes a big difference! In MA you can volunteer with BIJAN beyondbondboston.org
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Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Paratransit is the worst
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. 
Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.
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JEERFROSENSTICK @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Tickets will be available at a range of prices and we will be collecting more money at the venue. All money will go to various GoFundMe's being shared by De Sol a Sol Colectiva, a indigenous led collective supporting undocumented farmworkers thru mutual aid. No human being is illegal. We love you LA
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Covid infects incredibly quickly. For many of us, breaking the seal is something we absolutely can not and will not risk. Please fight mask bans. Mask up in solidarity. Help us normalize masking as a public health tool and true community care. Help us save lives.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is why disabled people have been begging you to mask up for years. This is why we’ve said that mask bans pose a threat to our survival. This is why we don’t want folks to say ICE agents are “wearing masks”. Society is being conditioned to see masking as “bad”. It will kill us.
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
MCAS really is awful
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Ah understandable
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JEERFROSENSTICK @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Doing a little fundraising gig Monday June 16th at Scribble in Highland Park! THIS SHOW IS A BENEFIT TO PROVIDE MUTUAL AID TO FAMILIES IN LOS ANGELES WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF THE RECENT ICE RAIDS IN OUR CITY. dice.fm/partner/dice...
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Benefit Show For Families & Victims of ICE Raids Tickets | From $23.08 | 16 Jun @ Scribble, Los Angeles | DICE
THIS SHOW IS A BENEFIT TO PROVIDE MUTUAL AID TO FAMILIES IN LOS ANGELES WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF THE RECENT ICE RAIDS IN OUR CITY. Performances from Joyce Ma...
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Specialists who understand are too rare, but fwiw non exercise pots treatments are likely to benefit ME as POTS can make ME extra worse over time. Compression apparently is one thing that helps reduce the negative impact of POTS on ME
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Dialectical Dryad @dialectical-dryad.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
That’s heinous considering what a high %of people with POTS also face PEM and have ME - don’t quote me on this but I think I read it may be about 1/3rd.
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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I need $650 for the month. That ask is well below the poverty line. It will just barely cover my bills, medications, and food costs. #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #MAV #TransCrowdfund #DisabilityCrowdfund
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