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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Disabled people are being arrested in DC today as they're protesting Medicaid cuts. Source of this photo, ADAPT www.facebook.com/theRealNatio...

Two photographs of a disabled man with Brown skin and short gray and brown hair on the floor out of his wheelchair. He is being arrested by three armed Capitol Police. In the second picture they have him turned over with cuffs behind his back. The man is wearing a yellow ADAPT t-shirt and khaki pants.

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

♥️ the creative ways communities are protesting ICE. Here’s a video of Coachella Valley residents playing Mariachi outside the hotel where agents are staying — to keep them awake 😂

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This has wide ranging implications- I successfully argued NYPD’s discriminatory treatment of a trans man arrested at Occupy is subject to heightened scrutiny, making precedent in the policing context. This opinion also opens the door wide open to police violence & discrimination against trans ppl.

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Fi Lowenstein @filowenstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

For my latest newsletter, I tried to round up and vet the (sometimes conflicting) info on how tear gas impacts our health and environment, and how best to protect yourself. substack.com/home/post/p-... stay safe out there

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How tear gas impacts our health & environment

Understanding the very real effects of "non-lethal" weapons

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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It felt so good to have this conversation with @filowenstein.bsky.social. I spend a lot of time thinking about disaster preparedness and prepping while being disabled — and I clearly need an outlet for this, so thank you, Fi, for having me on the show open.substack.com/pub/fionalow...

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Arielle Duhaime-Ross on Disaster-Prepping While Disabled

A conversation with the science journalist and former correspondent for Vice News Tonight about preparedness and disability

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Fi Lowenstein @filowenstein.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I have a new feature on Clear Health Costs about #LongCovid as a remitting-relapsing disease. I spoke to long-haulers who have experienced temporary relief or recovery to try to understand what we know (and don't) about the rate of recovery for this disease: clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2023/11...

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Fi Lowenstein @filowenstein.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

The Long COVID Survival Guide won the Gold in Foreword Indies Health Category last week! Congrats to all involved! Sad this book is still so relevant (and one of too few vetted resources), but grateful for the recognition 💛 www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winn…

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/05/2023

Remember that nonsense in the NYTimes about how science must no longer be a meritocracy because PNAS rejected a (very poor) paper titled "In defense of merit in science"? No? That's ok. It wasn't memorable. In any case, my letter to the editor about it was just published. tinyurl.com/yckpfpv5

Ms. Paul describes how a leading scientific journal declined to publish an opinion article advocating impartiality in science. Her implication is that rejecting a paper equates to rejecting its premise. This is not the case.

Top scientific journals are not dissimilar to the Opinion pages of The New York Times in that the competition to appear in them is intense. The vast majority of submissions are rejected for any number of reasons: The authors’ claims are obvious, trite or poorly argued; they fail to support their claims with rigorous analysis; they are outside the scope or length constraints of the journal, etc.

Public understanding of science is essential for democracy. Misleading readers to score political points with an argument that scientists have exchanged merit and objectivity for progressive ideology is a disservice to science and the public alike.

Carl T. Bergstrom
Seattle

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/05/2023

Massive, massive win for transgender people out of my birth state of Louisiana. Louisiana becomes only the 3rd red state to beat back a total gender affirming care ban for trans teens. Activists there should be truly proud. This was not an easy task. Louisiana will be an oasis:

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 25/05/2023

Oh, no, not more from the Fascist Fashion beat. Just stop, Times. Stop. The Strategic Fashioning of Casey DeSantis

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The Strategic Fashioning of Casey DeSantis

With an eye to the Kennedys, and the Trumps. Sometimes, a wardrobe is a strategy.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/05/2023

On both COVID and climate, the rich and the powerful want you to think that nothing more can be done. That this is as good as it gets. Lies. We have many solutions. But we need to fight for them!

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Fi Lowenstein @filowenstein.bsky.social · 25/05/2023

trying to find my friends + colleagues on this app rn is like when I returned to my hometown after having COVID and everyone looked familiar and was smiling at me but I didn't know if that was bc the town was small or if I knew them and just didn't remember them bc ~brain damage~

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