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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The bill Gavin Newsom vetoed (twice): "The measure would have ensured insurance coverage for evidence-based treatments and required physician training: practical, cost-effective steps backed by leading medical experts."

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Newsom Dropped the Ball on Menopause, But Others Are Ready to Lead

From Illinois to Maine, states are rewriting the rules on menopause.

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I know the sign for vlog and if I must I will just use that. Sadly my skills are not that creative lol.

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

deaf friends. I am doing vlogmas this year because idk - I am ambitious. wondering if anyone knows of a sign for vlogmas that is used currently? I know the sign for vlog. and I know it's a shortening of vlogging and Christmas. any ideas?

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

anyone with slightly more visual acuity mind describing the image for alt text for me? I can't read any of it unfortunately. :/

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

ICYMI and want to read about Something Else for a minute: I wrote about the history and evolution of deaf representation for @pbs.org American Masters. You can stream their documentary "Not Alone Anymore" on Marlee Matlin for free on the site, including an ASL version 🤩. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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How the portrayal of Deaf people in film has evolved over time | American Masters | PBS

March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

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4WheelMe @4wheelworkout.blacksky.app · 11/11/2025

Speaking of… Noticeably excluded from this image listing what appears to be touting the US’s inclusivity…disabled ppl of course

An image with the US flag. In the blue square, replacing the stars are the words: In Our America

The red and white stripes say the following:
ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL

LOVE IS LOVE

BLACK LIVES MATTER

IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES ARE WELCOME

SCIENCE IS REAL

WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

PEOPLE & PLANET ARE VALUED OVER PROFITS

DIVERSITY IS CELEBRATED

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025

Why did I vote for you if you’re just going to turn off your fucking voicemail when you get scared of your constituents

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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

yeah this but I keep picturing the cartoon Rep elephant and Dem donkey. too bad am not really that artistic myself.

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

yep that's what I thought from what I remember over the various years of voting.

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I think this is the same in Maryland (please someone correct me if I'm wrong.)

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/11/2025

Pay close attention to which health care "advocacy" organizations condemn Senate Democrats for fucking over the entire health care system, and which care more about Schumer liking them than real people staying alive and say nothing at all...

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/11/2025

For anyone arguing that the SNAP situation requires that Senate Democrats cave in exchange for nothing, and do it by tomorrow — I would think the developments of the last 24 hours, e.g. states acting in reliance on FNS' representations, USDA throwing a tantrum, increase the likelihood of a TRO....

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

AOC comes out swinging

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

it’s cute that they think we’ll forget if they work together to keep everyone’s hands off it who is up for re-election anytime soon that just reinforces that this was a strategy more of them agreed on than the ones who vote yes. nuke them all from orbit

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/11/2025

it seems to mean, we recognize Donald Trump won't follow the law about federal employees but this time Republicans say he will "A vote on the ACA credits in December" — not "we will provide votes to pass it" but "we'll let you have a vote"

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

that would be too smart for them I think

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

yeah I think that if they take peoples' healthcare away theirs should go too

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Dudes who get free healthcare vote yes on letting you die!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight* Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again). Not another #SchumerSurrender @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025

Contact your lawmakers: Democratic, to tell them to hold the line; and, yes, Republican, to stress that this budget will have grievous consequences for the entire country, including financial ruin for many of their largest donors www.congress.gov/members/find...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025

If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored. That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If Senate Dems allow this deal to go through without ACA premium assistance, they will make it much harder for disabled people to work. They are already getting screwed because of HR1, losing medicaid and SNAP funding. www.americanprogress.org/article/aca-...

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ACA Premium Spikes Will Derail Disabled People’s Careers

The expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits threatens the economic stability and health coverage of self-employed Americans with disabilities.

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Before the ACA in the early 00s when I was barely insured by my employer I was on a supplement for my illness rather than my actual prescription medication - it sort of worked - but only sort of and the fallout a few years down the road when thankfully I was ON THE ACA was horrific.

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Marylanders who have Dem senators, they know better but call them to give them ammo anyway - no way on caving

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Me, Myself & I @nuix.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

One thing from our piece on Saturday: Sen. Shaheen is leading the Senate cave caucus. She's on the appropriations committee and wants whatever little goodies she got in her appropriations bill passed into law. As we wrote: prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Equally bizarre is Shaheen’s game, since she is not even running for re-election when her term expires in 2026. She is on the Appropriations Committee, and part of the weak Republican offer is to pass the appropriations bills that have gone through the committee on a bipartisan basis. Clearly, Shaheen is more concerned with getting those bills done than using important leverage to protect the signature Democratic legislative achievement of this century.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 09/11/2025

Democrats are considering a Republican deal to reopen government with a promise of a later vote on extending health-care tax credits—but no guarantee. One Democrat says it'd amount to "unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double."

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Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies

Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/11/2025

Here's a partial list of suspected guilty parties. Call them if they're your senators, friends, right now. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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HearHerHands @hearherhands.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

ISTG Schumer always caves because he's got a trip on the line Last time it was his fucking book tour. My dude you don't remember what people did to you then? Do you have amnesia? (I know he's just another rich asshole but omg I am so sick of it.)

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/11/2025

The emerging deal will be that Democrats get fuck all and then go on thanksgiving break while 41.7 million people slip into food insecurity. Fucking hell

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/11/2025

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

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