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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato

DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The sequel to attacking research involving transgenic mice. And eliminating transition programs for special needs students.

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Will Fertman @willfertman.com · 13/07/2026

Bloomsbury is having a summer sale, which means that The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual is available under $20. If you're the parent of a #deafkid or a professional who works with them, pick up a copy before the new school year starts, and read it on the beach! www.bloomsbury.com/us/deaf-baby...

Cover of a book, The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual, a guide for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children from birth through kindergarten, by Will Fertman, forward by Dr. Wyatte Hall and Dr. Kimberley Ofori-Sanzo. The cover shows a happy Black baby looking directly out towards the reader. Three cameo images at the top show parents interacting with their young children. A large orange sun-shape with "30% OFF" is superimposed over the cover. The cover blub reads "'Every parent of a deaf or hard of hearing child should read this book.'—Dr. Naomi Caselli, co-director, The Deaf Center at Boston University.

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chercat208.bsky.social @chercat208.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

When kitty has finally had it with Florida. 😹

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Putting RFK Jr. in charge of anything related to children - particularly children with special needs - is a literal nightmare. I have hardly been able to sleep for months, waiting for this shoe to drop.

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Trump is shifting special ed, civil rights out of Education Department. Here's what we know

The Education Department is transferring oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Corunswet's Superman delivers a line in the final Supergirl trailer that made me cry, even though I don't really understand why. As he is handing over her suit, he says: "I know it's pretty colorful, but that's just so everyone knows we're good."

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month from an imperfect ally. 🤟🏻

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

How about a slush fund to compensate people for the trauma we've experienced living through the first 16 months of this shitshow?

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The thought of bringing a child into this late-1930s-Germany-redux hellhole is also giving a lot of prospective parents pause.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Key findings from The 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People include:

36% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including 40% of transgender and nonbinary young people.
1 in 10 LGBTQ+ young people attempted suicide in the past year.
44% of LGBTQ+ young people who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it.
90% of LGBTQ+ young people said recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies and debates caused them stress or anxiety.
LGBTQ+ young people of color attempted suicide at higher rates than their White peers, and nearly a third (32%) also experienced racial or ethnic discrimination, in addition to anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Transgender and nonbinary young people who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.
Over half (59%) of LGBTQ+ young people ages 13-17 experienced bullying in the past year, and those who did reported significantly higher rates of attempting suicide in the past year than their peers.
LGBTQ+ young people who reported living in very accepting communities attempted suicide at less than a third of the rate of those who reported living in very unaccepting communities.

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Will Fertman @willfertman.com · 03/05/2026

Here's a long thread of gratitude for yesterday's book launch party for the Deaf Baby Instruction Manual. (It was AMAZING!) www.bloomsbury.com/us/deaf-baby...

Cover of a book, The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual. Images: In the center, a smiling Black baby beams out from a bed, staring directly at the reader. Across the top are three cameo images shoing parents of different races and genders playing with their toddlers. Text: The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual, a guide for parents of deaf and hard of hearing children from birth through kindergarten. Will Fertman, Foreword by Dr. Wyatte Hall and Dr. Kimberley Ofori-Sanzo. Bloomsbury.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm seeing a troubling phenomenon in our area of CA. My students who receive audiological care via CCS / MediCal are experiencing ridiculously long wait times to be seen at our regional hospitals in the Bay Area and Central Valley.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

MAGA clutching pearls over a Jimmy Kimmel joke like it’s Katie Miller’s emotional support boob during a staged shooting

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

More faith leaders speaking truth to power, please.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Downtown in this blood-red little community.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

No Kings protest today. We’ve lost so much in such a short time.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026

The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

My mom doesn’t understand why my trans son and immediate family members don’t want to hang out with the MAGA cultist side of the family anymore. “We hope you get the help you need,” she says. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Imagine seeing photos and videos of ugly old men raping underage girls and thinking, "I need to protect those horrible men at all costs."? Pam Bondi is a soulless villain.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Section 504, which provides (among other things) protections and supports for students with disabilities, is under renewed attack by 8 Republican states. dredf.org/texas-and-ei...

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Texas and Eight Other States Renew Attack on Section 504 and the Right of Disabled People to Live in their Communities - DREDF

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

While it feels great to see the administration take one small step backwards in Minnesota, I can’t help but feel that this is more about timing than moderating their response. It’s too early for things to blow up. It has to happen closer to the midterms.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Mr. Rogers, they are killing the helpers in the streets. To whom do we look now?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Alex Pretti was there to exercise his first amendment rights and to look out for others. He was also exercising his second amendment right to lawfully carry. For exercising these rights, he was killed. He tried to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground by an ICE thug, and was murdered.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ASL information re: observing and warning neighbors about ICE operations using S.A.L.U.T.E. / A.C.T.U.A.R. Please share widely--we know disabled folks are particularly susceptible to state violence and many d/hh folks regardless of immigration status have a first language that is not English.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/01/2026

This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The President of the United States deleted this photo of the drawer full of photos with himself and Jeffrey Epstein from the DOJ's illegally redacted release of the files last night. We are watching a cover up in real time. This is file 468.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Funny, isn't it? The day before the DoJ was to ostensibly release the Epstein Files, they gave the transgender pot a big ol' stir and now that's all anyone on the right is talking about! Works every time.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Up to ten years in prison. As a punishment for providing the care that saved my son's life. Criminalization of parents who seek help for their transgender kids.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks. My message to you is simple: I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.

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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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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The projection has always worked for him. The misdirection has always worked. The bullying. The threatening. The lying. With special needs children, we sometimes see an “extinction burst” of extreme behavior when the original behaviors are no longer effective. The intensity can be breathtaking.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I have one immediate family member who relies on SNAP benefits, and one who has been working without pay (and under the implicit threat of being laid off) for weeks now. I am experiencing such an alphabet soup of emotions right now. Relief, but also anger and disbelief for those relying on the ACA.

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DiscardedPoet @jaysnuh.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

In Deaf culture, the sign for “I love you” is commonly used as a way to say goodbye to friends and family members. Today, a student who has always yelled aggressively at me when it’s time for me to leave our sessions instead made eye contact and signed “I love you”. And then she did it again. 🤟🏻

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/11/2025

It's all a big grift.

Riley Gaines and Caitlyn Jenner smiling and posing for a selfie at a formal event. Riley on the left has long blonde hair and is wearing a blue strapless dress, while Jenner on the right has long light brown hair and is wearing a black dress with pearl-like embellishments. They are seated at a round table in a large banquet hall filled with other guests dressed in formal attire.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Saw this story going around on instagram again and thought I'd re-up over here, because maybe when hearing people say it someone will care? 🙃

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

JD Vance says his wife isn't a Christian. At least they have that in common.

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