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Guild of Autistic Self-Advocate Staff (GASS) @autisticstaffguild.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Check out our website (cwalocals.org/gass/) for more plain language resources like “What is a labor union?” and our Palestine solidarity statement. And learn more about why the labor movement must support Palestine: peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/25/p...

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Guild of Autistic Self-Advocate Staff (GASS) @autisticstaffguild.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

GASS celebrates May Day! We’re proud to be a part of the labor movement. Learn about International Workers’ Day history with our plain language post today!

Gradient grey background. There’s a light grey box with text that reads: Today is to celebrate important protests in 1886 about workers’ rights. The protests were about protecting workers’ rights. May Day is a way for all workers to remember that we are powerful when we advocate together! May Day is also called International Workers’ Day. Below the text, there’s an illustration of fists with protest signs.

Grey background with a drawing of a crowd with protest signs. Text in a grey box reads: It used to be normal to work 14 hours a day for 7 days a week. That meant no weekends or days off. Bosses said these rules could not change.
In 1886, many workers in Chicago stopped working. They said they would not keep working until they got treated better at work. Police killed some of the workers who stopped working. People got angry because police killed the workers. People all over the world started fighting for companies to treat workers better.

Grey gradient background. Text reads: Today it is normal to get 8 hour workdays. It is now normal to not work every day of the week. It is normal because workers fought hard to make companies follow rules about treating workers better.
Today, companies and bosses still say that they can not treat workers better. But that is wrong. Workers like us know that we can keep fighting to be treated better at work. May Day reminds us that workers in the past fought hard and that we can, too.

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Guild of Autistic Self-Advocate Staff (GASS) @autisticstaffguild.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

💡 What is a labor union? What rights do workers get when they form a labor union? We made a plain language guide that talks about what a labor union is and why they matter. Check it out below!

A graphic with a colorful background and a white box. The header says, "What is a Union? Words to Know" The bulleted list says, "Bargaining: coming up with a contract for the workers and management at the place you work. Bargaining committee: members of the union who help write the contract and meet with management. Collective bargaining: the right to negotiate with management to make a contract. Discipline meeting: a meeting where management talks to you about something they think you did wrong at work. Negotiate: trying to make an agreement with someone. Organize: start a union with your co-workers. Union: a group of workers who come together to protect their rights at work. Wall to wall union: a kind of union where everyone who works at the place you work can be a part of it."

A graphic with a colorful background and a white box. The header says "What is a union?" The rest of the text says, "A union is a group of workers who come together to protect their rights at work. Some people think a union is a group from outside a workplace. They think a union will stop workers from talking to their employers. This is not true. Workers form unions. The people in a union all work together. An employer is someone who pays you to do work. Some employers say that unions are not important today. That is not true. People who are in charge of businesses also negotiate their contracts like unions. Negotiating means trying to make an agreement with someone. Both contracts talk about things like how much you get paid, when you work, what happens if you get in trouble at work, what happens if you get fired, what happens if you retire, what happens when you are sick, what happens when you want to take a vacation, how your employer will protect you, and more"

A graphic with a colorful background and a white box. The text says, "It should not be different for workers! Workers should not have fewer rights. Having a union is the only way to negotiate a contract and make our jobs a better place. Some unions include all the people who work somewhere. Other unions are just for people who work in a specific part of the company. For example, the Guild of Autistic Self-Advocate Staff (GASS) is a wall to wall union. A wall to wall union means that everyone who works at the place you work can be a part of it. Workers get a lot of important rights when we form a union. One of the most important rights we get is the right to collective bargaining. Bargaining means coming up with a contract for the workers and management at the place you work. Collective bargaining is the right to negotiate with management to make a contract. The law says your employer has to bargain with you and your co-workers after you organize.

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Guild of Autistic Self-Advocate Staff (GASS) @autisticstaffguild.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Our second bargaining meeting begins today! Bargaining is when a labor union and their bosses set rules to make the workplace fair. We are excited to keep going. And we will keep the community updated on our progress! Learn more here: cwalocals.org/gass/pledge

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Bargaining Pledge

Formal LanguagePlain LanguageBargaining Pledge (Formal Language) — May 2025Audio version:

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

In honor of Juneteenth, plz buy raffle tix to help a beloved Black & multiply disabled Chicago community member who's preparing for an upcoming surgery, grieving the loss of 5 loved ones in the last year, & navigating the shit healthcare system. DM me a screenshot of your contribution to be entered

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLDPfZaOj6V/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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Text: A raffle! For Ry! A Ryffle!

Help a beloved Black, disabled community member find care and stability before they have another surgery next month!

Link to the fundraiser with more about Ry: https://fundrazr.com/RysRoad2Rec

We are raffling off an amazing “disability justice and care bundle” of books and stickers and care offerings.

1 ticket = $5 dollars
5 tickets = $20
10 tickets = $35

CA/PP/VM:
$/@rydouglas

DM proof of donation to @RosesAreSpread on Instagram to be entered into the raffle (or DM proof of donation to ‪@kugeldyke.bsky.social‬)

Prize bundle details [on next slide, with a graphic of a right-facing arrow]
Background image: to the text is a cloud sky with a visible rainbow

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Picture: Picture of the woven gift basket filled with the books listed below, along with a dozen or so colorful stickers

Text: A raffle! For Ry! A Ryffle!

CA/PP/VM:
$/@rydouglas

1 ticket = $5 dollars
5 tickets = $20
10 tickets = $35

DM proof of donation to @RosesAreSpread on Instagram to be entered into the raffle (or DM proof of donation to ‪@kugeldyke.bsky.social‬)

Care and disability justice bundle
⁃ Signed-by-author copy of Disability Incarcerated by Liat Ben Mosh
⁃ Signed-by-author copy of Just Care by Akemi Nishida
⁃ Sticker bundle by Rise and 30 minute medical industrial complex navigation counseling session with Rise of RiotousRoots
⁃ Belly of the Beast by Da’shaun L. Harrison
⁃ The Story of What is Broken is Whole by Aurora Levins Morales
⁃ Disability Intimacy: essays on love care and desire, edited by Alice Wong

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CommunicationFIRST @communicationfirst.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Register now for the next CommunicationFIRST webinar on June 26: Policy Advocacy 101 for #AAC Users and Allies - featuring @jordynbzim.bsky.social, Bob Williams, Angelica Vega, Dean Strauss, Toby Latham, and Samuel Habib! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DisabilityRights

"Everything you need to know to advocate for policy change - POLICY ADVOCACY 101 FOR AAC USERS AND ALLIES - June 26, 2025; 1:30-3:00 pm ET; Featuring Jordyn Zimmerman Bob Williams Angelica Vega Dean Strauss Toby Latham Samuel Habib Register: bit.ly/4l70z8f CommunicationFIRST"

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Guild of Autistic Self-Advocate Staff (GASS) @autisticstaffguild.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🚨 Big news: GASS just kicked off our first bargaining session on May 27th! 💥 Our bargaining committee is ready to fight for what matters to all of us. It might take time — but we’re in it together. ✊ Every member of GASS believes in this pledge! 💪 #UnionStrong

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm a proud member of this labor union!

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is the power of collective organizing! Much love to my fellow union members!!!

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I scroll and get sadder.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just $21,240CAD, $4264USD, and £2000 until we break even. We are already sending new eSims using points thanks to your donations! We can definitely get there by the end of the month, if not sooner. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

“Crips for esims for Gaza

URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED

Venmo: A QR code

PP (US): A QR code

PP (UK): A QR code

About: A QR code
bit.ly/venmo4esims
bit.ly/pp4esims
bit.ly/esimsUK
bit.ly/eSimsRUs”

"March Goal:" (text in red)
“$33,000 CAD”

"etransfer: cripsforesimsforgaza@gmail.com”

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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Every person or child martyred is a universe extinguished. Every martyr was someone’s entire world. The heaviness of these moments are unbearable and incomprehensible. For the genocide in Gaza to continue while the world watches, feels like the end of the world as we know it.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Is it too late to get hamantaschen in Chicago? Any recommendations??

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Instead of March Madness this year I’ll be doing Starch Sadness which is where I just eat potatoes until I feel better

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RWDSU @rwdsu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

BREAKING: Barnes & Noble workers have ratified historic, first-in-the-nation union contracts at three NYC Barnes & Noble stores! RWDSU Prez @stunyc.bsky.social said: “A union is the only way to ensure workplace protections are secure – especially now, while laws protecting workers are under attack.”

a red and white graphic with photos of many NYC Barnes & Noble workers raising their fists, some wearing red RWDSU tshirts. White text reads: “BARNES & NOBLE WORKERS WIN HISTORIC FIRST IN THE NATION UNION CONTRACT AT NYC STORES”

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 02/03/2025

[about to become even more wrong] to be clear,

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/02/2025

Q: Why is it so much easier for the US right to organize and be unified than the US left? A: Anti-Black racism. The only consistent thing that the right agrees on, is this. It's what unifies them. But the US left is very anti-Black too! So they try to get the benefits, without helping Black folk.🤷🏿‍♂️

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I’ve never felt older than the time I was disappointed because Potbelly stopped offering *malt* as part of their milkshakes

Screenshot from the movie Pleasantville, which is about contemporary teens winding up in the 1950s (ie. the decade in which *malted* milkshakes were popular). The picture features the characters played by 1990s Reece Witherspoon and Toby McGuire in 1950s clothes—the whole thing is in black and white. Their facial expressions look concerned.

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National Association of Letter Carriers @lettercarriers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

TOMORROW ➡️ Letter carriers, labor unions & allies will rally to sound the alarm on the White House’s plans to dismantle USPS. We say #HELLNO! Join us as we #FightLikeHell to protect the universal service that keeps our communities connected. 📆 Mon, Feb 24, 1 P.M. 📍 Taft Carillon (across from NALC)

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The thing I hate about Star Trek Enterprise is that lacks any ethical curiosity or cultural humility. They're always the 'good guys' with nothing new to learn or questions to consider. In contrast, The Next Generation does this ok and Discovery or Strange New Worlds do this superbly.

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you send funds to my friend, Ry, and if you tell** me about it, I’ll tell you which Star Trek character reflects the vibe of your profile/posts ** I just learned you can’t DM screenshots (or pics more generally) on BluSky, so I’ll verify by checking the contributions to the Fundrazr page

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Like it's very conspicuous that, in the lore, Vulcans developed their emotional suppression because their emotions were so much.

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Mr Spock always had emotions. So did Data. So does every autistic person you've ever met.

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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I cannot emphasize enough how we are in an era where everyone is to be treated like disabled people have always been treated.

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kugeldyke.bsky.social @kugeldyke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 18/02/2025

BREAKING: Los Angeles fast food workers are ON STRIKE. As activists and immigrants across the nation are learning their rights, the fast food industry is lobbying against Know Your Rights Training for 50,000 LA fast food workers.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, rather those who are inflicting it upon me.” -Frederick Douglass

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Someone should mention to Governor Hochul that in addition to it being the right thing to do, it would also be very, very funny of her to remove Eric Adams from office.

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 14/02/2025

Mariah Guevin is seeking input (from all people with Long COVID) for a story about how fatphobia impacts the experience of seeking healthcare for Long COVID. bit.ly/3Eyzg6E

A purple graphic with white text reads, "The Sick Times. We're looking for YOUR INPUT. Mariah Guevin is seeking input (from all people with Long COVID) for a story about how fatphobia impacts the experience of seeking healthcare for Long COVID."

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"Most Long COVID cases- over 90%- began w a mild infection, due to the much larger number of mild infections. Recent studies found that the risk of developing Long COVID is cumulative: 3 infections are more dangerous than 1, 5 are more dangerous than 3,and so on" www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A hard thing about this time that doesn't get talked about enough is seeing many people act as if everything is unprecedented when it's not. These are issues that movements have worked on for so long. It can be frustrating, even as welcomed sincere outrage builds. Find support amongst your people.

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matt @mattxiv.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#zucked

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/02/2025

Tomorrow, I'm doing a webinar for clinicians who want to advocate for Medicaid with their federal elected leaders, as Medicaid faces existential threats. Clinicians are some of the best possible advocates for Medicaid, and I am really, really good at this. We won't waste your time. 🧵

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2/15 at 4PM ET: Congressional Medicaid Advocacy Webinar For Clinicians | Matthew Cortland

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12/02/2025

"Medicaid waiver programs" pay for medically necessary treatments and services that commercial insurers will not cover. Cigna will, quite simply, let kids die.

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

There are a lot of important skills sets we will need in the coming months/years, but one of the most important will be generative conflict. As the conditions get worse, we will see more conflict and being able to navigate it well, without loosing each other, will be invaluable.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’ve found that people in “elite” positions of power often crumble when they face a tiny amount of pushback, criticism, or god forbid, the type of online abuse and harassment that many of us deal with regularly. They also conflate the two and use their power to suppress legitimate criticism

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