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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

For all the laughable moments of Mamdani/Trump meeting, I do think it matters that someone, Mamdani, said Israel is committing genocide in the Oval Office during a press conference.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

As @raeoflion.bsky.social and I wrote in this article featuring Rae's video: A report from the California Health Care Foundation found that 10 percent cut to HCBS programs would lead to $1 billion more in Medicaid spending in the state... due to the greater overall costs of institutionalization.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I got my updated Covid-19 vaccine today at CVS in Los Angeles! I just had to self-attest to having a high risk condition. It was free with insurance.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

To illustrate the state of life in America right now: Several journalists who were bleeding and needed stitches because of assaults by LAPD drove around to urgent care facilities only to find them closed, then wavered on going to emergency rooms because of high costs of treatment there.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

10. The insurance model is a rationing system. ‘Coverage’ is a euphemism for controlled scarcity. They don’t just decide what care you get—they decide if you’re worth the cost.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

9. Disability politics asks: what would an economy look like if keeping each other alive was the highest value? Not GDP, not productivity—but the refusal to abandon anyone. Disability pride is also a revolution in how we define wealth.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

1. Disability is a site of class struggle because it exposes the lie of meritocracy. We show that survival isn’t earned—it’s organized, or it doesn’t happen at all.

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disabilityrightsca.bsky.social @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Good morning! DRC has invited @katherinewolf.bsky.social (me!) to take over their social media today to live-post the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety hearing of Senate Bill (SB) 27 (CARE Court expansion)! You, too, can also watch live here: www.assembly.ca.gov/media-live-e...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/07/2025

PSA: There’s a difference between wearing a mask or respirator & wearing a gaiter or face covering to disguise identity. It’s important to discern & communicate this nuance because if you don’t, you might encourage elected officials to ban masks for everyone, which would be a public health disaster.

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hi friends. The "big brutal bill" passed the Senate today. We expect the House to vote tomorrow. This bill is an enormous transfer of wealth from the masses to the wealthiest few. It takes away health care & food from millions of people to give tax cuts to billionaires and to fund ICE's terror.

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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My daughter relies on Medicaid. We don't "get" Medicaid. We don't receive a check from Medicaid. Medicaid covers her life-saving medical expenses. Medicaid is health insurance. Medicaid is health care. That's what Medicaid is. And that's why we need our senators to #VoteNo and #ProtectMedicaid.

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Rachel Sachs @rachelsachs.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Reminder that the median Medicaid eligibility level for pregnancy is over 2x the poverty level. Many of these people Mullin is referring to are pregnant or are children. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

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Mlle Defarge ♿ @hearing-girl.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Look, at the risk of bringing facts to a vibes fight, but... the eligibility threshold for Medicaid is not the same as the Federal poverty line, so yes, there are going to be more people who qualify. Quick breakdown below...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/06/2025

Billionaires and the establishment threw all the money in the world to steal this election from New Yorkers. They lost badly. Never underestimate the power everyday people have when they organize ✊️

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

There is a violent attack on immigrant health on several fronts right now (thread):

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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

As a congenitally blind person myself, I'm committed to advancing disability rights in Congress and am excited to see how we can further innovate for accessibility and inclusion.

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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Last week I met with Dr. Victor Pineda and the Center for Independent Living to talk about the importance of policies that advance accessibility and how the Medicaid cuts in the reconciliation bill will hurt people with disabilities.

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Among my favorite signs at the anti-ICE protest in LA today. Feeling love for my city and gratitude for community.

Protest sign, handwritten, reading “a government doesn’t announce that they have become fascist. They announce anti-fascists are enemies of the state!”

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t a l @talevy.soccer · 07/06/2025

this piece was originally up at this same location during the 92 riots....

black and white photo of riot police in front of Barbara Krueger's "Questions" mural

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The pride month lights at city hall while LAPD beats up protesters…the dissonance is sickening.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

all these public officials insist they will resist the Trump admin adn that they don't support ICE...and then the police departments they supposedly control rush out to beat up anti ICE protestors.

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California Pan-Ethnic Health Network @cpehn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social's #CABudget punishes people based on their immigration status, bringing us back to separate and unequal care. #CALeg: NO cuts to #Health4All in #CABudget.

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disabilityrightsca.bsky.social @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

$2000 is what disabled Californians and elderly 65 and older are limited to having in assets and banking accounts. Forcing many Californians to live in poverty to receive essential health care that they require. Check out the full article from Cal Matters: calmatters.org/health/2025/...

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Elderly and disabled Californians with $2,000 in assets could lose Medi-Cal

Health advocates say the Medi-Cal asset limit would keep people in poverty while California Gov. Newsom says it's essential to reduce rising costs.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

What people don't seem to understand is that even if *they* are not using Medicaid, a large share of their providers' patient population does. That means that their healthcare providers may be unable to stay solvent and in practice when Medicaid is cut. We all lose when Medicaid is cut.

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Last night I spoke to a group of parents of kids with disabilities to inform them of the Medicaid proposals. They were so quick to understand how these proposals would directly affect their kids & their whole family’s livelihoods.

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The House just passed the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP and the largest shift of wealth to millionaires and billionaires. NOW is the time to harass your senators. Allow them no peace.

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Since the House Energy and Commerce Committee reported out its bill last Wednesday, there have been two sets of language revisions that have made the #Medicaid cuts even more draconian, not less. So the coverage losses and damaging impact will certainly be greater and take effect sooner (9/x)

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/05/2025

House GOP will gavel the Rules Committee in at 1AM. They're hoping the American people won't notice their plan to destroy the healthcare service and delivery system

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/05/2025

Effectively eliminating Medicaid would be catastrophic in a myriad of ways that many people are blissfully unaware of because they don’t how deeply Medicaid is woven into our society. If you care about public health, jobs, hospitals, the economy, or just people being alive: Call your reps.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

WHO IS UNDOCUMENTED IS A POLICY CHOICE

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Pretty much every detained imm. court session now includes someone who is subject to mandatory ICE detention under the Laken Riley Act for no better reason than they were once *charged* with extremely minor theft offenses. Even if those charges were dismissed. I'm never forgiving Dems for this

From NBC News (1/20/25):

The Democrats who voted yes were Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Warner of Virginia.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Just passed through Budget. Onto Rules later this week. And then passage through the full chamber by the end of the week. We are in end game in the House. This is a crucial week of action for stopping it.

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The #CALeg May Revise is a disaster for our state—“balancing” the budget by cutting social services from the most vulnerable Californians. This is a policy CHOICE. The legislature could recoup the deficit in other ways, like closing corporate loopholes. #CABudget

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I read through the House Energy & Commerce bill to cut #Medicaid. Here’s a thread of some of the provisions, but in summary: it’s a set of cruel cuts to eligibility and coverage for services that keep people alive. The policy lingo and exhausting list of policies is trying to distract from this.

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disabilityrightsca.bsky.social @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We are working hard to stop these cuts from hurting disabled Californians, and we need your help! Send a message to your Congresspeople today using the form: www.disabilityrightsca.org/latest-news/... #DisabilityRightsCA #ProtectMedicaid #HandsOffMedicaid #Congress #Budget

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Tell Congress Today: Disabled People Are Counting on You to Protect Medicaid | Disability Rights California

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disabilityrightsca.bsky.social @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We NEED you to help protect Medicaid! Congress is considering cuts to Medicaid right now. All the policy proposals being considered would take away needed health care and home and community-based services from people with disabilities. Form Link: www.disabilityrightsca.org/latest-news/...

Header Text: Proposal: Bold Text: Work Requirements. Header Text: Reality: Body Text: - People would lose Medicaid because someone decides they are “not disabled enough.”
- Caregivers would lose Medicaid because they can’t prove their caregiving work on a form.
- Disabled people would lose Medicaid because of administrative mistakes.

Header Text: Proposal: Bold Text: Decreasing Federal Match for the Medicaid Expansion Population. Header Text: Reality: Body Text: - More than 2/3rds of people with disabilities enrolled in Medicaid are enrolled through non-SSI pathways, and many of these individuals are enrolled through the expansion pathway.
- Disabled people who are not on Social Security Income (SSI), like people who make too much for SSI but are still low income, would lose Medicaid.

Header Text: Proposal: Bold Text: Per Capita Caps, Block Grants, and/or Restricting Provider Taxes. Header Text: Reality: Body Text: - The state would have less money to spend on Medicaid.
- With less money to spend on Medicaid, disabled people would either have their benefits cut or eligibility taken away.

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Sabrina Epstein @sabrinaep.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Please take 4 minutes to fill out this form, which sends a letter to your Congresspeople about protecting Medicaid. #HealthPolicy #DisabilityJustice #PublicHealth www.disabilityrightsca.org/latest-news/...

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Tell Congress Today: Disabled People Are Counting on You to Protect Medicaid | Disability Rights California

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 07/05/2025

“We will be out here as long as it takes!” Maria Town of @aapd-disability.bsky.social highlights that Medicaid allowed her to have physical therapy and her mom to have respite care.

Maria Town stands at the podium with her scooter to her left

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

NEW at @motherjones.com: HHS plans to cut federal funding to the state protection and advocacy agencies who investigate abuse in group homes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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HHS plans to cut funds used to investigate abuse at group homes

Disability rights watchdogs are the latest targets of the Trump administration's defunding spree.

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"As I sat in my oldest brother’s room at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, listening to the alarm shriek that his oxygen levels were critically low, I kept batting away intrusive thoughts about the federal budget battle happening hundreds of miles away in D.C." ncnewsline.com/2025/04/04/m...

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Medicaid made my brother’s final weeks more peaceful • NC Newsline

disability rights advocates calls on Congress not to cut or limit Medicaid benefits via work, requirements, block grants, or lifetime caps

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Meier Galblum Haigh @mghaigh.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Immigrant justice, disability justice, and the fight against fascism are one fight. Free Rümeysa. End immigrant detention. Abolish ICE. Abolish billionaires.

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