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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2025

That’s right. The billionaire bailout bill forces your tax dollars to pay for concentration camps and masked thugs to disappear your neighbors without due process. 16M people will be thrown off healthcare to pay for that, along with tax breaks for the rich.

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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid. I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Learning to rest is crucial when you’re chronically ill. If you try and play through the pain, you can permanently set back your baseline. Make sure you remember to rest your brain and your body. That crushing brain fog that feels like scrambled eggs in your head? That’s a warning sign to rest

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

And if you change your avatar, I will likely think you a different person until one day I do a double-take on the name and either realize, or act as if you're a different person only for you to remind me who you are upon which I hide in shame forevermore.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Likely won't be a real election in 2026. With the latest SCOTUS decision, we're in fascist dictatorship territory, and yet people keep acting like elections will continue like normal. Trumpocalypse tries to jail/kidnap anyone who isn't a loyalist by then. I mean, he's trying to do that now.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Honestly, at this point, it'd be a rather epic way to protest. Especially if folks working there get in on it, and just obstruct whenever he tries to sign anything. I just fear it'd result in them using firearms and harming those that tried.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Someone suggested we do what Hong Kong did and just yoink harmful bills from Trump before he signs (since he must physically sign for it to be law) and abscond with it. When Trump's goons try to tackle them, they hand it off to someone in disguise, like in a relay. Then yakety sax starts playing.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Covid is a social justice issue. If we cared about reducing transmission, we would be providing respirators, tests, vaccines, paxlovid and paid time off to everyone. If you can’t afford a mask, make sure to check for a local mask bloc! maskbloc.org

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Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc

MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I asked radiology technicians to mask since it was a swallow x-ray test and I had to drop down my mask to drink the nasty barium stuff. They said they are "not sick and not contagious so we do not have to mask unless asked." And I did indeed ask. In the end, they said no - them two against lone me.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I saw my general care doctor who was frustrated and angry by what Trumpocalypse is doing. He admitted to being very pessimistic about if we'll see necessary vaccines and booster shots. He had very little hope of better treatments for LongCovid coming to America, which means my treatment is in limbo.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Essay about the #RightToExist: comradery.co/reshapingrea... I examined it through the lens of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but I also wanted to explore how the fascist/oppressor weaponizes various techniques to enforce their temporal reality to erase all others and to justify genocide.

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Clair Obscur: That Which Seeks The Right To Exist Temporally and Spatially

Reshaping Reality on Comradery

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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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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Many visibly disabled or "unfit" potential immigrants would also be turned away at Ellis Island, and indeed that was the point of the physical inspections conducted there. And these eugenicist framings of disabled people as "burdens" continue into the 21st century. nursingclio.org/2018/06/28/e...

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From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the “Defective Immigrant”

On a Monday in November 1905, a “little deaf and dumb … 10-year old Eurasian girl” called Mooktie Wood arrived in the US on the steamship Canopic. An orphan with no known relatives, Mooktie had bee…

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

Fun fact: people are still rejected for visas/green cards/citizenship if they're viewed as potentially being a "burden" (that's the language used). So yes, disability civil rights seem to somewhat go away during the immigration process.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Because I see nothing on their site that shows they won't fall prey to the biases that current entrench publishing and harm marginalized authors. This software just sounds like a great way to make it incredibly difficult for marginalized authors to get seen by agents or publishers. Gross as hell.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Honestly, it's not possible for Inkbloom to not be biased as hell against marginalized authors. Do they reveal in detail HOW they determine what is "promising" and "marketable?" Do they have failsafes to make sure the software doesn't discriminate against BIPOC, Disabled, and/or LGBTQIA authors?

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

So if I submit my work to an agent or publisher, will I need to write a "I do not consent to my work being put through an AI shredder to feed their LLM's and problematic insights. I request a human being to review my work" to avoid this fate? I hate this so much.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

*waves in immunocompromised hermit-by-necessity* I miss going out

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

People ask me why I still mask. They accuse me of being 'fearful of living.' No, masks is what allows me to live. Do not mistake this medical tool for fear. Do not give in to the fascist lies that masking does nothing. A properly fitted mask can and has saved lives. It's a tool in our toolbox.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I don't expect anyone to read this. I yell my story into the void. I lift up the stories of fellow marginalized. I cry out for justice, for access, for a way to connect and build up solidarity and hope among one another. To not cede valuable tools like masks to our oppressors. Our stories matter.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We must choose to fight for the right to exist and thrive. Fight for access and justice. We need to choose to save as many lives as we can, to value one another's lives as worthy of respect, care, and dignity. To hold fast to our identity and our cultures. Otherwise, what are we fighting for?

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

When people within Leftist movements fail to normalize infectious disease mitigations, fail to mask up, fail with centering access needs, they inadvertently (whether they realize it or not) have given in to normalizing death and disablement. So we need to interrogate that. We need to unpack that.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We choose to try to save as many lives as we could, so that others may thrive in the present and future. They choose to give in and normalize death and disablement, sacrificing others for a past that is gone. And that's why I won't shut up about this in resistance movements.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Capitalism requires a disposable class to sacrifice. It relies on necropolitics, on a culture of death, as it has deemed these disposables necessary for the preservation of hits machine-like society. But we do not have to accept this. Sacrificing populations is Not needed for a society to thrive.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without restraint," says Nemik's manifesto in Andor. History shows this with the Haitian Revolution, the fight to end slavery, the revolutions against fascism in the Global South, Palestine, fights to stop the genocides by US and its allies.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Capitalism and imperialism strips us of our identities and cultures. It strips us of who owe are until we are exploitable labor -- cogs in the machine. Fascism thrives on this misery, but its need for control will not end with sacrificing disabled folks like myself. More and more will be sacrificed.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

People fought for justice and the right for us to exist and thrive. People found ways to share food and stories. We bridged divides. We centered access for all people instead of a few. And yet, despite this glimpse of something better, the gears of capitalism demanded sacrifices.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We could have built a better present. I still remember dolphins once more in Venice's canals. The decrease in emissions. Better air quality. The eradication of entire flu variants. All because we masked and paused the gears of Capitalism. People worked together in mutual aid, in collective actions.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Other people made a choice to not care about our lives and their own lives. They chose to not build a better future but to fall into denial. They have refused to interrogate their choices and actions. And so they live in deniability of the real harm of current infectious diseases.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Some people tell me that masking isolates them. I understand -- I too am isolated, but the truth of it? Masks are not the thing isolating us. Fear is not what is isolating us (though agoraphobia is very much a real thing to bear). What isolates us is the choices we make, values, and ideology.

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Michael Bono @mbonotheyounger.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Public health advocacy and climate advocacy have a lot of transferable lessons, including dealing with some of the same bad-faith deflection responses. Every reduction in disease transmission, like every fraction of a degree of climate warning averted, makes a difference.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I wrote about Disability in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because I love this game and also to show how #CollectiveAccess and solidarity can work in apocalyptic-like settings (like their Fracture). I also show how the #Disability class was created by Racial Capitalism: comradery.co/reshapingrea...

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Disability in Clair Obscur: That which hides hope with scars

Reshaping Reality on Comradery

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

In the strictest sense, yes, every single thing these assholes are doing is supposed to distract from every single other thing they're doing. But you don't have to decide that means all the things aside from what you are focused on don't matter. Because they do.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Happy birthday! Also, your LongCovid piece is fantastic. As someone who has it, it has been the one article I share the most. Even my general care doctor found it helpful. So thank you.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

So honestly, I think people just have no idea what socialism even is, and bought into the capitalist propaganda. It sucks and is so annoying.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

One of the towns I used to live in has city-owned utilities, even Internet, that is governed by the city council. And when I pointed it out to people there that this is actually socialism, they were in shock. They voted for it because the corporations owning the utilities had priced it too high.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Here is a thread of my citations to get people started: bsky.app/profile/theb... Have even more evidence for this if folks care to learn. There's several hundred studies from the past five years concerning Covid's damage to multiple bodily systems. Please read up instead of living in denial.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Denial is unconscious ableism. We've been conditioned to see disability as disposable, and only "healthy" abled-bodied people as worthy of life. Anyone can be disabled at any time. People fear becoming disabled because of how vile disabled folks are treated. Thread I wrote: bsky.app/profile/theb...

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Masking helps so much for situations like that! And it drastically lowered my asthmatic attacks. So it helps not just with protection against airborne diseases but also with other issues like exposure to poisonous fumes or allergens or smoke.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

For folks wanting to come in with bullshit claims that I'm wrong about the number affected, can go eat these instead: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... And www.who.int/news-room/fa... The studies show the truth, but the US government seems intent on lying about it.

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How Common Is Long COVID?

This Medical News article discusses new US household survey data that found differences in long COVID rates based on preexisting chronic conditions and other factors.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Plus the ableism within the denial. Millions of people have Long Covid and other life-long complications from Covid, but because they did not die and because society views disabled people's lives as disposable, people live in deniability, thinking they are somehow immune to becoming disabled.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

So anyone coming in my replies with bullshit claims about how we shouldn't take Covid seriously is a symptom of them falling for fascist propaganda. The scientific studies conducted for the past five years proves my points a million times over. The studies I linked so far is tip of the iceberg.

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Ziyad Al-Aly, Eric Topol. “Solving the puzzle of Long Covid.” Science383: pg 830-832 (2024): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Even more studies are highlighted in this article: Doubleday, Julie. “What is Long Covid?” The Guantlet. (2025). www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo... The studies back me up.

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Solving the puzzle of Long Covid

Long Covid provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Yiren Hou, Tian Gu, Zhouchi Ni, Xu Shi, Megan L. Ranney, Bhramar Mukherjee. “Global Prevalence of Long COVID, its Subtypes and Risk factors: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” medRxiv. (2025). doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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TheBirdWrites @thebirdwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Wu, Lidsky, Xiao, Lee, Cheng, Nakayama, Jiang. Demeter, Bevacqua, Chang, Whitener, Stalder, Zhu, Chen, Goltsev, Tzankov, Nayak, Nolan, Matter, Andino, Jackson. “SARS-CoV-2 infects human pancreatic β cells and elicits β cell impairment.” Cell Metab. (2021). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34081912/

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SARS-CoV-2 infects human pancreatic β cells and elicits β cell impairment - PubMed

Emerging evidence points toward an intricate relationship between the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and diabetes. While preexisting diabetes is associated with severe COVID-19, it is...

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