Courtney Bergan
@courtneystruth.bsky.social
Here for convos about Disability Justice, Anti-Coercive Mental Health & Abolition. EJW Fellow. SD handler.🐕🦺 (they/them).
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"Part of the reason Argentine activists can be so public is that their policing infrastructure is less well resourced than it is here in the United States." - #Defund & Abolition are also a reproductive justice issue...
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...
Pills Have Legs | Los Angeles Review of Books
Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”
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October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"Part of the reason Argentine activists can be so public is that their policing infrastructure is less well resourced than it is here in the United States." - #Defund & Abolition are also a reproductive justice issue...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...
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Being willing to sacrifice others is not an asset.
October 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Being willing to sacrifice others is not an asset.
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I think we need to be cautious (myself included) on how talk about vaccine preventable illnesses causing disabilities. Disabled people are harmed when we talk about disability being a terrible outcome. Additionally, many amazing disability activists who changed history are survivors of polio.
September 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I think we need to be cautious (myself included) on how talk about vaccine preventable illnesses causing disabilities. Disabled people are harmed when we talk about disability being a terrible outcome. Additionally, many amazing disability activists who changed history are survivors of polio.
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Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.
JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction.
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![[cite_start]A screenshot of the first page of a court document from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[cite: 3]. [cite_start]The document is titled "MEMORANDUM AND ORDER" [cite: 43] [cite_start]and was filed on September 3, 2025[cite: 1].
The document lists two related civil actions:
* [cite_start]**Civil Action No. 25-cv-11048-ADB**: President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., Defendants[cite: 4, 5, 14, 17, 21].
* [cite_start]**Civil Action No. 25-cv-10910-ADB**: American Association of University Professors - Harvard Chapter, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States Department of Justice, et al., Defendants[cite: 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 36].
[cite_start]The order is from Judge Burroughs, D.J.[cite: 44]. [cite_start]The text begins by identifying the plaintiffs in the consolidated cases[cite: 45].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreiaefziiwcjq4laze5iymzn45j4qfm3lc226u27qrdhlxqxjixzxae@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.
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I will give credit to groups like ACLU and Disability Rights California for being vocal about what has already happened in California who then justifiably are mad now.
July 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I will give credit to groups like ACLU and Disability Rights California for being vocal about what has already happened in California who then justifiably are mad now.
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The "Vote Blue No Matter Who" bitches can vote Mamdani in November 😌
June 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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it's May Day in Baltimore
May 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
it's May Day in Baltimore
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Not kidding about the Labor march “thundering” through downtown #Baltimore. So rad. #MayDay
May 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Not kidding about the Labor march “thundering” through downtown #Baltimore. So rad. #MayDay
Happy May Day Baltimore!
May 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Happy May Day Baltimore!
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“Since we live under racial capitalism, settler colonialism, & white supremacy, ableism…here’s always been about…race, gender, labor/productivity/capital and dis/ability…used for generations to degrade, oppress, control, & disappear disabled & non-disabled people alike…”
truthout.org/articles/abl...
truthout.org/articles/abl...
Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts
Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.
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March 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“Since we live under racial capitalism, settler colonialism, & white supremacy, ableism…here’s always been about…race, gender, labor/productivity/capital and dis/ability…used for generations to degrade, oppress, control, & disappear disabled & non-disabled people alike…”
truthout.org/articles/abl...
truthout.org/articles/abl...
America is in a giant prisoner’s dilemma. Except instead of not trusting others not to talk, we don’t trust each other to actually stand up to fascism.
It’s not an accident. They want us to fear each other. Don’t give into the doubt.
We all win when we all stand up to fascists.
It’s not an accident. They want us to fear each other. Don’t give into the doubt.
We all win when we all stand up to fascists.
March 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
America is in a giant prisoner’s dilemma. Except instead of not trusting others not to talk, we don’t trust each other to actually stand up to fascism.
It’s not an accident. They want us to fear each other. Don’t give into the doubt.
We all win when we all stand up to fascists.
It’s not an accident. They want us to fear each other. Don’t give into the doubt.
We all win when we all stand up to fascists.
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Baltimore #TeslaTakedown at Owings Mill Tesla!
March 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Baltimore #TeslaTakedown at Owings Mill Tesla!
Dems are fascists too.
Making it easier to involuntarily commit people is a canary in the coal mine for other deprivations of liberty.
Disability activists have been screaming about this for years!
Making it easier to involuntarily commit people is a canary in the coal mine for other deprivations of liberty.
Disability activists have been screaming about this for years!
According to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Gov. Hochul has four main priorities she's pushing for in budget talks:
- Mask ban
- Discovery reform changes
- Involuntary commitment
- Bell to bell cellphone ban in schools
- Mask ban
- Discovery reform changes
- Involuntary commitment
- Bell to bell cellphone ban in schools
March 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Dems are fascists too.
Making it easier to involuntarily commit people is a canary in the coal mine for other deprivations of liberty.
Disability activists have been screaming about this for years!
Making it easier to involuntarily commit people is a canary in the coal mine for other deprivations of liberty.
Disability activists have been screaming about this for years!
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Nothing prevents you from calling fascists fascists. If the threat is real, then you can either congratulate or ignore the people who figured it out before you did, but it’s time to stop scolding them.
I am not blaming Democrats for Republicans becoming fascists. I am blaming people who overused "fascist" for years for removing the power of that word and gutting it of meaning, and making it useless now that we need it.
Something I warned would happen.
Something I warned would happen.
March 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Nothing prevents you from calling fascists fascists. If the threat is real, then you can either congratulate or ignore the people who figured it out before you did, but it’s time to stop scolding them.
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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
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The Department of Justice was created in 1870 with an explicit mission to protect civil rights and enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone.
How about restoring *that* focus?
The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone.
How about restoring *that* focus?
Leavitt: "We want to restore the Department of Justice to an institution that focuses on fighting law and order."
March 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Department of Justice was created in 1870 with an explicit mission to protect civil rights and enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone.
How about restoring *that* focus?
The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone.
How about restoring *that* focus?
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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“I am being targeted for one reason alone: for speaking the truth about the genocide of the Palestinian people that Yale University is complicit in.”
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I Was Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech Amid AI-Generated Smears
Rather than investigate the source of these allegations, Yale Law School accepted them at face value.
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March 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“I am being targeted for one reason alone: for speaking the truth about the genocide of the Palestinian people that Yale University is complicit in.”
truthout.org/articles/i-w...
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.