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Father, grandfather, lots of former things. Looking to be lots of future things, too.
What you see on Capitol Hill on a muggy summer morning when the Senate is going to vote on a Bill to strip health care away from almost 17 million people.
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What you see on Capitol Hill on a muggy summer morning when the Senate is going to vote on a Bill to strip health care away from almost 17 million people.
What you see on a muggy Sunday summer evening when the Republicans have delayed a vote on a bill that will cut $930 billion from Medicaid and remove almost 17 million people from health care coverage.
June 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What you see on a muggy Sunday summer evening when the Republicans have delayed a vote on a bill that will cut $930 billion from Medicaid and remove almost 17 million people from health care coverage.
A late evening view of the Capitol.
April 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A late evening view of the Capitol.
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U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.
Citizens need only fill out the form and mail it in to DOGE.
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Citizens need only fill out the form and mail it in to DOGE.
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Jamie Raskin Announces FOIA Demands for Personal Data Held by Doge and Elon Musk - Jamie Raskin for Congress
Federal District Court Decision Opens Up Path for All Americans to Check on Their Personal Data Held by this New Federal Agency
jamieraskin.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.
Citizens need only fill out the form and mail it in to DOGE.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Citizens need only fill out the form and mail it in to DOGE.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Trump blaming people with disabilities really makes the lack of an outspoken advocate for people with disabilities in the Senate like a Ted Kennedy or a tom Harkin or a Bob Casey or a Sherrod Brown felt. Or an Orrin Hatch or Bob Dole.
January 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Trump blaming people with disabilities really makes the lack of an outspoken advocate for people with disabilities in the Senate like a Ted Kennedy or a tom Harkin or a Bob Casey or a Sherrod Brown felt. Or an Orrin Hatch or Bob Dole.
Thanks, too, to Chad in Sen. Brown’s office and Sam in Sen. Wyden’s office.
President Biden makes comments during the signing of the Social Security Fairness Act.
"Americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn an earnest living, should be able to retire with economic security and dignity."
Bravo, Biden! 👏
"Americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn an earnest living, should be able to retire with economic security and dignity."
Bravo, Biden! 👏
January 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Thanks, too, to Chad in Sen. Brown’s office and Sam in Sen. Wyden’s office.
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Thank you, President Biden!
President Biden makes comments during the signing of the Social Security Fairness Act.
"Americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn an earnest living, should be able to retire with economic security and dignity."
Bravo, Biden! 👏
"Americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn an earnest living, should be able to retire with economic security and dignity."
Bravo, Biden! 👏
January 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Thank you, President Biden!
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The Federal Trade Commission has ordered software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle claims that it falsely advertised its AI-powered web accessibility tool as capable of making any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines
The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any
www.ftc.gov
January 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle claims that it falsely advertised its AI-powered web accessibility tool as capable of making any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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Every child deserves safety, dignity, and care. Restraint and seclusion practices in schools are harming vulnerable disabled children. Read to understand the issue, please share to raise awareness. Together, we can protect our children. #AgainstRestraint
@kijcooper1973.bsky.social
@kijcooper1973.bsky.social
Becky Gillespie, heads the UK division of ICARS and said it had been contacted by increasing numbers of parents about restraints “endured by their children”. Please repost and share with your networks. inews.co.uk/news/restrai... #AgainstRestraint
How restraint in schools is traumatising children with SEND and injuring teachers
Children's tsar raises alarm over 'terrible' use of restraint as poll finds more than half of teachers have had no training on how to do it safely
inews.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Every child deserves safety, dignity, and care. Restraint and seclusion practices in schools are harming vulnerable disabled children. Read to understand the issue, please share to raise awareness. Together, we can protect our children. #AgainstRestraint
@kijcooper1973.bsky.social
@kijcooper1973.bsky.social
Happy New Year! Miss my Dad.
January 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Happy New Year! Miss my Dad.
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A pic that goes hard: John Lennon and Yoko Ono with Muhammad Ali at Jimmy Carter’s inauguration in 1977.
Photo credit: Wally McNamee for Corbis via Getty Images
Photo credit: Wally McNamee for Corbis via Getty Images
December 30, 2024 at 3:18 AM
A pic that goes hard: John Lennon and Yoko Ono with Muhammad Ali at Jimmy Carter’s inauguration in 1977.
Photo credit: Wally McNamee for Corbis via Getty Images
Photo credit: Wally McNamee for Corbis via Getty Images
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Jimmy Carter has died. A remarkable man who has been on our minds a lot lately, for many reasons. What an example he set for everyone who has had to ask themselves, “Now what?”
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
Jimmy Carter Dies at 100: News and Reactions (Gift Article)
The former president, a peanut farmer and Democrat from Georgia, was known as much for his charity and diplomatic work later in life as he was for his single presidential term, which ended in 1981.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Jimmy Carter has died. A remarkable man who has been on our minds a lot lately, for many reasons. What an example he set for everyone who has had to ask themselves, “Now what?”
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
@lollardfish.bsky.social Congrats on the NYTimes Book Review blurb this morning.
December 29, 2024 at 7:16 PM
@lollardfish.bsky.social Congrats on the NYTimes Book Review blurb this morning.
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A disabled protester (with the same disability as I have, Osteogenesis imperfecta) was awarded $400K after being kicked in his wheelchair during 2020 racial justice protests. Let this be a precedent: www.axios.com/local/portla...
Portland to pay largest-ever settlement in suit over excessive police force
The settlement could set a precedent for future excessive police force lawsuits.
www.axios.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:29 AM
A disabled protester (with the same disability as I have, Osteogenesis imperfecta) was awarded $400K after being kicked in his wheelchair during 2020 racial justice protests. Let this be a precedent: www.axios.com/local/portla...
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With Sherrod Brown and Bob Casey losing, Democrats lost two big voices for disability rights. Sherrod Brown was a huge advocate for lifting the asset limit on SSI. Bob Casey supported special education and spending more on Medicaid home services. #PASen #CripTheVote #OHSen
November 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM
With Sherrod Brown and Bob Casey losing, Democrats lost two big voices for disability rights. Sherrod Brown was a huge advocate for lifting the asset limit on SSI. Bob Casey supported special education and spending more on Medicaid home services. #PASen #CripTheVote #OHSen
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Orioles just put out a video of every O's pitcher strikeout from 2024. Tucker Davidson's 1 k is at 1:26:43 for all you sickos
youtu.be/GMKpxw_dh4s?...
youtu.be/GMKpxw_dh4s?...
Every Strikeout by an Orioles Pitcher in 2024 | Baltimore Orioles
YouTube video by Baltimore Orioles
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November 21, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Orioles just put out a video of every O's pitcher strikeout from 2024. Tucker Davidson's 1 k is at 1:26:43 for all you sickos
youtu.be/GMKpxw_dh4s?...
youtu.be/GMKpxw_dh4s?...
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I would run out of walk before I found a way to calm my swirl of post-election emotions about this.
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
I would run out of walk before I found a way to calm my swirl of post-election emotions about this.
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Complete list of shortstops in MLB history with 2000 hits, 200 home runs, and 400 stolen bases:
1) Jimmy Rollins
1) Jimmy Rollins
November 16, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Complete list of shortstops in MLB history with 2000 hits, 200 home runs, and 400 stolen bases:
1) Jimmy Rollins
1) Jimmy Rollins
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I’ve spent the last decade chronicling the #Autism rights movement and #Neurodiversity as a political movement. It had slow but gradual gains. But RFK Jr.‘s nomination to HHS takes a sledgehammer to those hard-won gains.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's embrace of RFK Jr. is demoralizing for autistic people like me
Kennedy sees autistic people as problems to be solved, not as people with disabilities who deserve to be accepted.
www.msnbc.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:34 AM
I’ve spent the last decade chronicling the #Autism rights movement and #Neurodiversity as a political movement. It had slow but gradual gains. But RFK Jr.‘s nomination to HHS takes a sledgehammer to those hard-won gains.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Seconded. Love @lollardfish.bsky.social
Okay, I’ve got an hour before I have to do a trustees lunch—it’s Saturday—let’s build some follower support for great people on Bsky. I already have starter packs you can follow but let’s share some individuals.
I particularly love @lollardfish.bsky.social and his feed enlightens me (bonus: A+ kids)
I particularly love @lollardfish.bsky.social and his feed enlightens me (bonus: A+ kids)
November 16, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Seconded. Love @lollardfish.bsky.social