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I’m a wheelchair using young(ish) adult with Spina Bifida living life and trying to get away from Twitter. Ham radio operator currently licensed as KJ4YHE. Advocate of person-first language.
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Opinion/Letter: Cooperation needed on disability issues
Virginia could be an even better place if every business, big or small, gas station or therapist’s office or political organization, would work to make sure that accessibility is maintained
dailyprogress.com
A letter to the editor written by me in 2017 on #accessibility in #Charlottesville #Virginia dailyprogress.com/opinion/opin...
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Charlottesville would like UVa to pay at least some property tax. UVa isn't so sure.
Charlottesville would like UVa to pay at least some property tax. UVa isn't so sure.
"Everybody knows the university doesn’t have to do anything it doesn’t want to do."
dailyprogress.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Charlottesville would like UVa to pay at least some property tax. UVa isn't so sure.
I got stupidly giddy yesterday when I received an email from a fellow ham who was using Winlink to get a message to me from a cousin who I’d sent a Hanukkah message via the NTS 2.0 website. Kinda made me wish I had the right #hamradio gear to use Winlink myself.
January 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I got stupidly giddy yesterday when I received an email from a fellow ham who was using Winlink to get a message to me from a cousin who I’d sent a Hanukkah message via the NTS 2.0 website. Kinda made me wish I had the right #hamradio gear to use Winlink myself.
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Some of the most prominent voices in #Congress for home and community-based services, #SSI reform, competitive integrated employment and other disability issues are heading for the exits. #disabilities
On Capitol Hill, Key Disability Champions Set To Depart
Some of the most prominent voices in Congress for home and community-based services, SSI reform, competitive integrated employment and other disability issues are heading for the exits.
www.disabilityscoop.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Some of the most prominent voices in #Congress for home and community-based services, #SSI reform, competitive integrated employment and other disability issues are heading for the exits. #disabilities
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Defendants in Virginia often face an impossible choice: go to trial, or accept a plea deal that waives their Fourth Amendment protections and opens them up to police searches — sometimes for years. boltsmag.org/fourth-...
“An Impossible Choice”
Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have barred prosecutors from making defendants waive protections against unreasonable police searches as a condition of pleas.
boltsmag.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Defendants in Virginia often face an impossible choice: go to trial, or accept a plea deal that waives their Fourth Amendment protections and opens them up to police searches — sometimes for years. boltsmag.org/fourth-...
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The House Ethics Committee votes against releasing Matt Gaetz classified Ethics report
November 20, 2024 at 9:15 PM
The House Ethics Committee votes against releasing Matt Gaetz classified Ethics report
A letter to the editor written by me in 2017 on #accessibility in #Charlottesville #Virginia dailyprogress.com/opinion/opin...
Opinion/Letter: Cooperation needed on disability issues
Virginia could be an even better place if every business, big or small, gas station or therapist’s office or political organization, would work to make sure that accessibility is maintained
dailyprogress.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:44 AM
A letter to the editor written by me in 2017 on #accessibility in #Charlottesville #Virginia dailyprogress.com/opinion/opin...
Decided to take the plunge and post on Bluesky. Fingers crossed this place doesn’t become an echo chamber.
November 21, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Decided to take the plunge and post on Bluesky. Fingers crossed this place doesn’t become an echo chamber.
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NEW: ACLU of Pennsylvania say at least nine Pennsylvania counties received "mass-produced" challenges to the eligibility of more than 3,000 U.S. citizens living abroad who are registered federal voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
www.aclupa.org/sites/defaul...
www.aclupa.org/sites/defaul...
November 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
NEW: ACLU of Pennsylvania say at least nine Pennsylvania counties received "mass-produced" challenges to the eligibility of more than 3,000 U.S. citizens living abroad who are registered federal voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
www.aclupa.org/sites/defaul...
www.aclupa.org/sites/defaul...