DiscardedPoet
@jaysnuh.bsky.social
Dad, husband, teacher. Nerd. *Finally* angry enough to come off the sidelines. Sorry it took me so long to find my spine.
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@jaysnuh.bsky.social
· Jan 18
“He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
A lot of this going around lately, IMO.
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
A lot of this going around lately, IMO.
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This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
The projection has always worked for him. The misdirection has always worked. The bullying. The threatening. The lying.
With special needs children, we sometimes see an “extinction burst” of extreme behavior when the original behaviors are no longer effective.
The intensity can be breathtaking.
With special needs children, we sometimes see an “extinction burst” of extreme behavior when the original behaviors are no longer effective.
The intensity can be breathtaking.
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The projection has always worked for him. The misdirection has always worked. The bullying. The threatening. The lying.
With special needs children, we sometimes see an “extinction burst” of extreme behavior when the original behaviors are no longer effective.
The intensity can be breathtaking.
With special needs children, we sometimes see an “extinction burst” of extreme behavior when the original behaviors are no longer effective.
The intensity can be breathtaking.
I have one immediate family member who relies on SNAP benefits, and one who has been working without pay (and under the implicit threat of being laid off) for weeks now. I am experiencing such an alphabet soup of emotions right now. Relief, but also anger and disbelief for those relying on the ACA.
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I have one immediate family member who relies on SNAP benefits, and one who has been working without pay (and under the implicit threat of being laid off) for weeks now. I am experiencing such an alphabet soup of emotions right now. Relief, but also anger and disbelief for those relying on the ACA.
In Deaf culture, the sign for “I love you” is commonly used as a way to say goodbye to friends and family members. Today, a student who has always yelled aggressively at me when it’s time for me to leave our sessions instead made eye contact and signed “I love you”. And then she did it again. 🤟🏻
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
In Deaf culture, the sign for “I love you” is commonly used as a way to say goodbye to friends and family members. Today, a student who has always yelled aggressively at me when it’s time for me to leave our sessions instead made eye contact and signed “I love you”. And then she did it again. 🤟🏻
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Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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It's all a big grift.
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
It's all a big grift.
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Saw this story going around on instagram again and thought I'd re-up over here, because maybe when hearing people say it someone will care? 🙃
Original story here: hechingerreport.org/proof-points... (2/2)
Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is 'fundamentally flawed'
Analysis of 50 years of research argues that there isn’t strong evidence for the academic advantages of placing children with disabilities in general education classrooms
hechingerreport.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Saw this story going around on instagram again and thought I'd re-up over here, because maybe when hearing people say it someone will care? 🙃
Guessing the “trans” in transportation set her off.
Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report
At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, US representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.
www.wired.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Guessing the “trans” in transportation set her off.
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JD Vance says his wife isn't a Christian.
At least they have that in common.
At least they have that in common.
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
JD Vance says his wife isn't a Christian.
At least they have that in common.
At least they have that in common.
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A lot has happened this year but I feel like we should always remind people that this happened followed by him deciding to starve the poorest children in the world simply because he wanted to.
We probably shouldn’t forget about this
We probably shouldn’t forget about this
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A lot has happened this year but I feel like we should always remind people that this happened followed by him deciding to starve the poorest children in the world simply because he wanted to.
We probably shouldn’t forget about this
We probably shouldn’t forget about this
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rubella was SO around in the 60s that Gallaudet (probably the number one deaf/hoh university in the world)’s enrollment more than doubled between 1982 and 1985 www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/e...
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
rubella was SO around in the 60s that Gallaudet (probably the number one deaf/hoh university in the world)’s enrollment more than doubled between 1982 and 1985 www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/e...
I spent part of my morning crawling around on the floor with a Deaf 3rd grader with Down Syndrome, trying to model language and intermittently reinforce her for wearing her hearing aids. You spent your morning licking the boots of a tyrant. Fuck off, Mrs. Leavitt.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I spent part of my morning crawling around on the floor with a Deaf 3rd grader with Down Syndrome, trying to model language and intermittently reinforce her for wearing her hearing aids. You spent your morning licking the boots of a tyrant. Fuck off, Mrs. Leavitt.
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Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11
October 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11
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Here's a good first pass on what parents of #deafkids and other kids with disabilities should know and should be doing in the wake of the OESP firings: adayinourshoes.com/osep/ ♿
October 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Here's a good first pass on what parents of #deafkids and other kids with disabilities should know and should be doing in the wake of the OESP firings: adayinourshoes.com/osep/ ♿
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This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Texas man accused of plotting Pride parade shooting as revenge for Charlie Kirk
Exclusive: ‘Come on bro let’s go hunting fairies,’ Joshua Cole wrote to a friend two days before the Abilene Pride Parade, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit reviewed by The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I saw myself in the mirror this morning and I looked so tired. I vacillate between a dim hope and a shadowy, sticky despair. There are still good days - days when the regime doesn't incite violence against my son, when they aren't calling 1/3 of all teachers terrorists. But those days are few.
September 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I saw myself in the mirror this morning and I looked so tired. I vacillate between a dim hope and a shadowy, sticky despair. There are still good days - days when the regime doesn't incite violence against my son, when they aren't calling 1/3 of all teachers terrorists. But those days are few.
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As many types of extreme weather (and extreme weather-related) events become more intense and occur more frequently in a warming #climate, it is already forcing increasingly difficult decisions about how to mitigate increasingly unmanageable risks.
In a warming #climate with increasingly unmanageable extremes, there will be difficult decisions
As extreme weather events increase in intensity and frequency in a warming climate, there will sometimes be events that so severe that they overwhelm our collective capacity to respond. Some such events have already occurred in recent years, especially in the case of local to regional-scale catastro
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
As many types of extreme weather (and extreme weather-related) events become more intense and occur more frequently in a warming #climate, it is already forcing increasingly difficult decisions about how to mitigate increasingly unmanageable risks.
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This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.
Looking past the fact that the leader of the free world can’t say “acetaminophen” without help, did anyone notice how this amazing scientific breakthrough hangs responsibility for autism squarely on the shoulders of women while absolving men of all responsibility?
September 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Looking past the fact that the leader of the free world can’t say “acetaminophen” without help, did anyone notice how this amazing scientific breakthrough hangs responsibility for autism squarely on the shoulders of women while absolving men of all responsibility?
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“ He’s MLK……But don’t quote him.” The truly bizarre people who are so desperate for heroes, so impoverished of leaders with integrity and goodness, so without boundaries that they are continuously manufacturing fantasies of their own nobility…..It would be just pitiable if it wasn’t so dangerous.
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“ He’s MLK……But don’t quote him.” The truly bizarre people who are so desperate for heroes, so impoverished of leaders with integrity and goodness, so without boundaries that they are continuously manufacturing fantasies of their own nobility…..It would be just pitiable if it wasn’t so dangerous.
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The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...