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✅ 3-year term (2026–2028)
✅ Stipend included
✅ Lead conversations on policy, regulation, and equity in care

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By @nellybassily.bsky.social

“Dying daily—or waking up daily—to colonial violence is NOT normal…One gruesome example amongst many is how we have miserably failed the children of Gaza and by extension, the children of Gaza in 2023.”

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Musk has placed the entire staff of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) on administrative leave.

Tired email greeting: “per my last email.” (Boring, predictable)
Wired email greeting: “you will suffer me.” (Ominous, niche)

The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal.

It does NOT only affect transgender athletes.

The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

BIG WINS in court order our union is celebrating tonight:

🚫NO MORE MASS FIRINGS/RIFs/layoffs
🚫NO draining CFPB’s bank account
🚫NO deleting or breaking CFPB website & data

(til hearing on March 3)

WE'RE STILL FIGHTING for 160+ illegally fired on Tues & Thurs to get our jobs back! Join us tomorrow!

🔴 Happening now:

Disability Community Briefing: What You Can Do to Stop the Attack on Section 504
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Will live-post some info in the thread below 👇🏻

#1. A recording of the session WILL be shared by DREDF (@dredf.bsky.social)

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Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:

“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."

Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

Happening now, a transgender sports ban is being heard in Congress.

This ban might ban trans people from dancing, darts, and even chess in many universities.

It'll also target 9 year olds playing soccer.

I'm covering live, follow along with me.

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🚨 SoCal Fires 🔥
1000s evacuated in Pacific Palisades due to wildfires fueled by strong winds.
Stay safe:
Follow all evacuation orders, check in Genasys Protect app
Prep go bags
Check on Disabled & older neighbors

Need help? Try 211 or call/text Disaster Hotline at 800-626-4959

The wildfires and the genocide raise the same question: how much pain and suffering are we willing to inflict on ourselves, each other, and our world before we do anything different? How bad does it have to get? I deeply fear the answer to that question.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Heading into year 6 with the Many Moons planner from Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and if you hurry over to the Many Moons website you can get yours plus free shipping right now!

Santa brought us these tote bags from @devthepineapple.bsky.social 😍😍

This is tomorrow! Last chance to sign up for a workshop with @lenakt.bsky.social ❤️ www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...

There is *no* good health insurance in the United States. I'm telling you this now. I have met dozens, hundreds?, of other patients with complex IACCs in the past several years, and literally not one of us has anything positive to say about our health insurance.

Not a fucking one.

The Disability Justice Initiative @americanprogress.bsky.social is seeking to highlight disabled people's voting experiences. If you’re a disabled voter willing to speak with us, please complete this form. We'll provide more info when you sign up! #CripTheVote

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