Maggie
maggiewatanabe.bsky.social
Maggie
@maggiewatanabe.bsky.social
Immigrant, old, disabled, foul mouthed, socialist, Adoptee
Pronouns she/her or hey/you
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TCS, the organisers of the London Marathon should be ashamed of how they treated this disabled competitor.
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Resolution Copper is blocking comments and hiding replies from anyone calling out what they’re doing at Oak Flat. They’re trying to mine on sacred Native American land, with the government’s help, and don’t want the public to push back.
May 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Urgent & decisive action needed to address life expectancy gap between people with & without #disabilities

Hannah Kuper & @tomshakespeare.bsky.social highlight @thelancet.com Commission on Disability & Health, & the need for inclusive #health systems.

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Announcing The Lancet Commission on Disability and Health: Creating disability-inclusive health systems that leave no one behind
Urgent and decisive action is needed to address the 14-year life expectancy gap between people with and people without disabilities.1,2 However, disability is generally a low priority for governments ...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
TCS, the organisers of the London Marathon should be ashamed of how they treated this disabled competitor.
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May 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Disability is normal for my family. I'm very proud of my niece's fiance who pushes boundaries every way he can. He's giving the London Marathon a go in crutches just because it's happening and he can try to raise some money for the charity of his choice.
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April 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Toffler was prescient
March 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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✅ Yes, the Arlington National Cemetery website removed links to webpages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans buried at the site.
March 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States.
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March 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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So you know how the climate crisis is messing up crop yields?

And how microplastics are now everywhere?

NEW RESEARCH: : microplastics are sabotaging photosynthesis in food crops like wheat in ways that could throw 400 million people into starvation in next 20 yrs.🧪

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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Former Capitol police officer Michael Fanone when confronting Proud Boys insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio: “You are a traitor to this country.”

RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone!
February 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Russian drone detonates on Chornobyl nuclear plant containment shell
Russian drone detonates on Chornobyl nuclear plant containment shell
Attack during night before Munich Security Conference started fire but did not cause radiation leak, says Kyiv * Europe live – latest updates A Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective containment shell of the…
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February 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

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February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Flying high
February 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Please consider donating to Adoptee United's legal clinic so they can continue fighting for intercountry adoptees facing unjust immigration consequences: bit.ly/44dpcJ4
#adopteesky #michiganadoptee #adopteerights
February 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I’ve been macheteing blackberries all day, trying to answer 3 questions: Why shut down USAID and fold it into DoS? Why now? Who benefits? Full disclosure: I'm a consultant for USAID/DRG implementers. Consequently, I have time to machete blackberries and think dark thoughts. I’m unemployed. Long🧵 1/
February 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
He's blaming DEI for last night's plane crash. He actually said "dwarves" are allowed to do the job.
I don't know what to say.
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Nor am I!
January 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I'm so sad and depressed today!
Trump basically just made gay discrimination legal in America.

It's probably a good time to pass TheTrevorProject.org suicide hotline number around.

We're still here but we're hurting. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😢
January 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Has anyone else found their FB feed automatically set to follow 47s new account. I logged back in to check mine and had to unfollow.
January 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Immigrants are saving the dogs!
They're saving the cats!
They're saving the homes of the people who live here!
January 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I loved seeing Joe help support Michael J. Fox.
Michael J. Fox receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his advocacy in Parkinson’s research.
January 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM