Annie Thoms
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Annie Thoms
@msathoms.bsky.social
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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If your kid has an IEP or 504, or if you know how vital they are to help kids get the accommodations they need, please check out and spread this info: they are under attack. Just one small piece of the evil being done right now!
Take it to the Streets! (Flyers Page) - Disability Rights Watch
The news is overwhelming. It's impossible to pay attention to everything. And yet, critical disability protections like Section 504 and Department of Education depend on our active participation in th...
www.disability-rights-watch.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ICE raids are terrorizing the communities of some of my students. Kids can't learn when they're terrified of losing the adults in their lives.
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. Demand that they fight large-scale enforcement actions, and use EVERY MINORITY POWER to slow this administration's cruelty.
February 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Sometimes it takes a few tries to get a staffer on the phone, but it's not hard--just 10 minutes to push the Democrats to use EVERY POWER they have available to fight this Constitutional crisis: Demand quorum calls, object to unanimous consent, block ALL Trump nominations, SLOW THIS ROLL.
February 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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In light of Trump II’s first 18 days of mayhem — including his and Musk’s coup against our system of government — many are asking: “What can I do now?”

Here’s a revised and expanded list, in rough order of importance.
What you can do
Revised and expanded
robertreich.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Feeling overwhelmed? Time to get loud. CALL YOUR SENATORS: Tell them to oppose the nomination of Russell Vought for head of OMB (the office of Management and Budget). He's a Project 2025 architect and is trying to destroy the federal government--the guy behind the federal spending freeze last week.
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My father had polio at age 3, before the Salk vaccine. Here he is post-iron lung, his permanently paralyzed arms in braces. Polio changed his life irrevocably.
CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY. RFK Jr. is a vaccine-denier, and a danger as head of HHS. Tell your Senators to prevent his confirmation.
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A poem from Loryn Brantz.
January 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
January 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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ICYMI: pandemics + authoritarians = no bueno, and why it matters, ahem, right now
open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
Disability rights are your (yes, you!) rights
Pandemics, eugenics, and why you (yes, you!) should care, ForRealThisTimev.2finalfinal
open.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Beautiful braided essay by Naomi Gordon-Loebl, who was a brilliant writer way back in HS when I had the pleasure of teaching her. A good read on World AIDS Day, but also any other day.
Lost Uncle
Naomi Gordon-Loebl   1: Loma Prieta In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake split apart northern California. Sixty-three people died. Thousands more were injured. In Oakland, a stretch of the multi-level ...
cah.ucf.edu
December 1, 2024 at 9:53 PM