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• BA Political science, Genocide studies - Stanford U
• Disability Advocacy
• Ehlers Danlos, hyperPOTS, Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Ambulatory wheelchair user
• 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ally
• Mayosapien, Controversial Sasshole.
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Boy-o always comes home from daycare + training wrecked like a frat boy on Rush Night...
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I love bath night...

When he is restored to all his sweet smelling, poofty, Hollywood hair glory.

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A red haired Standard Poodle puppy standing on a gray mat on the floor, looking up at the camera from about six feet away. He is very fluffy. A red haired Standard Poodle puppy, side profile, standing on concrete with a board fence behind him, looking away from the camera. From his body profile, you can tell he is very fluffy.
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Pretty much literally my doctor at my last visit...
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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A good read....or listen if you prefer audio books.

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Cover of the book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism" by Tim Alberta. The black outline drawing of a church painted like the US flag, backlit against a dark gray sky and black hills on each side.
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Yesterday was Halloween photos day at my Standard Poodle puppy's training school....

I'm*ded* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Apricot colored Standard Poodle puppy with medium length, shaggy, hair but shaved face, wearing a black mask and a black cape with purple stars on it against a purple background, criss-crossed by yellow caution tape with "Do Not Enter!" printed on it on red letters, and black letters hung on a string above him which spell out "Halloween". The puppy has an indignant, judgy look on his face.
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Lol! He gets so excited each time his fresh @doggielawn.bsky.social refill arrives. It is his little Happy Place spot.
October 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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My bonus mom is awesome 🥰
June 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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• US District Judge has ruled Trump's federalization of the California National Guard illegal & unconstitutional, & has ordered control returned to the state.

• Order is stayed until noon tomorrow before taking effect.

• Expect appeals - because of course the asshole will.

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Screenshot of the Conclusion part of the order by US District Judge, Charles R. Breyer, ordering Trump to return control of the California National Guard to Governor Newsome, enjoining Trump from deploying members of the California National Guard to Los Angeles, ordering Plaintiffs to post a nominal bond of $100 (unclear why) within 24 hours, and ordering Defendants to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not be issued - setting a hearing date for such cause and laying out deadlines for each side to file their paperwork for such cause.
June 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Screenshot of text which reads as follows: Quick note for those who may not know. This is the Greater Los Angeles metro area. That red circle you see on the right is where the protests are happening. To give you an idea on how much of Los Angeles is "on fire" versus not. This is all propaganda and a clout grab by Trump. There’s maybe 3 blocks of protest, an occasional rock thrown by an idiot (at full riot gear clad cops) but otherwise it’s not violent, it’s as fuckin far from a “riot” as possible and is at worst an inconvenience for folks who live/work in DTLA around City Hall. Also, the people being grabbed by ICE are not cartel members nor violent criminals, they’re hauling off impoverished Home Depot day laborers. If you’re sitting in a flyover state or the swamps of Florida, you don’t know shit. Stop parroting what Fox News and “your own research” of unverified Twitter videos tells you. Map of Los Angeles. On the far right side of the map, approximately midway between the top and the bottom of the graphic is a small red circle. This small red circle is where the entirety of the protests are taking place.
June 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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8/8 Dynamite emoji Bottom Line: This bill endangers the lives, health, independence, and dignity of disabled Americans. It’s not a budgeting exercise—it’s an ideological assault that: • Strips vital services • Devalues non-normative bodies and minds • Enshrines productivity as a moral prerequisite for existence For disabled people, H.R. 1 is not just bad policy—it’s existential. It puts lives at risk and rolls back decades of hard-won civil rights and disability justice advances.
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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7/8 6. Threatens SSI/SSDI Recipients Indirectly • What it doesn’t do (yet): Directly cut SSDI or SSI—but creates a framework where such cuts are ideologically justified. • Why it’s dangerous: a. The emphasis on “makers vs. takers” sets up a future where disability benefits are the next target. b. With enough political momentum, this bill could pave the way for dismantling Social Security disability programs under the guise of “efficiency” or “fraud prevention.” • Severity (long-term): Four flame emojis It’s a warning shot.
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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6/8 5. Increased Power for States to Restrict Access • What it does: Shifts responsibility for welfare programs more heavily to state governments. • Why it’s dangerous: a. Disabled rights vary drastically by state. This bill would widen the disability civil rights gap. b. Some states may create bureaucratic or ideological barriers (like “drug testing” for benefits or harsh eligibility reviews). • Severity: Three flame emojis It creates a patchwork of survival, where your zip code determines if you live with dignity or die in a ditch.
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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5/8 4. No Investment in Accessible Housing, Transportation, or Workforce Inclusion • What it does: Prioritizes tax cuts and military spending while ignoring housing, transit, or workforce accessibility reforms. • Why it’s dangerous: a. This represents a massive opportunity cost for real inclusion. b. Disabled people remain disproportionately unemployed, unhoused, or institutionalized due to systemic inaccessibility. c. Failing to fund these areas entrenches exclusion and poverty. • Severity: Two Flame Emojis It’s not just what the bill does—it’s what it refuses to do that’s damaging.
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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4/8 3. Undermining of Social Safety Net Philosophy • What it does: Frames all government support as conditional, earned, and transactional. • Why it’s dangerous: a. Disability often makes consistent employment or independence impossible. b. A shift in cultural and legal framing—from care as a right to care as a reward—dehumanizes disabled individuals and undermines disability justice principles. c. Encourages public hostility toward people on benefits, fueling stigma, harassment, and isolation. • Severity: Three flame emojis This accelerates a long-term erosion of disabled people’s social standing and public support.
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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3/8 2. Cuts or Caps to Medicaid Growth • What it does: Seeks to limit the federal government’s Medicaid contributions by instituting block grants or per-capita caps. • Why it’s dangerous: a. Medicaid is the single largest insurer of disabled Americans, covering everything from wheelchairs to home health to nursing services. b. Caps would reduce states' flexibility and funding, leading to waiting lists, service denials, and cuts to Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). c. The shift toward state discretion risks re-institutionalization or leaving disabled people with no care. • Severity: Four flame emojis This threatens the foundation of health and independence for millions of disabled people.
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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2/8 1. Stricter Work Requirements for SNAP and Medicaid • What it does: Requires able-bodied adults without dependents to meet strict work requirements for food stamps and Medicaid. Often these are applied broadly or with narrow exemptions. • Why it’s dangerous: a. Many disabled people are misclassified as "able-bodied" because theiir disability is invisible, undiagnosed, or bureaucratically unrecognized. b. Work requirements often don’t account for intermittent ability (e.g., someone with chronic fatigue, pain, dysautonomia, or mental illness). c. The administrative burden of proving disability or navigating exemptions is often impossible for people with cognitive, mobility, or executive functioning limitations. • Severity: Five flame emojis This provision alone could force tens or hundreds of thousands of disabled people to lose healthcare and food access.
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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What H.R. 1 means for #disability and #chronicillness.

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1/8 This entire thread will be screenshots of text. I will include the text of each in the Alt text for each. Begin: Now that I have finished slogging my way through Tiny Hitler's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bill, this is my analysis of it through the lens of disability needs, rights and justice: The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (H.R. 1) is extremely dangerous for disabled people—both in direct policy impact and in the ideological shift it represents. While it doesn't say "disability" in bold letters, many of its provisions effectively target disabled individuals for greater hardship, loss of autonomy, and marginalization. Here’s a breakdown of why, and how severe the risks are: (Move to next entry in thread)
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Side by side picture of Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on left and US Vice President, J.D. Vance on the right. On the left, under Zelenskyy, is text which says Zelenskyy. On the right, under J.D. Vance, is text which says "Discount Bin Zelenskyy". After attacking Zelenskyy for his attire in the infamous White House meeting, J.D. Vance recently went to Greenland where, because Greenland businesses and citizens made it clear he was not welcome, Vance visited a US military base dressed, ironically, very similarly to the manner in which Zelenskyy was dressed in the infamous White House meeting.
March 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Do not let this sweet sleeping little face fool you...

He is waging gas warfare - letting loose butt bombs that I'm fairly certain violate multiple international laws and the Geneva Convention. This dog is a hairy, sleeping dispenser of war crimes.
Brown and white dog sleeping peacefully on a blue dog bed.
March 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Bank entries showing an outgoing car insurance payment on March 12, 2025, and two grocery store debits - one for March 9, 2025 and the other for March 6, 2025. There is no SSDI deposit, which should have been deposited March 13th or today, March 14th, 2025.
March 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Receipts -

Most recent payment received (February):
Bank entry showing SSDI payment on February 13, 2025
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Maybe we should have schools double as Tesla dealerships...
Screenshot of a post from Twitter (damned if I'll call it X) which says "Chicago police department out in force protecting a Tesla dealership." Below the text is a photo of a line of 20+ police standing in front of a Tesla dealership.
March 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Even Musk's own Grok AI admits that cutting $880bn from HHS is not feasible without cutting Medicaid.
Part 1 of 3 of a big long boring analysis by Grok AI to explain how it just isn't possible to cut $880 billion from HHS without cutting Medicaid. It truly is long winded and boring and could be marketed as a potent sleep aid. Bottom line is it cannot be done. Part 2 of 3 of a big long boring analysis by Grok AI to explain how it just isn't possible to cut $880 billion from HHS without cutting Medicaid Part 3 of 3 of a big long boring analysis by Grok AI to explain how it just isn't possible to cut $880 billion from HHS without cutting Medicaid
March 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Upcoming blog post from The Bloody Morrigan dot com. Title: The Rise of MONGOs (my own NGOs) and the Looming Crisis of MOPS (my own private schools): How Outsourcing Public Funds Threatens Education. Available March 8th, 2025. The link to the article is located above this graphic.
March 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y. Green himself voted present, as did Alabama Democratic Representative Shomari Figures.
March 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM