Noelle ☀️

Deaf 6-year-old boy is deported to Colombia without his medical devices, attorney says A Hayward woman and her two young children were detained and deported to Colombia after they showed up earlier this week for an asylum appointment in San Francisco, her attorney said.

ICE deported a 6 year old deaf child with severe disabilities to Columbia.

Before deporting him, they dragged him from camp to camp without providing his assistive hearing devices or a translator.

This innocent child had no way to communicate or understand what was being done to him:

Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

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we need to talk about eating disorders and autism much much much much more

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

Looking for some writing gig work. If anyone has any leads, I would be grateful.

My job was recently terminated, so in need of something to help me get through til another job lines up, or I get published.

Names and ages of children killed in strike on Iranian school MEE has collected the names and ages of some of those killed in the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school strike

Read the names. Look at the pictures.

Ask what goal is being pursued that might possibly be worth these lives.

And do not lie to yourself that Donald Trump is trying to "liberate" the people of Iran from an evil government.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/names-and-ages-children-iranian-school-strike

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

If a bunch of people who agree who hang out together is an echo chamber then sure, we’re all in echo chambers all the time. But what’s actually bad is a platform that the world’s richest man has weaponized to make people including “elites” who still use it bigoted and hateful and conservative

My current enemies are not in Iran, they’re in the Epstein Files.

A quick reminder: a live talk from Kyiv with my supporters starts in 30 minutes (10 pm Kyiv time).

I’ll answer questions in real time and will be glad to welcome you.

Link:
www.patreon.com/strategywoma...

I may tell you something strange.
I feel very calm these days,
while the world seems to be going mad.

We’ve seen a lot in Ukraine over the past four years:
attacks, sleepless nights, no electricity, water or heating…

Ukraine is ready for anything. And I believe our experience can help others.

Israel-US killed 168 little girls in Iran.

This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Donald Trump still hasn’t given a single clear reason for this war, and he seems to have no plan for how to end it, either.”

And again – Medicaid programs (when they’re actually funded properly) can help DV victims (esp. disabled DV victims) get the resources we need to escape. We cannot slash Medicaid programs, Medicaid saves lives beyond just healthcare.

@colorado.gov

Update: they accepted me very quickly and didn’t even put me on a waitlist.

I will be very far from my abuser and I’ll be able to take care of legal and related health matters where I’m going 😭

Thank you so much to the people who reached out in support and encouragement 💛

Toxic positivity is a form of internalized ableism

naming difficulties and challenges as disabled people isn't ableist or "negative" or "victim politics"

it's reality and it's OK to give that a voice

It's more than OK - it's essential

we can be positive and love ourselves AND speak our truth

An autistic meltdown isn’t a failure.

It’s your nervous system finally telling the truth.

For hours - days - sometimes for years.

You kept going.

You kept performing.

And then your body says, "that's enough"

Meltdowns aren’t the problem - they're telling you something crucial.

You’re not broken cos of your brain my friends

If you’re broken, it’s because people broke you down.

100%

The aggression and sneer that some people speak to disabled people with is downright shocking

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"

CORREA: What do you suggest I tell my constituents? Have a passport with you all the time?

NOEM: No. I would tell your citizens to be grateful they live in this country where President Trump is upholding the law. We will help them self-deport.

CORREA: These are American citzens!

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

I have a lot of adoptive mothers. Having lost my own mother when I was 16, I seem to have been fortunate enough to collect other mothers who love on me and pour into me.

Call me a shmuck, but disability influencers who promote productivity and hustle culture are throwing the rest of us under the bus

Autistic humans are always expected to “argue their case” for their accommodations.

We aren’t believed from the start.

And after all that effort, most often they’re denied anyway.

It’s hard not to feel defeated.

But we aren’t.

We continue on.

We have to.

YES! 100% a verbal processor myself!

If you are cis and you are not loudly talking about the active eradication of trans rights to all the cis people you know, you are part of the problem.

(Reposting this sentiment separately because JFC y’all. We need your help.)