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Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org

froomkin

Let's make this a teachable moment!Social Security isn't just a retirement program, though it's a great one. It's a complex social program. It’s arguably the most successful government program of

Ariane STAY THE FUCK HOME K

arianek

Some abled people are so loud on the #BillC7 debate rn they are shouting over #ActuallyDisabled people. One retweeted this obvs without reading the rest of my thread. BillC7 will

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

Right when this trailer came out, in terms of not casting a disabled actor, it reminded me a lot of the movie Wonder and how I felt when that child

Zoie Sheets, MPH

ZoieSheets

I was asked this weekend how I feel about "Google Warriors" that I may encounter in my medical practice. My mind immediately flashed to the "don't confuse your Google search

Syreeta Nolan

nolan_syreeta

Thank you again @riley_ilyse for inviting me to guest lecture in your course. Speaking on intersectionality and inclusion on disability in higher ed was amazing. Watching a Zoom webinar afterwords

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

very glad to see this reported on but also conscious of fact disabled people, including myself, have been pointing this out since day one. Please don’t call forgotten or overlooked

Occam’s Chainsaw

PianoGrump

Because of the ADA I'm allowed to sit down while talking to customers...after a dr note & month-long processing w HR bc corporate thinks that sitting down is "not respectful

Sam Connor

criprights

This is an educational thread for how to weed out devotees. What’s a devotee, I hear the non disabled people ask? Well - they are people (generally men) who like

chlo

adelaidesgf

seeing as a lot of abled people don’t know this and quite a few disabled people don’t either i’d like to talk about the spoon theory. the spoon theory is

dev

empires_ants

can gorillaz fans please stop writing dialogue for 2d by typing out his speech problem, ex. typing “fink” instead of “think.” it comes across as gross and infantilizing. im not

Dan Holloway

agnieszkasshoes

PSA because I genuinely think it hasn't occurred to many people.Here is a thing disabled people do (other groups as well). We listen to/read everything you say, make detailed calculations

Jamie Andersen Fields

AndersenFields

I've been in a discussion started by @bennesb about the two edged sword of inaccessibility online wherething needed for some disabled people to access content =thing that is harder or

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

Really appreciate the complexity, layers and nuance this writer fit into a very short piece that includes the important difference between being fat and poor and being fat and not

sam - i qrt bc im disabled

QueerHercules

Hiya everybody! So today, I’m gonna make a thread about ableism and it will mainly be centered around the slurs that have been deeply ingrained in our society that many

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

Before 1990's "disability was mostly positioned as acategory of social welfare and medicine. This changed with the emergence of two specific forces: the disability rights movement and the rise of

Kristine Napper 🍎✏️♿🗽❄️

Kristine_Napper

Heartbroken to see that @KevinHart4real and @MDAorg are teaming up to traumatize another generation of kids with disabilities, same way Jerry Lewis traumatized us for 45 years. A thread with

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