#Disability

So I'm sure it won't surprise anyone who pays attention to my politics that today's news isn't thrilling to me.So now I have a decision to make. Vote Biden? Or
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I want to share some thoughts re: income assistance during the pandemic.Focusing particularly on folks w disabilities (esp. recipients of ODSP & OW) and the failure of federal & provincial
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My boss, offering my a lift home the other day, listened to me talking about the world for like seven minutes.And then said, "It must be exhausting to be thinking
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The national press' sudden obsession with court packing is interesting.Where was that interest when McConnell blocked all of President Obama's federal court nominees from 2015-2017, allowing Trump to inherit 100
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Matt Hancock to take action on ‘do not resuscitate’ orders after judicial review threat by @katemasters67 and @LeighDay_Law @AGoodDeath https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-matt-hancock-do-not-resuscitate-judicial-threa
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Okay NJ voters, I know a *LOT* of us are voting by mail this year! If you intend to go in-person Nov. 3, have you made your #VotingPlan yet?- Are
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Saturday, 4-6 pm Pacific Join me tomorrow when I Tweet the live-stream celebrating the life & work of @cripchick I'll be taking over @disabilityjust1 & hope you will join me
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Apparently, "goyim" and "cracker" are terms of endearment - not hate speech.https://twitter.com/koshersemite/status/1252080382314504197 In New York, if you commit an assault on a white person while calling him "cracker"
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As U.S. jobless claims skyrocket amid #COVID19, thousands of unemployed Floridians have been unable to access benefits due to a broken claims system. But the system's working just as state
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No one believes Black ppl when we say we're afraid, in pain, or that we have anxiety, depression, OCD, claustrophobia, CPTSD, etcTBH the world does its best to trigger our
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THREAD: in light of the conversation about race in the classroom, I wanted to share a few ways that white professors can be allies to their colleagues of color in
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Caring about a DiagnosisA thread https://mytwolittlees.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/caring-about-a-diagnosis/ I was born into an exceptional family, raised by my mother who was deaf, a rubella baby, with a heart condition.  I have been a
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Help. Help me.Help me to understand. WHAAAAATTTTTTTT. I—Just read it. I have so much to say, but...https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43700153 Black voters were still given literacy tests in the 1960s and this man
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A thread sharing only a FEW instances where my life was threatened by profiling in Canadian healthcare.I really think it will take more of us sharing these stories for some
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There's a thought I've had that's been bugging me and I'd love feedback from the pros on this point: I really don't like the term "natural immunity" to describe the
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Happy 30th birthday to the Americans with Disabilities Act!!! Bc of the ADA, I am grateful to be educated, have a job, able to go to public places (when not
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