@brainbark

RESIST! Disability rights are human rights. Women's rights are human rights. LGBTQ rights are human rights.

 Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
Joined January 2011
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This month, a Judge ruled against Defendant Moreno Valley Unified School District, finding the district’s campus security program violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. This ruling marks an important win for disabled students. Read press release: disabilityrightsca.org/press…
An image of a detained child wearing handcuffs. Text overlay: Press Release. Federal Court Finds School Policing Violates Disability Rights Laws.

ALT An image of a detained child wearing handcuffs. Text overlay: Press Release. Federal Court Finds School Policing Violates Disability Rights Laws.

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Lack of adequate enforcement of the ADA and other dis. rights laws, especially against POC and LGBTQ ppl w/dis. Backlash against PWD and the ADA by right-wing politicians.
Robyn Powell@RobynMPowell14 Mar 2023
If you were presenting or attending a talk titled "Ableism and the Law," what do you think should be included?
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A few more thoughts about our upcoming symposium that I was going to save until our event, but here goes: as a Black & disabled woman, an attorney & advocate & brand new “academic,”
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“Independently living, with dignity and respect, supported by jobs that pay a living wage, is the only future I’m going to accept" - State Sen. @LydiaMEdwards earlier at today's rally for PCAs @GBHNews
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Look how much I learned on Duolingo in 2022! How did you do? #Duolingo365
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Michael Muehe retweeted
The New York Times
@nytimes4 Sep 2022
The hit show "Extraordinary Attorney Woo," which spent several weeks this summer as Netflix's most-watched non-English-language program, has raised awareness of autism in South Korea, where developmental disabilities are still a taboo subject for many. nyti.ms/3RCfSH4

In South Korea, a Hit Show Brings Autism Into the Spotlight (Published 2022)

“Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has raised awareness of autism in South Korea, where developmental disabilities are still a taboo subject for many people.

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Our founder Sukhjeen had a brilliant idea to relaunch the #desiabled campaign with a photoshoot to showcase more diversity within the disabled community. We have high hopes for the campaign open up conversations of disability within South Asian communities. #DisabilityAwareness
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I research the history of institutionalization and its impact on disabled communities in the 1800s. We just keep backtracking. How have we not learned from histories of eugenics?
The New York Times
@nytimes29 Nov 2022
Breaking News: New York City will hospitalize more mentally ill people involuntarily, in a push to remove them from streets and subways, Mayor Eric Adams said. nyti.ms/3ATuU5v

New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets (Published 2022)

Mayor Eric Adams directed the police and emergency medical workers to hospitalize people they deemed too mentally ill to care for themselves, even if they posed no threat to others.

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NPR hits the nail right on the dawn head.
NPR
@NPR16 Nov 2022
BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. n.pr/3THqnJM
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Michael Muehe retweeted
Dom Kelly@the_tattooedjew15 Nov 2022
I have some ✨personal news✨ We’ve long needed a regional disability organizing strategy, and building off our work in Georgia, I’m bringing it to the South. I’m so pumped to launch my own org New Disabled South and work full time as President & CEO. Follow —> @DisabledSouth
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From June 13, 2017: Newly Discovered Very Illegal Thing Will Finally Bring Down Trump (Or Be Another Cute Tile in the Mosaic of Democracy’s Demise, I Guess) newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh… via @NewYorker

Newly Discovered Very Illegal Thing Will Finally Bring Down Trump (Or Be Another Cute Tile in the...

President Trump is guilty of yet another Very Illegal Thing. It is similar to all the previous Very Illegal Things, but somehow Even Worse.

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My boyfriend saving a cat from flood waters near Bonita Beach. #HurricaneIan #Naples #Bonita #FortMyers
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Wordle 463 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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chilling: if they can go after Donald Trump for stealing state secrets, they can go after Matt Gaetz for trafficking teenage girls. where does it end
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Did Trump make a sweetheart deal to share nuclear weapons secrets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in exchange for a $2 Billion dollar investment in son-in-law Jared's private equity firm? Just askin'
Steven Beschloss
@StevenBeschloss11 Aug 2022
The problem from the beginning and still today is too many people think the reality of Donald Trump is a political story and not what it really is: a crime story.
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#TrumpCrimeSyndicate Did Trump make a sweetheart deal to share nuclear weapons secrets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in exchange for a $2 Billion dollar investment in son-in-law Jared's private equity firm? Just askin'
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