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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4h

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 18h

"We're the ghosts of infections past." I feel that deep in my bones.

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 22h

"It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it is reasonable to pile everything the majority won’t do on the thin slice of disabled people who are carrying their own weight and attempting to carry everyone else’s as they drown."

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 23h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 11d

The entire concept of "empathy burnout" is why I think the way people talk about empathy is bullshit.

It's a model where people are allowed to opt out of doing the right thing because they don't feel the right things.

It's a model where everything is about vibes, not values.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 1d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

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us06web.zoom.us

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Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 1d

🔥from @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

"Republicans used to understand that special education isn’t just something nice thing to have. It isn’t charity. It is a right. Republican presidents signed the bills that codified the right to a Free Appropriate Public Education for millions of Americans."

Opinion | Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities

The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.

www.msnbc.com

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 7d

Free Halloween Zine : Disability perspectives on horror movies : files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 1d

I know lots of un(der)employed neurodivergents with Long Covid, lots of people like me homeschooling autistic kids while having LC. So many people already kicked to the curb by society are the ones getting hit hardest by Long Covid. The eugenics did not start in January; it's been going on for years

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 1d

I was homebound for a year with Long Covid; fortunately, my husband's income can support the family (I had been forced out of the workforce years ago when my disabled kid was denied an appropriate education). My best friend with LC is a disabled single parent in poverty.

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone I know with Long Covid (including myself) was somehow marginalized or struggling already before Covid disabled us or made us sicker (in our blue states, while Biden was president, and largely after we were vaccinated). Almost none of us has any outside support. 🧵

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 1d

Same. I was up-to-date on my vaccines when I got my first Covid infection and I still ended up developing Long Covid last year. Reinfection left me homebound for about a year and, while I have improved, I am still not recovered.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 2d

“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.”

For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids

"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."

www.motherjones.com

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 2d

It's not like if my kid hasn't figured out a skill by age 21 that I will have made a mistake with teaching or raising him, because he can just start working on that skill when he's 21 or whenever. When I let go of the idea of college at 18, it helped me feel more relaxed about everything with my kid

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in a similar boat with my AuDHD teen. The way I cope with my worries is by remembering that neurodivergence is often a developmental delay and a different timeline. There's no cut off point by which my kid needs to do something.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 18d

“Treating autism as a threat is propaganda meant to stir fear, not to care for children.
Demonizing difference sets the stage for cruelty…

Trump… just cut funding for deaf-blind students and other special-education programs. These cuts rob children of resources, teachers, and dignity.”

-Estee Klar

Estee Klar
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In addition to all the other tactics of this US regime, please pay attention to how it also effects the disability and autism community. The U.S. was the harbinger of Hitler's eugenics program that then led to the extermination of people who were Jewish. And it's happening again - the disabled are real targets, in particular autistic people. If you can't see what this regime is, and what it will do, read the history books.
#resist

AUTISM AS A WEAPON (RHETORIC)
• Hitler: Eugenics propaganda painted disability as a disease, convincing society that "purity" required erasing disabled lives. This made mass sterilization and killings seem acceptable.
• Trump: He's teasing a "big autism announcement," framing rising diagnoses as a crisis. The truth is that more diagnoses reflect progress of earlier detection, better family support, and stronger outcomes, not a plague.
Treating autism as a threat is propaganda meant to stir fear, not to care for children.
Demonizing difference sets the stage for cruelty.

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 3d

They also use the r-word, which is why I blocked them.

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