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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Feb 23

I knew a Holocaust survivor who talked about the importance of notetaking under authoritarianism, to track what normal was and how it shifted. Here's that 🧵 with respect to disability, itself a canary in the fascist coal mine: www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/w...

Week 1: What Happened? - Disability Rights Watch

Things are happening quickly. We'll include a weekly round up of disability-related concerns, events, and polices on this site. Removal of the "Accessibility" page, and all ASL content from the White ...

www.disability-rights-watch.com

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 23m

Trash trash trash

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 34m

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2h

I wish lol 🤷🏻

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2h

HELP MEEEE

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 3h

Ohh here's a good one. Flag that this paragraph sound a little too similar to a Guardian article.

Dear reader, guess who wrote the article.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 4h

Apparently I also spell a lot of words the British way? Like not as an affectation but because I though that's how you spell it??
(This has happened before, but judgement is the one I keep getting nailed on today.)

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 4h

Fun little reminder that before Bari Weiss was destroying a large media outlet, she was just a random blogger arguing for subminimum wage for disabled people. 😉
(This post is about listening to disabled people.)

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 4h

A haunted house but it's just a nation without public education.

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Reposted by Sara Nović

Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out this new law firm powered by former Department of Education folks ready to fight back against the administration to help schools, educational agencies, and nonprofit organizations!

Introducing Sligo Law Group
www.sligolawgroup.com/launch-annou...

Press Release: Former Department of Education Attorneys Launch Sligo Law Group — Sligo Law Group, PLLC

August 13, 2025: Former Department of Education attorneys launch Sligo Law Group, a boutique federal education law firm, to support elementary, secondary, adult, career and technical, and postsecondar...

www.sligolawgroup.com

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 16h

Jfc

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 20h

A missing Houston teen with autism remains in immigration custody and is set for appendix removal. His mother doesn't know when he'll be released to her care. bit.ly/3JbwHdt

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 21h

(This post brought to you by parents of disabled kids in my mentions yelling at me about how they're just gonna send their kids to private school instead. Lol, no babe, you won't.)

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 21h

Today seems like a good day to remind folks that the Christian school lobby was one of the biggest opponents of the ADA. They fought hard for (and won) exemptions for religious institutions from the law. Private schools are also not required to accept or accommodate disabled students.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 23h

Template/script for contacting your Reps with respect to the DoEd cuts. I feel as disheartened about it as you, but the least we can do is take a moment to absolutely melt their servers exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...

Legislative Action Center

Take action with CEC's Legislative Action Center.

exceptionalchildren.org

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 23h

Totally appreciate them. And I will keep my dying-hills when necessary 😂

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 23h

I will take some responsibility for the randomness, (though actually I think I almost always just use one another?) and continue to be a sadboi during the copyediting process, as is my custom.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Yes the funds that were rescinded a couple weeks ago

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Proof that public outcry can still be helpful, if temporarily. The money was rerouted to the National Center on Deafblindness, who will then distribute to the other programs. But it is only one year's worth, so keep an eye on it.

Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education reverses decision and will fund programs for students who are both deaf and blind.

But the money will flow a different way.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

www.propublica.org

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

I knew it was coming too they always flag me on it

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Oh interesting!

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it was me who said it's probably the publishing house style guide, because I get this note every time. And then forget immediately lol

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

I mean maybe a style guide truth? 😅 Either way, they come for me every time

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Explainer thread on this from yesterday. bsky.app/profile/novi...

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

💀💀💀💀💀💀 Pg 13

MS word comment from copy editor "each other is used for two; one another is for more than two.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

How far in do you think I'll get before I've fucked up "one another" vs "each other"?

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing like book copyedits to remind me that I do not, in fact, speak English 💀

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