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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson: let’s talk about things that are really serious. Not violence against women from an elected official.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 9h

This is unserious. We’ll use hypothetical future power to keep funding the agency abducting and terrorizing our community members as long as they don’t wear face coverings is… unserious. We need real opposition.

I do not want fascism but with visible faces. I want no fascism.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 9h

This was such a good panel, am eager for the recording bc I could only make the 1st half. Highly encourage others to listen when it’s ready!

Education and Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · 10h

Missed it? The full recording will be published to our event page soon!

Bridging the Gaps in Disability Policy

Join for a discussion of the real-world challenges and practical solutions for creating more cohesive, disability-informed policy.

www.newamerica.org

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12h

Let’s be clear that JD Vance’s (bad, immoral) defense of the Young Republicans is essentially:

“Well, yeah. I wrote messages like that too. You just haven’t found them yet.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12h

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 10h

What Vance means is that’s what *white* ppl do and that’s behavior he thinks we should excuse from *white* ppl who by the way, are not kids but are in fact adults who know better.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 21h

extra annoying from liberals bc it’s actually the same as what we hear from the right. And makes it quite clear how much liberals are fine with treating people as disposable as long as they perceive themselves individually to not be at risk.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 21h

Try to protect yourself or don’t, but screaming back that long covid isn’t really a problem or acting like it’s a ridiculous suggestion that you treat an airborne virus as an airborne virus and protect yourself, while the govt dismantles health care piece by piece,

Is right wing ideology. And it’s

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 21h

far right lunatic screaming about having your freedoms taken away by someone suggesting you mask sometimes, when no liberal or conservative politicians are anywhere close to requiring you to mask, is tiresome.

Public health is a group project, but we are left to fend for ourselves.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 21h

Quite clearly, no one is mandating you to wear a mask, whatever anyone thinks about whether or when you should.

But you COULD, even sometimes, on public transit or grocery stores or other busy spaces. And you might (likely) prevent yourself or someone else getting long COVID, so acting like a

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not gonna repost someone’s nonsense about not knowing anyone personally with long covid meaning things are fine, but

we scream about it because there’s little support, a lot of suffering, many ppl who can’t work or go to school, + we actually don’t want you to become one of us. You’re welcome.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 21h

I also think it’s ridiculous to think we could overlook genocides, some funded and enabled by the U.S., but expect we are able to defend democracy

If genocide isn’t your red line, I have a hard time believing democracy is

There is no way out of our mess in the U.S. w/out solidarity with all people

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Way too many people still think that whatever happens to people as a result of American imperialism abroad *cough Palestine Sudan Congo cough* is acceptable, fine even, not our problem, as long as the lesser evil wins in the United States.

And it's not. I'm sorry. It's just not.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 21h

Yep and some of us weren’t chronically ill or disabled before Covid, and had functioning immune systems. They don’t understand it bc they don’t want to understand it could be them too

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 1d

MTG recently discovered women aren’t treated equally.

If only there were a whole body of thinking and activism devoted to dismantling sexism…

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’

“There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

Yes we did and way back in the day, they were shorter/easier to memorize bc we didn’t even need area codes to call locally

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to see more of this research + subsequent action, and less on chronic absenteeism that doesn’t even mention long covid or that more children have it than asthma.

LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 2d

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality. Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation. Thanks to @davidcarel.bsky.social for this reminder.
www.the74million.org/article/a-se...

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality

Carel: Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation.

www.the74million.org

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

Me: you can sing along and enjoy your music, but please stop climbing on me and screaming along with the music

6 yo: you can just put on noise cancelling headphones if you don’t want to hear it

Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

You’d think Republican capitalists would care about, except the goal seems to be make people suffer rather than make sure everyone has what they need to be able to participate in society, including work and school.

Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

This is awful for disabled kids.

It’s also awful for their parents who are trying to balance caregiving and advocacy for their children with their own work and/or school. It’s also awful for businesses whose employees will be stretched thinner trying to advocate for their children’s needs, which..

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

My parents were Republicans because George H.W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilites Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. A generation of people with disabilities went to college, got jobs and lived independently because of IDEA.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

The regime fired everyone involved in the funding and administration of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

They’re letting measles and other infectious and disabling diseases run rampant, and then removing disability support.

It’s eugenics and they aren’t even hiding it.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

RIFing the Office of Special Education & Rehab Services while the President touts firing “democrat agencies” is the clearest way to say Republicans don’t give a shit about children with disabilities and their access to education and services

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

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Screenshot of a list that reads: Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO):
State and Local Engagement

Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE):
Student Support Services (TRIO)
Institutional Service (HBCUs, HSIs, Tribal Colleges, ANAPISI)

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS):

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
Enforcement Offices

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD)
Budget Seryice

Screenshot of list that reads: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OESE):

Office of Innovation and Early Learning
Office of School Community Improvement Programs
Well Rounded Education Division (Arts Education)
Charter Schools Program
Office of Safe and Supportive Schools
Program and Grantee Support Services
Comprehensive Literacy State Development
JAVITS (Gifted and Talented)
School Support and Accountability
Office of Formula Grants
Office of Migrant Education
Effective Educator Development Program
Innovation and Early Learning Programs
Effective Development Division
Program and Grantee Support Services

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 3d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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