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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · 3d

"the agency laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities. He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward."

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 3d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 28

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Republicans are trying to recruit and give bonuses to ICE right now..." How about tax dollars to recruit and give bonuses to teachers, counselors, school nurses, and paraprofessionals? Its BTS. Fund schools, not concentration camps. Disbelief students are growing up in this dystopia. 😢

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Jennings: Democrats every day are calling ICE the gestapo.

Kasparian: Well, they do act like gestapo… I don’t want my tax dollars going to that garbage.

Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Jul 3

Truth.

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Jul 2

The GOP's Medicaid-busting tax scheme is filled with poison pills antithetical to the values of our people. So I wrote a proper preamble for their big, ugly bill.

Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is what MAHA does when appointed by Felon of the US.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Jul 2

NEW: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.

Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.

By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in fundin...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 1

Dr. Coni: One patient had been receiving treatment with eye drops, but then I didn’t see her for months.. I wondered what had happened to her.

When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · Jul 1

NEW: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Jun 14

Exercising my 1st Amendment right with my nephew and first born at SF ocean beach. We are part of the "K." #noking

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Jun 14

Hundreds of volunteers lined up at S.F.'s Ocean Beach to appear in a banner spelling out “NO KING!”

The event was organized by travel writer Brad Newsham and architectural designer Travis Van Brasch, local activists who assembled human banners at Ocean Beach during nationwide protests in April.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 4

President Trump has slashed funding for medical research, threatening a longstanding alliance between the federal government and universities that helped make the U.S. the world leader in medical science. Here are the nearly 2,500 grants that have been canceled or delayed. https://trib.al/iBstU2B

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · May 22

AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Apr 25

Nobody is above the law? Bondi pledged loyalty to Felon of the United States. Lying Bondi. 🤥

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 25

ROBERTS: Critics will say this is the government expanding the powers of Article 1 of the Constitution, now they're arresting judges. How do you respond?

BONDI: Nobody is above the law

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ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 18

BREAKING: We're suing to block a new Utah law that allows courts to strip people with disabilities of their civil rights without due process.

This law would allow a guardian to isolate the disabled person from their loved ones. Guardianships should be made less restrictive, not more.

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · Apr 17

ASAN, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc, and others stand united: Autistic people deserve respect, support, and science-based policy, not dangerous disinformation. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...

Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

April 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. – As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of Autistic individuals, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Society of America, Autism…

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Apr 2

I choose right! Good trouble! 💙

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 2

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Mar 26

Eww.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 26

Trump: "We're gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too. The women, between the fertilization and all the other things we're talking about, it's gonna be great. Fertilization. I'm still very proud of it, I don't care. I'll be known as the fertilization president and that's okay."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 21

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hasn’t read the room in decades. Coward!

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · Mar 13

A post from Senator Schumer reads: “President Trump and Republicans Leaders would like nothing more than to pull us into the mud of a protracted government shutdown. For Donald Trump, a shutdown would be a gift. It would be the best distraction he could ask for from his awful agenda. Right now, Donald Trump owns the chaos in the government. He owns the chaos in the stock market. He owns the damage happening to our economy. The stock market is crashing and consumer confidence is plummeting. Donald Trump is hoping for a shutdown, because it will distract from their true agenda: delivering massive tax cuts to the rich paid for on the backs on American families. He wants to gut Social Security, hollow-out Medicaid, and slap taxes on consumer goods through his reckless trade wars.”

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Mar 12

This is such a lie. DOE and OCR are the very LAST guard rails for defending students with disabilities. We should be bolstering with more funding for DOE. MAGA/Republicans are stealing from marginalized children and kicking them in the teeth. Evil and shameful.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 12

FOX NEWS: The Department of Education is tasked with protecting disabled students across America. How are you going defend this?

SEN. JIM BANKS: I think it's simple. That will be done at the state level.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Feb 7

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Feb 6

Court orders Musk out of the Treasury computer payment systems until it can sort out whether the DOGE is a legal government entity.

Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · Feb 6

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!

Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Feb 2

@karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com. fangrrrl of your podcast. Any advice on how to purge Tesla from my kids 529s and IRAs?

Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Feb 2

I spent the morning researching holdings in my IRAs and kids 529s. I uncovered that the 529s are partially invested in Ameican Funds "The Growth Fund of America." This fund lists Tesla as top 10 holdings. I would like to purge Tesla investments from our portfolio.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Feb 1

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · Jan 23

Independent Living and Supported Living Services (ILS and SLS) receive funding from multiple sources including the feds. Tax the rich to pay their fair share to fund independent living for PWD. Remember who cuts funding and vote them out of office 2026.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Jan 23

Ed Roberts was a trailblazing advocate and public servant for people with disabilities across the state and nation.

Today, California honors his commitment to creating a world where all people can thrive by reaffirming our goals of expanding access and opportunity for all.

Known as the “Father of Independent Living,” Ed Roberts was a trailblazing advocate for people with disabilities who transformed countless lives in California and across the country. Paralyzed after contracting polio as a child, Roberts was considered “unemployable” by the California Department of Rehabilitation and denied the necessary support to attend university, a prejudiced decision he successfully fought to overturn...NOW THEREFORE I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim date January 23, 2025, as “Ed Roberts Day.”

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Dave McC @mccdave.bsky.social · Jan 21

If you want to see the opposite of “obeying in advance,” here it is. Remarkable bravery by Reverend Budde.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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