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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · Nov 13

@darthbluesky.bsky.social, @mollyknight.bsky.social posted about activities beyond resisting. Something to help us recharge.

My job is fighting climate change, so I know you can’t stress 24/7 and stay sane.

How about a🧵with everyone’s hobby’s?

I rock climb in my 60s and create craft cocktails.

A cliff face near Mount Hood. The camera is looking up into a blue sky with a green tree. There is a climber just visible finishing a 5.10d/5.11a route.

A dark purple cocktail with light purple foam in a martini glass. The glass is sitting on a bluish green ceramic coaster on a light wood table.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 4h

I grew up a Cubs fan in a White Sox family. So when I first moved to SoCal, I was a Cubs fan who went to Dodgers games.

Then came that post ‘88 WS slump and crappy owners. 15+ years of losing let me switch to being a Dodgers fan with being a traitor. Moving between crappy teams is allowed.😹

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 5h

Dodgers blow this gem, he may never sleep again…

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 11h

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 9h

Wasn’t Mar Lardo searched months before Smith was even involved?

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 10h

Up to 2015, there was never any trouble getting GOP cosponsors. The funding gap hits rural and red areas especially hard.

Resistance to full funding has come from factions in both parties.

Trump’s first admin being overtly hostile to IDEA was a real shift./end

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 10h

The promise for IDEA, going back to 1975, was that 40% of the cost would be covered by the Federal government. But it has never been higher than 18%, and sits at 12% now.

This makes the system highly contentious, so we’ve been pushing for full funding since the early 1990s./2

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 10h

That’s a little too simplistic. Business interests have long pushed back against ADA, but California really lead the way on reform and community based services.

The Lanterman system is named from the Republican pol who spearheaded it. The original act was signed by then governor Reagan./1

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 11h

When we got both ADA and IDEA passed in 1990, it really felt like we had turned a corner. Particularly because support was bipartisan.

But we were wrong. Both ADA and IDEA have already been effectively gutted, and the GOP is now all in on master race eugenics.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 11h

Still, eugenics policies towards the disabled rolled in in the US well after the war. Forced sterilization of the disabled continued until the 1970s.

The 1975 bill was a first step away from isolation and exclusion.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 11h

If you open your link, you will see the other part is correct as well. The law seems pretty minimal now, but it was a huge step at the time.

Eugenics had pretty large bipartisan support at the beginning of the 20th century, but Nazi Germany put its ugly face front and center.

1975: Public Law 94-142
On November 29, 1975, President
Gerald Ford signed into law the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142), or the EHA. The EHA guaranteed a free, appropriate public education, or FAPE, to each child with a disability in every state and locality across the country.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 12h

Uh, yes. See the first sentence in my post.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 17h

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been completely removed or otherwise compromised by President Trump’s administration is staggering.

One estimate put it at 3,000 datasets removed.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 17h

IDEA was signed by George H.W. Bush in 1990. It replaced the much more limited EAHCA, which was signed by Gerald Ford in 1975.

Even evil degenerates like Nixon used to feel some obligation to the poor and disabled. That’s been purged from the modern GOP.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 17h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 18h

Russ Vought is now officially using the government shutdown as a pretext for his continued attempts to permanently gut the civil service.

The executive branch cannot unilaterally reduce agency funding that Congress has allocated: This is a serious separation of powers issue.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

If karma exists, he should experience it.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

However game 1 ends, that was an amazing start from Miller.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

They were told they will be fighting Antifa. Nothing prepared them for Cookie Monster doing pelvic thrust. It was an unfair fight.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

How about the Jays, plus Humpy?

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

If you put people under tremendous stress, with no end in sight, they will always get exhausted and desperate. Then the grifters swoop in.

Those utter shitbags, the Wakefields, RFKs, etc. them I’ll judge. The parents? I try not to./end

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to judge parents for wanting to ‘fix’ their children, but we really should take a look at our society. The support and infrastructure still doesn’t really exist. Basic rights have only existed since 1990, and they are being decimated by the eugenicists society put in charge./2

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

They are desperate. Sure there are emotional losers who can’t accept and love their children for who they are, but a lot are like my friends, who have slept in shifts to prevent self injury for the last 35 years. They are terrified for what will happen to their son after they die./1

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

Vance picked interesting examples:

- Trump publicly begged the DOJ to prosecute Hillary in his 1st term: tinyurl.com/bdhvrcfh

- Trump directed the DOJ to investigate Biden in 4 months ago: tinyurl.com/2s3w8fpv

- Trump accused Obama of being “guilty” of “treason” 3 months ago: tinyurl.com/2f6p265z

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re going to break the law and hump the furniture.”

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Jim has interesting ideas about what is “entirely appropriate”.

Gym Jordan’s head on an image from the Beavis and Butthead wrestling episode. The caption reads “Ah! help! He’s got a boner!”

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

A few days ago, I wrote up a piece on Republicans routinely forgetting when Biden took office and how the problem seems to be getting worse: tinyurl.com/3bdxp3te

I suddenly wish I’d held off a few more days. (The “Biden FBI” didn’t exist on Jan. 6. Trump was president at the time.)

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