Anthony
@pyrpawed.bsky.social
Black, Queer, Quaker with too many dogs. Passions: disability rights & justice, enviro (esp. food & water) law & policy, & old school R&B (Chaka Khan all day, every day). He/Him/His.
"While an increasing number of green spaces are investing in improving accessibility, hiking in nature poses natural challenges. 'The wood doesn’t care about ADA compliance,' said Peter Gagliardo, adaptive sports coordinator for Helen Hayes hospital...."
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‘Everyone said it was impossible’: disabled hikers find freedom through off-road wheelchairs
Using an all-terrain vehicle that’s essentially the Jeep of wheelchairs, a New York tour group helps disabled people get on the trail
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November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"While an increasing number of green spaces are investing in improving accessibility, hiking in nature poses natural challenges. 'The wood doesn’t care about ADA compliance,' said Peter Gagliardo, adaptive sports coordinator for Helen Hayes hospital...."
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"For two centuries, the Farmers’ Almanac has served readers—farmers, gardeners, and weather enthusiasts—with long-range weather predictions for the [U.S.] and Canada. That annual tradition will now come to an end, with the 2026 edition of the publication being its last."
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Farmers’ Almanac to Publish Final Issue, Ending 208-Year Forecasting Legacy
The decision reflects the “growing financial challenge” of producing the magazine in today’s media environment, the publication said.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"For two centuries, the Farmers’ Almanac has served readers—farmers, gardeners, and weather enthusiasts—with long-range weather predictions for the [U.S.] and Canada. That annual tradition will now come to an end, with the 2026 edition of the publication being its last."
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I got laid off, I utilized SNAP, and I was able to remain in my chosen field of profession. The program is incredibly effective in mitigating the effects of unemployment, and that’s precisely why they want to gut it.
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I got laid off, I utilized SNAP, and I was able to remain in my chosen field of profession. The program is incredibly effective in mitigating the effects of unemployment, and that’s precisely why they want to gut it.
Fewer than 10 staffers are believed too be left to do work once "handled by more than 100 people at the Office of Special Education Programs....It’s unclear how many people remain at the Office for Civil Rights, which handles complaints of disability discrimination."
Efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education's special education office and move the program to another agency are already causing "immediate harm" to students with #disabilities, advocates warn. #SpecialEducation
Disability Advocates Cry Foul Over Dismantling Of Special Ed: 'Our World Is On Fire'
Efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education's special education office and move the program to another agency are already causing "immediate harm" to students with disabilities, advocates warn.
www.disabilityscoop.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Fewer than 10 staffers are believed too be left to do work once "handled by more than 100 people at the Office of Special Education Programs....It’s unclear how many people remain at the Office for Civil Rights, which handles complaints of disability discrimination."
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Oklahoma tribes step in to feed citizens as federal shutdown threatens food aid.
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Oklahoma tribes step in to feed citizens as federal shutdown threatens food aid
Tribal nations, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee and Seminole are deploying funds to ensure their citizens don’t go hungry — and urging state leaders to do the same.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Oklahoma tribes step in to feed citizens as federal shutdown threatens food aid.
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Mamdani: “NYC will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, LED by an immigrant!”
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November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: “NYC will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, LED by an immigrant!”
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While their kids with #disabilities meet formal credit requirements, parents say the students need more time in school to help them transition into the world of work with a better chance of succeeding. #SpecialEducation
Parents Raise Concerns About Students In Special Ed Being Rushed To Graduate
While their kids with disabilities meet formal credit requirements, parents say the students need more time in school to help them transition into the world of work with a better chance of succeeding.
www.disabilityscoop.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
While their kids with #disabilities meet formal credit requirements, parents say the students need more time in school to help them transition into the world of work with a better chance of succeeding. #SpecialEducation
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A judge indefinitely blocked the U.S. Department of Education from laying off nearly every staffer in its #SpecialEducation office, but advocates say concerns about the future of the program remain. #disabilities
Despite Hold On Ed Department Layoffs, Special Education Worries Run High
A judge indefinitely blocked the U.S. Department of Education from laying off nearly every staffer in its special education office, but advocates say concerns about the future of the program remain.
www.disabilityscoop.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
A judge indefinitely blocked the U.S. Department of Education from laying off nearly every staffer in its #SpecialEducation office, but advocates say concerns about the future of the program remain. #disabilities
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Food banks are stepping up as millions of Americans prepare to lose government aid provided by SNAP and WIC — but it won’t be enough.
A hunger cliff is days away. Women, children and food banks will feel it first.
Food banks will face logistical and financial challenges in providing the resources currently offered by the SNAP and WIC programs that are set to lose funding.
19thnews.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Food banks are stepping up as millions of Americans prepare to lose government aid provided by SNAP and WIC — but it won’t be enough.
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Don Lemon went on a podcast and said Megyn Kelly was ugly because she "looks trans."
Here's the receipt.
Misgendering people is gross, calling someone trans as an insult is gross, calling someone trans to say they're unattractive is gross, and is not defending Megyn Kelly to say so.
Here's the receipt.
Misgendering people is gross, calling someone trans as an insult is gross, calling someone trans to say they're unattractive is gross, and is not defending Megyn Kelly to say so.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Don Lemon went on a podcast and said Megyn Kelly was ugly because she "looks trans."
Here's the receipt.
Misgendering people is gross, calling someone trans as an insult is gross, calling someone trans to say they're unattractive is gross, and is not defending Megyn Kelly to say so.
Here's the receipt.
Misgendering people is gross, calling someone trans as an insult is gross, calling someone trans to say they're unattractive is gross, and is not defending Megyn Kelly to say so.
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Senior center that I work with said they’d had calls increase so much with the pending SNAP cancellation that people asked if they could reserve bananas and canned food ahead of November. 😔
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Senior center that I work with said they’d had calls increase so much with the pending SNAP cancellation that people asked if they could reserve bananas and canned food ahead of November. 😔
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
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A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
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This whole 🧵 is important - basically a comprehensive takedown of the commercially-driven push for AI-focused K-12 “learning”
And the "personalized learning" that AI-in-schools boosters tout can become an abusive push to perfectionism as it treats children like adult employees with "targeted goals."
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This whole 🧵 is important - basically a comprehensive takedown of the commercially-driven push for AI-focused K-12 “learning”
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This is a hell of a way to learn that Amazon runs everything
October 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is a hell of a way to learn that Amazon runs everything
Lessons from Europe’s New Accessibility Movement
"Europe is showing that accessibility can be part of the design DNA. It’s not a patch. It’s a mindset.
Accessibility is quickly becoming a core value of good design across the continent."
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"Europe is showing that accessibility can be part of the design DNA. It’s not a patch. It’s a mindset.
Accessibility is quickly becoming a core value of good design across the continent."
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Lessons from Europe’s New Accessibility Movement | Disability Horizons
Europe's accessibility movement is reshaping digital inclusion—here’s how the EAA is driving design that works for everyone, not just the average user.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Lessons from Europe’s New Accessibility Movement
"Europe is showing that accessibility can be part of the design DNA. It’s not a patch. It’s a mindset.
Accessibility is quickly becoming a core value of good design across the continent."
disabilityhorizons.com/2025/10/less...
"Europe is showing that accessibility can be part of the design DNA. It’s not a patch. It’s a mindset.
Accessibility is quickly becoming a core value of good design across the continent."
disabilityhorizons.com/2025/10/less...
Effective 2026, California law requires restaurants to declare allergens. "The menus will have to disclose ingredients including milk, eggs, shellfish and tree nuts when the restaurant operators know or 'reasonably should know' that they are in their products."
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California law will require restaurants to declare allergens on menus
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill into law that requires restaurant chains to declare major food allergens on their menus. The requirement
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October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Effective 2026, California law requires restaurants to declare allergens. "The menus will have to disclose ingredients including milk, eggs, shellfish and tree nuts when the restaurant operators know or 'reasonably should know' that they are in their products."
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Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section.
She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
By @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
By @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section.
She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
By @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
By @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights lost ~50% of its attorneys earlier this year. The Dep't was hollowed out even more over the last few days.
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Federal Special Education Offices Hollowed Out, Putting Students’ Rights at Risk
Mass layoffs inside the U.S. Department of Education have gutted the federal offices that protect students with disabilities. The Arc of the United States warns that the collapse of special education ...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights lost ~50% of its attorneys earlier this year. The Dep't was hollowed out even more over the last few days.
thearc.org/blog/federal...
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Rest in peace, Miss Major.
We will carry the bricks forward.
We will carry the bricks forward.
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Rest in peace, Miss Major.
We will carry the bricks forward.
We will carry the bricks forward.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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.
The ACLU's Mobile Justice app used to do the same thing, but I don't see that on the iphone apps either....wonder whatever happened to their app.
Apple Reportedly Bans App Designed to Document Abuses by ICE
Apple Reportedly Bans App Designed to Document Abuses by ICE
Apple is silent on the matter.
gizmodo.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The ACLU's Mobile Justice app used to do the same thing, but I don't see that on the iphone apps either....wonder whatever happened to their app.
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Really disappointing to see how many people on here are defending this.
Katie Porter has consistently shown that she treats her staff terribly.
There are several other progressive Democrats running for Governor in California. We do not need to defend the indefensible.
Katie Porter has consistently shown that she treats her staff terribly.
There are several other progressive Democrats running for Governor in California. We do not need to defend the indefensible.
October 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Really disappointing to see how many people on here are defending this.
Katie Porter has consistently shown that she treats her staff terribly.
There are several other progressive Democrats running for Governor in California. We do not need to defend the indefensible.
Katie Porter has consistently shown that she treats her staff terribly.
There are several other progressive Democrats running for Governor in California. We do not need to defend the indefensible.
"'....[E]ach time [PBS Kids did audience testing], there were families with pre-verbal or non-speakers who expressed their hope that we might have a character like them in the show....'"
A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. #disabilities #autism #PBSKids #AAC
PBS Kids Show To Feature Character Who Uses Communication Device
A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet.
www.disabilityscoop.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"'....[E]ach time [PBS Kids did audience testing], there were families with pre-verbal or non-speakers who expressed their hope that we might have a character like them in the show....'"