“If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” – Donald Trump, June 15 2020
Tag: disability justice
People have been misled about the opposition to public health, and the dangers of MAGA MAHA.
It was always the right-wing pushing everyone to the right. And politicians need to be pushed back, and the only people who can do that is constituents. Quite a catch 22.
A Lyme Disease vaccine was stopped by people tricked by anti-vax propaganda.
But we’re not going to learn from that I guess and just do it again with Long Covid.
With the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid looming, nursing homes that stay open may not be humane.
“Opinion: Nursing homes may start sedating your elderly parents — and, eventually, you”
They already came for the disabled, and the emergency has existed for some time now.
Urban League should apologize to disabled and immunocompromised people if they’re going to speak as a moral authority. Did they not notice that civil rights have been in jeopardy for months?
The temporary disability issue nobody talks about when they talk about work requirements and means testing.
Temporary health conditions do not necessarily qualify as “disabled” under the Medicaid rules.
Your medical data is out there and the only way to stop misuse of it is regulatory law.
Avoid using nonsense copypasta letters you find on facebook. Rely on proven sources who know how things work in government for information on how to advocate for yourself.
RFKJr called chronic illness “injuries” to invoke what has become a conspiracy anti-vax right-wing buzzword term.
David Pakman played a clip of RFKJr making inappropriate statements as usual, and noted the word “injury” being used being odd, but didn’t spell out why he used that word, when it’s obvious to anyone paying attention anti-vax misinformation and the online milieu of anti-vax activists.
A misconception about the “evolution” of the pandemic is ignoring survivorship bias.
A problematic misconception is that people inappropriately assert that covid isn’t severe anymore (wrong) and it’s because of “immunity” – either because someone suggests natural immunity or indeed vaccine immunity
This David Grier person belongs nowhere near the health records of anyone.
The data mining that RFKJr wants to do with the health insurance records of Americans is going to go to a guy who chemically castrated autistic children and called it treatment.
PA State Rep Abigail Salisbury speaks about the harms of RFKJr’s remarks on autism.
Salisbury: Defending Those on the Spectrum – Pa. House Video Apr 23, 2025 Listen to Pennsylvania House of Representatives state Rep Abigail Salisbury explain the harm of RFKJr remarks. Abigail Salisbury is the 2nd (known) autistic member of the Pa. House. Rep Salisbury also gives a good history lesson as well as a personal history. […]
The right-wing opposition to proxy voting is the same old opposition to remote anything.
There’s a bill in Congress to allow proxy voting for representatives with new babies. Mike Johsnon has gone so far as to just shut down everything for the week just to stop this bill, because there are Republicans who support it.
Beware the stigma around sick and disabled children, and others.
Some disinformation narratives suggest that the high risk disabled and elderly are holding up herd immunity, or even maybe dangerous criminals using masks as a “disguise”.
Anti-vax anti-mask covid contrarian running for office in Kitchener, Ontario Canada.
Matt Strauss, an online anti-vax influencer, is running for office in the Federal Conservative Party in Kitchener South-Hespeler in the election on April 28, 2025, which could decide whether Canada embraces anti-science and capitulates on maybe becoming the 51st state of America.
Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul pushing Trumpian faschy anti-mask law.
Democrat voters in New York should be shaming Hochul immediately for this right-wing anti-mask maga bullshit.
Trump’s plan to silence and go after seniors for “fraud” if they dare complain when Social Security misses payments.
This is to soften people up and get them to shut up when the cuts come, because that’s what Howard Lutnick absolutely openly says they’re doing.
About mask bans, and the legislation to prevent mask bans containing a wrecking amendment.
Here is my interview on TheLetterHack youtube channel to discuss the ongoing political battle around masks and the expansive implications of it all.
Trump and Elon Musk to require senior citizens visit Social Security offices in person.
It’s insult to injury because they’re planning on closing regional offices all over the place, including in my region.
The Trump Musk Return To Office – closets, rooms without desks, wifi-fi, or even lights!
Back in January I said that the Trump administration was taking modern workplaces back to the dark ages, and I didn’t realize that would include also into the literal dark, that federal workers would be forced back to offices without even lights. ‘It was messy’: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and […]
Gavin Newsom is pushing state workers to get butts in seats downtown for fossil fuel and business interests.
This guy’s sad podcast platforming a far right bigot isn’t the first or only extremely anti progressive garbage from Gavin Newsom. Just write this guy off.
Elon Musk says he’s doing a “corporate takeover” of America… via the postal service.
Elon Musk appears to be potentially looking to seize total control over free communication in America, especially rural America.