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What are the some of the top legislative priorities when it comes to disability?

@RebeccaCokley lifts up protecting the ADA—which remains under attack by Congress & has also become a GOP tool for voter suppression
@Sblahov calls out the need to rethink overzealous restriction of pain medications — “one-size-fits-all opioid policies are hurting people who live with chronic pain, people are even dying by suicide” #NN19
@RunReymaRun calls out Money Follows the Person - which is vital to independent living #NN19
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Rebecca Vallas is on vacayyyy
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@CoryBooker is right -- it's not enough to legalize marijuana... we must also:

1) clear marijuana records so people don't serve life sentences to poverty; and

2) reinvest savings from reduced incarceration into communities ravaged by the war on drugs.

#DemDebate
@CoryBooker (and marijuana revenue, sigh character limits)
@CoryBooker An innovative @amprog idea for how to do this: a targeted job guarantee for distressed communities, funded by marijuana revenue americanprogress.org/issues/crimina…
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Rebecca Vallas is on vacayyyy
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UPDATE: When Trump issued this rule last week, USDA buried analysis showing more than **HALF A MILLION** kids would also lose automatic eligibility for free school meals.

On top of the 3.1 million people who’d lose Food Stamps.

@NBCNews has the scoop: nbcnews.com/politics/white…
Kudos to the eagle-eyed staff in @BobbyScott’s office for uncovering this.

@BobbyScott is right, Trump should withdraw the rule. Federal law requires that proposed rules include “relevant scientific & technical findings.”

Half a million hungry kids at risk of losing school lunch if this proposed rule takes effect is like the definition of “relevant.”
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Rebecca Vallas is on vacayyyy
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BREAKING: Trump has issued yet another massive regulatory attack on Food Stamps, again sidestepping Congress to force cuts by fiat—since he didn’t get his way in the Farm Bill last year.

More than 3 million people stand to lose food assistance.

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Trump’s new proposed rule would dramatically weaken the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), by gutting a wonky-sounding but vital provision called “broad-based categorical eligibility.”

This one’s worth dewonkifying, so here we go.

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The bottom line?

According to the Trump admin’s own estimates, 3.1 million people will lose food assistance if the rule takes effect.

CBO analysis of prior similar proposals tells us hundreds of thousands of hungry kids could lose free school meals too.

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Sure! Make sure to also include the video where Percy explains why he's giving discovery to a non-party to share publicly 🙃

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Meenakshi Sharan
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orn in Nasik, lost his parents at young age due to plague,was very close to his two brothers and the wife of his older brother.
June 9,1906, 22 year old #VeerSavarkar , LLB from Bombay University, boarded the ship SS Persia from Bombay to London.
On board #VeerSavarkar started awakening young Indians to India’s politics.Whatever be topic of discussion,he turned & connected it to India’s freedom struggle.Some said they weren’t interested,for some it was a condition for their scholarship not to involve in political movement
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Rightist Singhvi 🇮🇳
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Due to a long rule of #Congress, many Hindutva stalwarts of India's Struggle for Freedom...were not given their due recognition..

I am starting #AurobindoGhosh in this #RightFactsThread series...

Let's begin:

1. #AurobindoGhosh
2. Aurobindo’s life

👉In 1879, he went to England for education & Moved back to Calcutta in 1906

👉he was a teacher, a poet, a journalist & an underground revolutionary leader.

👉Also known as "poet of patriotism", "Prophet of nationalism" & "saviour of humanity"

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3. He was influenced by

👉Integral Humanism of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

👉Vivekananda's unity in diversity
& thought India as a nation will benefit the world. World should Actively support India's rise
👉 #Hindutva in his Sachitananda concept, himself was a #HinduNationalist

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#Disability twitter, #medtwitter , let us have a discussion about patients discussing #MedicalTrauma on here. A Thread:
#chronicillness #ChronicPain #Chroniclife #MedTraumaChat #Spoonie
2) Last night, a fellow advocate posted a very handy guide for HCPs & patients abt treating patients who are trauma survivors: Trauma Informed Care - Disclosures and Care Transitions healthasahumanright.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/tra… #medtwitter #Disability #chronicillness #medtraumachat #spoonie
3) It's a good resource for both #patients & HCPs, please read it if you have a moment.
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Democrats Fight #GOP Culture of Corruption to Make Washington Work for the People/1 #VoteBlue2018 #Midterms #Democrats #DemsWork4USA #WhyIVoteDemocrat It’s a vintage button with a donkey kicking an elephant saying “Kick out Depression with a Democratic Vote”
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I have been battling a new health crisis since my surgery was postponed June 15.

There is no way to adequately articulate--even as a writer--the breadth of hardship inflicted on sick Americans by the Trump presidency & Trump-led #GOP, like lame-duck @SpeakerRyan.
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The majority of that 40% of the US population still have to work despite often disabling illness because we cannot afford not to.
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