THREAD📌 I'd really hoped that the #pandemic would make folks more conscious of #disability & recognize how suffocating it is to be isolated from society by illness, but instead non-disabled people just wrote about how hard it was for them to not go where they wanted whenever.
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Today is Day 1,611 since the hospital sent me home after I was paralyzed. I can count the times I have been out of the house since, and every single time was to the hospital. For 4yrs I've been trying to get a wheelchair lift and an motorized chair so I can escape this prison.
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The US does less than nothing for #disabled people. Being disabled is a daily fight for survival and the most basic care. If I didn't have a loving, committed and non-disabled spouse, I would likely not have survived that first year. Most disabled people are not so fortunate.
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Whenever I tweet about #disability, I lose followers, get ignored, or both. Yet there are 81M #disabled Americans--THE largest minority group in the US. I was paralyzed in seconds. The same could happen to you. We should be more aware of and compassionate towards disabled people.
Complications of #COVID19 is leaving 40% of victims with disabling damage from the virus. There should be more effort made to recognize how the number of #disabled people is expanding daily and that a truly just society cares for its most vulnerable and marginalized members.
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2 Jan
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There is some irony here in the Socialist who just wrote about being grateful for getting her food stamps back because she is so poor standing up for Yellen, but the policing of women's work is a full time job for some and it never seems to extend to their poverty.
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Last year we heard this story about Shonda Rhimes, who brought ABC prime time back from the dead and added much needed color and also has the longest running show on ABC still in Grey's Anatomy. How dare she ask for money equal to her accomplishments, we heard.
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Now it's Yellen. One of the top economists in the world and the only woman to ever head the fed. Claiming she's beholden to Wall Street because she was paid for speeches is a sexist canard. This is her work--she had no idea Biden would even run, let alone win and choose her.
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2 Jan
#UPDATE
So I fought to get my #SNAP benefit reinstated after DeJoy was responsible for hundreds of Philadelphians losing their food stamps because the mail is utterly f*d here. I wrote this ↘️ thread📌about it.
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I had to go to all my editors and request that they write a letter saying how much I make a month. Because getting poor people to grovel is part of the process. So the great news is on New Year's Eve day I finally spoke to someone who just let me foward the letters via email.
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As of today, my food stamps have been reinstated for January. I lost November and December benefits, but this is good news and I wanted to share it. We aren't supposed to talk about #poverty--my mother taught me to hide it. But 1 in 3 Philadelphians is poor. I am one of them.
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29 Dec 20
I want to see USPS's DeJoy brought before a House committee and jointly reamed by Katie Porter, AOC and Ayanna Pressley. I am one of hundreds of Philadelphians whose #SNAP renewals didn't get through the Philly mail system on time and got kicked off.
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This is food, folks. We all have to re-do our applications (which was hard enough the 1st time because the govt doesn't want poor people to access help). I have already lost Nov and Dec benefits. 28% of Philadelphians live below the poverty level--we are the poorest big city.
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I mailed my renewal in mid-October. It arrived last week. The post office is literally a mile from the county assistance office. And all the offices have been closed since the pandemic, so it's not like you can drop stuff off at the office.
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25 Dec 20
#ChristmasEve Mass from the Vatican was really depressing & strange in the way of 2020. Perhaps it would have been unseemly in a year when so many have died to be too celebratory. But Pope Francis seemed deeply sad. And had restricted the gathering, which is usually thousands.
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Pope Francis had limited the number of people to 100 with the number of cardinals at only 30. The effect in the world's largest church was sparse and austere. Francis used one of the small side altars. There were none of the intl readings there usually are each Christmas.
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There were only a handful of children. None of the delegations from other countries like usual. Pope Francis's homily was about the metaphor of #Christmas as our rebirth in Christ. It was also about his consistent themes of helping the poor, the sick and the vulnerable.
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20 Dec 20
#NEW
Also in this disturbing story: pardoned traitor Mike Flynn told Trump that he could impose martial law and "re-run" the election. Which would violate the Constitution.

Trump Weighed Naming Election Conspiracy Theorist as Special Counsel nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/…
I've written a dozen stories since 2015 on what a dangerous character Mike Flynn is. Obama not only fired him, but also warned Trump about him. And Sally Yates warned Trump about him and was fired. AND Flynn lied to Congress and the FBI. Flynn shouldn't even be allowed in the WH.
Flynn was working as an unregistered foreign agent while he was working for the Trump campaign in 2015. And he colluded with Russia before and after the election. As NSA. Trump and the quisling GOP have normalized all of this, but it is actually putting the country at risk.
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The #CNNTownHall, #TheColorOfCOVID, is one of the most critically important hours on TV. It will repeat later tonight and you can watch it online at CNN.com, later. BIPOC are disproportionately impacted by the #coronavirus in cases and deaths, in all age groups.
.@donlemon reports that "even if deemed safe by scientists" as the two approved #vaccines have been, "35% of Black Americans would still not be willing to take the vaccine." But they were willing to take the #vaccine if their personal physician recommended it.
Sandra Lindsay, dir of critical care nursing in NYC, was the 1st person in the US to get the vaccine. A Jamaican immigrant. She says, "The legacy of the past [Tuskeegee] looms darkly over Black and brown people. But in 26yrs of nursing I have never felt so afraid as from covid."
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