Past #GreenParty Candidate for Congress
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May 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#ExplainLikeIm5 version:
There's a protein that our cells normally use to 🚩 themselves when they're infected with a virus.
When certain white blood cells see that 🚩, they kill that cell to stop it from making more copies of the virus.
#COVID interferes with how a cell... ⬇️
...runs that 🚩 up to the membrane (outside).
So when the nucleus (DNA/boss) calls for artillery on his own position, the messenger (RNA) can't weave the right 🚩 (protein) to send that signal (you don't keep a 🚩 that dangerous in stock, it's made to order). 2/
Mar 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
If you wonder how you would have acted in N@zi Germany, would you have tried to stop forcing some to wear badges in public or let them be killed, how you have responded to the gaslighting that masks should be optional tells the world the answer.
Now those who still wear one... 🧵
...effectively are wearing a badge that we or our close family have a medical disability (ableist labeling instead of racist), & even if WE mask, we're still at higher risk of severe disability or death when those around us don't. 2/
Dec 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wearing a mask before you enter a space you don't own is a gesture of respect, anti-ableism.
Wearing one upon request, without explanation or imposition of authority is non-ableist.
Demanding why/refusing is offensive, contemptuous, weaponizes privilege. #COVID#BringBackMasks ⬇️
Like yielding, stopping sharply to avoid an accident, or driving a big truck, making others stop for you, & 🖕🏻 at pedestrians.
The last is an act of violence; you're endangering public health, and your own.
Pls RT & tag people in replies who do the last one! #NameAndShame! 2/
Dec 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is disgusting, #CruelAndUnusual punishment - prisons are denying inmates meds that would help tremendously with addiction treatment, doesn't get them high.
The real stuff is very expensive on the black market; some get so desperate they turn to much more dangerous drugs. ⬇️
Instead, prisons erect unrealistic barriers to treatment, which gets inmates hurt, while making 💰 for smugglers. Those often ARE guards, or one can assume the others find ways to compensate them to 🙈🙉🙊.
One thing the article doesn't make explicit is that by ONLY letting... 2/
Mar 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's entirely possible to support efforts to stop a violent 🇷🇺 invasion as the wrong way to enact change & people defending their homes, without implying that 🇺🇦 & all their leaders are the second coming of Christ.
The underlying problem is that those in power accept... ⬇️
...a veneer of democracy as sufficient, even if it the lived reality of most people is a government that only serves a privileged minority.
We don't interrogate past, "Do they have ballots to select their government?" until the media wants an excuse to discredit them. 2/
Mar 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Great, now both of my parents & 2 brothers hate disabled people & want those at elevated risk of #COVID confined under indefinite house arrest.
That's what you mean when you say "Masks shouldn't be mandatory on public transit/in public places like stores." ⬇️
Yet when I told them about how @MIT prohibits even ASKING others to wear a mask, even if students are doing a group project & one of them is at elevated risk, their response was, "Hopefully if you tell the rest of them about your condition, they'll do the right thing." 2/
Feb 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@RepGarbarino, #ActuallyAutistic New Yorkers need you to #AbolishABA, which abuses autistic children, conditioning them to suffer in silence to accommodate the bigotry of allistic parents & authority figures.
The onus is on THEM to accommodate #neurodiversity!
"Allistic" is our preferred term for those who aren't punished by the majority for being different .
You may have heard the term "neurotypical"; that presupposes that you are the typical, better version, while we who are "neurodivergant" are implied inferior. 2/
Feb 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@SenSchumer & @SenGillibrand, #ActuallyAutistic New Yorkers need you to #AbolishABA, which abuses autistic children, conditioning them to suffer in silence to accommodate the bigotry of allistic parents & authority figures.
The onus is on THEM to accommodate #neurodiversity!
"Allistic" is our preferred term for those who aren't punished by the majority for being different .
You may have heard the term "neurotypical"; that presupposes that you are the typical, better version, while we who are "neurodivergant" are implied inferior. 2/
Feb 2, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Next time an interviewer asks you to "Explain this gap on your resume," REGARDLESS of why, answer,
"I decline to answer that question in #solidarity with those whose reasons are none of your business, or reveal information that it's illegal to not-hire them for."
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#HotTake It's MOST important that those with more #privilege who would claim to not be racist/classist/ableist/misogynist/otherwise hostile to all marginalized groups refuse.
When YOU give an actual answer, YOU steal 💰 from all of them.
THEY don't get work, or get paid less. 2/
