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Anita Hill became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the US Dept of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.
#ResistanceRoots Hill graduated from Morris HS in Oklahoma in 1973, where she was class valedictorian. Hill received her bachelor's degree in psychology in 1977 from Oklahoma State University. In 1980, she earned her Juris Doctor from Yale. She was and remains a brilliant and accomplished woman

🧵 I’m getting DMs from RFK supporters who don’t hear the autistic hate speech in @NicoleShanahan’s acceptance speech. Let me explain why her rhetoric is problematic & dangerous for autistic people & neurodivergents writ large. First, just running w/RFK is neurophobic 1/14 2/14 RFK Jr has a long & storied history of autistic ignorance & hate speech & grifting from his insisting vaccines cause autism, despite all the science debunking that nonsense decades ago. Second, Nicole referred to her daughter’s autism by how it harms HER

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Gov @GlennYoungkin you called my autistic ID son a “criminal” from whom you have to protect others when you vetoed SB357 in the night under 21 other vetoes. I want you to meet my son and #TellMeToMyFace that you still feel he’s a criminal 2/10 @GlennYoungkin as your wife posted only hours after your veto & calling my son & thousands like him “criminals,” your wife was over on Instagram talking about ending stereotypes about people like my son. You can see why I found that enraging frankly, the blinding hypocrisy

1 story out of Super Tue were northern VA suburbs breaking for Haley. Many women in the burbs decided to vote for her bc they’re GOP & can’t stand Trump, or Dems like me making sure we’re seen. I’ll vote for Biden in Nov, but I was happy to stick it to Trump yesterday. 🖕





I share exactly zero policy positions with Nikki Haley, but Virginia is an open primary state, left over from when GOP controlled every lever of power, so they could muck up Dem primaries. Now Dems I know routinely vote in GOP primaries, so that was a big backfire on Rs.

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1/11 Right wingers have long used fear of locker rooms or bathrooms against their target of hatred. To fight racial integration of sports or the military, it was always the racists didn’t want to shower w/Black people
#ResistanceRoots 2) In fact, they were so disgusted by the thought of sharing anything with Black people, they even segregated water fountains. The thought of touching something a filthy Black person touched in the Jim Crow south was unimaginable to racists.

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Republicans trying to pretend they’re moderate about reproductive choice are claiming now they have always supported IVF, and that they are okay w/terminating a pregnancy for rape/incest, or life of the mother. This is scientifically inconsistent and impractical. 2/9 First, in IVF, rape, and life of a mother, there are fertilized eggs, which they insist are human with precisely the same value as humans who’ve been born. So why would circumstances like infertility, violent acts, or life of the mother change the value of a fertilized egg?

1/3 Republicans are now scrambling after the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade was the impetus behind the Alabama decision which essentially makes IVF illegal in Alabama. Look at them all posting talking points from this document.
#ResistanceRoots As one who had 3 cycles of IVF & 2 IVF kids, pro-lifers were out front of the IVF clinic daily harassing me walking in. If you believe life begins at conception, it’s consistent to also be anti-IVF. Dobbs did this; you supported overturning Roe v Wade #OwnIt
Meet my IVF babies

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A disability rights movement timeline from 1776-1964

1776- Act to Provide for the Settlement: After the Revolution War, soldiers who suffered significant injuries were financially subsidized by first pension law which paid half pay.
#ResistanceRoots 1817- American School for the Deaf: Founded in Hartford, CT, this was the first school for children with disabilities anywhere in the western hemisphere.
(ID: above is injured in revolutionary war, and school for deaf building) 2/26

My yearly appeal to your humanity w/Halloween coming. Realize that all who come to your door to trick or treat aren’t too old/too big. My 17 year old autistic intellectually disabled son is 6’ tall and lives to trick or treat. Just give out candy w/no judgement #ResistanceRoots He’s nonspeaking & uses sign language to say, thank you. Please don’t start into how kids used to show gratitude in the old days. He is grateful, just uses ASL. Please don’t force me into teachable moments or ask me to explain his existence. We just want to have fun too.

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The Christiana Riot was successful armed resistance by freedmen & escaped slaves to a raid led by a fed marshal to recover 4 escaped slaves. The raid took place early morning hours of 9/11, 1851, at the house of William Parker, an escaped slave
#ResistanceRoots This rebellion against a slave capturing unit took place after the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased penalties for assisting escaped slaves and required state government officials, even in free states such as Pennsylvania, to assist in the recapture of slaves.

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On 9/8/2021, Richmond VA, removed 12 ton, 21’ tall statue of dead racist, Robert E Lee built to prop up Jim Crow & kill a bi-racial labor movement gaining political strength in former Capitol of Confederate insurrection
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Over 2 years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in US. Collectively, we have closed that chapter. We continue work of being a more inclusive & welcoming place where ALL belong.”
Richmond Mayor Lavar Stoney politico.com/news/magazine/…

🧵 I was on YouTube and found part of Asra Nomani’s multi media vicious attacks on Pride Liberation Project, a teen LGBTQ student org in Fairfax county. After her smear campaign, PLP teens were getting death threats. I left this article & she removed it. salon.com/2022/10/06/fro… Anyone in our county who defends any of our children from the exploitation of right wing attacks on kids who dare to disagree with these adults, she claims we’re using children as “human shields,” implying parents who protect children from political attacks are terrorists.

1/8 a 🧵 to Gov @GlennYoungkin of VA. I see you’re busy attacking a mom who’s running for office, @JessAnderson4VA, as your very close associates slander and harass parents from both parties. Do parents actually matter in Virginia? 2/8 Harry Jackson, GOP school board candidate in Fairfax County, and close associate with the governor and AG has a violent criminal record of repeat domestic abuse offenses. Where’s Glenn? Nowhere to be found. Do parents matter in VA? wjla.com/news/crisis-in…

🧵 about healthcare crisis for disabled people in US. Countless studies over 30 years that well-document a recurring theme—people with disabilities in the US are in significantly poorer health and receive significantly poorer care and treatment than those who are not disabled. “The existence and extent of those health disparities often have nothing to do with disability per se and are often preventable. They have everything to do with how physicians see us and how they treat us.” healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/for…

A new study from academic researchers found that 66.5% of all bankruptcies were tied to medical issues —either because of high costs for care or time out of work. An estimated 530,000 families turn to bankruptcy each year because of medical issues and bills, the research found. •Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall.
•While high cost of health care has historically been a trigger for bankruptcy filings, research shows the implementation of the ACA has not improved things.

Donald Trump 🧵: “Talented & well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar & a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle, “violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work, grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace, treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had,”

🧵 about right wing anti-equity movement : Anti-equity=anti-Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504. 
Anti-equity=anti-Individuals w/Disabilities Education Act of 1975. 
Anti-equity=anti-Americans w/Disabilities Act of 1990 (1/7) Equitable access to education via accommodations for disabled students is a fundamental human right upheld in federal courts numerous times.

There are two camps of people in the anti-equity movement. Which of the anti-equity sub-types are you? (2/7)

@Mr_Electrico @bluegal @CNN @KeithOlbermann why was VA Gov allowed to get away w/defending his VA state school board appointee who went down for rallying w/Nick Fuentes’ Groypers, and smearing Dems in VA senate for “unfairly smearing” her? No follow up question? Are you SERIOUS?

https://twitter.com/jenniagitator/status/1634531372550221827

@CNN another follow up question FAIL. #GlennYoungkin was asked by a tearful teacher why her pay was so low. He announced he’d already given her 2 piddly raises, then pivoted into superfluous fluff. @jaketapper why didn’t you ask HER if the raises were enough for her to get by?

CNN follow-up question fail of the week. @jaketapper’s townhall w/@GlennYoungkin where Gov pivoted off topic to defend his VDOE nominee who went down for rallying w/Nick Fuentes’ Groypers. Why didn’t he ask Gov if he approves of his state school board nominee hanging w/Groypers? The problem is, many of the parents this VA administration listens to have direct contact and links to Nick Fuentes’ Groypers, whereby listening to them only seems to be promoting Nick Fuentes’ agenda in Virginia schools. @JakeTapper ask @glennyoungkin to denounce Nick Fuentes

When talking about healthcare, please do NOT use the term, “pre-existing conditions,” a euphemism concocted by health insurance industry to sanitize that they were denying health coverage to disabled and sick people. “People w/pre-existing conditions”=sick & disabled people Use the actual words, not terms used to sanitize the brutality of denying healthcare, treatment, and medication to sick and disabled people. “The master’s tools cannot dismantle the master’s house.” ~Audre Lorde, “pre-existing condition” was a rhetorical tool of ableists.

Anti-equity=anti-Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504. Anti-equity=anti-Individuals w/Disabilities Education Act. Anti-equity=anti-Americans w/Disabilities Act of 1990. Equitable access to education via accommodations for disabled students is a fundamental human right. There are two camps of people in the anti-equity movement. 1. Cynical liars who think educating students with disabilities costs too much, so they employ lies and propaganda against it with the intention of dismantling equitable access to education for disabled students.