"Increase welfare payments. Invest in public education and healthcare. Build public homes. Abolish the CGT discount."

How does it feel to be an Iranian right now? 🧵

We want to talk to anyone in prison who thinks they may have Long COVID, and would appreciate readers sharing this call for sources with any loved ones, friends, or contacts. People in prison have limited access to information, so they may not know much about what Long COVID is. Rather than just asking if someone has Long COVID, you may need to explain that a person might have it if they got COVID-19 and never felt they really got all the way better or if an old health issue got a lot worse after COVID-19. Anyone with ideas for sources should contact reporter October Krausch by May 31 at rebelprof@proton.me If writing from the prison: The Sick Times Attn: October Krausch PO Box 331009 Brooklyn, NY 11233

Reporter @octoberk.bsky.social is working with The Sick Times on an investigation about the experience of #LongCOVID in prison, which will also highlight how people outside of prisons can advocate on this issue.

The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly? The way we deal with rising inflation is highly problematic.

Yup

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If the only way service providers can avoid claims of neglect is to completely withdraw all care when they aren’t funded to meet the entire care needs of clients, hospitalisation will only increase

About the combo of Frew and Van Der Berg, Horjus said it's not something they've really practiced. Meanwhile, Honey said GK/GD combo of Weston/Eddy was planned. Methinks Obst got out coached!

#SSN2026 #VIXvTHU

Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail after being charged with five counts of war crime murder Former SAS soldier to be released from Silverwater prison ahead of possible trial on charges relating to alleged killing of civilians in Afghanistan

more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

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If disabled people using the #NDIS is "undermining" it (Albo), are we not supposed to use it?

Has it been designed to be un-useable?

Was the intention of it to give disabled people a hard time?

As a participant, it sure feels this way most of the time, especially now.

Social media checks for all visa applicants under Angus Taylor plan Social media screening would be introduced for all visa applicants under an immigration policy to be revealed by Opposition leader Angus Taylor.

Fascist policy www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

TRAILER: Buried Alive with M.E.

I’ve spent the last months making a film for M.E. Kills, an online exhibition by A Quiet Storm.

People with ME die every week. Many more are left to rot in dark rooms without care, disbelieved and dismissed. It’s a living death.

#pwme #millionsmissing #severeME

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#kidlit #kidlitart

It took everything I had to apply for the DSP 12 years ago- physically, financially, but most of all emotionally.
I can't cook, clean, do dishes, do laundry, wash my hair etc but I haven't applied for the NDIS because I cannot emotionally cope with the bureaucracy.

Why means testing disability support is a bad idea - Normal Ness Recently in the news, a person suggested means testing disability supports. This is a bad idea, and I’m going to share some of the reasons why in this post. Feel free to add your own in the comments.   Why means testing disability support is a bad idea   Costs Disability is expensive. It costs […]

"We need to stop expecting disabled people to have endless resilience in the face of discrimination and bureaucracy. We need something akin to a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to reduce bureaucracy and to ensure the financial safety of people who cannot work."

Thinking about the time I did “brain retraining” for ME (ie gaslighting yourself into thinking you’re healthy) & I was making myself hike in the woods but had to spend most of the time lying on the ground & some guy tiptoed up to me terrified he had found a dead body & then both of us screamed 🫠

Oh my goodness 😂😭😭

People want to use AI to reduce the amount they have to care about disabled people, not to actually improve access. That’s the bad thing here.

I’ll DM you on Insta as I can’t dm here

I want to see the modelling for cost benefit analysis. How many people will lose their homes and end up on DSP to access NDIS supports. What the long term cost will be to the system if people have to run down assets before accessing ndis supports

This is a terrible idea. It essentially means people with disability or their carers have to run down their assets before accessing the NDIS. Which means living in poverty permanently

Ooooof

Mud map from the PC report on the NDIS from 2011 that From a consumer’s perspective, the NDIS will give them the means to choose supports that best meet their needs that includes "private, for profit firms"

Whenever I see talk about the NDIS I go back to the original Productivity Commission report and I note a pretty obvious issue in the entire construction of the scheme

It doesn’t have to be a diploma. But no one should be doing complex care without multiple shadow shifts and being signed off on being capable of safe care provision

Every disability support worker in the NDIS should be trained and willing to provide care. That includes hygiene and meal time supports

The problem I see with the NDIS is not an issue of provider registration. Rather it is an issue of service provision standards

There’s still a long way to go. Today a member of my family attended a first aid course. There were three CPR “dummies”. All three were male torsos. Women are 30% less likely to receive CPR when they need it. Patriarchy kills.

A reminder to check out alternative media outfits like We Used to Be Journos, Deepcut and Lamestream who are all putting in the work to bring you news analysis and the stories/perspectives the mainstream sometimes misses. They need subscribers, to exist.
Feel free to add your own recommendations.

I wish more people understood the terror disabled people face when dealing with housing insecurity, poverty and unsafe caregivers.

Many in the community are forced to rely on abusive people for survival.

It shouldn’t be this way.

We desperately need more support & resources.

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d
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Does anyone here or know of anyone who studies/analyses disability within the discipline of geography?

I’ve always loved geography (all the types), & my 3am brain suddenly realised I hadn’t explicitly connected it with disability before.

And now I want to learn all the things lol.