Immigrants aren’t taking your homes, they’re building them.
Immigrants aren’t driving food costs up, they’re working to put it on our tables.
Immigrants aren’t making healthcare unaffordable, they go without it.
Billionaires are driving the affordability crisis. Not immigrants.
No one “deserves” to starve or be denied healthcare.
The richest country in the world can easily provide for all, and people shouldn’t have to prove they matter to be fed, housed & cared for.
It’s past time for a universal basic income, universal healthcare, affordable housing & food.
We don't "protect children" by banning everything from them that adults deem "harmful".
We protect them by educating, informing, working with them... Treating them with respect... Supporting them.
"Bans" don't work. Support & education does.
Wear a face mask when you go out in public- if for no other reason than knowing that they want you too sick, too exhausted and too burned out from dealing with back to back respiratory infections to speak up for yourself & your community. You deserve to protect your health.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
It’s not too late to start masking.
You don’t have to do it alone. You won’t be the lone masker.
There’s an engaged Covid cautious and disability community who will help you.
There’s local mask blocs who provide respirators to those who can’t afford them.
Covid is still here, and masks work!
What if instead of gutting Medicaid and food assistance, America provided universal healthcare for everyone?
What if instead of criminalizing homelessness, they addressed skyrocketing rent prices & income inequality?
What if they put the ICE budget into social supports?
Poverty is a political choice.
Homelessness is a political choice.
Suffering is often a political choice.
People are much closer to becoming disabled/unhoused than they realize.
Help us build networks of community care and better social supports.
Dissent is patriotic.
We have a right to disagree and dissent with those in power and demand a better world.
A reminder on this July 4, no matter your skin color, nationality, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, religion, or any other vulnerable category:
You belong here. Today, rather than a declaration of independence, we now need a declaration of interdependence.
A lot of people who keep saying “but people who are really disabled will be fine” are about to find out that “disabled” is a real schrodinger's cat type of label where you’re disabled for the purposes of elimination targeting and able-bodied for the purposes of benefits
It’s dehumanizing & discriminatory to say the “genuinely disabled” don’t have to worry about Medicaid cuts
Everyone needs to worry about millions of people losing their healthcare
Invisible disabilities are real. Mental health disabilities are real. Saying some are “genuine” infers others are not
This Disability Pride Month, I wish more disabled people had the support and access to be thriving, not worrying about surviving.
It is breaking my heart that disabled people and their families telling how scared they are about Medicaid cuts...seems to mean nothing to those in power.
You cannot tell how a disability fully impacts someone just by looking at them.
What we see on the outside is only a small part.
Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.
No matter what the courts say, we are not going anywhere. Our fight continues.
📸 Will Martinez Jr
The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.
If you work in a medical setting and a patient asks you to mask, please mask. Do not attack the patient asking.
Someone told me my posts were too political and I should focus more on health.
Health IS political.
I wish it wasn’t. I wish we could agree that everyone deserves universal healthcare and a basic income. Access to food, meds and shelter.
Until that point, politics & health remain intertwined
Yeah, so I am an immunocompromised person permanently disabled twice over because feckless and/or greedy people wanted to pretend there was no pandemic, so I get a bit angry when people pretend masking is *just too much to ask*
No, it’s actually quite simple.
Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system.
The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.
It’s designed to make you quit.
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
This may be controversial but I don't like when people stan political parties like they do celebrities.
Regardless of which parties you vote for or that is in power. You should be holding them accountable. You shouldn't be lax when it's your political party that's in power.