Accessibility consultant, nonfiction writer, disability studies/memoir scholar & educator. Rescue dog mama & vintage clothing seller. Wears many hats. She/her.
Pittsburgh, PA
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Pittsburgh Police have been caught on body cam footage enthusiastically assisting ICE agents after Mayor of Pittsburgh Corey O'Connor rejected claims that Pittsburgh Police Officers assist ICE agents
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Mariam, killed by Israeli strike today, had the chance to leave Gaza to be with her son but she chose to stay to report and to look after her parents, her friends told us. She gave a kidney to her father. Her mother, unable to get proper treatment, died from cancer 4 months ago
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“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd.
In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.
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THE TREVOR PROJECT CAN BE REACHED DIRECTLY AT 1-866-488-7386, EVEN WHEN THIS IS GOING TO BE GONE. PLEASE SHARE TO POSSIBLY SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE.
The Trump administration is shutting down the National LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline on July 17th.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The national suicide hotline is removing the "press 3" program that would link to the Trevor Project. The Trevor Project and suicide hotline are still accessible on their respective numbers. If you need LGBTQ specific resources you can call 1-866-488-7386
thetrevorproject.org/blog/trump-adm…
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BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.
ALT Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The Employer is Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland. There are 1,600 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all postdoctoral researchers who provide services to Johns Hopkins University including: Postdoctoral Fellows, Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Postdoctoral Research Associates, Assistant Research Scientists, and Associate Research Scientists.
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Palestinian women are weeping over the lifeless corpses of their children every single fucking day but i'm supposed to feel Female Empowerment bc a rich popstar got flung into space for 11 minutes by the billionaire selling AI weaponry to israel
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Breaking: We’ve learned a Pitt grad student and two recent graduates had their visas revoked and their SEVIS records terminated by the government. This comes one day after we learned 2 CMU students and 5 recent grads had theirs revoked. Join us at noon on @WPXI with what we know.
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We're tracking international student visa revocations across the country, follow our data updates here:
insidehighered.com/news/glob…
for @insidehighered
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Rumeysa was kidnapped in plain sight & sent to Louisiana to be locked in the same detention center Mahmoud Khalil was sent to.
She's a peaceful protestor, grad student, & my constituent who has a right to free speech & due process.
Now she's a political prisoner. Free her now.
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE.
A video shared with GBH News shows a man in a hoodie approach her, then grab her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks “Can I call the police?” before being told “We’re the police.”
wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-…
@sweetadelinevt @GBHNews
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1/ If you teach or work at @Columbia you should be striking, refusing/withdrawing your labor, marching, screaming, protesting, & doing everything you can to get Mahmoud Khalil released & sent home. We need you putting your body on the line now.
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i really wanna give the biggest shoutout to props department in #severance because their attention to detail is simply out of this world. everything is so well-thought-out and feels so real and authentic to this universe
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DuckDuckGo is the best alternative search engine anonymous & doesn’t track your data
Proton Mail is a privacy/digital freedoms centered great alternative to Gmail
Brave Browser is a privacy browser alternative to Chrome
i suggest folks start migrating
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Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n
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LIVE: Many Americans have pressing questions about vaccines and their public health impact. I've brought together doctors and scientific experts to answer them. Join us. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1LyxBggNr…
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One last letter to James Woods:
When our house was bombed on October 28, 2023, I did not have a house or a safe place to go on the air and watch it bombed. I have not been able to return to the ruins on my house because my city is occupied. A friend of mine who was helping collect what we could find of the books was killed in January 2024. His name was Ma’rouf Al-Ashqar. He had a sweet voice and was an avid reader of Russian literature, especially Dostoevsky. Does this bother you?
My aunt’s house was bombed in October 2024. Her daughter was killed along with another 15 people, many still under the rubble until now. Does this mean anything to you?
How dare you get on the air and cry?!
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Now’s a good time to remember California JUST voted to keep unpaid/criminally underpaid prison labor (slavery) and that a lot of the people affected by that vote are the ones fighting to save our city right now. npr.org/2024/07/18/nx-s1-504…
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Fascinating that Demi Moore (THE SUBSTANCE) and Sebastian Stan (A DIFFERENT MAN) just won Golden Globes for movies about our often destructive relationship to our physical appearance. About the terrifying act of looking in the mirror trying to find the person you want to be.
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Sebastian Stan won a Golden Globe for "A Different Man" and told Hollywood that "our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now."
"We have to normalize it and continue to expose ourselves [and our children] to it. Encourage acceptance. One way we can do that is by continuing to champion stories that are inclusive.”
Read more here: variety.com/2025/film/news/s…
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virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions: “to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones”
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In this month’s issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE, “The Big Conversation: Writing (and Publishing) Disability” is free for all readers. Learn from @ProfJMale, @Keah_Maria, M. Leona Godin, and Sonya Huber about their experience writing about disability. writerschronicle.org/TWC/202…
ALT Two people, one in a wheelchair, looking at the sea, next to a quote from M. Leona Godin: Until we really have publishers and agents identifying as disabled and who get it, it’s going to be hard. It’s going to be harder than it should be.