#Disabled

"They can just raise the price of a burger 25 cents to cover the new wage."If restaurants could raise prices with no consequence to sales, wouldn't they already have done
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Republicans are trying to throw out 100,000+ votes cast at drive-in voting centers in Harris County. I went to one yesterday. Voters use the exact same voting equipment that is
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I think that everyone - neurotypical or neurodivergent - should consider how hard parenting might be before becoming a parent. That doesn’t mean “reconsider it!!”. It means... think about how
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This is a map of Black population density as a percentage of population in each area in the United States. The South ain’t Red, folks. It’s suppressed. Don’t pray for
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On one hand marriage helped people in a lot of ways(medical care, affirming their partnership, etc), on the other hand it’s a capitalistic and patriarchal system designed like other things
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The neurodivergence paradigm started with autism, and later came to encompass common conditions like AD/HD and dyslexia, but it can’t and shouldn’t end there. I’ve been thinking about this issue
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ableism : how it looks and ways to help, a thread made by a hyper functioning autistic person let’s start with the meaning of ableism: ableism is discrimination and social
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If I never again have to read a tweet/facebook post/comment assertingsome version of "if you're so pro-life how many kids have you adopted?" it will still be too soon honestly.Adoption
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Non Black people, for just a second I am begging you to put aside the stan culture you call a personality for just a second and think about this. Think
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A brief note to my fellow journalists who write about covid and health... Your work bringing attention to long covid is essential. Thank you. 1/7 My own recovery has given
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And, like I've said, word lists aren't really enough or the point.You can think you're not ableist because you've memorized the word lists and faithfully substitute okay'ed words, but you
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This whole thread hits on a lot of my feelings about TLOU2. I also have a LOT of thoughts about how the game tries (unsuccessfully, imo) to reckon with the
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Hear me out: What if we made local councillor a full time job with proper pay, rather than treating vital local decision-making as a hobby horse for retired and/or wealthy
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Aunt Jemima suddenly #woke. If you spend your entire life finding things to be offended about, you'll never LIVE. (FYI to any detractors: I was around to witness the remaking
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Why I support anarcho-zionism, a thread: First of all, we must talk about Israel and it's non-aggression which fits right into libertarian politics. Israel is a state that is almost
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This obsession with government being run “like a business” has got to die. They literally have opposite goals! Government should exist to create equity. The whole point is that the
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