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Thank you!

will remember jay as the person who deleted lexi alexander and link, worked hard to cut palestinians off from their one chance at survival, ignored the ongoing abuse of Black and trans users, and then when confronted about the whole thing said 'waffles'. and for that fugly no caesars shirt.

This is new news to me

Peak attractive husband behavior.

*quality of life, ofc brain fog would lead to me blanking on a word.

Rarely will I share a disability story centering an at the time non-disabled person, but MY HEART! A GUY CREATED A MOBILITY SCOOTER TO IMPROVE HIS WIFE'S QUALITY LIFE. www.mlive.com/news/saginaw...

For sure. There are genuinely so many specifics about his lived experience with hearing loss (I am HoH myself, though not Deaf) that I do not know. I hope that either myself or someone else is able to do more thorough reporting.

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Welcome all the nuggets for a <500 word blog that out of length doesn't get into every nuance.

Also as a someone who was a 6-year-old who wore hearing aids....perfectly normal for people, including children, to want breaks from using them. So, if anyone has judgement for him not wearing them out @ his mother...don't

I did not see an ASL interpreter at a press conference on this issue (though I was there virutally and it could have been off screen) bsky.app/profile/ashl...

As I reported in February, the Department of Homeland Security now has just a few staff investigating civil rights complaints, meaning the department and its officials are unlikely to face any internal repercussions for their conduct—or any pressure to change course.

Unlike many other medical devices, most hearing aids are highly customized to an individual’s hearing loss, and quality hearing aids can cost thousands of dollars. (Some Deaf people choose rely entirely on signing; Rodriguez and his family’s proficiency in ASL or other sign languages is unclear)

ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

I did not

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

A friend and I used to joke that some Long Covid advocates who are newly disabled for the first time act like Long Covid is the first disability ever, which definitely harms multi-disabled folks. Felt this attitude was more prevalent in 2021-2022.

It is also unclear to me whether his mother knows any ASL

I'm watching a press conference, that's the source.

Deaf 6-year-old boy is deported to Colombia without his medical devices, attorney says A Hayward woman and her two young children were detained and deported to Colombia after they showed up earlier this week for an asylum appointment in San Francisco, her attorney said.

Rep Eric Swalwell just said that his staff went to Colombia to give this six year old his hearing aids back to him.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

Gonna double down with a reminder that if you post a screenshot of text from an article you should alt text it & link to the fucking article!!!! If you found it on the internet you should share the link!!! Do not force me to Nancy Drew my way back to the source by triangulating fonts w/news outlets.

How do you know if an autism organization is good? Not every autism organization helps autistic people. Here's how you can tell the difference, with examples.

I find this blog to be helpful, fyi thinkingautismguide.com/useful-autis...

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I have too many things I'm working on at the moment, so this will probably just be a post for now. I wonder if anyone from Autistic Self-Advocacy Network was even approached.

This press release doesn't mention the affiliation of two people (Singer, Lutz) involved in National Council on Severe Autism. That org is very controversial among many autistic advocates, and the absence of that feels like an attempt at sanitization.

Yes + her too

I was in Massachusetts when Sandy Hook happened and they locked all doors but the front for the rest of the year and had teachers take shifts manning the door...which felt like they wanted a teacher to be the first target of a shooter. Definitely in New England, Sandy Hook rattled many of us.

Michael Brown being killed + protests in Ferguson also happened prior to Trump's first run.