Labour MPs clearly despise experts as much as the Conservatives. How much do they know about the consequences of what they are voting on? Or do they really care? I suspect a mixture of the two.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/mps-to-vote-on-disability-benefit-cuts-without-knowing-full-impact

#UkPol #Labour #Ignorance #Disability #Hypocrisy

Fantastic news! Long Covid research grants restored due to the efforts of advocates all over the country.

Never let anyone silence you or convince you that your voice doesn’t matter.

We all have power, and even those of us who are disabled can make a difference in our own way.

Speak up, demand accountability and work together. Change is possible!

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/update-recover-long-covid-pathobiology-grants-restored/

#uspoli #longcovid #nhs #hhs #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #chronicillness #disability

Hell, even if someone wants to wear a mask to avoid pollen (due to hayfever) that should be okay!

And it should definitely be okay to wear a mask to avoid a virus! (flu, Covid, etc)

No. Mask. Bans. Ever!

#NoMaskBan #Covid19 #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Ableism #Eugenics #Disability

See? Rachael Reeves and her underling Mr Jones who regard PIP as ‘pocket money’ should be made personally responsible for this poor mans death in awful circumstances.
Reinstate those cuts to disabled benefits now. It was an abhorrent thing to do; and it;s going to cost a lot more lives.
#rachelreeves #disability #PocketMoney. https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114245186272495590

Some might think that cuts for the disabled are something which don't impact them as they are not disabled. Cuts to cold weather payments for the elderly don't matter as they are not old. Policies which cause poverty for our children don't matter as their children are not impacted or maybe they don't have kids.

We need a more caring society which is repulsed by targeting the most vulnerable while the rich live in luxury.

Who's next if we say or do nothing?

#disability
#WealthInequality

Long Covid will cost the economy trillions of dollars. The economic devastation of a mass disabling event can not be overstated.

Yet more funding has been cut, including to a project that was nearing completion.

The reason? Its a “waste of time”

The only reason to believe this is because you don’t care about Covid, you certainly don’t care about Long Covid and you’re preparing to leave the chronically ill behind.

https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/NIH-cancels-RECOVER-grants-long/103/web/2025/03

#longcovid #chronicillness #uspoli #disability #covidisnotover #covidisairborne

This is brilliant! TV by people with learning disabilities, in Bergen, Norway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-AdlJkDt6s

#norway #disability #DownsSyndrome #DownSyndrome #inclusion #media

If you are disabled, a friendship with you too often feels transactional to others who are abled.

You exchange your friendship with them. They exchange their friendship, plus the accommodations you need.

This feels uneven to them. You owe them. They are putting in extra effort and want to be compensated.

That is what it has felt like to me, anyway. I am too much effort with an unequal return on their investment.

#ActuallyAutistic #Disability

I love this yoga teacher for focusing on making yoga routines that are accessible to people with chronic illness and/or disability. Monetta Wilson is starting a 2-week bed yoga wellness challenge on April 1.

Check it out:

https://monettawilson.com/bedyoga

#yoga #disability #wellness #exercise #ChronicIllness

Abbott skewers Starmer on cuts

Keir #Starmer has been urged to stop referring to his plans to slash the benefits budget by billions as being “moral”

Mother of the House Diane Abbott told Starmer, “there is nothing moral” about taking an axe to social security net

“This is not about #morality, this is about the Treasury’s wish to balance the country’s books on the back of the most #vulnerable & #poor people in this society.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25020810.diane-abbott-skewers-keir-starmer-benefits-cuts/

#NotLabour #disability #illness #LabourLies

You know what might actually help some of us work? A council-run trades service.

I need a weekly cleaner who will actually turn up. I need a plasterer without the ringing round trying to get quotes. I need a decorator without the searching and trying to get recommendations. I need someone I can call to change lightbulbs I can't safely reach and hook the curtain back on its rings.

I'd happily pay the going rate for the work if it got rid of the headaches.

#Disability #LongCovid #BenefitCuts

"..what is the point of the Labour party?

Well, the point, it seems, is to be as not-Labour as possible, and that purpose was fashioned in a battle against those on the left of the party, rather than its desire to be the canny custodian of leftwing politics once in power. It is as simple as that"

Nesrine Malik spot on, once again. We on the left warned everyone...

#Labour #UKPolitics #BenefitCuts #PIP #Disability

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-tory-radical-prime-minister-poor-people

Labour MPs need to grow a shiny spine and either vote against or resign from the party. Abstentions mean nothing now. #UKPolitics #Labour #Disability

Tune in for this evening's #Scotlandat7 with @douglasmackenzie.bsky.social and @ronniecowan.bsky.social discussing the latest Scottish and international news, including #Gaza, #Ukraine️, Cmal, #disability cuts, and #scotgov investment in renewablesy. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/scotland-at-...

Scotland at 7 - 17/03/2025 - B...

I wrote a guest article for Healthy Debate that looks at why we need mandatory masks in healthcare, why surgical masks aren’t enough, and how the mounting threats to public health are putting lives at risk.

If you’re a healthcare worker, mask up.

Show us you take your oath to “do no harm” seriously

https://healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topic/wear-mask-plea-health-care-workers/

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #longcovid #pandemic #publichealth #wearamask #n95 #measles #h5n1 #keepmasksinhealthcare #chronicillness #disability

"Labour’s proposed reforms appear to be based not just on budgeting, but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else)"
Frances Ryan, excellent as usual.

#Labour #Disability #PIP #Benefits #UKPolitics
Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/disabled-people-labour-benefits-system

The world needs more disabled journalists and writers.

We bring a unique perspective that is needed during these increasingly tumultuous times.

Heartbroken to see a disabled student lose their funding for accommodations because the school deemed them “too disabled” to have a feasible career in journalism.

This is systemic ableism. People think they can tell us what we can or can’t do.

He was described as an excellent writer, and he deserved the chance to get his degree and fulfill his dream.

It’s also a perfect example of the catch 22 many disabled people find themselves in. Often denied or judged for needing benefits and told to “get a job!”, while subsequently being told that we’re too disabled to merit giving a job.

https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/local/north-dakota-supreme-court-rules-against-dsu-students-claim

#ableism #disability #discrimination #disabilityjustice #disabilityrights

#StarmerIsALiar #UKPolitics #Disability

Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers.

We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the financial support to leave. We may also be physically dependent on the abuser for basic activities of daily living.

Many disability benefits are cut if you marry or cohabitate, which further enforces dependency.

For International Women’s Day help us fight for a universal basic income, better social and medical support and access so that we may regain as much autonomy as possible.

#IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #disability #disabilityrights #ableism #ubi #autonomy #abuse

Prior to Covid it was normal to mask in the NICU. People understood that premature babies are as vulnerable as they come and need to protected.

Now? Gowns & gloves but no masking.

The damage caused by anti mask rhetoric will be felt for years (possibly decades) to come.

Mask mandates belong in healthcare. We should be providing free respirators at the door & cleaning and ventilating the air.

If you’re a healthcare worker who doesn’t think you need to mask, please read my plea on behalf of vulnerable patients:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers

We know masks in healthcare stop the spread of airborne disease. We know they reduce the risk of hospital acquired COVID (which has a 10% mortality rate).

We know respirators work even better.

So why aren’t we masking? Why are patients having to bear the brunt of infection control?

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/we-need-mandatory-masking-in-healthcare

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #longcovid #chronicillness #ableism #eugenics #keepmasksinhealthcare #disability

Ok, one last ditch attempt with for crowdsourcing social work (and please do forgive me if I don't have spoons to reply to your toots, if there even are any).

I'd need a tax lawyer in Ireland (the Republic, that is) who understands disability pensions their international taxation, and could help me pro bono. Due to circumstances I can't affect, Ireland pays a miserly amount of disability pension to me and every year there's some issues with my tax returns. The tax officials are useless, they give me different instructions every time I contact them. As said, I'm on minimum disability pension so I don't have the means to hire anyone to help me with this.

And before anyone suggests these, I've contacted the tax authorities, I've contacted the citizen information and all these other "free" services, each and every one has refused to help me as I am not Irish, I don't live in Ireland, and I'm not even a tax resident in Ireland, and stating that my case is too complicated for them.

And please do not offer your own "well you should do this" or "shouldn't do that" advice, unless you are, in fact, a tax lawyer in Ireland. My apologies for brashness here, but I've dealt with too much goodhearted advice as is in the last few years and don't have spoons to go through those now.

#ireland #disability #actuallyautistic #autism

@actuallyautistic

There’s measles outbreaks in multiple States now, and every time a new cluster is announced there’s an exposure at an ER

Why? Because that’s where the sick people go

It’s one of the reasons disabled people often say they won’t go to the ER unless literally dying.

They’re not safe places for us:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/i-wont-go-to-the-er-unless-im-literally

#disability #chronicillness #disabilityrights #ableism #eugenics #healthcare #measles #COVIDisAirborne #keepmasksinhealthcare

There’s so much going on in the world that we can’t control.

The Covid pandemic gave way to rising fascism, just like the pandemics that have come before.

People are scared. Many lost loved ones. Society changed overnight. The loss of control that many felt allowed bad actors to rise up and capitalize on people’s fear.

No matter what our governments say or do, Covid isn’t over. It’s still killing and disabling people.

What’s worse, the pro infection crowd has become so loud and emboldened that vaccine uptake is down, masks are vilified and we’re seeing a resurgence of diseases like measles and tuberculosis.

Despite all the infectious disease threats out there, we still don’t have mandatory masks in healthcare.

The one place people absolutely can’t avoid, the place they should have a reasonable expectation of safety, has become one of the least safe public spaces.

Patients are being infected trying to access basic healthcare, because staff refuse to mask. Refuse to test. Refuse to isolate.

It’s eugenics, and we need people to realize it before it’s too late.

We need mandatory masks in healthcare. We must protect patients AND staff. We must protect even the ones who refuse to protect themselves.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/we-need-mandatory-masking-in-healthcare

#uspoli #pandemic #publichealth #fascism #masks #n95 #chronicillness #disability #ableism #eugenics #covidisairborne #covidisnotover

With Israel blocking all aid from entering again, food will be very scarce and expensive this Ramadan; if you have anything to spare, please help this family 🙏❤️🍉🇵🇸🕊️ #MutualAid #MABoost #HelpSky #Ramadan #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaAid #HelpPeopleLive #HelpPeopleSurvive #disability

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sppuswomkwqw7o6yl3imuuta/post/3lghf2wjacs2a

Help Randa's Family flee war in Sudan

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-family-flee-sudans-war

#Disability #TalkAboutSudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #EyesOnSudan #Sudan #BlackMutualAid #MutualAid #DisabilityMutualAid #DisabledMutualAid

Support Al Afya's Road to Recovery and Her family.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-al-afyas-road-to-recovery

#Disability #EyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #TalkAboutSudan #DisabilityMutualAid #DisabledMutualAid #MutualAid #Sudan

"Beyond immediate suffering, war leaves a lasting impact on survivors’ health. Respiratory diseases from inhaling dust and smoke, chronic skin infections, and infectious diseases like hepatitis A have become part of daily life in Gaza. Food insecurity and malnutrition not only carry the risk of food poisoning but also weaken the immune system, increasing vulnerability to illnesses and harsh living conditions. Patients with genetic or chronic health conditions like diabetes and diseases like cancer also face the consequences of not having access to life-saving treatment for more than a year.

These illnesses are not just temporary; their physical and psychological effects will accompany the patient for a long time, if not for life. The lack of access to treatment and resources in hospitals forces doctors and nurses to prioritize certain cases over others based on their severity. The situation is anything but humane."

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/diseases-of-war-the-hidden-scars-of-gaza/

#Palestine #FreePalestine #Disability #Gaza

survival funds

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-for-a-car-to-return-to-work

#Disability #DisabledMutualAid #DisabilityMutualAid #MutualAid

Help Syrian refugees stuck in Greece

https://ko-fi.com/davidsting

#Disability #DisabledMutualAid #DisabilityMutualAid #Refugee #Syria #MutualAid

Save Hashem from blood cancer

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-child-overcome-cancer

#Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #MutualAid #Cancer #Disability

Help support Long COVID Recovery- Surgeries

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-my-surgeries-living-expenses

#LongCovid #Covid #Cancer #Disability #DisabilityMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #MutualAid

A Plea For My Dear Friend: PalaKeda

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-plea-for-my-dear-friend-palakeda

#MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAid

This person has long covid and needs help getting insulin! theyre at 185 out of 300!

https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=BXUXQPHMY6CSL

#MutualAid #Disability #Diabetes #LongCovid

Milla's healing and recovery fund

https://www.gofundme.com/f/millas-healing-recovery-from-surgery

#MutualAid #Disability

Help A Disabled Nonbinary Latine who was recently laid off

https://ko-fi.com/quinnntastic/goal?g=45

#MutualAid #Disability #DisabledMutualAid

Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a-garcia-pay-for-cancer-expenses

#MutualAid #Cancer #Disability #DisabilityMutualAid #BlackMutualAid

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Support Ahmad's Family's Journey to Safety

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ahmads-familys-journey-to-safety

#Palestine #FreePalestine #MutualAid #Cancer #Disability

Long COVID Essentials

a resource sheet series
by The Sick Times x Long COVID Justice

short link to this page: tiny.cc/LCE

https://longcovidjustice.org/long-covid-essentials/

#LongCovid #Covid #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #Disability #Health

(U.S. Specific)
Find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

https://projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

#Health #Disability

"To help while in between jobs and struggling." (5/175)

https://ko-fi.com/rattobeec/goal?g=5

#MutualAid #Disability #DisabledMutualAid