Gretchen Maune
Blind. Accessibility wonk for the UUA. Lover of sci-fi books, black olives, animals, humans, and iced coffee. Skeets are mine. CPACC #A11Y #Autistic
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- I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneIndividuals with disabilities are allowed to be accompanied by their service animals in all areas of public facilities and private businesses where members of the public are allowed to go. Learn more here: adata.org/faq/what-must-i-do-… #ADA
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneReminder that Anne Frank died not in the gas chamber but of typhus.
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneSpead the good word!!! Absolutely phenomenal outcome in Texas, in a county Dems haven’t won since Bush 1 was president.
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneI just woke up to the news that independent journalist Georgia Fort was arrested by Federal agents for filming the protest at the church in Minneapolis. She went live #FreeGeorgia
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneThe worst thing about scientists moving the hands of the doomsday clock forward is having to adjust the time on the doomsday clock in your car.
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- Reposted by Gretchen MauneIf this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneI mean it’s true that there are “paid agitators” in Minneapolis. There are 3000 of them and they’ve assassinated two people.
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- Reposted by Gretchen MauneI’m still waiting on the “don’t tread on me” crowd to be as mad about armed masked men breaking down doors without warrants as they were about wearing a mask to Applebee’s…
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneStop using ring cameras! Ffs. futurism.com/future-socie...
- Lies, they're called lies. 
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneI'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneSweden becomes the first country to ban all AI music from their official charts! Huge win!
- FYI– in my experience, most people do not realize this. 
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneSTAR TREK HAS GONE WOKE! SESAME STREET HAS GONE WOKE! STAR WARS HAS GONE WOKE! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE HAS GONE WOKE! Nothing will ever be funnier to me than these dipshits getting mad about shit that’s been “woke” since it’s been in existence.
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- @gaelynnlea.bsky.social Hi Gaelynn! I'm facilitating a zoom soon to teach Unitarian Universalists about increasing accessibility at their congregations, and I'd like to play some of your awesome music via youtube. Is that ok with you? I'll encourage ppl to buy your albums and preorder your book!
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- Well, shit. I'm still going to keep dreaming! 
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- Just heard, "Click on the image directly below this text to access a screen reader #accessible pdf." 😞
- Can anyone recommend a dating app that has more leftists on it? Bonus points if ppl tend to write more, & even more bonus points if it's accessible! ❤️🤞🏻
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- Reposted by Gretchen MauneICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.
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- Reposted by Gretchen MauneMagic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
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- Reposted by Gretchen MauneThe story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
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- "Don't let the bastards grind you down."
- For my hero of 2025 at @motherjones.com, I wrote about the late great disabled disability justice oracle Alice Wong, including her work with Disability Visibility Project, Crips for eSims for Gaza, and #CripTheVote. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneFaith communities are often portrayed as uniformly opposed to trans, intersex, & nonbinary people. The response to a recent landmark interfaith statement tells a different story — with 1,000+ people of faith and major religious leaders speaking out. Read more & add your voice: bit.ly/4qjrlNk
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Gretchen MauneWhen you say that “only the sick kids die from the measles”… you’re telling sick and disabled people that they’re expendable. You’re telling them their lives don’t matter. That vaccinating to protect them is too high a price. That’s eugenics. Also, healthy kids die from measles too.
- First go around I heard a polar bear in a Chinese suit.
- Reposted by Gretchen MauneFact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.
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- Just finished Ancestral Night by @matociquala.bsky.social last night and I'm so glad I read/listened to it. I love the world, or rather, galaxy, technology, and characters so much, and I just wish I could spend more time with them.
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- Reposted by Gretchen MauneTrans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
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