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American Voices with Alicia Menendez and 2 others

Mar 28, 2021

So, I did a thing earlier this evening. Thank you

@AliciaOnMSNBC

for inviting me to talk about #FreeBritney #conservatorship #guardianship and alternatives like #AdvanceDirectives & #SupportedDecisionMaking and our work

@CTLegalRights

Screenshot from MSNBC: Kathy Flaherty, Connecticut Legal Rights Project, Executive Director. In the background, Dr Fauci bobblehead, PLinUSA scarf, and two signs (MUFC All Day and FCPS) by @RSGAT and canvas by @JKPaintsForGood

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IT’S TIME TO HUNT SOME BEARS 🐺

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Waiting in line for

@four_dads_pub

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Line outside of 4 dads pub for free pizza

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#Advanced

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Final score 4-0

WIN!

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SAY THANK YOU TO JAKE L FOR FREE PIZZA 4-0, us | 7:42 remaining in the game

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Looks like these bears (bruins) are heading home for the summer too 😃

Agree 💯 with this assessment. That statement is an absolute horror show

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Zito

@_Zeets

This is so evil, man. This is what happens when the language of mental health gets co-opted, now you can kill someone and portray it as a way to raise awareness for mental illness. This is incredible sick. twitter.com/phil_lewis_/st…

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HEY HEY HEY!! PIZZA PIZZA

scored 4 so we will be off to

@four_dads_pub

for some ‘za

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HEY HEY HEY that’s three! WE WANT PIZZA!!

just one more and we can go to

@four_dads_pub

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Gregg Gonsalves

@gregggonsalves

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And this should worry us all. Real lives are at stake and the White House is playing with fire, thinking that wishing our troubles away is sound public policy. End/

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HEY HEY HEY it’s a goal

up 2-0 so here’s the video from the first time we thought it counted [fans waving towels celebrating the goal]

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under review boooooooo

#mentalhealth #DisabilityRights #psychiatry #psychtwitter #involuntary #treatment #coercion

Mad In America

@Mad_In_America

17h

Scoping review highlights policy-level initiatives to promote voluntary care and #humanrights in mental healthcare.

@P_Gooding

madinamerica.com

Global Push for Human Rights in Mental Healthcare Gains Momentum

Scoping review highlights policy-level initiatives to promote voluntary care and human rights in mental healthcare.

1-0! HEY HEY HEY! Wave those towels,

fans!

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Let’s go

time for a bear hunt

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Talila "TL" Lewis

@talilalewis

13h

Being disturbed by &/or resisting injustice has always been labeled illness/crime & punished-esp when that injustice is the societal norm (slave codes, drapetomania, dysaesthesia aethiopica during enslavement; vagrant, noncompliant, disorderly, resisting in carceral-medical era)

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Thanks

for the rally towels! Go

#CalderCupPlayoffs

People waving their rally towels before the game

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Hartford City FC

@HartfordCityFC

10h

With 9 days to go until our NPSL season begins, we wanted to let people know that we intentionally select players with connections to Connecticut and southern New England. #areyouready

Walensky to Resign as C.D.C. Director

Dr. Thrasher, vérifièd

@thrasherxy

"We made this world a safer place,” the CDC director said...who presided over 700,000 deaths while continuously , prematurely, and purposefully rolling back things that would have lowered the level of death. The nerve of this people, it's only abt them.

nytimes.com

In an announcement on Friday, the head of the beleaguered agency said she would step down in June. “We made this world a safer place,” she said.

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NOW she’s out?

Coalition Fights Against Health Care Discrimination For Disabled, Older Adults | CT News Junkie #HUSKYC #FixIt

ctnewsjunkie.com

Coalition Fights Against Health Care Discrimination For Disabled, Older Adults | CT News Junkie

The Appropriations Committee had until today to raise the asset limit for low-income and disabled adults, but it didn’t. However, advocates are not giving up the fight.

Coalition Fights Against Health Care Discrimination For Disabled, Older Adults | CT News Junkie

The Appropriations Committee had until today to raise the asset limit for low-income and disabled adults, but it didn’t. However, advocates are not giving up the fight.

Advocates rally at the Capitol for HUSKY C expansion

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Advocates rally at the Capitol for HUSKY C expansion #FixIt

ctmirror.org

Supporters demanded increases to the strict income and asset limits that older and disabled residents must meet to qualify for Medicaid.

an excellent thread

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BlackSheepMaars

@BlackSheepMaars

May 4

What happens when your adopted child finds out they're adopted

*they question who they are. *they wonder where they came from. *they wonder why they were relinquished. *they think about their biological mother. *they wonder about their biological father.

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make it make sense

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Long Covid SOS

@LongCovidSOS

“The worst thing any country could do now is to ... let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about” @DrTedros Yet @WHO has declared #COVID19 is no longer a global health emergency 1/2

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Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

16h

one of the results of relentless copaganda is that so many people--capable of so much love and kindness in their own lives--link poverty, mental illness, or people hurting each other with the need for more cops. this is like linking climate change with needing more coal mining.

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Eric Reinhart

@_Eric_Reinhart

18h

I am 100% for Treatment Not Trauma, and it’s essential we insist that what needs to be treated isn’t always—or even the majority of the time—“mental illness” but rather poverty, homelessness, isolation, and hunger. Psychiatric treatment should be a second-order consideration.

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This is good advice.

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Keeks

@DietCoke_Esq

May 4

Advice to law students and students thinking about law school: start keeping a list of every place you've lived and worked since you were 18. It will save you years down the line when applying for the bar

Barbara Fair

- “they are here to represent US; we are not here to go along with their agenda. It is time for we the people to take our government back by holding politicians accountable for not keeping their promises after we vote for them” #PeoplesHearing

“We don’t ever have to ask for equity. We have to take it. We don’t have to demand it. It is ours. We just need to take it back.” - James Jeter, Full Citizens Coalition #PeoplesHearing

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Here in Room 310 of the Capitol building in Hartford for the first ever #PeoplesHearing here to learn from other orgs and to talk about SB 926

Graphic for the first ever People’s Hearing with a QR code Friday May 5 10-12:30 pm rm 310 of the Capitol. Convened by SWAA-CT, Full Citizens Coalition, Everyday Democracy, Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut and others

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CT should loosen Medicaid limits for people who are older or have disabilities, advocates say

Jen White-Johnson

@jtknoxroxs

18h

There is a reason we’re spreading #JordanNeely joyful photos and videos around the ether. It’s because unhoused people are twice as likely to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators. They're less likely to be believed when they try to report a crime.#JusticeForJordanNeely

Digital collage art showing a Black man, Jordan Neely smiling, he is dressed in a red jacket in the style of Micheal Jackson’s toy soldier Bad era. He is surrounded by a cascade of white roses that are covering his shoulders and waist. There is a golden circle halo behind his head. The collage is placed in a grey sparky background

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CT should loosen Medicaid limits for people who are older or have disabilities, advocates say | Connecticut Public #HUSKYC #FixIt

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Advocates are calling on the state to expand Medicaid access to more people who are older or have disabilities, saying it will help address disparities.

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