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@elizejackson

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 6

    My TED Talk brings all the crips to the yard.

    4 replies 13 retweets 25 likes
  2. 2 hours ago

    I may have unknowingly secured Medicare coverage for countless disabled and elderly Americans. Is the success mine?

    1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
  3. 13 hours ago

    HIDA !

    1 reply
  4. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    Yes.

    Can we start calling them the "Baby Doomer" generation?
    15 retweets 59 likes
  5. 20 hours ago

    "The longer something takes, the longer it will last."

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  6. 22 hours ago

    Overheard on crowded subway "can I get in here too? I gotta go get married". Full on tux, searching the other door for bride.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    IMPORTANT ACTION NEEDED

    Folks, if you're wondering what to do now that Comey has testified: DEFCON 5 ON TRUMPCARE. ALL HANDS ON DECK. Timeline & how to fight: 1/
    6 replies 301 retweets 339 likes
  8. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    Congrats to Huertomanias, an organic garden cooperative in Quito, Ecuador, the May awardee from !

    2 retweets 4 likes
  9. Jun 8

    Thank you for your curiosity

    Thank you for your heartfelt personal interview at . .com readers stay tuned...
    10 likes
  10. Jun 8

    Please write about this !!

    You know Dianne Feinstein means business when she breaks out the seersucker.
    1 reply 1 retweet
  11. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    . "We are disabled not by our bodies but by the world around us. It is a social construct"

    44 retweets 63 likes
  12. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    delivered a beautiful and human talk here at

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  13. Retweeted
    Jun 6

    My favorite picture EVER of someone bringing a dog "in a bag" on the subway 😂😂

    219 replies 20,894 retweets 65,037 likes
  14. Retweeted
    Jun 5

    number of women quoted in article: 0

    Dems to Clinton: Stay out of the spotlight
    234 replies 2,297 retweets 6,199 likes
  15. Retweeted
    Jun 5

    Absolutely essential reading for journos who write on disability, and for readers of articles on disability who want to read critically.

    I wrote a critique of the WaPo's disability coverage. As an industry, we have to do better
    19 retweets 26 likes
  16. Jun 5

    Given West Elm's quality issues () I fear Brett may follow in Drexler's footsteps.

  17. Retweeted
    Jun 5
    Replying to

    one of the 8th graders who refused to pose with Paul Ryan wrote an op-ed and frankly it rules

    96 replies 3,863 retweets 7,711 likes
  18. Retweeted
    Jun 5

    I wrote a critique of the WaPo's disability coverage. As an industry, we have to do better

    13 replies 109 retweets 118 likes
  19. Retweeted
    Jun 4

    This sounds very much like one of my suggestions. NV has a similar policy.

    New York wants to blacklist health insurers from Medicaid if they withdraw from the Obamacare exchange.
    13 replies 227 retweets 613 likes
  20. Jun 4

    Lessons from my latest depression: Disenfranchisement kills creative thinking. And curiosity is a symbol of hope.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jun 3

    Thread. Everything you never wanted to know about SSI & SSDI, but probably should have before reporting on it.

    I'M REALLY ANGRY ABOUT THIS ARTICLE
    18 retweets 21 likes

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