Elena Betts Barahona
@ebettsb.bsky.social
👩🏻🌾 Love: Nature // Animals // Permaculture // Gardening 👩🏻🦼➡️ Disabled ♾️ // #chronicallyill #PwME #MECFS #POTS #LymphomaSurvivor #neurodivergent // 📚 Education for Liberation Mamá // Latinx & White // #español she/her
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“The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is partnering with StoryCorps to tell a more diverse and holistic story of the pandemic as told by the people who lived through it. You’re invited to take part!” 😷🐮 storycorps.org/covid-19-ame...
If your family is forced to change clinics as a result of Trump's executive order, the Trans Youth Emergency Project from @SouthernEquality is here to help you through this crisis. Reach out to their team for support: www.transyouthemergencyproject.org #ProtectTransKids #SupportTransKids
Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥 Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.
Check out our latest resource: Strategies for Justice! Discover actionable steps to combat democratic erosion, disinformation, & the marginalization of vulnerable communities. View at www.crdjustice.org/infographics. [1/2]
[THREAD]: We're fighting for justice and accessible healthcare. Proposed Medicaid cuts and work requirements threaten decades of progress, putting millions at risk. This isn’t just policy—it’s about justice, equity, and the right to quality care for all. (1/9) #MedicaidMatters
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:
A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients
If you see a mask - wear a mask. Better yet - wear a mask all the time and show us you understand that we're still IN a pandemic. We are depending on you to keep us safe - please don't betray that.
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Now would be an excellent time to start wearing a respirator. Do it as a show of solidarity with those who’ve spent five years being told they’re expendable Do it for yourself. You don’t want to become disabled in the MAHA era Your health is a gift. You have agency and resilience. Don’t waste it
the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*
Such a powerful & clear connection made by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social “They sold your bodies downriver, because your bodies, when they are sick and disabled, are profit centers. Are we figuring it out yet?” 💯😡 #covidisntover #maskup #disabilityjustice #luigimangione www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYq9Emjr/
And disabled people have been shouting this since 2020. #greenscreen
TikTok video by Crutches&Spice ♿️ :
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So if we are serious about preventing #LongCOVID (& we must be w/ no approved treatments), we have to do more to prevent #COVID19 infection: 👉Clean the air (demand ⬆️ indoor air quality standards, build #CorsiRosenthalBox, open 🪟) 👉#WearAMask 👉#GetVaccinated #MedSky
😷 Here’s what’s happening this week in #LongCOVID research: bit.ly/49vz57L 💌 Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter and get updates delivered directly to your inbox every week! thesicktimes.org/newsletter/
Oh to be someone whose medications fit on a single tiny ass line