@BookerGWash@AdryEm1 When the government cuts funding for health, food, education for children and then spends billions of dollars to bomb children in the middle east, do you not see those things as connected? I care about the middle east (in part) because I want that money to feed our kids!
@KYPrincessExile@scotmum1@SarahSaysWhatev@cecelou18@benjaminpenn I'm in the US and programs I work with that help disabled kids (developmental disabilities like DS) stay at home with their families and stay in schools, are being explicitly targeted to be defuned and shuttered by the Trump admin. This memo is completely in line with that.
@KYPrincessExile@cecelou18@benjaminpenn Deeply ironic considering one of the first big people to push for the de-institutionalization of people with disabilities was RFK! And now his namesake is helping lead the charge to putting them back in.
@KYPrincessExile@cecelou18@benjaminpenn Well, becaus they are trying to defund everything to do with disablity? Specifically programs that help keep people with disabilities like ASD and Down Syndrome at home and in their communities, rather than in institutions. https://t.co/UbSAMmPtO5
The actual report is worth taking a look at. This is one of the worst things I have ever read. We cannot defend this. We cannot provide material support to make this possible.
An independent U.N. commission said that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide.
The commission said it found a pattern of behavior that reflected a strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians. https://t.co/SndPKA1jDL
@SadiesMopingBed@washingtonpost "At least 5,031 children under five years were killed during this period, of whom 1,029 children were under the age of one, and some 420 were newborns.32"
@SadiesMopingBed@washingtonpost No. They define children the way everyone does, people under the age of 18. Many of the specific children they identify as having been targeted by and killed by the IDF are under the age of 10.
https://t.co/hdD6KyJG9y
@SadiesMopingBed@washingtonpost “You will die, your children will die, your grandchildren will die – there won’t be a Palestinian state, there won’t be.” - Hanoch Milwidsky, Member of the Knesset (Likud) on 21 February 2024.27
@bentleyliz2 Completely. My mom/extended family is Catholic! But they systematically exclude women from positions of power on the basis of gender! They are explictly NEVER changing that! There is wide-scale child abuse and rape as a result.