Amy Ashida

Service Designer, feminist, foodie. SVA IxD Alum. Currently leading the @gsa_tts Public Benefits Studio. Former 18F. All thoughts/opinions my own. She/her.

[Jessica Kantrowitz 🍁🍂 @jfkantrowitz]

Hello, friends! I’m going to spend the next half hour or so tweeting a thread of short benedictions, speaking peace over our minds, our bodies, our relationships, etc. In between each tweet I’ll close my eyes and breathe deeply for a minute or two. You’re welcome to join me.

[Amy Ashida @amyashida]

Tax issues in CO are ballot issues because of TABOR. Feeding kids shouldn’t be something we vote on. Let’s just feed kids, okay?

But since we have to vote, show up for kids.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

[Bring Our Neighbors Home ⚖ @BONH_Coalition]

ON THE COLORADO BALLOT IN NOVEMBER:
🍎Healthy Meals for All🥪 will ask voters to approve a change in high-income tax deductions to provide free meals to all students in Colorado public schools.

[Salaam Bhatti @SalaamBhattiVA]

Thrilled to hear that @USDA expanded SNAP online shopping to over 1200 stores.

This is significant because in 2020, only 35k SNAP households shopped online. In July 2022 - over 3 MILLION SNAP households shopped online.

[Generations United @GensUnited]

@GensUnited supports @CenterOnBudget's plea Congress pass a stopgap measure that protects @SocialSecurity beneficiaries from financial harm. #CR #ContinuingResolution https://t.co/QVJl3gsulE

[Amy Ashida @amyashida]

Spoiler alert: people are the hard part.

[UX Magazine @uxmag]

70% of digital transformation initiatives did not reach their intended goal, leaving a total of $900 billion mispent. Learn one author’s perspective on possible causes of these fails in @uxmag — https://t.co/redRKEa1nd #ux #cx #design #digitaltransformation

[The Sunday Long Read @sundaylongread]

We're so excited to announce our newest contributing cartoonist—Reza Farazmand, a New York Times-bestselling author, cartoonist, and creator of the popular internet comic series “Poorly Drawn Lines" (@PDLComics). Enjoy his debut strip for The SLR!

[Rohan the Lump is writing books @RohanTheMajesty]

Had to explain to my mother that the guy panhandling outside the hiring grocery store probably doesn't have a home address or a vehicle and that's why he can't get a job there, and she was STUNNED to know those things are requirements.

[Ray Myers @lambdapocalypse]

Avoid implementing processes that rely on people remembering to follow them.

[Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived) @RepBarbaraLee]

Thank you @POTUS for this Executive Order paving the way for Medicaid to pay for out-of-state abortions—a critical step to accessibility.

Even under Roe, people of color and those with low incomes weren’t guaranteed access to care. Abortion must be legal AND accessible.

[Aniyia ❤️ @operaqueenie]

Should we always fill up the gains we get from tech with more productivity from humans?

We’re already stressed the fuck out.

Maybe we need to relax a little. Maybe it’s time for us to rethink how people contribute to society.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

Greg Abbott claimed Texas provides expectant mothers “necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child,” but it is now one of a dwindling number of states not to offer Medicaid coverage for a full year after residents give birth. https://t.co/H61HpZofnC

[Women's Media Center @womensmediacntr]

“We only recognize the broken bones and the killings as violence, and that is where we’re off track, and that is where I think we need to think differently as a public.” https://t.co/9JjaxjdBuH

[Amahra Spence @amahra_]

⚡️Announcing the Radical Imagination Cypher⚡️

Across 5 days, we'll be joined by dope practitioners exploring the gritty pragmatics of how we transform the cultural sector into an ecology that's life-affirming.

https://t.co/Vx6sicSRu3

[Amy Ashida @amyashida]

An amazing org doing amazing work… soon to be near you?

[City Bureau @city_bureau]

🥳🎉We’re excited to share big news!🥳🎉

City Bureau and the #DocumentersNetwork won the Stronger Democracy Award which will bring $10 million of funding to expand our participatory civic media network across the country.

Here we go! 🧵 (1/9)

[chris xu @xuhulk]

Happy last day of Pride month! If you’d like one last hurrah, please join me in $upporting the brilliant @thebestsophist as they prepare for gender affirming surgery in August!

https://t.co/RsPSPmKhyB

[Jessica Kantrowitz 🍁🍂 @jfkantrowitz]

Peace to those who lost the day’s thread early
stumbled forward forgetful
tried, failed to focus

To those still trying
& those who have given up till Monday
or maybe August

To those who seek a peaceful evening
surrounded by the day’s minutia
toys & take out
notes & lists

Peace

[Y A H E L @YahelNYC]

Jane Elliot on Banning Abortion and Racism
#thebirthdearthbook #PlannedParenthood #racism #abortion #SupremeCourt

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

In 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?

[Dr. CBS @drcbs_]

“Resilience” is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.