MaeQuez

A person

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

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[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@OmahKhemikal @Mr_Husky1 They do not roll out the red carpet for protestors. They used to bust heads, now they bust heads and shoot people.

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@Judyw561 @Mr_Husky1 @DisbldUrbanFarm In nature, including humans, the disabled were killed at birth or left behind when they could not keep up.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.

They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.

Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.

The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.

The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.

By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.

According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.

The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.

Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.

Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.

The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.

She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.

She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.

They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.

The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.

The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.

Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

They name-drop Jesus, but govern like Caesar.

This cruelty isn’t incidental; it’s their strategy.

Bc if you convince the scared voting majority that powerless minorities are the enemy, you never have to explain why amoral billionaires are running the government.
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[PBS News @NewsHour]

In his second administration, President Trump’s family, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest.

@ElizLanders reports.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

No more taxpayer dollars to support Netanyahu and his extremist Israeli government.

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@papajoeone @mjfree @CheriJacobus I've had two rapture parties, on the days evangelicals said the rapture was coming. We celebrated their leaving, but dang it, both times they were still there the next day!

[j beck @grannygrande]

@mjfree @WhiteHouse @SpeakerJohnson @SecWar @VP @GOP @HouseGOP @POTUS @PressSec @SenateGOP @FoxNews @NEWSMAX @OANN

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@hey_ray42 @mjfree @StillADog He actually held the Bible upside down that day.

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@FredMaahs @mjfree @joncoopertweets They can do it because so many of them are the same as he is, just much poorer.

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@BigDrea11518388 @sharona_mi @mjfree @kangaroos991 That was when the Democratic Party was different and the Republicans were still more progressive. In 1968 the parties switched in values as Southern Christian and working-class bigots left the Dems en masse for the Republicans. They were not Jews either; Jews were not welcome.

[Mai Sharona @sharona_mi]

@mjfree @kangaroos991 we’ve seen this show before

[Cane Fields @bluewavemaui]

@mjfree

[Arthur Dent™ @ArthurDent__TM]

@mjfree

[DanC ₿ @decentralised82]

@mjfree Who are the religious fanatics again ??

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@riggedsystems @Complex Irrelevant. Her divorce settlement was *her* money. That's why she got it. She married Bezos before he was rich and was his legal spouse and legal partner throughout the entire period of growing Amazon into the empire it became. By law, she owned 50% of it.

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@SnarkyMushroom @SenWarren We all pay other taxes too. We pay SSA taxes, Medicare taxes, county taxes, city taxes, property taxes, & depending on where we live, many of us also pay sales & state income taxes. Still, we pay fed incomes taxes, so why shouldn't behemoth companies pay taxes on their profits?

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@BeverlyPee94692 @JamesTate121 If the American tax payers pay for them and they do not all sell, what happens then? Is it a loss for the U.S. mint?

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@PsyberMind @JamesTate121 @mkitchin63 No, they have not.

[MaeQuez @mae_quez]

@kratt71 @PsyberMind @JamesTate121 @mkitchin63 No $2 bill has ever had anyone but Thomas Jefferson printed on it, and there is no $3 bill.