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Like I know we flee here from the smouldering ruin of our civilisation at the moment but I as a mid-40s year old need you guys to know

Netanyahu has been saying Iran is close to nuclear weapons for 30 years

He has wanted a war with Iran that whole time

The "they have nuclear weapons" was the reason the allied west invaded and flattened Iraq in 2003 and it also turned out to be a lie

Tulsi Gubbard who is the head of US Intelligence signed a statement less than two weeks ago confirming it is America's belief that Iran is not currently pursuing nuclear weapons

Talks between the US and Irani delegation were expected to take place on Sunday, and the Irani lead negotiator was interviewed as saying he felt positively about the possibility of a new deal

Netanyahu bombed Iran and killed that exact negotiator on Friday.

There is heaps of footage of Netanyahu claiming Iraq had WMD/nukes, he was a lead proponent of the war on Iraq.

History is fucking repeating and it is MADDENING. I was at protests against the Iraqi invasion in 2002/2003. We all knew there were no nukes. US and Israel wanted regime change in Iraq anyway so they could install puppets and that's exactly what they're doing in Iran.

People will study this period in history and go, "WHY DID NO ONE STOP NETANYAHU AND ISRAEL IN GAZA, IRAN AND THE WIDER MIDDLE EAST? WHY DID THE MEDIA NOT COMMENT ON THE FACT ISRAEL HAS NUKES AND HASN'T SIGNED A TREATY BUT IS CLAIMING TO BE UPSET ABOUT A FICTIONAL SITUATION WHERE OTHER COUNTRIES ARE APPARENTLY DOING THE SAME?"

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Chuck Palahniuk, oof

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related to my last post but a lot of the examples i listed of ways that cops might arrest wheelchair users (lifting us out of our chairs, trashing our chairs, etc) are really fucking dangerous for wheelchair users and can lead to severe injury or death!

it's dangerous for untrained people to try to attempt a lift, especially when they don't fucking care about protecting your safety and might have already beat you up. for wheelchair users who have specific positioning and seating needs, getting placed in a basic jail provided wheelchair might lead to pressure sores, neck injuries, dislocations, and more.

as a wheelchair user who's gotten beaten up by cops multiple times, this shit can turn serious really fucking fast.

having as much information as possible means that we can make more informed decisions about what risks we can take, advocate for our currently incarcerated comrades, and can prepare for the kind of support we might need after an arrest.

i am really tired of abled organizers refusing to acknowledge, consider, or support their disabled comrades i truly have no patience for it! especially because it also ignores the reality that outside of protests, there are also wheelchair users getting arrested for all sorts of shit that also need informed and active jail support, instead of just being treated like we don't exist at all. lmfao.

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faq: getting arrested in the US as a wheelchair user

i've been having a lot of conversations with wheelchair users new to protesting lately, and many people have questions about what to expect if you're risking arrest. disclaimer that this isn't legal advice, a lot of this will vary based on where you live, and cops rarely bother to follow their own departmental policies.

1. How do cops transport wheelchair users to jail?

Depends on the police department, the type of wheelchair you have, and whether you're ambulatory. The ADA does not specify that we have a right to be transported in a wheelchair van--examples from ADA resources just state that "Officers should use caution not to harm an individual or damage his or her wheelchair."

In practice, this might mean:

Cops lift you out of your wheelchair, handcuff you, and put you in the back of a regular patrol car. They fold up your wheelchair and put it in the back of the car.

Cops have a specific patrol van with a wheelchair lift and transit securement system. You can often find this information listed in police policy if you search for your city's police department and "prisoner transport van wheelchair." Keywords often include Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) or Prisoner Disabled Accessible Van (PDAV).

Cops have a contract with an external company (often local public transit, sometimes a private company) to call for one of their wheelchair accessible vans to use as a transport vehicle.

Cops make you transfer or ambulate into the patrol car and then just leave your wheelchair on the side of the road.

2. Will I be taken to a architecturally accessible jail?

Depends on the police department, but probably not. All that ADA resources specify is that wheelchair users "must have access to the toilet facilities and other amenities," at the jail we're taken to. When I've been arrested, I've been held in an "ADA compliant cell" which featured a very narrow toilet with no grab bars that I know for a fact would have been impossible to transfer to for most of my friends who use power chairs. There seems to be very little enforcement when it comes to architectural access.

Relevant info is that police departments will often have one specific jail that they always transport disabled prisoners to in your city. You can usually find this information in prisoner transport policies that are often posted publicly on police department websites. This can be important information to know, especially in the cases of mass arrests at protests, where wheelchair users might get separated from the rest of our comrades and taken to a completely different holding area.

3. Will cops let me stay in my wheelchair in jail?

Depends on the police department. Some police departments will let you stay in your chair, some might make you take off any removable parts (cushion/footrests/sideguards/etc) and then let you stay in it, some might make you transfer to a basic wheelchair that the jail supplies, some might leave you in a cell without access to any mobility aids. My comrades and I have experienced all of those scenarios while getting arrested.

4. How can I try to protect my rights while being arrested?

Unfortunately, there's not always a ton that can be done in the moment--knowing that we have rights under the ADA doesn't mean that we can get cops to take that seriously.

But if you're familiar with local cop policies and your rights under the ADA, it can sometimes be helpful to verbalize what policies are not being followed in the moment, especially if cops have cameras on. Saying things like "I am not resisting arrest, I am a wheelchair user and cannot walk/disperse/get on the sidewalk/etc," can be helpful for trying to fight charges later on.

Memorize your local legal support hotline/NLG chapter and do not answer any questions or offer any information to cops without a lawyer.

After you're out, your local Protection and Advocacy organization for your state might be able to help you make a formal complaint or sue the police department for disability discrimination.

5. Other things to keep in mind:

Cops are fucking bastards and getting arrested as a wheelchair user can be really scary! It's even scarier when no one in your community knows how to prepare, what to expect, or how to support you afterwards.

It's super important for protest buddies, affinity groups, and local jail support organizations to know this kind of information before a wheelchair user gets arrested. More people being able to recognize PDAVs on sight can help wheelchair users get advanced warning if cops are specifically preparing to target us for arrest at a protest. Knowing which specific jail wheelchair users are taken to before a mass arrest means that lawyers won't have to scramble last minute to track down wheelchair users that get separated in the system.

Even if you're not a wheelchair user and you think that there aren't any wheelchair users protesting with you, PLEASE make sure you know this information, especially if you do "know your rights" trainings or are a legal observer.

feel free to send any other questions in regards to getting arrested with mobility aids my way and I'll do my best to answer!

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I'd still trust you with my life doctor tbh

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From a state hearing in Texas

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

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what are yall doing that we need this??

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches