Disabled, Socialist, Free Palestine. Hands off Yemen. Free all Political Prisoners. @Mets, @WestHam, @Lionesses
Larchmont, NY
Joined July 2013
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Sam Skinner retweeted
I wish spineless liberals would understand that, the reason trans people refuse to just "let go" of the trans women in sports argument isn't bc we're all clamoring to join the local softball club—
Sam Skinner retweeted
since ppl are dragging it out, section 504 worked to end:
- ugly laws, the forced institutionalization of disabled ppl to hide them from the public
- abuse in medical institutions
- disabled children being forced to go to separate schools
- disabled adults being shut out of jobs
Sam Skinner retweeted
People get mad at you for saying Mamdani disappoints the left regularly especially in regards to policing, but it’s just plainly irresponsible to promote the idea there’s “far left terrorism” in this increasingly surveilled nation that wants to criminalize any form of dissent.
Sam Skinner retweeted
If you’re a self-proclaimed "Leftist" who reads theory but not disability justice, you’re telling on yourself. Leftist theory historically excludes if not demonizes those whose worth is not tied to productivity, a glaring contradiction. Liberation means the right to work without being destroyed and the right to live without having to earn it.
Disabled comrades have fought for sick leave, accommodations, workers’ comp, workplace safety, and an end to subminimum wages. You don’t get to benefit from our struggle and then sneer that we’re lazy or annoying and call yourself a Leftist.
Sam Skinner retweeted
This is where dems accepting the opposition framing of “biological males being larger/stronger/more dangerous” leads btw.
When you cede the idea that “trans women in sports = men beating up women”, you allow the same ideas that make men think it’s ok to do this shit.
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Sam Skinner retweeted
Relief but not celebration.
Now it is our collective job to improve palliative care & make sure as a society we fully respect human life even when it is diminished.
The moment MPs voted against the assisted dying bill, with 286 votes against and 270 in favour
Follow live reaction: bbc.in/4rcp5Ju
Sam Skinner retweeted
I don't trust assisted dying/euthanasia in the hands of a ruling class that imposed Do Not Resuscitate orders on disabled people without their knowledge or consent during a pandemic, nor in the hands of a society that it was impossible to get to care about those actions.
Sam Skinner retweeted
especially because these are the safeguards that were voted down. the bill couldn’t have been more dangerous if they’d deliberately designed it to kill disabled people - the public should be asking why so many of its supporters ruined the bill by refusing reasonable guardrails
ALT Screenshot of safeguards that were refused for the bill showing that the proposed bill would have: assumed mental capacity without the patient having to demonstrate it, allowed ‘undue influence’ over someone choosing to die, allowed someone to die if they felt like a burden to others, didn’t mandate meeting with a palliative care specialist, said the 6 month prognosis didn’t have to have reasonable certainty, said that mental capacity didn’t have to be beyond reasonable doubt, said doctors could bring up assisted suicide first even if the patient never asked, said the doctor didn’t need to consult experts in the patient’s condition before killing them, said the drugs used didn’t have to have received MHRA approval, said hospices & care homes can be defunded for not offering suicide, said suicide can be allowed due to structural pressure of poverty, said people with Down syndrome can be killed
Sam Skinner retweeted
No, this is not a joke.
UK Lawyers for Israel are trying to proscribe *Médecins Sans Frontières*.
That’d mean they’d be treated as terrorists.
On the same legal footing as ISIS.
Membership would mean 14 years in prison.
This is what we’re dealing with
Shabana Mahmood is being urged by UK Lawyers for Israel to proscribe Doctors Without Borders (MSF) over staff’s alleged links to terrorist groups.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
Sam Skinner retweeted
imagine still being able to do your job during this shit. the government ignored these heroes and let them die of cancer while using them to justify imperialist war.
Sam Skinner retweeted
hamas, literally, physically cannot leave the gaza strip. it is besieged on all sides. you’re the biggest idiot alive if you believe this.
🚨🇩🇪 NEW: Hamas had planned coordinated terrorist attacks in Berlin and Vienna to coincide with the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks in Israel
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Sam Skinner retweeted
i'm tired of the rewriting of history that Americans all united and sang kumbaya post 9/11
i remember the bloodlust, the thirst for revenge against those with nothing to do with it. i remember Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man murdered on 9/15 in Arizona because of how he looked
Sam Skinner retweeted
Reminder that in many countries that have legalised euthanasia, it's now expanded into being available to autistic people who are struggling and distressed.
Because helping us to die will, ultimately, always be cheaper and less effort than creating a world we can live in.
Sam Skinner retweeted
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father Michael Massaroli to the attacks.
"You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate," he said. "I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
Sam Skinner retweeted
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result.
Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE.
They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-596…
Sam Skinner retweeted
kind of wild how they were denied healthcare after doing this & that mitch mcconnell fought to keep it that way. america, baby.
Sam Skinner retweeted
The hasbarists need to make up their minds - has Israel successfully decimated Hamas, or are they somehow still so strong that they are planning random attacks outside of occupied Palestine, which they've never done before and would have no reason to do?
🚨🇩🇪 NEW: Hamas had planned coordinated terrorist attacks in Berlin and Vienna to coincide with the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks in Israel
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Sam Skinner retweeted
Every time democrats shift right they think it’s going to improve their chances but all it does is make republicans look like a better option because they (1) were saying these things earlier and (2) will take more hardline measures to stop the “problems” they outline.
