Election LTE
Just sharing my latest LTE regarding the upcoming Presidential race, to be found below the orange croissant
View ArticleMsWings Needs Some Help from the Kos Community.
A member of our community is struggling. Please help this diary from MsSpentYouth get more eyes by using your recs, tips and tweets. If you can republish, that would be super! If you can help, her...
View ArticleSocial Security: Fixing the Deficit by Cutting Something that Doesn't...
I hate to call out a front-page diary for misrepresenting anything, but whoever illustrated Joan McCarter's diary today with a picture of Social Security cards to show the "entitlements" Democrats are...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club:Social Security Disability. A Former Disability...
This diary has been a challenge for me, I guess I am TOO familiar with the subject matter. (we won't talk about the episodes of panic or hyperventilation either from remembering doing this work...
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When GOP complains about 'takers versus makers,' they're complaining about...
Jared Bernstein:Had a rousing debate on the Kudlow show last night with Larry and Jimmy Pethokoukis (aka Jimmy P) haranguing me about makers/takers. Jimmy went on a rant about all the fakers on the...
View ArticleA Plea to those in ME, NH & MA; An Update & Explaination to All
I usually write diaries because I am moved to. Today I write because I must, and am reluctant, and so I don't know how it will flow. Forgive me in advance.Those of you who know me or follow me know...
View ArticleSafe harbor, for now
Last week I moved into a domestic violence shelter. Púka is with me, thankfully, and we have the handicap room to ourselves.
View ArticleHow Will Sequestration Affect SSA?
Sequestration's mandatory budget cuts are scheduled to take effect today. The press has reported that "Social Security will not be affected." This is not completely accurate... it’s plain false! It is...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s Abuse of Trust: Confiscating Millions from Foster...
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s recently reported misuse of a “blind trust”(To Avoid Conflicts, Rick Scott Created a Trust Blind in Name Only, NY Times) isn’t his first misuse of a trust. Gov. Scott has...
View ArticleDipping my toes back in the water. Poverty, disability, & the government.
I started a series several years ago about moving through the DHHS and SSA system as a queer, disabled, and poor person, at about the same time one of the first demographic studies was done on Daily...
View ArticleChanging Your Name When Indigent and Genderqueer
I can’t remember a time when I haven’t wanted, longed, to change my name. My name has never been my own, I was named for an aunt for died a few years before I was born, and of my copious cousins &...
View ArticleHomelessness is a vulture, that perches in the soul...
I’ve been homeless in several different ways since my TBI in 2010.I technically live in condemned housing, and spend time in a neighbor & friend’s house. I’ve lived in my car.I’ve been without a...
View ArticleSNAP & How It Can Affect Your Life
I’ve been on SNAP/food stamps/food assistance on and off for a good bit of my life. I grew up on paper food stamps, WIC, and government cheese and canned meat, and all the shame that went with those,...
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Accepted by the Shelter After 2 Years
After over two years of waiting, and some legal involvement (which I haven't been allowed to talk about until now), my service dog and I have finally been accepted into a local shelter here in Southern...
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Shelter Life in the U.S.
I’m sitting on my bed in the Shelter, typing this on my iPad because they don’t allow us (or most of the staff) to use the WiFi, so no computer for me. Fun times. This diary isn’t to show how I’m...
View ArticleShelter Life—Bathroom & Communication Discrimination
I had somehow hoped I would manage to go through life without encountering Bathroom discrimination. That hope was dashed here in the Shelter. For a period of about a week, staff got tired of having to...
View ArticleWeirdness at the Shelter
Update!I met with my case manager yesterday, and it seems that I’ve sent enough documentation to Disability Rights Maine that they called him while I was there. What timing!They had had an imperfect...
View ArticleShelter Life—Staked Out at Low Tide
First, the good news: my car simply had a bad oil seal, and was fixed (complete with oil change) for under $100. I was lucky in the transmission issue, and a fuse change fixed it. :) So I’m back with a...
View ArticlePlease excuse this rant ..I just need to rant. Ugh. What a rant.
I do not know if you ever have had to experience the joys of seeking, and then finding, and then living with, a roommate…. but I can tell you from experience it is not fun.I used to live in metro...
View ArticleHomelessness is Waiting
Homeless people get characterized as lazy a lot. It’s a meme. Something you tend to mentally attach to ‘homeless’ without thinking about it, because it’s part of the mental package, right? No...
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