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Here at Daily Kos, we’re making an ongoing effort to cover the Republican assault on trans rights. Conservatives are doing their best to try various routes to isolate and discriminate against trans folks, whether it comes down to denying them safe,...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Mar 29, 2022 at 10:51 AM PDT
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Picture a dog that has lost a leg. Democrats will replace the leg so it will have 4 legs to stand on. Republicans will help the dog by chopping off a second leg, diagonal to the missing leg. The dog will have two legs to stand on. Those legs may get...
by 888guy
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on Sun Sep 26, 2021 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The Biden administration has moved with incredible efficiency to get vaccination doses out to everyone possible as quickly as possible. The availability of the vaccine, however, doesn’t always mean that people who need it most have access to it....
by Christopher Reeves
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on Tue Mar 09, 2021 at 10:07 AM PST
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One of the common mistakes people make is to assume that deaf sign languages are based on spoken languages. In fact, deaf sign languages evolved independently from spoken languages.
by Ojibwa
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on Fri Dec 27, 2019 at 08:30 AM PST
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January 2, 2017: In their first act as the new Congress the House Republican Conference voted behind closed doors to weaken the independence of the Office of Congressional Ethics. January 3, 2017: The spineless little weasels backed down after an...
by Raging Pencils
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on Wed Nov 27, 2019 at 10:14 AM PST
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New Hampshire fire Lieutenant Mike Rheault was checking on a call in a Manchester apartment building when he noticed a boy in the hallway who looked to be nonverbal. Rheault asked the boy, whose name is Tegan, if he knew sign language. The child, at...
by Leslie Salzillo
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on Thu Feb 28, 2019 at 09:26 PM PST
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A busy flock of Golden-crowned Kinglets the other day first got me thinking about birdsong and the physical ability to hear it. The kinglet calls were just barely audible to me, but it’s because I ...
by OceanDiver
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on Sun Dec 16, 2018 at 06:00 AM PST
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Magdiel Sanchez sat on his porch, as he had frequently, with a pipe. He had used it most of his life to gesture, to help convey his meaning. To draw. To point. As a deaf man with limited resources as a child, it became part of his voice. When police...
by Christopher Reeves
129 comments
on Thu Sep 21, 2017 at 06:24 AM PDT
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By now, I’m sure many of you have seen this video:
There has been a lot of buzz about his use of facial expressions, body movements and signing. I’d like to share some of my knowledge with you today so you can truly appreciate the talented and...
by melaka
172 comments
on Wed Sep 13, 2017 at 01:03 PM PDT
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Officer Betty Shelby is being charged with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of unarmed Terence Crutcher, whose car was stalled in the middle of a Tulsa road. While her partner, overhead helicopters, and a handful of other law enforcement...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 30, 2016 at 11:12 AM PDT
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28-year-old Daniel Kevin Harris of Charlotte, NC was shot and killed by a state trooper. Harris was driving and trooper Jermaine Saunders attempted to pull him over (likely for speeding). Harris continued driving and eventually stopped after the two...
by cblodg
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on Mon Aug 22, 2016 at 06:21 AM PDT
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Yesterday, 12 lawyers were sworn into the Supreme Court bar. Chief Justice John Roberts made a motion with his hands. That motion was a phrase of acceptance in American Sign Language:
Your motion is granted.
This was a historic moment...
by Walter Einenkel
52 comments
on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 08:06 AM PDT
with 255 Recommends
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Many people here have urged me to keep Sally, regardless of her fitness for service work of any type. You can see it in the comments here and here. I’ve stressed about it a lot. I don’t want to disapp
by LoreleiHI
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on Wed Mar 02, 2016 at 11:45 AM PST
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I’d like to thank everyone for their patience. Sally and I have been working very hard. We’ve had our Manners class Tuesday evenings (and we stay for Manners 2, so that Sally gets more exposure to oth
by LoreleiHI
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on Fri Feb 12, 2016 at 01:59 PM PST
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It’s probably not news to you that not all deaf people sign . We in the deaf world refer to those who don’t sign as orals because they use the Oral Method, or Oralism .
Deaf people do ...
by raina
92 comments
on Thu Feb 11, 2016 at 05:01 PM PST
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Need to view something sweet today? Check out this video. Unfortunately, I can only provide a link as the embed is disabled.
Deaf husband finds out his wife is pregnant.
For you non-signers, ...
by raina
119 comments
on Sat Jan 02, 2016 at 05:01 PM PST
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But First, A Word From Our Sponsor:
by Steven Payne
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on Sun Mar 08, 2015 at 07:00 PM PDT
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As a deaf person myself, I take particular interest when I find deaf people in my family history. I've found a few and Wiley Spivey, the great uncle of my paternal grandfather is one of the most ...
by raina
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on Fri Apr 11, 2014 at 09:00 AM PDT
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A video is going viral showing a woman's reaction to her treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. It made her break down in tears - of joy.
Joanne Milne had been born ...
by Lib Dem FoP
77 comments
on Thu Mar 27, 2014 at 08:14 PM PDT
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The guy who served as the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service has been panned--deservedly so--for his dreadful performance. It was so dreadful, in fact, that several sign-...
by Darrell Lucus
13 comments
on Thu Dec 12, 2013 at 03:04 PM PST
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