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Making sure that students with disabilities have access to a great public education starts with ensuring a free and appropriate public education and fully funding IDEA. As a former public school special education teacher, I understand how much those dollars matter in the classroom. I’ll commit an additional $20 billion a year to IDEA.

I'm not sure why you're coming at me so hard - I had no criticism of you personally and I feel like you're making this personal.

*Using the Wayback machine - it's clear that the page has been changed several times; it has for sure changed when I look at it now - from what it was when I read it from a link on Twitter.

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This from you greatly disappoints me.

I'm pretty sure that you are aware that I spent a long slog with my kids and their learning disabilities and mental illness in school.

My kids, are not hobby horses.

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The page has complexly changed.

And the dollar amount may have as well. I remember it being $70 billion - but that could just be my CRS. :)

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Wow. "You should limp more so I won't yell at you for parking where you're allowed to park."

And I thought the British version of "The Office" laid it on a bit thick in the scene where the evil toady says maybe the authorities should poke people using wheelchairs with something sharp to make sure they don't jump up, proving they're faking it for a good parking spot.

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Liz Warren is the "There's an app for that," except with intricate, researched plans for governance.No wonder the fuck knuckles hate her.

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I, for one, welcome our new detailed discussion of a significant public policy issue. Looks like we're a little sensitive to disagreement on some points, but at least we can focus on the issue at a detail level.

This give-and-take in the not-allowed Wonket comments is more coverage than I've seen of the issue anywhere else. I'd like to force-feed it to Chuck "Horse Race-Horse's Ass" Todd.

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The woman is amazing. We’d at least have a chance at some progress if we can elect her.

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Wow. That really opens one’s eyes. Thank you for sharing! I’m sad that this stuff happens.

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Fuck. It’s scary

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My dad, who in a few days will have been dead longer than he was alive, became an amputee. He was poisoned in the workplace before OSHA, and died before the ADA became law.

This plan is one of the many reasons I want Liz as president, but I'll vote blue no matter who(m), of course.

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Idiots are everywhere.

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The MAGAt did that in the summer when I was wearing shorts. He thought I was wearing some sort of hippie long sock. I took a cue from the actor Herbert Marshall and his recovery from being wounded in WWI. [He was shot in the right knee by a sniper in France. After a succession of operations, doctors were forced to amputate his right leg. Marshall remained hospitalised for thirteen months. Before long, however, he decided he wanted to return to the theatre and learned how to walk well with a prosthetic leg in order to do so. While he was recovering at St. Thomas' in London, King George V visited the hospital. When asked to pick which of the actor's legs he thought was artificial, the king chose the wrong one. Throughout his career, Marshall largely managed to hide the fact that he had a prosthetic limb. ] Stolen from Wikipedia. I had my wife and daughters to help and dog walking and dance classes and a stationary bike as well. And the Mrs and the girls and the dogs don't let me get away with anything. They are worse than my physical therapist was. (Love you, Jenny the PT) The cats don't give a damn, but they are cats.

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There are "people" like that out there in the real world.

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I'm just going to sit here now, for a minute, and think about a world where she's the president of the US.

Sigh, OK, I'm back, to a world where she is highly unlikely to become the president of the US because people are stupid.

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Transportation agencies have been legally required to redo their sidewalk/curb/crosswalk access

I think this makes things better for women with kids in strollers, too.

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But you keep studiously ignoring that the thing you’re so angry at Warren for not including in her plan IS IN HER PLAN. I’m not saying full funding of IDEA, or your kids (whom, no, I don’t know the first thing about, which is as it should be as I am a random internet stranger) are hobby horses.

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