Journalist by training, advocate by self-interest, inclusive E.M. subject expert on people with disabilities by calling. Husband/Dad/fun guy♿️✍️My Opinions
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Norman A. Smith retweeted
This lady ate a surface-to-air missile, sustained a 12-14 G rocket-propelled ejection, likely hit the ground at 15 miles per hour…
And then she popped up smiling at the locals who came to help her.
Tell me again that women don’t belong in combat.
Footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching one of the shot down American pilots this morning.
“Are you OK? Thank you for helping us.”
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Norman A. Smith retweeted
Jan 24
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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13 Sep 2025
Senator, you have the power to stop this madness before these kids die or become disabled. Stop the madness!
12 Sep 2025
Measles is highly contagious & very serious. A severe case can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain), or even death. This doesn't have to happen.
The best way to prevent the spread of measles is to get vaccinated.
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11 Sep 2025
Why is it impossible? FDR flew in DC-9s, B-17s, and (OMG!) was President of the United State. Don’t handicap him with your preconceived attitude about what people with #disabilities cancer do. By the way, i would not vote him!
10 Sep 2025
WAIT, isn't Texas Governor Greg Abbott paralyzed from the waist down? if that's true, then this is impossible - or not him.
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13 Jul 2025
WRONG! Just like retirees, people on disability are allowed to work a minimum number of hours a month to supplement our income. Most of us want to work!
12 Jul 2025
If your son is on disability he shouldn't be 'working' as an employee. I'm pretty sure that's fraud
Community note
United States citizens can collect disability payments and work under SSI guidelines.
ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-100…
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15 Apr 2025
As a parent and a person with a #disability involved with #EmergencyResponse I have played this scenario in my mind too many times.
youtube.com/watch?v=aTVZ8Jr5…
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26 Mar 2025
Why? I have been called worse by grown adults, and I’m a proud wheelchair user. Abbott doesn’t need your pity because he is in a chair.
25 Mar 2025
absolutely shocking that an adult would poke fun at someone who is in a wheel chair.
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23 Mar 2025
Well, maybe if members of Congress would take a stand against reckless actions by unelected chainsaw carrying men who don’t care about Seniors, disabled kids, or war veterans losing the government jobs, maybe the people’s anger would be less inflammatory. Just a thought
21 Mar 2025
Every morning we are waking up to more reports of innocent citizens having their cars set on fire and Tesla dealerships attacked with bricks or bullets - this kind of stuff needs to stop right now.
Violence is never ever acceptable and anyone taking part in it should face the full force of the law.
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5 Mar 2025
MAJOR BREAKING: Democratic Governor JB Pritzker just released his epic response video to Donald Trump:
“Donald Trump is lying to you.”
Every single American should see this!
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27 Feb 2025
Shame, shame @RepVanDrewStaff You voted for a resolution that will force cuts to #Medicaid hurting people with #disabilities in #NJ despite what you pledged.
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Norman A. Smith retweeted
24 Feb 2025
MAGA Nazis in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho dragged out people at a town hall when they opposed cuts to Medicaid, the citizens were attacked and detained by unknown assailants while a MAGA speaker mocked the victims and thanked the rest of the crowd for being docile subservient cowards.
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Norman A. Smith retweeted
💔 The tragic loss of Anthony Mitchell, a wheelchair user and his son Justin, who had CP and no mobility aid, during the LA wildfires highlights deadly gaps in disaster planning for Disabled.
We must ensure inclusive preparedness to save lives.
Need help? Call/text 800.626.4959
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Norman A. Smith retweeted
29 Nov 2024
Disgusting and defamatory
28 Nov 2024
🚨NEW: Elon Musk has falsely accused Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman of working for a Ukrainian oligarch, threatening a charge of treason and even potentially the death penalty.
RETWEET if you stand with Lt. Colonel Vindman against these disgusting attacks!
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6 Sep 2024
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6 Sep 2024
Ridiculing a family's authentic moment of love and joy is as soulless as it gets. For MAGA, that cruelty is the point.
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Norman A. Smith retweeted
1 Sep 2024
BREAKING: Following Donald Trump’s debacle at Arlington National Cemetery, Vote Vets released this devastating ad calling out Donald Trump for his BS. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this.
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16 Aug 2024
I guess President Richard Nixon was a Marxist when he ordered price controls in 1970. Look it up! I'm not saying it is good or bad. I am saying that a fiscal conservative anti-Communist Republican did this.
16 Aug 2024
Her father was a Marxist economics professor which is an oxymoron. She is proposing things that will destroy any semblance of the free market. If you have price controls that means the entire supply chain has to have it. There will be no incentive left It’s mad then because they caused the problem and if elected you’re just gonna make it worse I don’t know how an eighth grader can’t see this And given they caused the problem and now they claim they’re going to fix it with the same thing they did in Venezuela the Soviet union one after another it is apparent and obvious what the heck they’ve been up to the entire time
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31 Jul 2024
Trump’s nephew says comment disparaging the disabled led to his new book.. Why isn’t @nprpolitics and @andersoncooper covering this? Are people with #disabilities as a political force not worth covering? #cripthevote washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Norman A. Smith retweeted
4 Jul 2024
OMG! President Biden’s campaign just responded to Donald Trump’s VICIOUS attack on VP Harris with this AMAZING response. They absolutely destroyed Trump. Every American needs to see this!
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