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[Tweet by Twitter user Samanticka. Caption: “Arrests continue. #ADAPTandRESIST #SaveMedicaid”. Photo: A woman with short hair in a green shirt using an electric wheelchair and oxygen support holding a sign that says “Medicaid = LIFE + LIBERTY 4 Disabled Americans”]

So if you follow me, you’ve probably already heard that the ~new and improved AHCA~ is, shocker, completely barbaric.

A disabled activist group called ADAPT is staging a protest at Mitch McConnell’s offices right now. (I’ve marched with them in the past, they do good work.) There are videos coming out of the ensuing arrests right now, and I will warn you right now, they’re horrifying. I won’t lie to you, I cried my eyes out watching some of them. But these people aren’t being dragged screaming from their wheelchairs so no one will watch, so here are a few twitter links.

The protest before the arrests began

Protesters being forcibly removed from their wheelchairs

Yet another example (warning, this one’s loud and really upsetting)

THEY DROPPED SOMEONE

Disabled protestors are often barred from public demonstrations, like marches, and fall under the radar when they do large-scale protests like this. Please see us and hear us when we demand our human rights.