Justine Barron (@jewstein3000) / X

Justine Barron

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Justine Barron

@jewstein3000

Author, "They Killed Freddie Gray.” Host, Bubble People Pod. Journalism, media criticism, scripts, stories. Disability/Long Covid.

Joined April 2009

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Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Jun 25
NEW ARTICLE from me in @FAIRmediawatch: "The Media Won't Stop Psychologizing Long Covid." An overview of this unfortunate propaganda trend in the media since 2020, including where it comes from and what it gets wrong. Link in next post.
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Nov 6, 2024
I told my dad that disabled people aren't accepted as immigrants to almost every country in the world. He said, "what's my disability?" I pointed at his wheel rollator, without which he can't walk.
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Jan 1, 2023
Pelé died of Covid, not cancer. The media hadn’t been consistently telling the truth. I find this all very very weird.
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Feb 8, 2025
Three years ago disabled people warned you that the great unmasking (end of covid protections) was a sign of how we were slipping towards mass eugenics. I don't recall anyone listening.
New York Post
@nypost
Feb 7, 2025
Dire warning: 6.3 million people can die from AIDS if US cuts funding trib.al/cXakgUZ
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Jul 29, 2024
I saw a doctor recently on telehealth and he asked my weight. I knew it because I had weighed myself recently. So I said “around xx.” He said, “should we say xy?” Which was seven pounds higher than I said. That’s how inherently unreliable most doctors think patients are.
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Nov 6, 2024
Replying to @jewstein3000
They would invite me in for the interview before him, but he thinks I'm disabled and he's not. "I didn't think they counted mobility."
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Jun 16, 2025
My brother had this “phase.” I kept telling my parents he was whispering the n word when I brought Black friends home and I had to stop inviting them My parents (who whacked us anyway) hated racism but didn’t want to deal with this. They said he was joking or teasing…. 1/
Marie Moreau's Blood Connect 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇸🇩
@CocoaMochaCrml
Jun 15, 2025
This is why it's so chilling when people try to make excuses for teenagers and children having racist phases. It took her father one instance of seeing how inhumane and evil racism is, and he's rejected it.
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Jul 22, 2025
Doordash nonsense again debunked: “Disabled people could just get a caregiver instead of using food delivery.” My 83 year old disabled dad can’t even get insurance to pay for a caregiver. And he has Medicare + blue shield 1/
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Nov 6, 2024
Replying to @jewstein3000
My dad is a wise, cognitively abled man in his 80s. Please do not use this to mock, demean, or misdiagnose him. Not accepting one’s own disability is extremely normal for most of us. See the replies
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Oct 19, 2023
I’ve been watching this Palestinian journalist’s videos and just seeing her own physical deterioration from lack of food and water while she keeps trying to report from the streets is horrific. It’s cameras in the death camps
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Jan 16, 2024
Ok I don’t think I like this: let’s normalize people participating in society with a disability so that we don’t do standing ovations for just being “brave” enough to not disappear
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Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Jan 22, 2019
Replying to @STEPHMHAMILL
Women can be sex objects if they want, if it benefits them personally, professionally, or turns them on. When Channing Tatum strips, do you feel it puts all men at risk?
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Mar 13, 2025
A doctor today said I don’t have asthma it’s anxiety based on nothing. I’ve been diagnosed by doctors with asthma since I was a toddler. I used pumps and vaporizers and have taken meds since childhood I gathered my shit to walk out. She told me to sit. I lectured her and told…
Justine Barron
@jewstein3000
Nov 6, 2024
Replying to @jewstein3000
He also laughed when I pointed it out so he’s not burdened by shame either, though that is common and acceptable given the culture. We just don’t normalize disability so it didn’t occur to him I didn’t expect this to take off. I was just sharing a funny anecdote at night