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Tomorrow is Election Day. Disabled voters, LGBTQ+ voters, everyone who's had enough: show up. 🌊 #BlueWave #Vote #DisabilityVote #MrWheels
Meme: a giant blue wave about to crash over a lone red cap on a beach at sunset. Text: MAGA, are you ready for the blue wave tomorrow? www.mrwheels76.com, ryan@mrwheels76.com
November 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Disability was never the tragedy. Inaccess is. Say it with pride.

Quote: Judy Heumann, Being Heumann (2020)

#DisabilityRights #MrWheels
"I never wished I didn't have a disability." Judy Heumann, Being Heumann (2020). Disability isn't the problem. Inaccess is. Say it with pride.
November 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Positive attitude isn't access. Build the ramp. Quote: Stella Young, 2014 blog.ted.com/remembering-... #DisabilityRights #MrWheels
No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never. — Stella Young, TEDxSydney, April 2014. Positive attitude isn't access. Build the ramp.
October 28, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Alice Wong is tired of having to prove her life has worth. So am I. Our worth is not up for debate. Quote: Alice Wong, KQED 2020 www.kqed.org/podcasts/668... #DisabilityRights #MrWheels
I truly am kind of tired of having to make the case that my life has worth and quality the way it is, just as it is right now. Alice Wong, KQED Truth Be Told, 2020. Mr. Wheels: Our worth isn't up for debate. Fund the care.
October 30, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Two days. 🦽📖 This Saturday, Oct 31, my memoir Finding My Voice drops on Amazon as a $10 ebook. A bus, a mom who believed in me, The Goonies, and the TikTok family that became Mr. Wheels. Read the opening: mrwheels76.com/finding-my-voice
#FindingMyVoice #DisabilityRights #MrWheels
Cover of Finding My Voice: My Life and the Making of Mr. Wheels by Ryan Talley
October 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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3 days. My memoir, Finding My Voice, lands on Amazon October 31.

It starts with a regular bus, a few steps, and a mom who believed I could climb them. It ends with Mr. Wheels. Some anger, lots of joy, a few well-placed swear words. 🦽📖

#DisabilityRights #MrWheels #Memoir
October 28, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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It's here. My memoir, Finding My Voice, is out today on Amazon. Bus steps, The Goonies, TikTok streams, and how Mr. Wheels was born. Some anger, lots of joy, a few well-placed swear words. 🦽📖

www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPPQLLCB

#DisabilityRights #MrWheels #Memoir
October 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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The tragedy isn't the wheelchair. It's the missing ramp. Judy Heumann said it, and it still stings. Quote: Judy Heumann, NPR www.npr.org/2023/03/04/1... #DisabilityRights #MrWheels
Disability only becomes a tragedy when society fails to provide the things we need to lead our lives — job opportunities or barrier-free buildings, for example. — Judy Heumann. Mr. Wheels: The tragedy is the missing ramp, not the wheelchair.
October 26, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Mark your calendars: my memoir, Finding My Voice, comes out Oct 31 on Amazon. 🦽📖

Bus steps, my mom, finding my voice, and building a place where disabled and LGBTQ+ folks can be themselves. A few well-placed swear words.

www.mrwheels76.com/finding-my-v...

#DisabilityRights #MrWheels #Memoir
Finding My Voice: My Life and the Making of Mr. Wheels, by Ryan Talley. Charcoal cover with teal and gold lettering.
October 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Stella Young nailed it in 2014: you can't positive-think your way past a staircase. Access is built with laws, money, and enforcement, not smiles.
Quote: Stella Young, 2014
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12...
#DisabilityRights #MrWheels #Ableism
Quote card: "No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp." - Stella Young, comedian & disability rights activist, TEDxSydney talk, 2014. Mr. Wheels response: A good attitude doesn't pour concrete. Laws, funding, and enforcement do. Build the ramp.
October 23, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Dr. Oz says Medicaid is being "saved" for the medically frail. His own rule makes them prove their condition "significantly impairs" work. Which is it? #DisabilityRights #Medicaid #MrWheels
Mr. Wheels Podcast quote card. Quote: "Anyone who obviously needs it, is medically frail, has kids, is supposed to be on these programs. They're the ones we're saving the program for." Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS Administrator, Oct. 13, 2026, source WGAL News 8. Response: Then why does your rule make the medically frail prove it?
October 20, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Z angielskiego tłumaczenia powieści "#PanSamochodzik i templariusze" ("#MrWheels and the Templar Treasure") możemy się wreszcie dowiedzieć gdzie dokładnie położone jest Kortumowo. Czyżby Iława?;) #Nienacki
February 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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RFK Jr. Is Holding Back More Than $1 Billion in Medicaid Funds. Disabled People Deserve Facts, Not Political Theater.
Fraud should be investigated and prosecuted. But California and Minnesota’s disabled residents, seniors, children, and caregivers must not become collateral damage in a political fight.
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August 6, 2026 at 1:10 PM