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Hero of 2025: Alice Wong

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The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Alice Wong, disabled oracle and disability justice leader, died on November 14 at the age of […]

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Doctors Without Borders Among Dozens of Aid Groups Israel Moves to Shut Down in Gaza

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On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide. Israel has claimed that the organizations failed to meet new vetting guidelines. However, as the Associated Press reported, […]

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Hey Jon Stewart, Jokes About Wearing Masks Aren’t Funny

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Over the weekend, Covid cautious individuals shared clips on social media of Jon Stewart punching down on people who are masking, who are presumably doing so to protect themselves from Covid, the flu, and other infectious diseases that are spreading across the United States. On the December 11 episode of the podcast The Weekly Show […]

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A Federal Judge Nominee Said Disabled People Shouldn’t Be Wed. In Fact, Many Can’t.

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On Wednesday, Justin Olson, a judicial nominee for the federal bench in the Southern District of Indiana, admitted that in a 2015 sermon, he had said marriage should not be for “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.” Here’s Trump judicial nominee Justin […]

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What a Crumbling Power Grid Means for Disabled Americans

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During the power outage following the winter storms of 2021—known in Texas as Winter Storm Uri—Rita, an Indigenous woman who lives with severe mental illness and congestive heart failure, tried with her then-partner to stay warm in brutal conditions in a tent on the streets of Austin with camp stoves and a propane heater. They […]

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Senate Republicans Blocked Yet Another Chance to Save Obamacare Subsidies

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On Thursday, in a 51-48 vote, the Senate rejected a Democratic plan to extend Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits, as well as a Republican alternative that boosted a health savings account model. It is now all but certain that the credits, which began under the Biden administration, will expire at the end of the […]

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GOP State Senator Balks at Redistricting After Trump Again Uses the R-Word

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On Thursday, President Donald Trump once again found it acceptable to use the r-word, directing it towards Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in a Truth Social post which also attacked Somali immigrants in the state. “The seriously [r-tarded] Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both,” Trump posted. For Republican Indiana […]

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This Disability Education Law Turned 50 Today. Disability Advocates Want More.

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On November 29, 1975, Republican President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act into law, which later became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA requires that disabled students have access to public education, discourages segregating disabled kids from their peers, and that qualifying students have access to individualized education plans, […]

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Turns Out Fighting Fascism Helps You Live Longer

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Terri Williams, who lives in northern Texas, started volunteering as a high schooler in the mid-1970s—at first for Planned Parenthood, educating people about birth control. In retirement, she hasn’t stopped. Linda McMahon’s 2024 nomination as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, a prelude to attempts in dismantling the department, led Williams to double down on […]

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Even Trump Wants to Extend Obamacare Tax Credits—But Republicans Stopped Him

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After teasing a plan by President Donald Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies—currently on track to end within weeks—the White House has indefinitely delayed the announcement under pressure from congressional Republicans, MS NOW reported on Monday. The last-minute change of plan signals the GOP’s priorities: the party has fought to cut or repeal […]

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Domestic Workers Count on SNAP. Trump’s Shutdown Is Hitting Hard.

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For low-income people and their families, it’s been a hard, complicated week. On November 1, more than 40 million users of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, did not receive their monthly payments after the Trump administration refused to pay full benefits through emergency funding during the ongoing government shutdown. It would be better, the […]

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The Radical Life of the Father of the Independent Living Movement

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Even attending university in the 1960s was a revolutionary and complicated process for Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by polio in his early teens. Now known as the father of the independent living movement, Roberts—faced with many structural hurdles to moving through society—began pushing as a young man to win disabled people the resources to […]

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