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Vinay Prasad, Who Is Making It Harder to Get the Covid Vax, Barely Comes Into Office.

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Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has been critical of the Covid vaccine, to put it lightly. Not only that, he has a history of minimizing mask wearing, an effective tool in limiting the spread of infectious diseases. He also compared Covid public health measures to Nazi Germany. […]

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RFK Jr. Is Getting Personal Authority Over Who to Kick Off Medicaid

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Freddie Elmore hasn’t worked for around 20 years. Now, he’s trying to figure out how, and if, he can return to the workforce—not because he thinks he can do so while managing his health, but because he is concerned that he will lose Medicaid. To retain Medicaid coverage, Elmore, who lives with disorders including central […]

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Ugly Laws: The Blueprint For Trump’s Anti-Homeless Crusade

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On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a nationwide push to involuntarily commit unhoused people to institutions—claiming that roundups would “restore public order,” and demanding the reversal of legal precedents and consent decrees that “impede” the policy, a draconian move that disability rights groups argue violates civil liberties. The resultant crackdown […]

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Trump’s Promise to End Vote-By-Mail Is Yet Another Attack on Disabled Voters

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On Monday morning, President Trump returned to a longtime fixation, posting on Truth Social that he was “going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” by “signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” The post came just after Trump’s Friday summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin—not […]

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Report: Teen with Disabilities Detained by ICE Outside School in Los Angeles

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On Monday, a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside a Los Angeles Unified School District high school at 9:30 am when he was registering for classes. KTLA 5 reported that the boy was placed in handcuffs; he was only released after both school staff and the […]

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Wheelchair Users Are Finally Winning the Right to Repair

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It took Casey Moore, who relies on his power wheelchair, four months to get it repaired in 2023—and six months, from 2024 to this year, more recently. “It’s this hiccup in my whole life,” said Moore, who works with Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection. “I had to use this junk chair, waiting on a simple part […]

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Voters Can’t Sue for Disability Discrimination, Court Rules

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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the landmark federal legislation which protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people and voters with low English literacy. The Eighth Circuit’s jurisdiction covers Arkansas, […]

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Joy in Hard Times: Celebrating Disability Pride During a Crisis

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It’s a difficult period for disability rights: Landmark legal protections have come under attack by the Trump administration, the right is at war with the Department of Education, Medicaid is being gutted to finance tax cuts for the rich, and the President of the United States openly espouses eugenicist ideas—as do some of his top […]

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Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

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Back in 2013, the Obama administration introduced a low-profile but deeply impactful rule for federal contractors: to remain compliant with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, the legions of firms contracting with the federal government would have to work towards a staff that was at least 7 percent disabled. That target, which went into effect […]

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Trump Just Made It OK to Continue Paying Disabled Workers Peanuts

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On July 7, the US Department of Labor formally withdrew its plan for a rule—introduced during the Biden administration—that would federally end the practice of subminimum wage for disabled people. Over the past decade, 16 states have ended subminimum wage for disabled people, with a few more phasing out this practice. “It’s a cruel irony […]

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Pregnancy Is a Minefield When You’re Disabled

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“Are you sure you’re going to be able to do this?” a doctor asked Heather Watkins shortly after she gave birth to her daughter. Watkins, who has muscular dystrophy, had developed preeclampsia and had to be induced at 39 weeks—exhausted after 26 hours of labor, she didn’t give the remark much thought. Years later, a […]

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“An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts

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On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately among the one in three disabled people on Medicaid in the US. The cuts will, among other […]

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