Organizers share where they find hope in the struggle for disability justice as we go into the second year of Trump 2.0.
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Disability Justice Organizers Are Creating the Liberatory Future We All Deserve Read Post »
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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A Federal Judge Nominee Said Disabled People Shouldn’t Be Wed. In Fact, Many Can’t. Read Post »
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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What a Crumbling Power Grid Means for Disabled Americans Read Post »
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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GOP State Senator Balks at Redistricting After Trump Again Uses the R-Word Read Post »
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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This Disability Education Law Turned 50 Today. Disability Advocates Want More. Read Post »
Massachusetts is now one of only two states that don’t use specialized courts to mandate forced psychiatric treatment.
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Massachusetts Advocates Resist Dystopian Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Bill Read Post »
In late April, podcasters Audrey Presby and Jeremy Fraser decided to venture out of their studio in California to head to Washington, DC. It was not the most joyous occasion: Presby and Fraser, both of whom have Down syndrome, were there to plead with House representatives not to vote to pass the sweeping health care […]
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What Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Mean for Two Podcasters With Down Syndrome Read Post »
They face poor access to medical treatment, inadequate food and water, exposure to respiratory illnesses, and more.
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Disabled Immigrants at Notorious California ICE Jail Report Abuse and Neglect Read Post »
Some believe the layoffs are a way to force the special education law to be managed by some other federal office.
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Critics Alarmed as Trump Leverages Shutdown to Gut Special Education Office Read Post »
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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The Radical Life of the Father of the Independent Living Movement Read Post »
Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) received reduction-in-force notices, according to reporting from K-12 Drive. It was part of a scourge of layoffs. 460 people across the Department of Education received RIF notices. That is roughly one in five workers in […]
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Trump’s New Layoffs Hurt Disabled Kids Read Post »
On January 22, Josh Josa, who is deaf, was put on administrative leave from his job at the United States Agency for International Development. Josa worked in USAID’s office of DEIA, or Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, helping in part to make sure that the work supported by the agency’s $40 billion in global development […]
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The Human Costs of Trump’s War on Government Read Post »
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