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The Department of Energy Is Quietly Slashing Disability Rights

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In May, the Department of Energy quietly introduced a proposal to eliminate its longstanding requirement that new buildings receiving funds from the agency be accessible to disabled people—a rule in effect across the federal government since 1980, thanks to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. “Disability rights,” professor Jasmine Harris said, “are not uncontroversial as […]

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SCOTUS’ Conservative Majority Rules in Favor of Disability Rights

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Ava Tharpe, the plaintiff in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a notable education and disability rights case on the Court’s current docket. The ruling ensures that families will not have to meet the notoriously difficult standard of proving “bad faith and gross misjudgment” when suing […]

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Trump’s Tariffs Will Drive Up PPE Costs, But Organizers Are Ready

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With the impact of Donald Trump’s bevy of tariffs on foreign goods—including Covid protective gear—around the corner, Covid Safe Colorado knew it needed more masks to ride the wave. The organization, which has distributed masks and tests across the state since 2023, was able to arrange an order for hundreds of thousands of masks from […]

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Trump’s Budget Would Limit Investigations Into Abuse, Neglect of Disabled People

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Dismantling a key HHS agency, gutting important programs, and cuts to Medicaid will roll back decades of progress.

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The 4chan-Coded Ideology Behind Elon Musk’s War on Normies

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In September, Elon Musk amplified a post from Autism Capital—a pro-Trump X account that he often reposts—that read: “Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective ‘is this true?’ filter. This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision […]

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Republicans Slide “Nonprofit Killer” Law Into Tax Bill

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The “nonprofit killer” is back—this time tucked into congressional Republicans’ aggressive new tax proposal, which they’ve dubbed the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” For those who forgot: In November, the House of Representatives passed HR 9495, or the “Stop Terror Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act,” which would give the Secretary of the Treasury […]

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The Case That Could Gut Disabled People’s Right to Equal Health Care

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For decades, American hospitals have been subject to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and to the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark federal disability civil rights laws that guarantee equal access to health care. But Hickson v. St. David’s Healthcare Partnership, a case before the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, could upend those protections—giving […]

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Disability Protection Groups in Two States Pause Services After Missing Federal Funds

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State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced this week that they will have to limit their work due to not receiving the full federal funds they are owed by the US federal government. Each state, territory, and Washington, DC, has a protection and advocacy agency to support the rights […]

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HHS Plans to Cut Funds Used to Investigate Abuse at Group Homes

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On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities—including autistic people, about whom Kennedy also spreads harmful disinformation. The budget document is a proposal, […]

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RFK Jr. Knows Amazingly Little About Autism

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While his anti-vaccine allies swooned and scientists cringed, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his first-ever press conference this week, in response to new data showing an apparent increase in the number of autistic kids, to promote a variety of debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist ideas about autism. He painted the condition as a […]

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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment

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For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis equipment—help them both remain at home and stay alive. Donald Trump’s recent wave of tariffs, extremely broad in both the imports and countries they target, are still at a new 10 percent baseline in […]

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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment

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For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis equipment—help them both remain at home and stay alive. Donald Trump’s recent wave of tariffs, extremely broad in both the imports and countries they target, are still at a new 10 percent baseline in […]

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