People with disabilities deserve safety & dignity — and that starts with oversight.

P&As have the legal power to enter facilities & stop abuse. But this authority is under threat from proposed budget cuts.

Tell Congress: #ProtectP&As
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"Without the federal Protection and Advocacy program, there is no federally mandated, independent oversight of abuse...in psychiatric settings. Cutting its funding would leave those in the most dangerous environments unprotected." thehill.com/opinion/heal...

🚨ALERT 🚨ICE reported at 5300 South Dakota Ave NE in the last couple of hours. 4 agents and 2 cars confirmed. At least one person detained.

🚨ALERTA🚨ICE/La Migra reportado en 5300 South Dakota Ave NE en las últimas dos horas. 4 agentes and 2 carros confirmados. Al menos una persona detenida. 1/

@greenwell.bsky.social Hot off the presses! I was already pre-ordering Bad Company but learning from Eileen that the two of you spoke for it made me all the more excited pestakeholder.org/wp-content/u...

@stevenhyden.bsky.social I am sure you have already seen this but like 2 weeks ago someone who apparently went to Wesleyan with MGMT uploaded a video of them playing Kids 5 years before Oracular came out and I haven’t smiled harder since November 5th youtu.be/vNC1W2m4Uug

To those of you who followed us on the other platform, we're glad to be reunited! For those of you who don't know us, we are the national membership association for the Protection & Advocacy Systems and Client Assistance Programs. We're also the best place to get guide dog Nala content #Disability

@prisonculture.bsky.social Hey wanted to share this from the Virginia org in our network if you hadn’t seen- thought they did a great job here! www.dlcv.org/wp-content/u...

@slooterman.bsky.social Hey! Wanted to share this. Two of my NDRN colleagues traverse early primary states to interview voters with disabilities for a documentary short (about 30 mins) premiering virtually soon. I’ve seen it and it’s absolutely incredible www.ndrn.org/event/access...

@drewmagary.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social Reading Mehrsa Baradaran’s (outstanding) “The Quiet Coup” & this stopped me in my tracks- Gregg Easterbrook was writing AEI puff pieces in the Atlantic in 1986?! It makes perfect sense, but this was unknown to me and I feel compelled to share

@greenwell.bsky.social Longtime fan/reader- I worked on this report re: P/E’s stranglehold of the wheelchair industry that might be of interest. Happy to talk more about this (and on P/E owned residential psychiatric facilities, which is where my primary focus is).

U.S. v. Mississippi: Fifth Circuit Decision Leaves Community Mental Healthcare in a Vulnerable State

Guest Post by Cory Bernstein, Staff Attorney at National Disability Rights Network

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