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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The federal government has never lived up to its commitment to shoulder 40 percent of the cost. Now, advocates want the feds to pony up, @juliametraux.bsky.social writes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This disability education law turned 50 today. Disability advocates want more.
"Our civil rights are not up for negotiations," Rep. Lateefah Simon said.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The federal government has never lived up to its commitment to shoulder 40 percent of the cost. Now, advocates want the feds to pony up, @juliametraux.bsky.social writes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Troops. In an American city. Using full force.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Troops. In an American city. Using full force.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
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It's being reported that another protection & advocacy agency, Disability Rights Michigan, is missing federal funds. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
Michigan lawmakers call on HHS to explain withholding funds for disability advocate groups
The lawmakers say those with disabilities could be on their own if these funds don't come through.
www.cbsnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's being reported that another protection & advocacy agency, Disability Rights Michigan, is missing federal funds. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
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The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.
August 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
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The #1 domestic terror threat in America is right-wing terrorism and white supremacist violence. They echo the conspiracies that have been mainstreamed by Trump, MAGA and right-wing media.
No accountability. No scrutiny.
They just keep doing it because it fuels their agenda and brings in $$$.
No accountability. No scrutiny.
They just keep doing it because it fuels their agenda and brings in $$$.
The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.
Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta
www.nytimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The #1 domestic terror threat in America is right-wing terrorism and white supremacist violence. They echo the conspiracies that have been mainstreamed by Trump, MAGA and right-wing media.
No accountability. No scrutiny.
They just keep doing it because it fuels their agenda and brings in $$$.
No accountability. No scrutiny.
They just keep doing it because it fuels their agenda and brings in $$$.
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Too often, disability discourse gets stuck in binaries: Medical vs. Social. Autonomy vs. Dependence. Strengths vs. Deficits.
Real inclusion means opportunities and solutions—together.
Neurodiversity 2.0 maps the barriers and the path forward.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Neurodiversity
Real inclusion means opportunities and solutions—together.
Neurodiversity 2.0 maps the barriers and the path forward.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity 2.0 - Harnessing cross-disciplinary disability insights
The neurodiversity movement has reframed cognitive and behavioral differences as natural variations rather than deficits, advocating for social inclus…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Too often, disability discourse gets stuck in binaries: Medical vs. Social. Autonomy vs. Dependence. Strengths vs. Deficits.
Real inclusion means opportunities and solutions—together.
Neurodiversity 2.0 maps the barriers and the path forward.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Neurodiversity
Real inclusion means opportunities and solutions—together.
Neurodiversity 2.0 maps the barriers and the path forward.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Neurodiversity
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Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is fucked up
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is fucked up
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one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
August 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
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NEW: Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia is the 61st House Republican to co-sponsor a bill calling for excluding people living in the states without U.S. citizenship, such as green card holders, from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
www.congress.gov
July 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NEW: Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia is the 61st House Republican to co-sponsor a bill calling for excluding people living in the states without U.S. citizenship, such as green card holders, from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
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DAILY MEMO: Part 2 of 2, Camarillo Sees a Military Raid and ICE faces closed doors and protesters at an Oxnard Hospital~ @eltragon.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
DAILY MEMO: Part 2 of 2, Camarillo Sees a Military Raid and ICE faces closed doors and protesters at an Oxnard Hospital~ @eltragon.bsky.social
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Women and children handcuffed being taken into the downtown federal building.
July 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Women and children handcuffed being taken into the downtown federal building.
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Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.
Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing
Mainstream media outlets almost entirely ignored news that the Trump administration is reportedly reorganizing the State Department to include a new “Office of Remigration.” “Remigration” is a term lo...
www.mediamatters.org
June 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past
June 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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Masked agents making warrantless arrests with a “do what you need to do” mandate.
"In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents drove a phalanx of military vehicles ... seeking a resident’s son who had allegedly posted fliers alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE agents"
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
"In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents drove a phalanx of military vehicles ... seeking a resident’s son who had allegedly posted fliers alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE agents"
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
June 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Masked agents making warrantless arrests with a “do what you need to do” mandate.
"In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents drove a phalanx of military vehicles ... seeking a resident’s son who had allegedly posted fliers alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE agents"
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
"In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents drove a phalanx of military vehicles ... seeking a resident’s son who had allegedly posted fliers alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE agents"
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
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A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer.
The US is now undeniably a rogue state.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
The US is now undeniably a rogue state.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
May 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer.
The US is now undeniably a rogue state.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
The US is now undeniably a rogue state.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
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71 years ago, Brown v. Board of Education affirmed a simple truth: separate is not equal—and every child deserves a fair shot at success.
We must honor its legacy by ensuring every child gets equal access to a quality education.
We must honor its legacy by ensuring every child gets equal access to a quality education.
May 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
71 years ago, Brown v. Board of Education affirmed a simple truth: separate is not equal—and every child deserves a fair shot at success.
We must honor its legacy by ensuring every child gets equal access to a quality education.
We must honor its legacy by ensuring every child gets equal access to a quality education.
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Big story of the week?
--WH wanting to suspend habeas corpus
--Illegal gestapo like round-ups nationwide
--Arresting and intimidating public officials
--Economic chaos, lies and weakening economy
--Turning the corruption up to 11
--Destroying US healthcare protections
--Gutting American science
--WH wanting to suspend habeas corpus
--Illegal gestapo like round-ups nationwide
--Arresting and intimidating public officials
--Economic chaos, lies and weakening economy
--Turning the corruption up to 11
--Destroying US healthcare protections
--Gutting American science
May 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Big story of the week?
--WH wanting to suspend habeas corpus
--Illegal gestapo like round-ups nationwide
--Arresting and intimidating public officials
--Economic chaos, lies and weakening economy
--Turning the corruption up to 11
--Destroying US healthcare protections
--Gutting American science
--WH wanting to suspend habeas corpus
--Illegal gestapo like round-ups nationwide
--Arresting and intimidating public officials
--Economic chaos, lies and weakening economy
--Turning the corruption up to 11
--Destroying US healthcare protections
--Gutting American science