That would be an interesting legal defense: "I wasn't obstructing justice, because what ICE is doing is not justice." Man, I wish that would work.

DREDF page about the lawsuit and what to do: dredf.org/protect-504/

Original article: www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

11/ from them, and you're licensed to do whatever you want to them. And we can still do plenty of harm, plenty of harm, to people short of the excesses of Germany in the 1930s. The time to draw the line is not when we get to the "gassing children in death asylums" phase. The time is now.

10/ the gas chambers. Overdramatic? Sure. Given the example of the Nazi regime, we may reign ourselves in before we go that far. But I will tell you: once you define a class of people--immigrants, transgender people, disabled people--as less than human, you strip the protections of the human away

9/ Disabled children in particular. They were defined as useless, as drains on society. That allowed the Nazis to ship them off to other facilities. Facilities where these children were treated exaclty as one would treat someone with no value: they were killed--this is where the Nazis came up with

8/ what effect that will have, but I damn sure want all of them on notice that their constituents are watching their evil choices, choices that will increase the harm and suffering in the world. Accuse me of being dramatic if you will, but I will still say it: first they came for the disabled.

7/ Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia--to make a call tomorrow to your state attorney general's office and voice your displeasure with their anti-disabled, anti-child actions. I don't know

6/ than IDEA does. This is dire, friends. If 504 is declared unconstitutional, the ripple effects on education and the disabled community will be awful. Kennedy's HHS won't defend it. McMahon's DE won't defend it. Listen: I need you, if you live in one of the seventeen--Texas, Alaska, Alabama,

5/ on bathrooms than classrooms. Both Trump and Musk are on the record with ableist and eugenicist statements. And now, the final piece: Seventeen states suing to have Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act declared unconstitutional, which is broader than IDEA and covers more students (and adults)

4/ TheTrump/Musk regime is gutting the Department of Education, which oversees IDEA enforcement. It's the Civil Rights office of the Dept of Ed that ensures disabled students have recourse if they're discriminated against. Good luck with your recourse if the department is a hollow shell more focused

3/ scale at the UT audiology clinic tucked under Neyland Stadium. Without Voc Rehab to help pay for my hearing aids. All of it part of a system that had to be initially forced to accept disabled kids as equal in their rights to an education, but in my experience was very supportive once activated.

2/ But I strongly suspect that I would not have gotten as much support in a small town in rural-industrial Appalachia without the guarantees of IDEA. I might not be standing in front of them as Dr. Spirko without it. Without years of speech therapy and audiology appointments. Without the sliding