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🔥🔥 OPINION: “We tend to forget that before 1975, over a million students with disabilities were routinely excluded or institutionalized. As a society, through IDEA, we agreed that disability rights are civil rights."
October 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
🔥🔥 OPINION: “We tend to forget that before 1975, over a million students with disabilities were routinely excluded or institutionalized. As a society, through IDEA, we agreed that disability rights are civil rights."
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The Dept. of Education's Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services helps students with disabilities & their families understand their rights under federal disability law to ensure they have a successful future.
House Dems demand a reversal of the illegal firings in this vital agency.
House Dems demand a reversal of the illegal firings in this vital agency.
Hoyer Joins Representative McBath, House Democrats in Condemning Trump Administration’s Latest Attacks on Special Education
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Steny H.
hoyer.house.gov
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Dept. of Education's Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services helps students with disabilities & their families understand their rights under federal disability law to ensure they have a successful future.
House Dems demand a reversal of the illegal firings in this vital agency.
House Dems demand a reversal of the illegal firings in this vital agency.
Glad to see some progress on this is finally happening. When I first read about this I was outraged.
Queens library agrees to major accessibility upgrades after disability rights lawsuit https://gothamist.com/news/queens-library-agrees-to-major-accessibility-upgrades-after-disability-rights-lawsuit
Queens library agrees to major accessibility upgrades after disability rights lawsuit
Patrons must go up a set of stairs to enter three fiction sections in the new Hunters Point Library.
The Hunters Point Library in Long Island City will undergo renovations to make all areas accessible to visitors with mobility-related disabilities, following a class-action settlement. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Glad to see some progress on this is finally happening. When I first read about this I was outraged.
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We didn’t wage a:
Revolution against the British
Civil war
Suffrage movement
Civil rights movement
Disability rights movement
LGBTQ movement
Environtmental justice movement
And more.
Just to end up with a king.
Revolution against the British
Civil war
Suffrage movement
Civil rights movement
Disability rights movement
LGBTQ movement
Environtmental justice movement
And more.
Just to end up with a king.
October 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We didn’t wage a:
Revolution against the British
Civil war
Suffrage movement
Civil rights movement
Disability rights movement
LGBTQ movement
Environtmental justice movement
And more.
Just to end up with a king.
Revolution against the British
Civil war
Suffrage movement
Civil rights movement
Disability rights movement
LGBTQ movement
Environtmental justice movement
And more.
Just to end up with a king.
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Deciding that someone is unable to perform a physical job due to a disability, without ever once including that person in the conversation or hearing their expertise on their own body, directly violates their civil rights.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Deciding that someone is unable to perform a physical job due to a disability, without ever once including that person in the conversation or hearing their expertise on their own body, directly violates their civil rights.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
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Great work from my friends at Disability Rights North Carolina on this case.
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement
The ADA is the basis of an agreement that keeps North Carolina nursing centers from excluding all people with addiction histories.
www.statnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Great work from my friends at Disability Rights North Carolina on this case.
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
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walking through Union Square on my way to buy some books, i got to hear @bradlander.bsky.social talk about rights for disabled New Yorkers at the end of the NYC Disability Pride parade. 🥰
October 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
walking through Union Square on my way to buy some books, i got to hear @bradlander.bsky.social talk about rights for disabled New Yorkers at the end of the NYC Disability Pride parade. 🥰
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I've yet to meet a "viewpoint diversity" advocate who went out of their way to hear Marxists, Anarchists, Feminists... Covid-conscious, anti-colonial / free Palestine, disability rights, neuro-diversity, etc accounts.
"Viewpoint diversity" is just a politically correct way to say "listen to Nazis."
"Viewpoint diversity" is just a politically correct way to say "listen to Nazis."
They're welcome to be here, none of us are required to listen. If that frustrates them so much that they leave, that's their choice.
If they can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, that's not my problem at all. We don't need to artificially boost alt views just for viewpoint diversity.
If they can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, that's not my problem at all. We don't need to artificially boost alt views just for viewpoint diversity.
This site would actually be better if it had more voices from across the political spectrum, and efforts to push out right wing accounts are only entrenching Twitter/X's dominant position in the political discourse.
October 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I've yet to meet a "viewpoint diversity" advocate who went out of their way to hear Marxists, Anarchists, Feminists... Covid-conscious, anti-colonial / free Palestine, disability rights, neuro-diversity, etc accounts.
"Viewpoint diversity" is just a politically correct way to say "listen to Nazis."
"Viewpoint diversity" is just a politically correct way to say "listen to Nazis."
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“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.”
Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights
Our @rollingstone.com investigation
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights
Our @rollingstone.com investigation
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
www.rollingstone.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.”
Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights
Our @rollingstone.com investigation
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights
Our @rollingstone.com investigation
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Disability Rights March 10/19 @riseandresist.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Disability Rights March 10/19 @riseandresist.bsky.social
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For the love of everything, use alt text on screenshots of text!
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For the love of everything, use alt text on screenshots of text!
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[image of the Caribbean DISABILITY
CONFERENCE announcement: CARIBBEAN DISABILITY
CONFERENCE 17TH - 22ND OCT. 2025
Bridgetown Barbados].
We do the work so we never need to do it again .. BREAKING BARRIERS .. It is ALWAYS an honor.
CONFERENCE announcement: CARIBBEAN DISABILITY
CONFERENCE 17TH - 22ND OCT. 2025
Bridgetown Barbados].
We do the work so we never need to do it again .. BREAKING BARRIERS .. It is ALWAYS an honor.
![[image of the Caribbean DISABILITY
CONFERENCE announcement: CARIBBEAN DISABILITY
CONFERENCE 17TH - 22ND OCT. 2025
Bridgetown Barbados].
We do the work so we never need to do it again .. BREAKING BARRIERS .. It is ALWAYS an honor.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4ix632czklx22h3znypediv/bafkreiabwweyjin4bli44d5jp5squ25l4bhdkywsqwfhoy2spwb4trrmzu@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
[image of the Caribbean DISABILITY
CONFERENCE announcement: CARIBBEAN DISABILITY
CONFERENCE 17TH - 22ND OCT. 2025
Bridgetown Barbados].
We do the work so we never need to do it again .. BREAKING BARRIERS .. It is ALWAYS an honor.
CONFERENCE announcement: CARIBBEAN DISABILITY
CONFERENCE 17TH - 22ND OCT. 2025
Bridgetown Barbados].
We do the work so we never need to do it again .. BREAKING BARRIERS .. It is ALWAYS an honor.
@annabower.bsky.social I just read your article on Lawfare. Holy smokes! What great work you’re doing!
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@annabower.bsky.social I just read your article on Lawfare. Holy smokes! What great work you’re doing!
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On dubious authority, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order Tuesday purporting to block the public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s closing report to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aileen-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aileen-...
Aileen Cannon Purports To Block Public Release Of Jack Smith Report
On dubious authority, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order Tuesday purporting to block the public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s closing report to Attorney General Merrick Garlan...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On dubious authority, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order Tuesday purporting to block the public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s closing report to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aileen-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aileen-...
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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
So many of my friends with visual impairments have encountered this problem.
Ride share drivers must accept riders who have service animals. No matter what drivers try to tell you, it's illegal for them to refuse. wgntv.com/news/cover-s...
Blind community faces discrimination by ride share drivers for guide dogs
On a regular basis, those in the blind community say ride share drivers are turning them away because of their guide dogs.
wgntv.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:02 PM
So many of my friends with visual impairments have encountered this problem.
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The Skate Mind Project is working to bring psychological first aid to the skatepark — promoting stronger relationships within skating culture, and emphasizing parks and shops as community centers.
The U.S. is facing a youth mental health crisis. These skaters want to help
The Skate Mind Project is working to bring psychological first aid to the skatepark — promoting stronger relationships within skating culture, and emphasizing parks and shops as community centers.
www.npr.org
December 2, 2024 at 10:48 PM
The Skate Mind Project is working to bring psychological first aid to the skatepark — promoting stronger relationships within skating culture, and emphasizing parks and shops as community centers.
