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Joy in Hard Times: Celebrating Disability Pride During a Crisis

It’s a difficult period for disability rights: Landmark legal protections have come under attack by the Trump administration, the right is at war...

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Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

Back in 2013, the Obama administration introduced a low-profile but deeply impactful rule for federal contractors: to remain compliant with Section...

18.07.2025 30

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Trump Just Made It OK to Continue Paying Disabled Workers Peanuts

On July 7, the US Department of Labor formally withdrew its plan for a rule—introduced during the Biden administration—that would federally end...

15.07.2025 30

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“An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts

On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a...

04.07.2025 50

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“Sinners” Is Bringing Black American Sign Language to the Mainstream

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners will be the first movie on a streaming platform that will also be available in Black American Sign Language at the time of...

01.07.2025 3

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Senate Votes to Cut $930 Billion From Medicaid

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s intensely contested budget bill for the coming fiscal year, returning it to the House...

01.07.2025 4

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Report: New Hampshire Could Ban Funding for Programs for Disabled People

On Monday, the Boston Globe reported that the Senate version of New Hampshire’s two-year budget bill contains language that “would prohibit public...

17.06.2025 50

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The Department of Energy Is Quietly Slashing Disability Rights

In May, the Department of Energy quietly introduced a proposal to eliminate its longstanding requirement that new buildings receiving funds from the...

13.06.2025 4

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SCOTUS’ Conservative Majority Rules in Favor of Disability Rights

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...

12.06.2025 30

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

With the impact of Donald Trump’s bevy of tariffs on foreign goods—including Covid protective gear—around the corner, Covid Safe Colorado knew...

10.06.2025 30

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FDA to Cut Covid Booster Access, Excluding In-Home Carers

On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Covid booster shots will be limited to people over 65 and those with pre-existing health...

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25 Arrested While Protesting GOP Medicaid Cuts

Within the first few minutes of Tuesday’s House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on planned Republican Medicaid cuts—which would render...

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24-Hour Vigil to Save Medicaid Takes Over National Mall

At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy,...

08.05.2025 30

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

For decades, American hospitals have been subject to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and to the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark...

07.05.2025 5

Julia Métraux

Florida Man Loses Canadian Election

Preliminary results projected by CBC in Canada’s snap federal election, which took place Monday, suggest that the country’s Liberal Party—which...

29.04.2025 20

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

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...

27.04.2025 30

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Trump’s Latest Deportation Tear Includes a 2-Year-Old and a Kid With Cancer

On Friday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in New Orleans deported members of two families, including young children and a...

26.04.2025 3

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Democrats Launch Inquiry Into Dismantling of Administration for Community Living

On Thursday, House Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) introduced a formal inquiry demanding more information from Health and...

24.04.2025 3

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

On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services,...

22.04.2025 30

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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment

For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis...

18.04.2025 8

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RFK Jr. Says There Are No Autistic Poets. We Asked an Autistic Poet.

To Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and contrary to medical consensus and decades of study—autism is an appalling,...

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How to Call Congress—When the Phone Isn’t an Option

As someone who is deaf, Sara Nović says, “the phone has long been my nemesis.” Nović, an organizer and author of the novel True Biz, has tried...

16.04.2025 4

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In First Post-Presidency Speech, Biden Calls to Treat Disabled People With Dignity

On Tuesday, former President Joe Biden gave his first public speech following the end of his presidency in January, at the Chicago national conference...

16.04.2025 20

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Veterans Affairs Backtracked on His Cancer Treatment. He Blames DOGE.

In February, after Donald Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery...

10.04.2025 6

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For Some Disabled Protestors, “Hands Off” Went Virtual

At a Hands Off rally for people with Long Covid, Amanda Finley was filled with emotions. She talked about how devastated she was to lose people who...

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Just Dismantled a Center Focused on Efficiency

On Tuesday, in a series of emails sent at 5 a.m. Eastern Time, all employees—around 20—of the federal Administration for Community Living’s...

02.04.2025 20

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RFK Jr. Moves to Close Administration For Community Living

On Thursday, the federal Department of Health and Human Services moved, through a department-wide restructuring order, to eliminate the Administration...

28.03.2025 4

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Republicans Do Care About Disability—When a Democrat Screws Up

On March 22, at a Human Rights Campaign gala in Los Angeles, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Tex.) made remarks referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses...

26.03.2025 20

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The ADA Is Turning 35—And It’s in Trump’s Crosshairs

On July 26, 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The bill’s primary author was former...

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Caving to Trump’s Demands, Columbia University Says It Will Ban Mask-Wearing

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Columbia University has agreed to terms set by the Trump administration in order to retain its...

22.03.2025 50

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Republicans’ Social Security Attacks Disproportionately Harm Retirees of Color

On March 31, the Social Security Administration will cease allowing people to confirm their identity over the phone when enrolling or changing their...

20.03.2025 20

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No One Voted to Defund 1,000 Community Health Centers

Kelly Kenley’s community clinic in rural Minnesota has already survived one crisis this year: her Open Door Health Center didn’t get federal funds...

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Forced Sterilization Isn’t a Relic of the Past

“In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,” Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v....

28.02.2025 2

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Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Would Leave Millions of Americans Without Health Care

Jonathan Rivera had to get his foot, and part of his leg, amputated in January. Rivera lives in Florida—one of ten states which has declined...

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Airlines Sue to Avoid Consequences for Breaking Disabled Travelers’ Wheelchairs

Five major airlines—American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United—have joined an airline trade association lawsuit to overturn a...

20.02.2025 100

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SCOTUS Could Make It Even Harder to Sue Schools For Disability Discrimination

Minnesota teenager Ava T. lives with seizures that predominate in the morning, preventing her from attending school safely before noon. When her...

15.02.2025 7

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Project 2025 Is Gutting Medical Funding That Helped Russell Vought’s Own Kid

The National Institutes of Health, the federal government’s leading medical research agency, came under attack by Project 2025 well before its...

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Elon Musk’s Use of AI to Slash Education Spending Could Put Disabled Students at Risk

On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Elon Musk’s DOGE fed sensitive data into artificial intelligence software as a way to help decide...

07.02.2025 30

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Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People

In August 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law that allowed the development of state-level programs to help disabled people live...

31.01.2025 10

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Trump Responds to Washington Plane Crash With Racist, Ableist Diatribe

On Wednesday, an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into a commercial American Airlines flight as it was in the process of landing at Ronald Reagan...

30.01.2025 3

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Biden Gives Parting Commutation to Prominent Native Activist

On Monday, moments before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of American Indian Movement activist Leonard...

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Your Local Government Isn’t Ready to Evacuate Disabled People

On January 8, after multiple wildfires erupted in Los Angeles, a father who was an amputee, and his son, who had cerebral palsy—both wheelchair...

18.01.2025 10

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LA Is Burning, and the Right Is Furious—About Sign Language Interpreters

In emergency updates, American Sign Language interpreters are crucial to the safety of Deaf people—close to a million of whom live in the Los...

14.01.2025 50

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Wildfire Smog Is Deadly—But LA’s Covid Mask Organizers Have It Covered

Los Angeles has been hit with its worst-ever wildfires, which continue to blaze, already claiming at least ten lives and devastating air...

10.01.2025 3

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Medical Debt to Be Removed from All Americans’ Credit Scores

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building in Washington, DC. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Zuma The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized...

07.01.2025 3

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Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech

Mother Jones illustration; Photo by Ariel Majewski Elon Musk’s calls for a so-called “efficient” US government—including wanting to end the already...

02.01.2025 10

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Do Car-Free Zones Hurt Disabled People? We Asked Experts.

Beyza Durmuş Dani Izzie, a wheelchair user with quadriplegia, tried to take public transit, as she usually does, when visiting Miami in 2022....

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Donald Trump Wants to End Daylight Saving. That May Not Be a Bad Idea.

President-elect Donald Trump looks at his watch during a campaign speech in June 2016. Chris O'Meara/AP Annoyed with time changes in the fall and...

14.12.2024 4

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Florida Made It Easier to Involuntarily Commit People. A New Lawsuit Says It’s Violating the Law.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Mother Jones illustration; Paul Hennessy/ SOPA/Sipa USA/AP On Wednesday, the nonprofit organization Disability Rights...

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Companies Can Pay Disabled People Below Minimum Wage. The Department of Labor Wants to Change That.

A worker at an ice cream shop in Kansas that hires people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and pays them more than minimum wage....

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Joy in Hard Times: Celebrating Disability Pride During a Crisis

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“Sinners” Is Bringing Black American Sign Language to the Mainstream

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Report: New Hampshire Could Ban Funding for Programs for Disabled People

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The Department of Energy Is Quietly Slashing Disability Rights

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

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FDA to Cut Covid Booster Access, Excluding In-Home Carers

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24-Hour Vigil to Save Medicaid Takes Over National Mall

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Florida Man Loses Canadian Election

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

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Trump’s Latest Deportation Tear Includes a 2-Year-Old and a Kid With Cancer

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Democrats Launch Inquiry Into Dismantling of Administration for Community Living

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RFK Jr. Says There Are No Autistic Poets. We Asked an Autistic Poet.

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How to Call Congress—When the Phone Isn’t an Option

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In First Post-Presidency Speech, Biden Calls to Treat Disabled People With Dignity

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Veterans Affairs Backtracked on His Cancer Treatment. He Blames DOGE.

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Just Dismantled a Center Focused on Efficiency

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Republicans Do Care About Disability—When a Democrat Screws Up

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Caving to Trump’s Demands, Columbia University Says It Will Ban Mask-Wearing

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Republicans’ Social Security Attacks Disproportionately Harm Retirees of Color

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No One Voted to Defund 1,000 Community Health Centers

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Forced Sterilization Isn’t a Relic of the Past

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Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Would Leave Millions of Americans Without Health Care

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Airlines Sue to Avoid Consequences for Breaking Disabled Travelers’ Wheelchairs

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SCOTUS Could Make It Even Harder to Sue Schools For Disability Discrimination

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Project 2025 Is Gutting Medical Funding That Helped Russell Vought’s Own Kid

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Elon Musk’s Use of AI to Slash Education Spending Could Put Disabled Students at Risk

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