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Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People

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...

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Julia Métraux

Trump Responds to Washington Plane Crash With Racist, Ableist Diatribe

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...

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Biden Gives Parting Commutation to Prominent Native Activist

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

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...

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

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Congress Has One Month to Save a Key Medicare Benefit

Mother Jones illustration; Getty When Gwen Williams’ mother was dying, taking her to an in-person appointment to get more medicine seemed...

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Even Dr. Oz Can’t Break Medicare

Dr. Mehmet Oz at a rally during his 2022 Senate campaign. Jacqueline Larma/AP Some 15 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare Part D, which...

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Trump’s Nephew Tells Democrats: Don’t Quit Now

Mother Jones illustration; Niall Carson/PA Wire/Zuma; Courtesy Fred Trump Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III doesn’t expect to be invited to his...

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Study: Equal Pay For Disabled Workers Creates, Not Costs, Jobs

Workers advocate a minimum wage rise at a 2022 rally in New York. Noam Galai/Getty When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law in 1938,...

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It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Vote When You’re Disabled

A disabled voter receiving assistance in voting at an accessible voting machine from an election volunteer. Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA/Zuma Disabled...

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How Donald Trump Caused a Shortage of Lupus Medication

Donald Trump with Anthony Fauci in April 2020 Mother Jones; Alex Wong/Getty Abby Mahler blames Donald Trump and Elon Musk for the challenges faced...

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Jimmy Carter Voted Thanks to the GOP’s Least Favorite Law

Carter in 2018. Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/AP This week, soon after his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter was able to vote in his home...

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California’s Rent Control Ban Hits Disabled Tenants Hardest

Mother Jones; Getty; David McNew/Getty California’s statewide rent control law , the Costa-Hawkins Act, has been contentious since it was signed...

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Yes, You Can Fight for Reproductive Rights From Home

Mother Jones illustration; Getty For some chronically ill and disabled people, the revolution will start from their rooms—or even from bed. Since...

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Expert: Harris’ Home Care Plan Would Be a Game-Changer

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in Flint, Michigan, on October 4, 2024. Andrew Roth/Sipa USA/AP On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala...

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Donald Trump Called Kamala Harris “Mentally Disabled”

Frmer President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Prairie du Chien, Wis. Charlie Neibergall/AP Former President...

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Rep. Ilhan Omar to Introduce Major Long Covid Bill

Mother Jones illustration; Rod Lamkey/CNP/Zuma On Friday, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will introduce a potentially groundbreaking piece of...

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Federal Court Blocks Part of Alabama Voter Suppression Law

Matt Slocum/AP On Tuesday, US District Judge R. David Proctor ruled in an injunction that part of Alabama’s voter suppression law SB1—state...

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Federal Investigation: Disabled People Are Five Times More Likely to Experience Domestic Violence

Getty Images Disabled people are five times more likely to experience domestic violence than non-disabled people, and make up a third of its...

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Report: America’s Overdose Deaths Are Falling

Nalaxone, better known by its brand name Narcan, can reverse opioid overdoes. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe/Getty Drug overdose deaths have been...

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The Covid Vaccine Just Got a Lot More Expensive—If You’re Uninsured

Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty All but three US states have very high or high levels of Covid-19 in their sewage right...

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The Two States Where the GOP Is Taking on Ableist Language

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Nevada State Sen. Robin Titus—at the time a member of its state House—received an email from a speech pathologist...

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Guess Who’s Being Weird to Tim Walz’s Son

Gus Walz, son of vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, with his mother, Gwen, during the Democratic National Convention. Brynn...

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Project 2025 Would Make Workplace Discrimination a Lot Easier

A podium at a DNC press conference in July 2024. Jim Vondruska/Getty Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure...

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The War on Drug Prices Is Just Getting Started

Prescription drugs at a Manhattan pharmacy in July. Spencer Platt/Getty On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that it had negotiated down...

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How Extreme Heat Burns Chronically Ill Workers

Justin Sullivan/Getty When a man with painful cystic acne came to dermatologist Eva Rawlings Parker for help in a Nashville clinic, she couldn’t...

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Disability Advocates Fear New York Will Gut a Key Home Care Program

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul at a press conference. Sipa USA/AP In late April, New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers finalized a...

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Tim Walz Is Leading the Way on Long Covid Funding

Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune-TNS/Zuma There are more than 400,000 people with Long Covid in Minnesota—the home state of Democratic vice...

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Rideshare to Vote? Not So Easy When You’re Disabled.

Richard Vogel/AP In 2020, Sharon Giovinazzo, who is blind as a complication of multiple sclerosis, wanted to vote independently—and in person. She...

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What It’s Like to Run for Office as a Young, Blind Person

Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Madeline Ryan Smith If not for her partner driving her, Madeline Ryan Smith isn’t sure how she’d be able to...

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