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Report: Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is Flunking

Last Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) released a report showing just how intensely the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has failed...

04.05.2026 8

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Trump’s New Medicaid Work Requirements Are Here

On Friday, Nebraska became the first state to enact Medicaid work requirements, mandatory for states with Medicaid expansion due to Trump’s One Big...

01.05.2026 10

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FDA May Finally Make It Illegal to Shock Autistic Kids as Punishment

In March 2024, the Food and Drug Administration under President Joe Biden introduced a new rule that would have banned, after decades, the use of...

27.04.2026 7

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What We Lost When We Lost Self Magazine

Last week, the publishing conglomerate Condé Nast shuttered Self, a women’s health publication that in recent years had turned to publishing...

20.04.2026 6

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Graham Platner Apologizes for Using the R-Word

On Wednesday, Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner apologized for using the r-word in an article in the Maine Monitor, saying that he is...

16.04.2026 8

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Graham Platner Claims He’s Changed. Why Is He Still Using the R-Word?

Graham Platner could very well be the Democratic nominee running against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for her long-held Senate seat. Platner’s run...

13.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Math Behind Medicaid Fraud Claims Doesn’t Add Up—Literally

The Trump administration is bad at math. On Friday, the Associated Press reported that an administration official admitted to miscounting how many...

10.04.2026 5

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Trump’s Math Behind Medicaid Fraud Claims Doesn’t Add Up — Literally

The Trump administration is bad at math. On Friday, the Associated Press reported that an administration official admitted to miscounting how many...

10.04.2026 4

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HHS Directly Gives Crisis Pregnancy Centers Millions of Dollars

The US Department of Health and Human Services gave at least $34 million directly to 16 crisis pregnancy centers between 2018 and 2024, according to a...

04.04.2026 10

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Hold off on Celebrating Trump’s Proposal to Increase Disability Education Funding

On Friday, President Donald Trump released his budget proposal for the fiscal year 2027. Surprisingly, given the cuts that would be necessary to fund...

04.04.2026 9

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s Death Was a Homicide

On Wednesday, the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office announced that it ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was...

01.04.2026 10

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Home Care Wasn’t Ready for the Climate Crisis—Even Before Trump’s Cuts

In 1981, Congress amended the Social Security Act to help millions of disabled people and older adults move out of institutions. Through home and...

26.03.2026 8

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Dr. Oz Calls Medicare Fraud an Epidemic. Trump Keeps Pardoning the Culprits.

On Tuesday, the oversight and investigations arm of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing to discuss alleged Medicare and Medicaid...

17.03.2026 10

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ASL Interpreters Are Unionizing—And They Say They’re Getting Fired For It

On a quick break between calls, Kathleen’s coworker asked her where she could learn more about unionization efforts at their company. Check...

13.03.2026 20

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ICE Locked Up a Deaf Kid Without His Hearing Aids—And Wouldn’t Let Him Have Them Back

When six-year-old Joseph Rodriguez got sick, his mother had to bring him along to her regular check-in at a California ICE office. There, last week,...

09.03.2026 10

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New York Is Investigating the Death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam

On Friday, the Buffalo-based Investigative Post reported that New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah...

06.03.2026 10

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New England Cherishes Its Local Elections. Many Disabled Voters Are Locked Out.

Kate Larose will not be able to participate in Vermont’s Town Meeting Day. Vermont is home to one of the oldest and most cherished forms of local...

03.03.2026 20

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya Refugee Dumped by Border Patrol, Dies in Cold

On Tuesday evening, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind, seriously ill Rohingya refugee from Burma who does not speak English, was found dead in...

26.02.2026 20

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DHS Axed Its Civil Rights Staff—And Opened the Door to a Major Lawsuit

Rodney Taylor, a double amputee, was denied the care he needed for his prosthetics—causing the silicone lining of one of his legs to deteriorate,...

18.02.2026 200

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Jeffrey Epstein Couldn’t Stop Emailing People About Eugenics

Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes? In the latest tranche of Epstein records and emails made available by the Department of Justice, themes...

11.02.2026 90

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The Political World of Caregiving

It’s an old adage: when people get married, they promise to stick together “in sickness and in health.” But that’s easier said than done when...

11.02.2026 20

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Snowstorms Are Hell for Wheelchair Users—But They Don’t Have to Be

It took over a week for Mia Ives-Rublee, a wheelchair user and senior director of the Center for American Progress’s disability justice initiative,...

04.02.2026 50

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HHS Will Allow Pharmacies to Boycott Lifesaving Drugs Used in Medication Abortion

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Biden administration enforced a rule in 2022 mandating that retail pharmacies receiving any federal funding had...

28.01.2026 10

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Trump’s Latest Visa “Pause” Targets 75 Countries He Thinks Are Lazy

Last Wednesday, the Trump administration “paused” immigrant visa applications for people from 75 countries, mostly in the Global South, on the...

27.01.2026 40

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Trump’s USDA Is Hiding the Data on Food Stamp Cuts

On December 1, under President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—which more than 40...

17.01.2026 30

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House Passes Three-Year ACA Extension

On Thursday, in a rebuke to the GOP party line, the House of Representatives voted 230-196 to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium...

09.01.2026 50

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Hero of 2025: Alice Wong

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective...

31.12.2025 40

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Doctors Without Borders Among Dozens of Aid Groups Israel Moves to Shut Down in Gaza

On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to...

30.12.2025 10

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Hey Jon Stewart, Jokes About Wearing Masks Aren’t Funny

Over the weekend, Covid-cautious individuals shared clips on social media of Jon Stewart punching down on people who are masking, who are presumably...

30.12.2025 70

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A Federal Judge Nominee Said Disabled People Shouldn’t Be Wed. In Fact, Many Can’t.

On Wednesday, Justin Olson, a judicial nominee for the federal bench in the Southern District of Indiana, admitted that in a 2015 sermon, he had said...

18.12.2025 40

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What a Crumbling Power Grid Means for Disabled Americans

During the power outage following the winter storms of 2021—known in Texas as Winter Storm Uri—Rita, an Indigenous woman who lives with severe...

15.12.2025 30

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Senate Republicans Blocked Yet Another Chance to Save Obamacare Subsidies

On Thursday, in a 51-48 vote, the Senate rejected a Democratic plan to extend Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits, as well as a Republican...

12.12.2025 40

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The Problem With Palantir’s New Neurodivergent Fellowship

On Sunday, Palantir announced that the company, which counts Peter Thiel as its chairman, and is doing work for the United States Immigration and...

09.12.2025 30

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Alabama Wants to Lower the Bar for Executing Disabled People—If SCOTUS Lets It

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death penalty case that will decide whether intellectual disability can...

05.12.2025 20

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For Many Contractors, Losing ACA Subsidies Means Losing Health Care

Comedian Megan Sass has been struggling to get their health insurer to cover intravenous immunoglobulin for more than a year. The treatment, which...

04.12.2025 10

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This Disability Education Law Turned 50 Today. Disability Advocates Want More.

On November 29, 1975, Republican President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act into law, which later became the...

30.11.2025 50

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GOP State Senator Balks at Redistricting After Trump Again Uses the R-Word

On Thursday, President Donald Trump once again found it acceptable to use the r-word, directing it towards Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in a Truth...

30.11.2025 10

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Turns Out Fighting Fascism Helps You Live Longer

Terri Williams, who lives in northern Texas, started volunteering as a high schooler in the mid-1970s—at first for Planned Parenthood, educating...

26.11.2025 20

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Even Trump Wants to Extend Obamacare Tax Credits—But Republicans Stopped Him

President Donald Trump delayed an announcement of a plan to extend ACA tax credits. Yuri Gripas/CNP/Zuma After teasing a plan by President Donald...

26.11.2025 70

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Domestic Workers Count on SNAP. Trump’s Shutdown Is Hitting Hard.

For low-income people and their families, it’s been a hard, complicated week. On November 1, more than 40 million users of SNAP, the Supplemental...

06.11.2025 20

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The Radical Life of the Father of the Independent Living Movement

Even attending university in the 1960s was a revolutionary and complicated process for Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by polio in his early teens. Now...

14.10.2025 20

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Trump’s New Layoffs Hurt Disabled Kids

Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) received...

14.10.2025 70

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Brace For the Single Largest Spike in Health Insurance Premiums—Ever

As the federal government enters the ninth day of a shutdown sparked by Congress’ failure to pass a continuing resolution which would fund the...

09.10.2025 10

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The Human Costs of Trump’s War on Government

On January 22, Josh Josa, who is deaf, was put on administrative leave from his job at the United States Agency for International Development. Josa...

07.10.2025 10

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Another Shutdown Casualty: Medicare Telehealth Coverage

In 2001, Congress implemented partial Medicare coverage for telehealth, allowing remote visits with doctors and other forms of long-distance care—a...

02.10.2025 10

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The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge

A few days before the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the White House released a “Myth vs. Fact” document to counter...

29.09.2025 20

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The Biggest Hurdle to Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirements: The War on Disabled Workers

Armond Dai has been living with Long Covid since his second infection, in September 2023. In December, his symptoms forced him to leave his job in...

26.09.2025 10

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Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine...

24.09.2025 20

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Welcome to the New Era of Covid Vaccine Tourism

In 2021, as the first wave of Covid vaccines became more available to the general population in the US, international travelers from Latin America and...

15.09.2025 10

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House Dems Blast Labor Department For Abandoning Disabled Workers

On Wednesday, a group of six Democratic members of Congress, led by Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.), raised concerns that the federal government is...

04.09.2025 30

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