Jen Mankoff

Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Klein is right. And the single most important statistic is that the Democratic Party is massively unpopular — even among its own supposed base. That is because Americans want to fight fascism, malice, indifference, and corruption, not reason and negotiate with it.

Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

Watch ‪@garrisonhayes.bsky.social‬ explore the connections between America’s culture wars, rising political violence, and the horrifying assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman—and reflect on the alarming speed with which the country moved on.

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"Patty was skin, tooth, and bone. Now, she is starlight. May her brilliance continue to guide us."

- Mordecai, Karina, Jen/Eleana and Sucia, on behalf of the Sins Invalid Team

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The Top 5 Ways the Congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill Will Harm Disabled Students Disabled students will be disproportionately hurt by the Republican budget reconciliation bill, losing access to essential services and resources that support their education and help them become contributing members of their communities.

Disabled students will be disproportionately hurt by the Republican budget reconciliation bill, losing access to essential services and resources that support their education and help them become contributing members of their communities.

New Attempt to Rollback Accessibility Requirements - Comments Needed For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds...

Time to get in gear again for disability rights... www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener...

YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett Rep. Jasmine Crockett: The Constitution Isn’t That Complicated… Unless You’re the GOP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gg1...

Update: Bill 1207 was funded, but my understanding is that it will take some months to start generating revenue

🧵 As you may have heard, RFK/HHS have changed the name, but not walked back their Autism registry/database, and have confirmed they will be integrating information from Medicare/aid, medical records, and wearables. Here is a template for requesting that medical providers don't provide that info:

Logan Rozos’s remarks span 80 seconds & comprise a mere 159 words.

But because those words condemn genocide & call for justice, NYU is denying him his diploma, seeking further punishment, & publicly condemning him.

This is backwards.

Positing a deeper analysis soon: Www.Qasimrashid.Com/subscribe

I don’t usually open up about disability on a personal level, but this article gets a little bit into it. Creating accessible environments for learning/research for all (diagnosed or not yet) can help people reach their goals and dreams.

This is not how I predicted celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD

According to the Seattle Times, this bill may help. Mention it when you call. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?... www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Braille access changed everything for our family and is an essential service. Call the governor's office and ask that the talking book and braille library stay funded. I broke down in tears when I called, but I know they need stories and they need to know people care governor.wa.gov/contacting-g...

I know everything seems urgent right now, but this is wholly unacceptable: www.sos.wa.gov/about-office... "The state’s only accessible library service for people with print disabilities, faces severe cuts." It's not too late to fight this (see next post).

I just called. I broke down in tears and explained why TBBL matters. The bill hasn't been signed yet -- it's not too late to have an impact.

Please call the Governor if you live in WA state and ask WTBBL be funded. governor.wa.gov/contacting-g...

Seattle Public Schools apologizes to deaf and hard of hearing families Recent lapses at school board meetings are part of a larger pattern of discrimination against families in the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community, some say.

Something not to lose track of is that the battles we need to fight are not just caused by changes in the federal government. They are ongoing, at all levels. I look forward to the day when access is a first principle, not an afterthought www.seattletimes.com/education-la...

Medicaid cut protesters disrupt GOP megabill markup, 25 arrested The House Energy and Commerce markup is only just getting underway.

Politico article on the same: www.politico.com/live-updates...

'No cuts to Medicaid!' Disabled protesters shut down GOP House hearing Protesters opposing Republican cuts to Medicaid spending briefly shut down a House hearing on Tuesday.House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) kicked off the hearing by praising ...

ADAPT.org protestors enter the room at around :50 and are threatened with arrest and wheeled out at around 1:50. Video: rumble.com/v6tc0c3-no-c... News: www.rawstory.com/medicaid-cut...

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

Science is under attack. So I’m taking RFK Jr. to court “After losing every one of my grants — and seeing the human cost to my team, patients, and society — I knew silence was not an option,” writes Brittany Charlton.

Good morning 🌞 – some inspo to start your day:

It’s people like Dr. Brittany Charlton, a Harvard professor and public health researcher, who remind us that science, equity, and truth are worth fighting for. 💪🏽🌍

Her lawsuit is protecting LGBTQ+ health, science, and democracy. 🏳️‍🌈⚖️

I have to sign off now, I've been working since 8AM and I'm losing coherence. My ask is this:

Please, please 1) call your federal electeds by 2PM tomorrow and 2) ask one other person to do the same.

Very easy to follow instructions for making those calls are here:

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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil