Bryn Healy

Looking to talk to 3 disability advocates for a potential @motherjones.com piece on how IDEA has helped you + concerns you have going forward. Please email jmetraux@motherjones.com and interviews would take place Monday or Tuesday next week.

#NoKings in Dublin, Ireland. According to organizers, approximately 400 people showed up.

I'm autistic. Trump and RFK Jr. must stop treating us like a plague to be eradicated. Evidence for Trump's Tylenol claim is weak. Yet no prior administration has cared less about what either autism experts or autistic people have to say

This article from ASAN's Executive Director Colin Killick talks about how policies and misinformation from the Trump administration hurt and ignore autistic people. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

The biggest hurdle to Trump's Medicaid work requirements: the war on disabled workers The White House is telling Medicaid users to get jobs—while attacking everything that makes that possible.

Donald Trump wants people to work for their Medicaid—but he's making it even harder for disabled and chronically ill people to find accessible jobs.

This is eugenicist language. Autism is a neurotype that has existed forever.

This is the same eugenicist language used in Bell v. Buck (1927), a yet-to-be overturned SCOTUS decision that legalised involuntary sterilisation of disabled and neurodivergent people in the US.

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

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167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again Comparing Monday's unexplained grant of emergency relief in the Department of Education downsizing case to how the justices handled President Biden's student loan program is ... telling.

My quick take on Monday afternoon's unexplained #SCOTUS ruling in the Department of Education downsizing case—and how the justices' inconsistent treatment of the (similarly postured) student loan cases during the Biden administration illustrates in technicolor why the Court needs to explain itself:

Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts In many states, the push to end the subminimum wage continues.

“If anyone...agrees sheltered workshops should continue, [they] obviously never worked at one."

For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

11th Circuit Rules Trans Teacher Must Misgender Herself In Classroom In Accordance With FL Law The ruling by Trump-appointed judges contradicts other classroom speech cases and is a clear case of the state barring disfavored speech, according to the dissent.

1. In a devastating ruling out of the 11th Circuit, a trans female teacher will be forced to use "Mr." in the classroom in accordance with Florida law.

Trump appointed judges ruled that this is not somehow a first amendment violation.

The dissent is scathing.

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The liberal justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are frustrated with their colleagues, and they're making it clear in what they say — and what they don't.

Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/

This ruling isn’t about freedom or inclusivity. There is no freedom in a classroom where queer families are erased. There is no inclusivity for preschoolers who are separated from their peers during storytime. This decision will promote fear, close minds, and exclude countless Americans from their school communities. It is also certain to lead to “soft censorship” – where there will be no need to “opt out” of specific books because they will not make it to the shelves, read-alouds, or lessons in the first place. This is a dangerous path, one that teaches our elementary students to be threatened by their classmates, to fear their friends’ families, their teachers, and our wide, diverse world. Justice Sotomayor said it clearly in her dissent: "The harm will not be borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too."

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#NoKingsDublin

A woman with brown hair and a brown shirt under a yellow umbrella holds up a lined piece of paper that reads "Trans Rights are Human Rights. Disability Rights are Human Rights. Migrant Rights are Human Rights. Civil Rights are Human Rights. Indigenous Rights are Human Rights. LGBTQIA+ Rights are Human Rights. Women's Rights are Human Rights. Racial and Disability Justice are Human Rights."

A crowd of people facing the street with 'No Kings' protest signs

A crowd of people across the street with protest signs.

No King Protest in Dublin, Ireland

How the Trump Administration Is Leaving Disabled College Students Behind Disabled students already have to fight just to get basic accommodations.

Securing appropriate accommodations is likely going to become more difficult as universities and colleges reduce their diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility practices under the threat of losing federal funding from the Trump administration.

Read the full op-ed here ⤵️

Carney criticized for not including disability minister in cabinet - NOW Toronto Advocates for the disabled community are upset that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly sworn-in cabinet does not...

Advocates for disabled communities in Canada are upset that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly sworn-in cabinet does not include a minister dedicated to people with disabilities.

nowtoronto.com/news/carney-...

RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That. RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."

RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms." Well, this country tried that once before. This is how it went. ⤵️

Text reads: Upcoming Webinar Disability Community Briefing: What You Can Do to Stop the Attack on Section 504. February 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM Pacific / 12:30 PM Eastern. The DREDF logo is in the corner

Join us on February 12 at 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET for a Disability Community Briefing on #TexasvBecerra — a lawsuit that threatens #Section504. Section 504 is a crucial disability rights law that ensures equal access to schools, healthcare, and more.

Register: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Now is a good time to read my @motherjones.com article on how attacks on Department of Education will disproportionately harm disabled kids www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It was all in Project 2025…

Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’ An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter’s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets

Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home.

“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”

Federal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In Florida Incarcerated transgender people were a major topic of debate in the 2024 elections. Now, a judge ruling on a Florida policy shows how cruel abandoning trans people in prison can be.

A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates.

Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy.

This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people.

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Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity - KFF Health News Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for “insurance fairness” on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don’t face the same kinds of coverage challenges.

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would prohibit lenders from repossessing medical devices such as wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs if people can’t repay their loans.
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Thousands flee Mozambique for Malawi to escape deadly post-vote violence Thousands of people have fled Mozambique for Malawi, authorities said on Saturday, with many fording over rivers to escape violent protests following a court ruling verifying October election results…

Thousands flee Mozambique for Malawi, with many fording over rivers, to escape deadly post-vote violence.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

This is what they wrote.

47% of Americans know someone else who is neurodivergent
Adults under 30 (34%) are likelier than Americans 65 and older (9%) to have friends who are neurodivergent
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60% of Americans who identify as neurodivergent say they always or usually feel like their brain works differently than everyone else
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19% of Americans identify as neurodivergent ♾️. Additionally, 32 of Americans know what “neurodiversity” means.

I am delighted to share my poll and article from last month with @today.yougov.com on neurodiversity in the U.S.

today.yougov.com/health/artic...

Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association