Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe.
The cruelty is endless.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe.
The cruelty is endless.
The image is a line graph from KFF titled "The Medicaid Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) Program Finds that Medicaid Pays Most Outlays Properly." It displays a comparison of Medicaid overall improper payment rate estimates, showing two lines: "Proper payments" in blue and "Improper payments" in green. The graph covers the years 2009 to 2025 on the x-axis, with a percentage scale from 0% to 100% on the y-axis. A note at the bottom clarifies that "improper payments" are not indicative of fraud.
Federal audits show most Medicaid payments (94% in 2025) meet requirements and that most improper payments are due to insufficient documentation.
More on Medicaid payment errors as well as upcoming changes and impacts: https://on.kff.org/3MAirwJ
Alice Wong's Celebration of life March 25th, 2026 11am PST This toolkit is an invitation and a resource for individuals and communities to participate in Alice Wong's Celebration of Life. Be it from bed, your living room, local community center, classroom, or in the streets... You can join Alice's Celebration of Life through: * The livestream + virtual reception: Join the livestream and gather for the virtual reception hosted by Calling UP Justice & San Francisco Disability Cultural Center. * In-person livestream watch + your own gathering: host an in-person gathering to join the livestream and connect in person to celebrate Alice. * Detailed Toolkit with links, photos, and resources to make your gathering accessible, plus ways to honor Alice Wong's legacy: https://bit.ly/aliceislove
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New DRP post: #Philly interpretive panels returned to the President's House. We congratulate the local community that fought HARD for their return. We hope this inspires other communities to #SaveOurSigns
www.datarescueproject.org/independence...
Graphic with a muted green background promoting the book Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago. Large cream-colored text at the top reads “ENGINEERED CONFLICT,” followed by “Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago.” A speech bubble on the left says, “A powerful new book exploring structural violence, displacement & community resistance.” On the right is a 3D image of the book cover. The cover shows the title and author name “David Omotoso Stovall,” along with vertical panels featuring images in muted red, green, and yellow tones. On the left side is a circular headshot of Dimitri Nesbitt smiling, wearing glasses and a blazer. Text below reads “With Contributions By Dimitri Nesbitt.” At the bottom of the slide, text reads: “Dimitri’s engagement reflects his background in urban planning and design: understanding how harm is built into systems, and how those systems can be redesigned. He brings this spatial justice, systems thinking, and community-rooted analysis into his work at CRDJ!”
Graphic with a muted green background promoting related video content about the book Engineered Conflict. Large cream-colored text at the top reads: “WATCH DAVID STOVALL’S CONVERSATION AT THE NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM.” Below is a graphic of a video player showing two people seated on stools in a gallery space with posters behind them. The wall text reads “ART FOR ALL” and “POSTERS FOR THE.” A video progress bar is visible at the bottom of the player. Below that is a second video player graphic displaying an event poster for Engineered Conflict. The poster includes photos of David Stovall and Tara Betts, the Haymarket Books logo, and event information including “Haymarket House • 800 W. Buena Ave” and “Jan 22nd, 6PM CT.” At the bottom of the slide, large text reads: “LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BOOK VIA HAYMARKET BOOKS.”
We’re excited to highlight our Civic Planning and Design Manager, Dimitri Nesbitt, who contributed mapping work to Engineered Conflict by David Stovall, a new book examining how housing policy, planning decisions, and state action have shaped structural violence in Black communities across Chicago.
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Minutes into the State of the Union, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was escorted out by the Sergeant at Arms for holding up a sign, "Black People Aren't Apes" -- a reference to Trump posting a racist AI-generated video depicting the Obamas as apes.
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Slide titled “What’s the Harm?” It explains that Disabled people of color often produce intersectional justice frameworks, work outside elite institutions, and bridge community and academic knowledge. It states that when their work is not cited, labor is extracted without recognition. Listed harms include intellectual erasure, career disadvantage, funding inequity, canon distortion, and reinforcement of racialized ableism. A bold banner reads: “Erasure Is Violence.” “CRDJustice.org | 8.”
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23.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Graphic with a yellow background and CRDJ branding at top left reading “Center for Racial & Disability Justice.” A torn sheet of lined notebook paper is clipped with a paperclip. Large bold text reads: “Citation Is Political … it has real consequences.” At the bottom, a black illustration shows a raised fist gripping a pen. “CRDJustice.org | 1” appears in the corner.
Citation isn’t neutral. It shapes who is recognized, funded, and remembered. When marginalized scholars are not cited, it redistributes power and produces epistemic injustice. Learn more in this thread.
Cite disabled people of color directly, intentionally, consistently. [1/10]
Although new Medicaid work requirements for the expansion population have not gone into effect yet, Medicaid expansion enrollment fell by 536,000 from January to June 2025. Explore how enrollment has changed across states in KFF's Medicaid Work Requirements Tracker: www.kff.org/medicaid/med...
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Slide titled “Black History Is Disability History” with text explaining racism has produced disability through violence, medical neglect, environmental racism, labor exploitation, and trauma; along the bottom are collaged portraits of Black disabled leaders including Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Brad Lomax, Lois Curtis, Joyce Ardell Jackson, Eliza Suggs, Johnnie Lacy, Donald Galloway, Cathy Williams, Barbara Jordan, and others.
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18.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This is awesome. Chicago made decisions that has decimated the Chinatown community... as well as other communities across the city. Ironic considering it is a city that prides itself so much in different neighborhood cultures. I would love to see a re-investment, undoing some of those harms.
18.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No he can't. The answer is extremely clear. No.
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This is INCREDIBLE. What a win for public education.
(And yet another reminder of the value of *standing up* and *not obeying in advance*!!!)
Congratulations - and thank you - to the faculty in the UC system.
Brand new polling from Data for Progress, shared first with Strength In Numbers, shows voters back Dems in the DHS shutdown over ICE — and overwhelmingly favor key reforms such as preventing mask-wearing (+23) and requiring judicial warrants for arrests (+34): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...
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As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
A blue graphic featuring a stylized photo of a child in a wheelchair sitting at a classroom desk is the backdrop of the Discrim in Education Brief cover, with the name and cover photo of a group of students sitting as a central focus. Around the cover, which is overlaid on the left side of the graphic is a thin white border with the words Out Now in script text underneath. The CRDJ logo in white is above these elements with a textured dot pattern leading to it from the left side. At the bottom, a yellow rectangle contains blue text, reading "CRDJustice.org."
New from CRDJ: Discrimination in Education Brief
Schools often respond to disability and trauma with punishment, disproportionately impacting students of color and reinforcing the school-prison nexus. The brief calls for transformative, equity-centered approaches.
Read: www.crdjustice.org/discrim
At first I thought you meant you pulled a disc in your back heh ... a different type of age verification!
11.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black-and-white photo background shows people walking along a transit platform, including a child holding a large stuffed animal. Overlaid text reads “Center for Racial & Disability Justice” and “Public Comment Letter.” A red date label states “Dec 16, 2025.” The headline reads “RE: Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility.” A text box labeled “U.S. Department of Homeland Security” states: “The proposed public charge rule would replace clear standards with broad discretion, creating harmful impacts on disabled people, immigrant families, and household stability across health, economic security, and family unity.” The graphic includes “Read More” and the website CRDJustice.org.
A black background graphic titled “Recommendations” with the date “Dec 16, 2025” lists three bullet points: “Impact on Disabled People & Families: Potential effects on access to essential health and support services.” “Risk of Renewed Chilling Effects: Increased confusion and decreased benefit participation due to reduced regulatory clarity.” “Need for Clear & Consistent Standards: Ensuring guidance aligns with statutory factors and prevents unintended disparate impacts.” At the bottom, text reads “Submit a letter telling them what you think!” and “Learn How At CRDJustice.org,” alongside an envelope icon.
In December, we submitted a public comment letter to DHS on the proposed “Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility” rule, raising concerns about impacts on disabled people, immigrant families, and mixed-status households.
Read more: www.crdjustice.org/public-comme...
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
Feel pretty good about the alt text I added to this gif ngl
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Weak oversight and accountability have allowed DHS to violate Americans basic rights for decades. Today’s congressional hearing is an opportunity to face that problem — and start fixing it. Watch live: bit.ly/4rzDvlM
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A photo of the iconic Royce Hall, with its red brick and tan facade with two towers, is the backdrop to a layer of colorful light blue and golden fades, referencing UCLA's institutional colors. On top of this, white bolded text reads "golden state grooves" with a small CRDJams logo containing a music record in the lower-right corner.
From the 312 to the 310, CRDJ has planted new roots at UCLA 🌴
Golden State Grooves is our latest CRDJams playlist, California vibes, same mission. Same movement. Same commitment to racial & disability justice.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Composite promotional graphic for a CRDJ blog titled “Abolishing DHS: A Disability Justice Imperative.” The background layers a protest scene with law enforcement in riot gear facing demonstrators holding signs, including one that reads “THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” over a historic photograph of Black individuals standing in front of wooden homes. Silhouetted figures appear in the foreground. The Center for Racial & Disability Justice logo is at the top left. A banner at the bottom displays the blog title and “by CRDJ Staff → Medium.”
New blog: Abolishing DHS: A Disability Justice Imperative
This piece examines how immigration enforcement actively produces disability through protest force, detention conditions, medical neglect, & coercive control—and why reforms alone cannot address these harms.
Read: medium.com/@crdjustice/...
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Happening tomorrow!
Join this interactive discussion on Intersectionality Guidance, featuring @kcaldwell.bsky.social. The webinar will explore how citizen data can inform intersectional analysis and better reflect lived experiences worldwide.
🕘 9–10:30 AM ET
🔗 zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is such a good report!
03.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.
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The new SAVE Act’s “show your papers” requirement is a direct attack on the freedom to vote. bit.ly/4rA2p4R
03.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 67 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 2
KFF’s latest poll finds that prior authorization ranks as the single biggest burden for people with employer coverage, Medicaid, and those who buy their own coverage (largely through the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces). https://on.kff.org/4c3sHaT
03.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
