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Link here Montgomery County Council votes to list North Bethesda property, Timberlawn, on county’s Master Plan for Historic Preservation.

Montgomery County Council votes to list North Bethesda property, Timberlawn, on county’s Master Plan for Historic Preservation.

Ed Roberts was a polio survivor and disability rights hero. Author Scot Danforth spoke with Mother Jones about his new book on Roberts' extraordinary life.

The radical life of the father of independent living A new book explores disabled activist Ed Roberts' revolutionary career.

At 14, Ed Roberts was disabled by polio. He later became known as the father of the independent living movement.

At @motherjones.com, I interviewed Scot Danforth about his new book on Ed Roberts' life. @ucpress.bsky.social

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Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Virtually no reporting on disability rights issues. Erased.

As a fellow alum I love seeing the K pillow when you’re on MSNBC.

Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.

This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

@annelamott.bsky.social, thanks so much for the reference to A Thousand Clowns! The fist adult movie I saw in a theater!

When I saw that Sovereignty beat Journalism in the Kentucky Derby, I thought it was an Onion story.

Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.

I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
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@nbcwashington.com, thank you! Your reporting on disability issues is consistently very good and often includes interviews with self advocates. Well done! I hope other news outlets better understand ableism.

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism.

It’s disgusting and dangerous.

If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign.

Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.

To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

By using a name for a facility that changed decades ago, RFK Jr is intentionally using the “r” word, which is considered as hate speech. By not pointing this out, your reporting normalized it. Do better.

God damn.

Today at the rally in Washington DC.

i wouldn’t be doing too hot if i had my medications withheld from me for a couple days, and it’s been a couple weeks for her

I hope this becomes a teachable moment for Rep. Crockett. Perhaps a group like @newdisabledsouth.org will reach out to her and offer training on ableism.

And there it is folks. Still looking for the language of the EO.

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Hundreds of State Dept. Officials Sign Dissent Cable Urging Rubio to Stop Killing USAID The letter, obtained by The Bulwark, is a remarkable eleventh-hour attempt to save the beleaguered agency.

NEW from @samsteindc.bsky.social: More than 700 U.S. foreign service officers and civil servants have signed a letter to Marco Rubio arguing that the hollowing out of USAID is both strategically and morally wrong: www.thebulwark.com/p/hundreds-s...

OUTSIDE USAID: Much larger & enthusiastic crowd today. We all just repeated our oaths to the Constitution.

#resist This is not just about USAID. It's about every citizen's right to government by the people, of the people and for the people. Musk is not our king.

Accessibility is also being attacked by anti-DEIA measures, don’t use ableist language to describe it please

Maryland’s Bait-and-Switch on Disability Funding: Don’t Be Fooled — Hamza Khan Dear Aruna Miller & Wes Moore: Not Everything in life is a Photo Op.

“Maryland’s Bait-and-Switch on Disability Funding: Don’t Be Fooled”

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However, Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, expressed cautious optimism that the Trump administration’s attention to autism will be a positive, particularly for those with profound autism. “I give RFK credit for wanting to study the causes of autism. We need more studies looking at the underlying biological causes of autism so that we can develop treatments that are based on biology and relieve the suffering that our children are experiencing,” Singer said. “But the key is we can’t let the discredited vaccine hypothesis become a distraction. That question has been answered.”

The CEO of the Autism Science Foundation...wants to give " RFK credit for wanting to study the causes of autism" to "relieve the suffering that our children are experiencing."

This is way too generous and people don't suffer from autism. www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/02/18/t...

Today in DC. A couple of thousand showing up on a cold and very windy day to support our Constitution.

It was a great rally!

An orange and black background with the New Disabled South and Black Disability Institute logos at the bottom. In the middle the text reads: RFK Jr. is blatantly anti-Black, ableist, anti-science, a conspiracy theorist, and completely unqualified to lead a department that should be focused on scientific advancement and service to those who are most impacted by oppressive systems. He holds beliefs that served as the basis for unethical medical research and biased conclusions, that disregard Black bodies and Black lives as nothing more than tools for research. He believes that vaccines cause autism, among other debunked, deadly theories. His confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services is not only a betrayal to the researchers and medical professionals who have dedicated their lives to this work, but it is a confirmation of what the most marginalized disabled folks have already known: that the systems the elite claim are supposed to support the American people were actually designed to ensure that the white, male, cis, nondisabled few can hold onto power. The results of this disastrous confirmation? Black women will die during childbirth at higher rates, disabled people will be institutionalized at higher rates, BIPOC disabled kids will be further excluded from opportunities to advance their futures, and mis/disinformation around vaccines and other lifesaving medical advancements will literally get people killed. Now more than ever, it’s up to us to keep our communities safe.

Our statement on the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dept. of Education cancels grant program, affecting 185 students at St. Thomas pursuing careers in special ed The university's president says the program was flagged by the Trump administration as a DEI initiative.

Scholarships for training teachers in "special education" are being eliminated. Just the primer for things to come unless capital hill folks put a brake on these cruel actions. www.kare11.com/article/news...

The attack against people with disabilities is hateful.

Dept. of Education cancels grant program, affecting 185 students at St. Thomas pursuing careers in special ed The university's president says the program was flagged by the Trump administration as a DEI initiative.

The University of St. Thomas found out the federal government canceled a grant program that it uses for students pursuing teaching in special education as part of the Trump administration's efforts to roll back DEI.
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