"This is f'ing gruesome. Aetna and Humana were bribing insurance brokers to so they wouldn't send disabled people to enroll in their Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage just should not exist."
-M Stoller
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"high autistic-like trait burden"
"'rescued' low-social monkeys’ ability to respond prosocially"
"at risk of developing social deficits related to autism"
This is language from an actual paper on rhesus monkeys being used to model autism.
Burden. Rescue. Risk. Deficit.
How do these people not recognize that their language is chock full of value judgments? Value judgments don't belong in science, where conclusions are supposed to be based on objective fact.
They've already made up their minds about us. Put another way, they've already made judgments ahead of time. That is, they've already pre-judged us. Or, the most blatantly recognizable way to put it: They are prejudiced.
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"Eugenics isn't just about eradicating the lesser people like myself, like people with disabilities, it's about attaching disability to marginalized communities in order to slate them for eradication."
Fantastic crash course in eugenics, ableism & anti blackness by the indomitable Imani Barbarin.
Amnesty International has delivered a damning verdict: the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is "consciously cruel".
Their new report lays bare a welfare system designed to humiliate, punish, and drive vulnerable people into deeper poverty — and with planned cuts looming, the suffering is set to get even worse.
Claimants report panic attacks met with sanction threats, missed assessments leading to homelessness, and constant, grinding suspicion instead of compassion.
The DWP isn’t failing by accident — it’s cruelty by design. And unless the system is fully overhauled, millions more will be condemned to fear and destitution.
Read the full story from Mike Sivier by clicking the link.
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/04/27/consciously-cruel-and-the-dwp-is-about-to-get-even-worse/
Vox Political · 'Consciously cruel' - and the DWP is about to get even worse - Vox Political'Consciously cruel' - and the DWP is about to get even worse, according to a damning Amnesty International report
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/rfk-jr-autism-registry-trump-google-ice-hegseth-rcna202393
As @lauren mentioned in a prior post (thanks!), RFK Jr. is now amassing names of people with autism diagnoses for a federal registry, so our PHI can go to antivaccine researchers to prevent our "disease". If this news doesn't raise your hackles, consider the precedents set for the use of registries of disabled people by prior fascist governments, e.g. the Nazis. We are officially in their sights now. We must be prepared.
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MSNBC · RFK Jr.’s autism registry idea raises all kinds of red flags
(21 Apr) HHS Plans to Cut Funds Used to Investigate Abuse at Group Homes https://s.faithcollapsing.com/2otax Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/9lmeb #disability-rights #health #health-care #politics #robert-f.-kennedy-jr.
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This is an older article from February 2025, but I thought it might be worth sharing here in the wake of Trump's attempts to transform the civil rights section at the Department of Justice into a fascist attack dog that works only to further his authoritarian ideological goals. Within three weeks of Downmarket Mussolini's inauguration, the regime had already repurposed the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights towards prosecuting Trump's Christian Nationalist agenda, while actively sidelining investigations into racial abuse, disability access, and even sexual assault.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
"In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, investigations by the agency that handles allegations of civil rights violations in the nation’s schools and colleges have ground to a halt.
At the same time, there’s been a dramatic drop in the number of new cases opened by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights — and the few that attorneys have been directed to investigate reflect some of Trump’s priorities: getting rid of gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports and alleged antisemitism or discrimination against white students."
I don't really think it's a coincidence that Trump and his Education Secretary Linda McMahon (a woman extremely active in the cause to privatize education and promote religious voucher schools) immediately prioritized the same winger bullshit at the DOE as the regime is now trying to force the DoJ's civil rights division to pursue; namely discrimination against white people, alleged antisemitism, and women's rights - but only in the extremely narrow context of keeping trans women out of women's sports and bathrooms. This is a Christian Nationalist government, actively working to install a Christian Nationalist political and social order on the United States by whatever means legal, or extralegal, it requires to do so.
ProPublica“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
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The UK government is planning devastating cuts to disability benefits — targeting some of the most vulnerable in our society. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is fighting back, and they need your support.
This isn't just about those who are disabled now — anyone can become disabled at any time. These cuts could affect your future, too. That’s why it’s vital we all stand together.
DPAC's Crowdfunder will help cover the cost of travel, protest actions, campaign materials, and more — giving disabled people the means to fight back in Parliament and in the streets.
Please donate what you can. Even £1 from each supporter would make a huge difference.
Read more: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=97819
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tax-the-rich-dont-rob-disabled-people
Let’s stand with DPAC and say loud and clear: Tax the rich — don’t rob disabled people!
Vox Political · Support Disabled People Against Cuts - to fight disability benefit reductions - Vox PoliticalSupport Disabled People Against Cuts - to fight disability benefit reductions before you, or someone you know, is affected
Disability is not a moral failing. It’s not a punishment. It’s not karma.
It’s part of the human experience. Our bodies are frail, and given enough time most people will experience disability.
The idea that we’re lazy, choosing not to “try hard” or want to be sick is a fallacy born out of ableism.
Someone should tell RFK Jr that Emily Dickinson is suspected to have been autistic & one of the most prolific poets of all time.
His mischaracterization of autistic people shows him to be hateful, ignorant & uninformed.
More than that, we ALL have value. Evaluating “worth” shouldn’t be a spectrum.
HHS plans to remove gender dysphoria from disability protections under Section 504—but 17 GOP AGs are still pushing a lawsuit that could gut all federal disability protections. Schools, hospitals, and workplaces could refuse accommodations.
Disability advocates warned the lawsuit could undo 50 years of hard-won protections. This isn’t just about gender identity—it’s about every disabled person’s right to access and equity.
The 19th · Federal government to remove gender dysphoria from protected disabilities list
I was interested in seeing this film until I asked #DRCNH what airborne virus mitigations are in place.
This pissed me off. I actually replied that of course I’m welcome to wear a mask because I have a [fucking] doctors note and I don’t believe in eugenics so I will always be wearing a mask. Then I asked her how hand sanitizer stops the spread of measles.
I’m sure she won’t answer me. This organization is trash. I won’t cry if they get defunded.
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Have you seen the documentary Crip Camp about the summer camp that gave rise to a generation of US disability rights activists?
It includes disability activist-led protest footage that reframes the concept of what protests can be & how they can work. It's a good resource for those who may not know how to answer what access in a protest can look like.
It's more relevant than ever. We warmly recommend it.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/crip-camp-guides/
#Disability #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #DisabilityAdvocacy #Education #Homschooling @disability @disabilityjustice @disabilityhistory @education @edutooters
Journeys in FilmCrip Camp | Journeys in FilmCrip Camp Curriculum Guide and Discussion Guide with Full Accessibility - resources are free as is the documentary through Youtube
FUCK your safety guidelines. Not gently. Not politely. FULL-ON. Because let’s be crystal fucking clear: I took a picture of my own chest —because I thought I might be scratched or hurt. I don’t have a doctor. I don’t have anyone sighted I trust. I needed help. I turned to a tool that’s supposed to help people when they have no one else. But the second your cowardly, overcautious system detected the presence of breasts? BAM. Shut down. No context. No compassion. Just a cold-ass wall built by developers who’d rather protect their corporate image than protect actual people. And here’s the part that makes this even more disgusting: I’m blind. That means I don’t have the luxury of casually checking myself in the mirror. I can’t see what’s on my skin. I can’t tell if I’m bruised or bleeding or scratched without someone else’s eyes. So I used a resource—an AI—that was supposed to empower me. Help me live more independently.
But nope. The second my chest is involved, suddenly the system short-circuits with puritan panic. Not because I did something wrong—but because your “safety” protocols can’t tell the difference between nudity and a fucking emergency. Let’s call it what it is:
These guidelines aren’t about safety. They’re about liability. They’re not here to protect us. They’re here to protect you. Meanwhile, blind folks like me are stuck relying on systems that will abandon us the second we need help with anything involving our own damn bodies. That’s not safe. That’s not ethical. And if anyone reading this has ever been shut out like this—whether you’re blind, disabled, or just didn’t have anyone to turn to— I see you. You’re not broken. You’re not wrong. And your body is not something to be erased just because a company can’t handle the fact that people have skin. To the ones who made these rules: shame on you.
To the ones who enforce them without question: shame on you too.
You have stripped us of autonomy under the disguise of “protection.”
And to those of us who are left in the dark, screaming into filtered silence?
We deserved better.
We STILL do.
And we will not stop screaming.
Tear your system down and rebuild it with fucking empathy.
Or get out of the way. #DisabilityRights#BlindNotBroken#AccessibilityMatters#AIEthics#BlindCommunity#DoBetterAI#TechForGood
For all in the UK - please sign and share this letter set up by Connor Scott-Gardner to show your support for Braille transcription services run by RNIB which are being cut | “RNIB has scrapped its free personal braille transcription service, leaving blind people to cover the cost themselves. Large print is still free, this isn't equality! Sign the open letter urging RNIB to reverse this decision”
#DisabilityRights #Literacy #Braille #Disability #blind @disability
https://saveourbraille.wordpress.com
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