disability

The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
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For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #Idaho #Parents #Children #School #Disability #Trump

radio says $1800 on average for a 1 bed right now in Kingston per rentals ca or whatever. #ODSP gives a max $522 for housing for a single person. If the Liberals had put in their #UBI it would've been $2000, leaving you with $200 to live off of. But #DougFord has only increased ODSP by $50 in 9 years.

Most #Disabled people are like me, we WANT to work, but physically can't. We are almost on death's door as it is, and it's ODSP or die in a gutter.

#Politics #CdnPoli #Disability #ChronicPain

BTW still not going to any mass events, even outdoors, for health reasons. so everybody out here who by #disability, like me, or any other reason cannot make it to a #nokings #protest, i see you.

just know there’s a reason foe a vanguardia, guardia and retaguardia.

the vanguard are at the forefront. la guardia spreads the front everywhere. yet, it’s usually the “backguard” ―the last to come in―, the ones who finish the job.

we will find our moments to fight and we will win.

Fellow disabled players! 👋
For research: What were the most toxic comments you had to experience when talking about game accessibility on social media? Please feel free to DM me or flag your response with a CW, so that others don't have to read it and become retraumatised.
#GameDev #Accessibility #Disability

Legally blind Strange New Worlds actor Bruce Horak (Hemmer) had news earlier this spring that I somehow missed:

- a crowdfunded documentary is being made about his ‘Boldly going’ as a disabled actor and visual artist

- he met with William Shatner, who has agreed for Bruce to paint his portrait. (Bruce paints as he sees with his very limited vision in one eye.)

Here’s a report from CTV from his hometown of Calgary filed in March.

“And he says he’s an example of how DEI works – for everyone.

“When you design for disability, everyone benefits,” he said, pointing out that phone texting started as something to assist the hearing-impaired and now it’s for everyone.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/legally-blind-calgary-born-actor-bruce-horak-to-paint-portrait-of-william-shatner/

#StarTrek #Disability #Blind #Accessibility @zora #StarTrekSNW #StrangeNewWorlds #BruceHorak #Shatner

“China noted a rise in outpatient cases from 7.5% to 16.2% and severe hospitalized cases from 3.3% to 6.3%”

The latest COVID variant is sweeping across Asia, causing “razor blade throat” and other concerning symptoms.

The US dismantles reporting, remove access to testing & may restrict vaccines.

Wear a well fitted respirator, it could save a life.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/24/china-grapples-with-covid-19-surge-marked-by-severe-razor-blade-throat-symptom/

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #MasksWork #longcovid #disability #ableism

Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine. Climate change, extreme weather, supply chain disruptions and natural disasters hit us harder and faster than others.

We need our communities to look out for us, and we need to look out for one another.

My latest is about my tips for surviving heat waves and wildfires, and includes my top tips for staying cool and cleaning the air:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/heat-waves-wet-bulb-temps-and-wildfires

#climatechange #disability #ableism #eugenics #heatdome #wildfires #cleanair #emergencypreparedness #texasflood

Police have arrested a man for handing out face shields to protesters in LA (I’ve also seen reports that he may have been distributing masks)

Why is this a crime? Why is providing PPE to people who are being hit with chemical munitions and rubber bullets an offence?

This is bleak.

Once again this ties back to disability rights.

If more people would help normalize masks; they wouldn’t have such an easy time vilifying them

Ironically these protests are going to lead to more disability, at least in part because police are making it impossible for people to protect themselves.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/alleged-l-a-rioter-arrested-for-handing-out-face-shields-during-protests-u-s-attorney/

#fascism #la #losangeles #uspol #disability #ableism #eugenics

My bike’s stuck at “session zero” until I gear up (epilepsy + drivers rolling critical fails).

Fund milestones to unlock #TTRPG games + my safe mobility. So close to being road ready!

🗡️ Join the Campaign: https://fundrazr.com/revneedsabike

🎒 Adventuring Gear: https://throne.com/revcasey/collections/revs-mobility

#MutualAid #Mobility #Disabled #Disability #Safety #MutualAidRequest

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During the California farm raids, ICE attacked a person in wheelchair.

Proving once again that they’re no more than modern day Brownshirt bullies.

A canister of tear gas had been thrown at the disabled man and landed underneath his wheelchair, making it difficult for him to move.

Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy from California State University Channel Islands, tried to defend the man in the wheelchair.

He was reportedly piled on by multiracial IVE agents, tackled and arrested.

His crime? Trying to protect a disabled immigrant.

We just keep sinking to new lows.

I want to say thank you to professor Caravello for doing the right thing and standing up for someone who’s was unfairly put in harms way.

He’s a hero.

https://dailynous.com/2025/07/12/philosophy-professor-reportedly-assaulted-abducted-during-ice-raid-on-farm/

#uspol #fascism #ice #abolishice #disability #ableism

You guys, Mamdani was the only Democratic candidate running who categorically opposed mask bans

He was running against an establishment man with name recognition, huge amounts of funding & a history of abandoning the most vulnerable to die of covid

This feels like a huge win for vulnerable people

#uspoli #nyx #fascism #maskbans #disability #mamdani

"98% of Canadian households tracked receiving social assistance live below poverty line: report

73 per cent of households tracked were living in “deep poverty,”

“It’s not just that people are poor, it’s that they are deeply poor,”

“I don’t think people really understand the depth of poverty that people who are on social assistance have to live with,”"

keeping in mind, it took me 3 years to get on #Disability #ODSP and it only pays $522 for housing max

#CdnPoli

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/98-of-canadian-households-tracked-receiving-social-assistance-live-below-poverty-line-report/

I had a holiday from awkwardness. Can you have sex? was solved. Most people have been or known a doubled self like us…

—Nuala Watt, “Pregnant & Squint”
from The Department of Work & Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish (Blue Diode, 2024)

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https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-department-of-work-and-pensions-assesses-a-jade-fish-by-nuala-watt

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #disability #pregnant #pregnancy #motherhood

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