Trump's DOJ released a dubious legal memo this morning that signals the Trump admin wants to force more people into psychiatric institutions via bad faith and incorrect interpretations of ADA, Section 504, and Olmstead. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The right to live in the community is important. It is a basic part of inclusive democracy. This letter from the DOJ is bad for democracy. And it uses anti-democracy lies. This hurts everyone because it hurts inclusive democracy. And it especially hurts homeless people with disabilities.

To add to this in (somewhat) plain language: Getting people out of institutions does not cause homelessness by itself. The problem is when people get out of institutions and don’t have community support or services to help them stay housed. So people end up homeless from lack of support.

Disability Communities Defending Democracy (DCDD) is very concerned by a "slip opinion" the Department of Justice put out today. A slip opinion is an opinion on the law. It is not a law itself. The slip opinion is about the "integration mandate" in Olmstead.

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Today, the Department of Education (ED) said they are moving the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services and the Office of Civil Rights away from ED. This hurts disabled students. Keeping students safe means keeping these offices in ED. autisticadvocacy.org/2026/06/movi...

Moving OSERS and OCR away from the Department of Education is part of the plot to destroy inclusive democracy. You can't have an inclusive democracy if you don't include disabled people in every day life--that includes education. You can't have inclusive democracy without civil rights protection.

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These rules are cruel. They're ableist. It will kill people. And that's a feature, not a bug, to them. And they're connected with racist conspiracy theories about immigrants. That last part doesn't get talked about a lot, so let us explain. 1/4

This quote is catchy but do yourself a favor and read the whole interview.

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Inclusion means all of us. An inclusive democracy means everyone is 1) free to be who they are 2) get a say in their government 3) get a say in what happens in their community. Attacks on trans kids hurts inclusive democracy--and the people doing it do not want an inclusive democracy.

“In the early days of the alt-right, blogs were promoting neurodiversity as a kind of — whether it was genuine or not — that we are these special types of people who are different, and that makes us know better than the globalists,” Warwick told @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/03/nick...

DCDD Executive Director Esther Warwick sat down with Dr. @joanbraune.bsky.social of @threewayfight.bsky.social a few weeks ago to talk about the intersection of anti-democracy movements and disability communities and the Three Way Fight. threewayfight.org/disability-a...

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