Today is World AIDS Day. “An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988. #WAD2025

Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). I wrote about how the law helped make me who I am today and how losing it's protections may stifle the talent of generations of disabled individuals after me. www.the74million.org/article/weak...

Today is World AIDS Day. People with IDD are often left out of conversations about HIV and AIDS, but they do impact our community. Check out this post with parts of our plain language resource “A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Safer Sex.” Full resource here: autisticadvocacy.org/resources/pr...

Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs

EPA is reportedly exploring whether it can detect abortion pills like mifepristone in wastewater — a move critics fear opens the door to surveillance of private reproductive choices.

These cuts would drastically harm the health and wellbeing of those with disabilities. The Trump Administration’s Plans To Covertly Cut Social Security Disability Benefits www.americanprogress.org/article/the-... by @mollyww.bsky.social @seemiaroll.bsky.social via @americanprogress.bsky.social

The programs will continue to receive grant funding, but only for one year. “It is still a disruption to families,’’ Lisa McConachie of the Oregon DeafBlind Project said. “It creates this mistrust, that you are gone and back and gone and back.”

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

🌱In our just-released op-ed for @statnews.com @cre8tivecadence.bsky.social & I share our thoughts on the critical need for community-centered governance in #generativeAI in both health care & public health, moving away from top-down approaches to ones that are from the ground up. #healthequity

Disparate impact provides protection 4 some of the most vulnerable, including disabled ppl & Black & brown ppl. Folx have become masterful at writing policy that seems equal, but disproportionately impacts folx who've been historically marginalized. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Patty Berne, my comrade is now on the ancestral plane. Here are my remarks from Patty’s celebration of life disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/09/i...

"LGBTQ+ adults are twice as likely as non-LGBTQ+ adults to use Medicaid as their main insurance, according to the Williams Institute, and are more likely to experience food insecurity and rely on SNAP benefits."

Nearly everything ICE and CBP are doing as far as due process goes is just how police operate generally, and it would be nice if literally any reporter pointed this out

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...

A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.

Happy Disability Pride Month! Disability pride is for everyone who is: Disabled/neurodivergent/chronically ill For people who don't want to call themselves disabled or want a cure People who don't think they're disabled enough for pride (you are) For our co-conspirators

With deep sorrow, we share that Sins Invalid’s Co-Founder & Director, Patty Berne, joined the ancestors on May 29, 2025. Patty’s brilliance, love, and vision shaped how we move, care, resist, and imagine. We honor her by continuing the work she led. 🖤 #PattyBerne #SinsInvalid

Sad to hear of the passing of #DisabilityJustice activist and visionary Patty Berne. #SinsInvalid reminds us: “As we grieve, please care for each other in the ways Patty taught us: Check in on a friend. Cook a meal. Support someone at the edge. Practice Disability Justice in real time.”

The Big, Ugly, Amoral Bill has passed the House. Still, we hold onto hope. The predicted premature deaths, the families left hungry & uninsured; these are not a foregone conclusion. We can & must invest in strategies that are already working & find new ways to support one another/our communities...

American exceptionalism. "United States Appears Set to Skip World Health Assembly while China Sends Over 180 Delegates to Geneva" healthpolicy-watch.news/united-state...

"Nobody's free until everybody's free." — Fannie Lou Hamer

This is the correct link: www.diningoutforlife.com/about/ H/t @oharrahg.bsky.social

Most people in the United States who have never faced housing insecurity have no idea how easy it is to evict someone in this country. Before the pandemic, every US state evicted more people annually than all of mainland Europe COMBINED. Many states don't even allow counterclaims in evictions.

The National Park Service quietly edited its website about the Underground Railroad to remove key references and quotes from Harriet Tubman and soften its language about slavery