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Christine LuBean

🚨 Disability rights are under attack in 17 states! 🚨

There’s a lawsuit trying to get rid of Section 504, the law that protects disabled people in schools, workplaces, and public spaces. If they succeed, it means:

❌ Schools wouldn’t have to provide accommodations (no extra test time for ADHD, no wheelchair access, no diabetes care in class).
❌ Workplaces wouldn’t have to adjust for disabilities (no remote work, no flexible scheduling, no accessibility requirements).
❌ Public spaces could ignore accessibility needs (buildings, buses, and services wouldn’t have to be usable for disabled people).

📍 These 17 states are trying to gut 504 protections:
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia.

If you live in one of these states, contact your state reps & governor! If this lawsuit succeeds, other states could follow, or it could reach the Supreme Court and hurt everyone.

More details here: dredf.org/protect-504/

📢 Please share this! More people need to know.

#Protect504 #Save504 #DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice #StopTheRollback #AccessibilityMatters #EqualAccess #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityAdvocacy #CripTheVote #ADAProtections #CivilRights #HumanRights #Alabama #Arkansas #Georgia #Indian #Iowa #Kansas #Kentucky #Louisiana #Mississippi #Missouri #Nebraska #Oklahoma #SouthCarolina #Tennessee #Texas #Utah #WestVirginia
#AlabamaPolitics #ArkansasPolitics #GeorgiaPolitics #IndianPolitics #IowaPolitics #KansasPolitics #KentuckyPolitics #LouisianaPolitics #MississippiPolitics #MissouriPolitics #NebraskaPolitics #OklahomaPolitics #SouthCarolinaPolitics #TennesseePolitics #TexasPolitics #UtahPolitics #WestVirginiaPolitics

DREDF · Texas v. Becerra: What it is and How You Can Help Stop the Attack on Section 504 - DREDFDisability Rights Education & Defense Fund
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ahimsa

@beadsland Sorry you went through this!

I'm lucky that Oregon is a full "vote by mail" state since I can't vote in person (illness). Ballots are automatically sent to all registered voters.

A tiny % of ballots are cast in person, but most vote at home and return ballots via mail or take them to drop box.

It works well for my disability, but others need different voting methods. Video series on accessible voting:

youtube.com/watch?v=pIw7NoQBZ6

YouTubeVote for Access: Episode 1 - AttitudesBy Rooted In Rights
#Voting#VoteByMail#VoteAtHome
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OutOfExile_IDR § Unseen®™️

Hashtag Intro.
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The Proverbial list Evolved:

#InvisibleDisabilityRights #IDR
#LandBack #Indigenous Kahnawá:ke Nia:wen kowa

Behind and beside: #CivilRights #MentalHealth #EndRacism #LGBTQIA #BLM #WomenRights #EqualPay #StopViolence #StopAsianHate #POC Eater of clean foods Anti-AntiSemitic #EndBigotry for #everyone
#BeYou #BeKind #BePatient
#UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall :solidarity: union.place ✊🏽

Focus: :ir:
#DisabilitySolidarity #DisabledCommunity #EndAbleism #StopAbleistHate #DisabilityAdvocacy #passionate #DisabledVoicesUnite #CrossDisabilitySupport #inclusion #ListeningEar #Here4All #NeurodivergentThinking #neurodiversity
#ConcussionAwareness #TBI #ABI #AnoxicBrainInjury #BrainInjury #SpineInjury #fibromyalgia #LimbDifference #ActuallyAutisic #OrthopedicDisabilities #SticksAndStones #BrokenBones #NaturesPharmaceutical #DisabilityAcceptance #EndAbleistHateCrime #StopAbleistSlurs #DisabilityEconomicJustice #CripTheVote #DisabilityLobby #HumanInterest #NonPartisan #research #Education #Knowledge
#UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall
✊🏽 :solidarity:

Un peu de moi?
Je ne parle pas couramment Français. I like using #HashtagsNobodyWillEverSearch
#FilmMaking #Writing #poetry
Ex-#musician #Songwriter Passé
💐⚘🌺🏵 #GardenCreator extraordinaire. #FlowerGardens #PhotorealisticImagination
Et Bien plus encore.

🙏, ✌️, 💛, :solidarity: #accommodation for "👥👩🏽‍🦯👤👨🏽‍🦽" with #InvisibleDisabilities
Just like many of us, this list is incomplete and still evolving. (he, him)

Please read the ALT text.

Image is a screenshot from a video I took somewhere - sometime. I don't remember right now. A golden sun paints the horizon orange, as shadows fall across the earth below. Above the leaden clouds make way for light, just as darkness falls upon the day. A quote in white text is superimposed below the sun reading: “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other” Martin Luther King Jr (Image:OutOfExile_IDR)
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OutOfExile_IDR § Voice ®™️

I was sick, and you said "You look fine to me".
I was sick, and you cast me off.
I was sick, and you used it against me.
I was sick, and you took my health care.
I was sick, and you battered and killed.
I was sick, and you fought for a wooden hammer.
I was sick, and you fought about blue and red.
I was sick, and you fought as the nations watched with disdain.
I was sick, and you fought the "wrong" while resembling it.
I was sick, as you fought for "all" but, forgot about us.

OutofExile_IDR ©2023

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My adaptation of Matthew 25:39 inspired by the work below. (Not an endorsement for religion or church)

I was hungry, and you blamed it on the communist
I was hungry, and you circled the moon.
I was hungry, and you told me to wait
I was hungry, and you set up a commission.
I was hungry, and you said "So were my ancestors".
I was hungry, and you said we don't hire over 35.
I was hungry, you said God helps those…
I was hungry, and you told me I shouldn't be.
I was hungry, and you told me machines do that work now.
I was hungry, and you had napalm bills to pay.
I was hungry, and you said the poor are always with us.
Lord, when did we see you hungry?

Adaptation of Matthew 25:37 by Anonymous – 1971

Image by Alex Velazquez from Pixabay pixabay.com/users/alex2171-356

#disability #Politics #DisabilityEconomicJustice #CripTheVote #partisanship #humanity #InvisibleDisabilityRights #healthcare #Medicare #Medicaid #MentalHealth #accommodation #understanding #poetry #TearDownTheWall #PoetryNobodyWillEverFind

@disability @disabilityjustice @actuallyautistic

Photograph shows the remains of a large ocean vessel leaning as it rests in shallow water. The hull of the ship is rusted, tattered and demolished. All that remains are rusted beams and scraps metal dangle from the upper deck's carcass. The image is symbolizes the poor and disabled huddled masses, as well as the American political system. Time wasted on bickering and bureaucracy, has taken a toll in many ways.
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ahimsa

@flexghost Eight states plus Washington, DC, have "all mail voting" (aka, vote by mail or vote at home). It's pretty hard to keep up the facade that there's a problem with allowing *everyone* to vote by mail, not just disabled folks.

And by the way, vote by mail is not accessible to all disabled folks. Voters with certain disabilities need other accessible methods. One size does *not* fit all.

ballotpedia.org/All-mail_votin

Screen shot from link in the post: "Eight states – California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington – conduct what are commonly referred to as all-mail elections. In these states, voting is conducted primarily, although not necessarily exclusively, by mail. This article addresses the utilization of all-mail elections in the United States."
#VotingRights#VoteByMail#VoteAtHome
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ahimsa

Alice Wong is now a columnist for Teen Vogue! 😃

From her post on twitter:

"My first piece is about the Medicaid unwinding process starting 4/1 when states will resume annual redetermination processes for all enrollees which could result in millions losing their coverage"

Headline: The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured

teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-c

Teen VogueThe 'Unwinding' of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People UninsuredBy Alice Wong
#Disability#DisabilityVisibility#Disabled
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Pratik Patel

The Justice Department is reportedly scrutinizing a controversial family-screening tool over concerns that its algorithm may be violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by allegedly discriminating against families with disabilities.

trib.al/TehSzPl

Ars TechnicaAI tool used to spot child abuse allegedly targets parents with disabilitiesPennsylvania county's child welfare algorithm has inspired tools in other states.
#AI#DisabledPeople#CripTheVote
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Doron Dorfman

Important new decision: The ADA is enforced through private causes of action. Yet plaintiffs often are stigmatized as drive-by serial litigants. In Langer v. Milan Kiser, the 9th Circuit decided that a court cannot rely on Plaintiff's litigation history to question their credibility. law360.com/hospitality/article
For more about the stigmatization of private enforcement of disability rights read The Professionalization of Urban Accessibility: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf #CripTheVote

www.law360.com9th Circ. Revives Serial Litigant's ADA Suit Over Shop Access - Law360A split Ninth Circuit panel on Monday sided with a California man with a long history of bringing Americans with Disabilities Act litigation in his suit over accessible parking at a lobster shop, ruling that a district court cannot rely on his litigation history to question his credibility.
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