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Exploring the intersection between people with disabilities and the law. Photo by Tom Olin http://t.co/AV8HJpWwVe

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How Disabled Children Were Caught Up in Trump’s Homeless Crackdown nytimes.com/2026/10/31/us/tr…
How Disabled Children Were Caught Up in Trump’s Homeless Crackdown (Gift Article)

How Disabled Children Were Caught Up in Trump’s Homeless Crackdown (Gift Article)

In its push to clear out people who live on the street and are mentally ill, the Trump administration is targeting legal protections that cover a much bigger population.

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Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality. propublica.org/article/schoo…
Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the...

Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the...

To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest...

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Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the...

Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the...

To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest...

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Can a ‘Prairie Populist’ Democrat Win a Senate Seat in Trump’s Iowa? nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/po…
Can a ‘Prairie Populist’ Democrat Win a Senate Seat in Trump’s Iowa? (Gift Article)

Can a ‘Prairie Populist’ Democrat Win a Senate Seat in Trump’s Iowa? (Gift Article)

Josh Turek is trying to turn deep-red Iowa blue as he runs for the U.S. Senate.

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A pattern of shootings by federal agents in Memphis nods to a worrying trend : NPR npr.org/2026/07/13/nx-s1-588…
He was having a mental health crisis. Memphis task force agents came and shot him

He was having a mental health crisis. Memphis task force agents came and shot him

Jonah Neal, 25, was struck by a Homeland Security Investigations agent in May. There have been at least four deadly shootings related to the task force.

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Officers won't be charged in killing of Howard County man with autism

Officers won't be charged in killing of Howard County man with autism

Some readers may find this story disturbing, as it describes suicidal ideation and a police shooting. The Maryland Attorney General’s Office declined to press charges in the fatal police shooting of...

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Finding Freedom at 110 Feet in the Air

Finding Freedom at 110 Feet in the Air

For disabled travelers in search of adventure, there are a growing number of adrenaline-fueled options. In Oregon, one wheelchair user went tree-climbing.

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Trump SSI Rule Change Targets Disabled Adults Who Live With Families — ProPublica propublica.org/article/trump…
The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities...

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ICE: No One Is Safe - Not Even People With Disabilities • BRAVE NEW...

ICE: No One Is Safe - Not Even People With Disabilities • BRAVE NEW...

ICE: No One Is Safe - Not Even People With Disabilities, is a short...

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This is how ICE in Minneapolis mishandled a young woman with a disability trying to get to a doctor’s appointment.
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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities by @lilianasegura theintercept.com/2025/12/14/…
Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities

Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.

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Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image apnews.com/article/american-…
Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image

Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image

The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public...

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Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar - The Washington Post apple.news/AHI_W7ltWSkGE0nZK…
Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar

Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar

The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.

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Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51 | US news | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51

Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51

Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives

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Government Shutdown: Chronically Ill And Disabled Americans | HuffPost HuffPost Personal huffpost.com/entry/governmen…
The Decision To Cave On The Government Shutdown Has A Deeply Sinister Consequence

The Decision To Cave On The Government Shutdown Has A Deeply Sinister Consequence

"To many Americans who were counting on Senate Democrats to fight for them, this was a betrayal."

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Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibil...

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibil...

Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of...

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Education Dept. Reverses Decision to Halt Funds for Deafblind Student Programs propublica.org/article/trump…
Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization...

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Trump lays off employees in department funding special education npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-557…
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

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Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans - The Washington Post apple.news/ANQidaeZUSQK3ncTb…
Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

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