Andrew Pulrang - Disability Thinking Weekday (Page 26)

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1/14/25 - Home care, education, and more on disability and disasters

Before getting to today's links, I want to highlight some of the other parts of this new website for Disability Thinking Weekday. If you click the link here for the Home page, you will see a menu of other pages, including: About - Explaining what the site and

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1/13/25 - L.A. Fires

Altadena family says disabled father and son were left to burn: ‘Nobody was coming’ Sonja Sharp, Lost Angeles Times - January 10, 2025 "'What hurts the most is that our state didn’t prepare for this at all,' Mitchell said. Officials have known for years that disabled

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1/10/25 - Friday Video Share

Why do friends drift away in hard times? Mark Webb, TEDx Talks - April 25, 2024 Personal disability stories with simple messages don't always work. The "How I became disabled" genre, and, as Mark Webb notes in his presentation, the "quote from the video"

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1/9/25 - The R-Word, AI, and disability fetish

I have a request before we get into today's three disability-related articles. I would like to feature more writing by disabled bloggers. The third item here today is by Grace Dow, who posts a blog just about every day. I'd like to highlight more writing like

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1/8/25 - Medical debt, Medicaid cuts, and answering ableism

New federal rule will remove medical debt from credit reports Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News - January 7, 2025 "The rule would erase an estimated $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from the credit reports of roughly 15 million Americans, the CFPB said." Continuing with the cost of health

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1/7/25 - COVID, medical bills, and approaching new year goals

Today's articles aren't as exclusively for disabled people as usual. They are all more or less relevant to anyone, disabled or not. But they all also have some more specific meanings for people with disabilities. 5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID,

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1/6/25 - Jimmy Carter, Alice Wong, and 2025

Jimmy Carter's landmark moment: The birth of the disability rights movement Matthew Rozsa, Salon - May 1, 2022 "When I interviewed Jimmy Carter in 2018, I thanked him for his support of Section 504 and for what he had done for the disability community. I also asked

1/3/25 - Friday Video Share

Shane Got A Catheter! Squirmy and Grubs, YouTube - December 21, 2024 Here's another video that should go on any "essential viewing" list for disabled people and their allies. It would be especially helpful for people who have new disabilities. But it may be even more

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1/2/25 - The ABLE Act, quarters, and an ally remembered

A Little-Known Law to Fight Disabled Poverty Just Turned 10 Max H., as told to Julia Métreaux, Mother Jones - December 19, 2024 "In the decade since, ABLE accounts have meaningfully improved the lives of over 160,000 people by giving them more financial independence. It’s an underappreciated

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1/1/25 - New year, new location

Welcome back, and Happy New Year! I hope everyone's holidays were happy, healthy, accessible, and inclusive. Disability Thinking Weekday has now officially moved to its new host site, Ghost. If you have been a paid subscriber at the Substack newsletter, I will be in touch shortly about the

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Disability Thinking Weekday: 12/20/24

Happy Holidays -- the move begins now!