A little Tyrion for your weekend viewing ... Subscribe or Upgrade Tyrion Gives Bran A Gift Nineteen1900Hundred, YouTube - May 1, 2012 Spoilers ahead, I guess ... It feels a bit silly to still be obsessed with a TV character from a show that ended almost six years ago – not to mention
The hits just keep coming ... Subscribe or Upgrade Disability Voting News: March 26, 2025 Sarah Blahovec, The Accessible Voting Booth- March 26, 2025 "Regardless of which documents are accepted, the people who will be most impacted by a DPOC requirement are young people and elderly people who are less
I was sick the last two days, which is why there were no newsletters on Monday or Tuesday. Actually I don't feel too bad about missing a weekday issue once in a while. But disability articles that should be shared tend to pile up quickly these days. Hopefully
Today is World Down Syndrome Day. Time for a new video! Subscribe or Upgrade NO DECISION WITHOUT US | World Down Syndrome Day 2025 CoorDown - March 13, 2025 Here's this year's World Down Syndrome Day from CoorDown, an Italian Down syndrome organization that has been producing
By the time this newsletter is published, President Trump may have already signed his executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education. I have also seen a few copies of a Facebook post listing over a dozen steps the U.S. Department of Justice has taken that
One slightly older piece, one newer, and an arts break today. Subscribe or Upgrade RFK's plan to make America healthy again? Send people with mental health conditions to farms Amanda Marcotte, Salon.com - February 19, 2025 "Kennedy has long had it out for these drugs, and
Some less dire content today. After all, smaller disability issues and experiences continue and are worth thinking about, even when the foundations of our lives threaten to crumble. Subscribe or Upgrade Profit shouldn’t take precedence over health and safety Editorials, Altamont Enterprise - March 5, 2025 "Thompson said,
I'm circling back today to the ongoing legal threat to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act – an issue that benefits from further discussion and interpretation, provided here in two newer articles. I'm also linking a new disability-related blog you should all subscribe to. Subscribe or Upgrade
Marking this week's 35th anniversary of the "Capitol Crawl," one of the most iconic advocacy actions in modern disability history ... some new video and audio that really does bring history alive. Subscribe or Upgrade Trailer | CHANGE, NOT CHARITY: THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT American Experience | Public
Once again, I can't help thinking about what disabled people would be advocating for in education, in a different timeline, under different election outcomes. We would be fighting for stronger, more effective enforcement of disabled kids' right to an equal education, in regular classrooms alongside their non-disabled
Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. COVID is a rare example of something that affected the entire world in deep and devastating ways, and affected disabled and chronically ill people in additional, distinct ways. COVID means something to everyone. But it means
We're still struggling to even begin to figure out how to defend disability rights and supports, with a U.S. government in self-inflicted, not at all random chaos. Meanwhile, somewhat lower-key disability culture continues to evolve. Reminder: If you have a free or paid subscription, you can comment
