Disability Thinking Weekday - June 2026 Recap

Here is a look back at June's Disability Thinking Weekday links. They are sorted into three topic categories — Disability Life & Culture, Politics, Policy & Activism, and Practical Information, plus Videos.

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Disability Life & Culture

• The politics of sitting down
• ‘But You Don’t Look Sick!’ New Study Reveals Most of Body on Inside
• ‘But You Don’t Look Sick!’ New Study Reveals Most of Body on Inside
• 6 Ways Social Media Brings A Positive Impact To The Lives Of Disabled People
• Ableism is getting worse and I'm finding this work harder than before
• On Representation, Reckoning, and Repair
• Disabled Adults Find Gainful Employment and Live Independently With New RICH PARENTS™ Program
• I went to the world's only Deaf university
• Disability by David Turner review – a revelatory new history
• How did disability shape your day?
• Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C

Politics, Policy & Activism

• Important Update About Medicaid Work Requirements
• US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ANNOUNCES 2026 NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH THEME
• Josh Turek, a Paralympian, Wins the Democratic Senate Primary in Iowa
• Disability Voting News: June 3, 2026
• Her scooter was damaged on a flight. She says it keeps happening
• Screens are leaving schools fast, though some students with disabilities rely on them
• House Finally Passes First $10,000 Benefits Increase in Over 20 Years for Catastrophically Disabled Veterans
• Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn
• Trump’s Incredibly Misleading, Downright Outrageous Case for Medicaid Cuts
• Disability rights advocates protest Newsom’s proposed cuts to in-home support services
• Editorial: Where Rights and Justice Meet
• Workers with disabilities deserve better than subminimum wages
• Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments
• Trump further guts Education Dept. by shifting oversight of special ed, civil rights
• Could Paralympian and ‘Prairie Populist’ Josh Turek Be Iowa’s Next Senator?
• Study splits Americans into nine political groups. Where do you belong?
• AAPD Outraged by Unlawful Transfer of Special Education, Civil Rights Offices From Department of Education to Other Agencies
• We Cannot Move Disability Rights Out of Education
• How the Moving of Special Education and Civil Rights Out of the Department of Education Will Hurt Disabled Students and What We Can Do
• RFK Jr. Will Oversee Disability Education Policy
• States aren't required to provide community-based care for people with disabilities, new DOJ opinion claims
• DOJ Memo Is Attempting to Turn Back The Clock On Integration and Olmstead's Promise
• The Executive Branch’s Assault on the Integration Mandate
• Trump DOJ Outlines Dubious Path to Force People Into Psychiatric Institutions
• Action Alert: Protect Vote By Mail, Submit a Comment to the United States Postal Service (USPS)
• DOJ memo stokes fear among disability advocates of a return to institutionalization
• Parents of adults with disabilities fear Medicaid cuts after RFK Jr. comments
• Supreme Court declines to hear Texas man's intellectual disability case in capital case
• No one left in the heat: For disabled people, heat waves are a human rights crisis

Practical Information

• LGBTQ+ Resources Webinar
• Three ways climate action can be more inclusive for 1.3 billion disabled people

Videos

• Are we making life "too easy" for autistic kids?
• The Travel Essentials Nobody Tells Disabled People to Bring
• Representative Joshua Turek | American Conversations
• Disability Reddit Got Me Feeling Some Kinda Way…

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