Good afternoon! During this newsletter's short, unplanned absence last week, President Trump ordered an initiative to increase forced institutionalization of mentally ill and addicted people. There are still more journalistic articles and organization statements coming out about this. But here are three pieces that provide something of an
Sorry about missing the last two days. My life got oddly busy in ways I wasn't expecting. Things are a little more relaxed again, so here's a video for this Friday, suggested by a subscriber ... Long Road Home Vimeo - April 9, 2024 Shared by paid
Good afternoon ... Today's theme seems to be disability issues that have to be re-explained and re-litigated over and over, every few years. Each time, it is surprising and dispiriting that it seems like there is virtually no carry-over progress from the previous time. We have to make the
Good morning! I hope everyone has a good week. Here are three disability links to get us started ... Subscribe or Upgrade NCIL Annual Conference - Level Up: Building Tomorrow Together - Updates National Council on Independent Living - July 21, 2025 "NCIL’s 2025 conference theme, Level Up: Building
I looked back and found that I haven't posted any video here about the 2020 Netflix documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution before. The film is almost five years old now. But it's still probably the best introduction to the modern disability rights movement for a
Come on in! Let's take a break, of sorts. Let's revisit an old, familiar, and somewhat less intense and confusing part of disability activism and culture – accessibility. The ongoing, probably never-ending effort to make more and more of our public spaces and businesses physically accessible feels
Good afternoon ... There's not much feel good stuff today's newsletter. But can't entirely look away from the hits and threats disabled people are taking right now from the outside. And we must not forget the dangers we ourselves sometimes pose to each other, or
Hello! Every July, at least for the last ten years or so, those of us who spend time thinking, talking, and writing about disability try again to define what disability pride means for disabled people, and what "Disability Pride Month" is for. It's always difficult to
Good afternoon! It's been a refreshing week off. But it's nice to be back. The "Big Beautiful Bill" passed its final vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, July 3, and was signed by President Trump on July 4. It'
I have decided to take a week off from weekday posts of the newsletter. We'll be back on Monday with some reactions to passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill" here in the US, and then a wider variety of disability-related stories and articles for a while
Since almost all of our victories are partial, you would think figuring out how to move forward with them would be easier. But it never is.
Good morning ... Today we have three response to the US Senate's narrow passage of President Trump's domestic policy bill. In the "Take Action" section below, there's also an updated action alert from the American Association of People with Disabilities. I do realize