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My daughter, Aspen, was diagnosed with a rare disorder called Pachygyria. If you care for someone with a disability, you know the commitment involved in daily care and advocacy for your loved one. Let’s talk about what’s happening now. You are not alone.
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NEW: The Education Department is “lifting the pause” on investigating civil rights complaints in schools — but only for disability cases. Race and gender investigations largely are still sitting idle. (Exceptions are the few priority cases such as one re: an all-gender bathroom in Denver)

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

Yesterday I did a rewrite on a blog post for an eye care tech company. I pulled the CDC and NIH links in the original, replaced them with research journals and non-profit health orgs. US gov data is no longer the gold standard - or even consistently available. How far we have fallen, and how fast.

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They keep insisting this is all being done by genius savants.

Here we go. Parents, families and friends of the disabled stay alert. Now is not the time to look the other way.

"Do you think gutting their budgets to enrich private schools is a sensible approach to helping these public schools improve? No? That is what the so-called “school choice” advocates are proposing," Erica Jones writes. https://buff.ly/40nz6HL

A Christmas Carol seems especially fitting this year. Plutocracy is alive and well.

#GivingTuesday You can’t miss all the news on tariffs and a push to buy products now. A smarter strategy is to invest in an Able Account for your disabled relative. This will cover their expenses in the future. www.ablenow.com?gbraid=0AAAA...

What is the purpose of building a Christian army of children? There is no evidence that Christianity is associated with empathy. You either have empathy or you don’t. I would take a secular empathetic child over a sociopathic Christian child any day. Let’s leave our public schools out of it.

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

It is part of Project 2025 as well. Authoritarians see everyone, the military included, as tools for their imperial-expansionist or domestic repression/population engineering schemes. If you are a vet, you are no longer of use to these plans.

“We can simply choke off the money,” Trump said in a 2023 campaign video. “For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”

They’re trying to kill Big Bird again. Now they have two knives instead of one. They can defund CPB. They can also take away a station’s non-profit status if this gets through senate. Consider how many local public stations would be impacted. www.democracynow.org/2024/11/22/n...

Don’t be fooled by the baseless claim that undocumented immigrants are taking your benefits away. The amount of undocumented immigrants awarded SSI peaked in the 1990s and is at the lowest it has been in since the 1980s under the Biden administration. www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/...

How much more funding will be stripped away from educating children with special needs with the elimination of the Department of Education? How will schools be held accountable for meeting IDEA under a Trump administration? www.naesp.org/blog/funding...

www.ed.gov/laws-and-pol...

Our first line of defense against the encroaching doom of Trump is to strengthen support for the disabled within your own community. The resistance starts locally. Identify your local resources. Identify those that may need help. time.com/7002003/dona...

It’s important to recognize how in-home care and Medicaid are funded in your state. In most cases the federal government funds around 50% of the budget. I am attaching information on the IHSS budget for those of us in California.

thearc.org/blog/advocac...

digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcont....

I joined BlueSky with the hope to bring together those of us that have someone in our lives with a disability. Now, more than ever, we need to come together. If you have information to share or resources for passive resistance to what is coming our way please share.

I'm totally OK with being called woke. It just means that I'm showing off my green flags. Happy to follow others with green flags. #woke

Don’t need to say more.