Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
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The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, March 13, 2025 - Volume 1006 ️
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The Week's News in Access Technology
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YAY! Someone said their library bought Pass the Salt! https://share.libbyapp.com/title/10584475 #Books #EBooks #EBook #Library #Libraries #Gay #Dating #Disability @bookstodon @reading

Access Information News for Monday, March 10, 2025 - Volume 1005 ️
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Audit cuts half of Brazil's temporary disability benefits in 2024

#politics #brazil #economy #disability
https://valorinternational.globo.com/economy/news/2025/03/05/audit-cuts-half-of-temporary-disability-benefits-in-2024.ghtml?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=compartilhar

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, March 6, 2025 - Volume 1005 ️
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Very pleased to be featured on #TheBartlett #UCL website as #disability role model alongside a stellar group of colleagues and students - raising awareness that #academia can be a place for everyone!

I'm talking about my experiences of becoming newly disabled by #LongCovid

#academicChatter

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/about/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/bartlett-disability-role-models

Brazil spending on pension for elders, disabled surges despite review

#politics #brazil #economy #ElderlyRights #disability
https://valorinternational.globo.com/economy/news/2025/02/28/spending-on-pension-for-elders-disabled-surges-despite-review.ghtml?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=compartilhar

Access Information News for Monday, March 3, 2025 - Volume 1004 ️
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"Under capitalist structures that tie people’s worth to their productivity, where value is determined largely by how productive you are, ableism is used to frame disability, "non-productivity" as a terrifying identity to hold. Ableism therefore doesn’t only affect disabled people but affects everyone: we are all being judged on our ability/inability to be a good productive and obedient worker for the capitalists/fascists."

https://abeautifulresistance.org/site/2025/2/27/disability-day-of-mourning

#Disability
#DisabilityDayOfMourning #DisabilityActivism #AntiCapitalism #ableism #sanism #resistance #capitalism

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 27, 2025 - Volume 1004 ️
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In Brazil's Amazon, dolphin therapy aids people with disabilities

#politics #brazil #disability
https://f24.my/AyOL.BS

'There is an urgent need for more stories told *by* disabled people, rather than simply *about* disabled people'

Clare Richards introduces Words Without Borders disability issue:

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2025-02/face-value-translating-divergence-clare-richards

#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #disability #AssumeThatICan #bookstodon @bookstodon

Access Information News for Monday, February 24, 2025 - Volume 1003 ️
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Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases
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A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.

https://www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 20, 2025 - Volume 1003 ️
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Today, I've added a public data dump of the US Social Security Administration (SSA) website. This data dump includes things like #disability #research, policies, forms, and guidance for same sex couples, etc.

https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/ssa-gov

#Introduction

After many months of study and copious notes as an un-logged lurker, I have determined that the best way to connect broadly with the Fedi audience is to talk about sports.

Basketball saved my life. It’s how I rehabilitated my mind-body connection after developing Complex Regional Pain Syndrome a decade or so ago in my early twenties (on top of my already extant Fibromyalgia). The worst part about CRPS is that it scrambles the way our brains interpret pain so that extreme pain (“hello, old friend”), which in a healthy system is a signal to stop or change behavior, can also or simultaneously be a signal that we need to move more. I spend extraordinary mental energy distinguishing, poorly, between the two. What often happens is that it paralyzes (literally – this is how people lose limbs) not the affected limbs themselves (my arms, more recently my legs) but the part of your brain that processes the desire, need, or ability to move them. If you stop moving them for long enough, you lose the limb. I spent about five years with a type of ‘mental paralysis’ until I started dribbling a basketball and shooting free throws (with an un-housed man in his 70s who taught me to play like Pete Maravich; I miss you Dale).

Edited to add hashtags: #autism #crps #fibromyalgia #disability
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