Just saying... people with lived experience ALSO often have education and some of these other advantages. Appreciate the call out to support others (really) but the charity model of support that assumes helplessness perpetuate ableism and other bias. #AssumeCompetency
Very blue sky. Seattle, WA 1/26/2025
Not from my porch, bogus bot. ;)
Sunset. Blue sky fading to gold. Puffy clouds
January. Seattle.
Splitting hairs, perhaps, but this headline has been bugging me all day. It affects women more significantly (9 years) but you lead with men. Why?
A lot of attention on #Medicaid lately - see our update of key issues to watch in 2025 www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
Oh this is handy. Trump EO tracker @lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social @legaleagle.bsky.social
Go, granny!
Ex-‘MAGA Granny’ is turning down Trump’s pardon of her Jan. 6 conviction
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Helpful!
Pensive corgi
So what's it going to be, 2025?
Legalize inaccessible doorways?
So much to unpack. The nature of habilitative care and developmental disabilities. The ABA controversy. And the school issue. In this case, is the ABA for health, or learning? Is there a difference?
UnitedHealth Limits Access to Key Treatment for Kids With Autism
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
disabled people don't make enough money. I think we know this. What we may not know is how much stress, worry and fear - real fear - this puts on a disabled person. The emotional tolls of disability poverty go unspoken, and that is a big problem. We need to talk about it all the time.
The person who supposedly “assaulted Nancy Mace” was just a foster youth advocate who literally did nothing more than shake her hand.
Wow.
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Hey, that's my Albertsons ;)
"I didn't know the beauty of what I was witnessing. And then it was gone."
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Medicaid is the lifeline for people with disabilities... kids and adults. Medical care, personal care, nursing care, community supports ... for most, it's all due to Medicaid
Image: tangled lines. Text: We can end isolation. Isolation is harmful. Forcing distressed kids into rooms alone pushes them further into dysregulation, causing nightmares, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. The damage lasts for years. In a state report, survivors described feelings of alienation, fear, shame, hopelessness, powerlessness, anger, and distrust.
What isolation/seclusion does to kids is so disconnected from what people think school SHOULD be they can't seem to process it. Part of ending it needs to include owning the harm done.
More on this: arcofkingcountyvoice.blogspot.com/2023/10/if-w...
#studentmentalhealth
In the last round going at Medicaid (2017) we saw something troubling at work ... folks didn't realize the supports they relied on were Medicaid. This was especially the case with long-term services and supports. For people with disabilities, Medicaid is the lifeline.
www.kff.org/policy-watch...
Thanks to @npr.org for this one.
The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown : Planet Money www.npr.org/sections/pla...
NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
Image of a corgi, with bits of shredded toys.
The political situation, per Kiwi.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) exist with or without US ED. But, investigation of civil rights violations in schools does not.
