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Jen Mankoff

@jcmankoff.bsky.social
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Personal views on disability and accessibility. Disabled, chronically ill academic @UW. make4all.org

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Aliyah Rahman: "I continue to hear the word 'bodies' because that is how agents refer to us—'We're bringing in a body'…'We can't use that room, there's already a body in there.' You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body."
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Aliyah Rahman was not the first disabled person harmed by ICE & she won’t be the last Fascists see the disabled as “useless eaters” In Portland 6 agents dragged a 4’6 blind man named Quinn Haberl by his feet. If this is how they treat the disabled in public, it’s far worse in the camps.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody. He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back She’s not allowed to visit him. They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
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Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Rodney Taylor still needs our help! He’s still locked in an ICE camp. He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs. He’s still facing deportation to Liberia. He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored. Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!
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Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2025
Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 07/09/2025
Klein is right. And the single most important statistic is that the Democratic Party is massively unpopular — even among its own supposed base. That is because Americans want to fight fascism, malice, indifference, and corruption, not reason and negotiate with it.
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/07/2025
The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.
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Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/07/2025
Watch ‪@garrisonhayes.bsky.social‬ explore the connections between America’s culture wars, rising political violence, and the horrifying assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman—and reflect on the alarming speed with which the country moved on.
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
sinsinvalid.org "Patty was skin, tooth, and bone. Now, she is starlight. May her brilliance continue to guide us." - Mordecai, Karina, Jen/Eleana and Sucia, on behalf of the Sins Invalid Team #pattyberne
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Disabled students will be disproportionately hurt by the Republican budget reconciliation bill, losing access to essential services and resources that support their education and help them become contributing members of their communities.
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The Top 5 Ways the Congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill Will Harm Disabled Students
Disabled students will be disproportionately hurt by the Republican budget reconciliation bill, losing access to essential services and resources that support their education and help them become contributing members of their communities.
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Time to get in gear again for disability rights... www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener...
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New Attempt to Rollback Accessibility Requirements - Comments Needed
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds...
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RWilson💙☮️ @rcw1.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gg1...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett: The Constitution Isn’t That Complicated… Unless You’re the GOP
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🧵 As you may have heard, RFK/HHS have changed the name, but not walked back their Autism registry/database, and have confirmed they will be integrating information from Medicare/aid, medical records, and wearables. Here is a template for requesting that medical providers don't provide that info:
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/05/2025
Logan Rozos’s remarks span 80 seconds & comprise a mere 159 words. But because those words condemn genocide & call for justice, NYU is denying him his diploma, seeking further punishment, & publicly condemning him. This is backwards. Positing a deeper analysis soon: Www.Qasimrashid.Com/subscribe
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Kate Glazko @kglazko.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I don’t usually open up about disability on a personal level, but this article gets a little bit into it. Creating accessible environments for learning/research for all (diagnosed or not yet) can help people reach their goals and dreams.
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I know everything seems urgent right now, but this is wholly unacceptable: www.sos.wa.gov/about-office... "The state’s only accessible library service for people with print disabilities, faces severe cuts." It's not too late to fight this (see next post).
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Something not to lose track of is that the battles we need to fight are not just caused by changes in the federal government. They are ongoing, at all levels. I look forward to the day when access is a first principle, not an afterthought www.seattletimes.com/education-la...
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Seattle Public Schools apologizes to deaf and hard of hearing families
Recent lapses at school board meetings are part of a larger pattern of discrimination against families in the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community, some say.
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
ADAPT.org protestors enter the room at around :50 and are threatened with arrest and wheeled out at around 1:50. Video: rumble.com/v6tc0c3-no-c... News: www.rawstory.com/medicaid-cut...
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'No cuts to Medicaid!' Disabled protesters shut down GOP House hearing
Protesters opposing Republican cuts to Medicaid spending briefly shut down a House hearing on Tuesday.House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) kicked off the hearing by praising ...
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 13/05/2025
Good morning 🌞 – some inspo to start your day: It’s people like Dr. Brittany Charlton, a Harvard professor and public health researcher, who remind us that science, equity, and truth are worth fighting for. 💪🏽🌍 Her lawsuit is protecting LGBTQ+ health, science, and democracy. 🏳️‍🌈⚖️
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Science is under attack. So I’m taking RFK Jr. to court
“After losing every one of my grants — and seeing the human cost to my team, patients, and society — I knew silence was not an option,” writes Brittany Charlton.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/05/2025
I have to sign off now, I've been working since 8AM and I'm losing coherence. My ask is this: Please, please 1) call your federal electeds by 2PM tomorrow and 2) ask one other person to do the same. Very easy to follow instructions for making those calls are here: bsky.app/profile/matt...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/05/2025
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/05/2025
I need you to make calls to Congress because on Tuesday, the House Committee responsible for Medicaid is meeting to slash funding for Medicaid—the health program 80 million Americans rely on, the health program that has kept me alive. This piece is not paywalled, it is not locked—please share it.
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CTA: House Committee Meets to Slash Medicaid on Tuesday 5/13 | Matthew Cortland
Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This explains so much! I wonder what a similar study in the workplace on matched jobs by various identities would find
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The families of at least 11 federal judges have faced threats of violence or harassment after they ruled against the new Trump administration. @nedmparker1.bsky.social @mikespector.bsky.social @bypetereisler.bsky.social @nateraymond.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack.
As federal judges rule against the Trump administration in dozens of politically charged cases, the families of at least 11 of the jurists have been targeted with threats and harassment. The intimidation campaign has strained judges and their relatives – and legal scholars fear it could have a chilling effect on the judiciary.
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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“While #DisabilityRights laws are not perfect, they have helped me and others with disabilities to pursue our dreams, live independently and engage as equals in our society.” #UWAllen’s @jcmankoff.bsky.social in @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-... #a11y #AccessibilityMatters
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How the 'A' in DEIA is threatened, and what you can do | Op-Ed
Disability accommodations made it possible for me to become a professor and are vital to the success of many of my disabled students and colleagues.
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It didn't make it into my opinion piece, but NIDILRR (which funds disability research and much more) is among the organizations on the list of proposed cuts. We need action on so many fronts right now, within and beyond disability concerns! www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...
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How the 'A' in DEIA is threatened, and what you can do | Op-Ed
Disability accommodations made it possible for me to become a professor and are vital to the success of many of my disabled students and colleagues.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Seattle ❤️‍🔥
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you're an NSF grantee who receives notice of cancellation per today's announcement, please get in touch here or via Signal mzahneis.09.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The Trump regime is pulling funding on research that tries to understand rumors, misinfo, disinfo, propaganda, & the manipulation of online systems — as well as funding on media and information literacy. We might want to ask why they don't want people to be able to recognize & understand propaganda?
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
An incredibly shortsighted decision. We all lose out when this sort of innovative and impactful work is canceled.
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
And who will go and advocate on behalf of Andry Romero?
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I need you to look at the text of RFK's remarks last night beside a description of the 1941 German film "I Accuse" and understand how calculated this is. RFK:
Text: "Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this," Kennedy said. "These are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."

"We have to recognize we are doing this to our children, and we need to put an end to it," he added.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.congress.gov/members/find... WaPo's article on the budget cuts, full text (but you'd have to search the budget draft itself to find the info in the first share): archive.is/2025.04.16-2...
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
As reported by inside medicine (insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-a-64-page-hhs-restructuring-proposal) and politico (www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/trump-administration-mulls-sharp-funding-cuts-at-health-agencies-00294781) these proposed funding cuts are devastating across so many communities.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The Detroit Jewish News: Anne Frank, Schindler’s List Included in Florida Book-Ban Lawsuit
Andrew Lapin, JTA Jan 10, 2024
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 15/04/2025
7/? We know nothing about how the claims are being screened (again probably AI but what AI? No idea) or what will result in a claim being flagged as potential fraud. If I get any information about that I will share but for now, we know nothing. Official press release below.
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Press Release | Press Office | SSA
2025 Press Releases
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Unfettered use of AI without transparency risks create an unequal system that delays access to services for people based on biases that are baked into the data.
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 15/04/2025
4/? For other types of claims so retirement, survivors, children’s benefits off a parent who is retired or disabled etc, we are supposed to hold the claims for 3 days before processing them. During that time the system (AI of some kind?) will review the case and after 3 days if potential fraud is
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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A note to keep an eye on the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, which are very important for some disability service organizations. For example, loan programs for buying accessibility technology www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-cut-cdfi-bipartisan-lending-00237599
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Trump's order to cut main street lending program earns GOP rebuke
An executive order from the president would slash funding for a program relied on by community entrepreneurs and strongly supported by lawmakers from both parties.
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 15/04/2025
3/? As the same as a direct deposit change so for people receiving paper checks you will need to change it one or in office. For new applications for disability benefits, there are no changes. These continue to be able to be completed entirely over the phone with no new retirements or changes.
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/04/2025
I'll let others more knowledgeable than I comment on their weasel-words around power of the courts. For now, we have to keep up the pressure until he is home. And never let voters forget that this administration asked the supreme court for permission to leave him in a foreign gulag.
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Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant
A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/04/2025
​In Houston 20 children attacked 3 Afghan Muslim girls wearing hijab, ripping their hijabs off, pulling their hair, and beating them unresponsive: www.youtube.com/shorts/FVDVs... National Corp media is ignoring this story. I will continue to report on it. Subscribe at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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20 Kids Attack 3 Afghan Muslim Girls
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
In just four days, Dr. Khan Suri was transferred among five different ICE facilities across three states, despite the fact that ICE records indicate there were beds in Virginia facilities. Dr. Khan Suri was fasting in religious observance of Ramadan, but multiple ICE facilities refused him food or water to break his fast.

For almost two weeks, he was housed in a room without a bed and with a television blaring 21 hours a day. Dr. Khan Suri was issued used underwear, and a bright red uniform that is usually reserved for detained individuals who have been classified as ‘high security’ based on their criminal history or alleged affiliation with criminal organizations. He is not permitted to work or spend more than two hours per week outside of his dorm.
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