NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.

Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.

From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.

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An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity

An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.

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Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

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The "update" circulating from Texas State reps Terri Leo Wilson and Lacey Hull about the 504 lawsuit is such trash. 🧵 1. First off, "don't worry, our AG only interprets it as harming trans kids!" is not a flex! Our 👏🏼 liberation 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 intertwined 👏🏼

People who had a Medicare drug plan with zero-dollar premiums last year got small premium increases this year — and didn’t know it. They were dropped from their coverage for failing to pay.

Thousands of Medicare beneficiaries thought their drug plan was free. Then they lost it.

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Nopeity nope nope nope

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3mo ago

oh boy do I have a horrifying patent for you to read

They're gearing up for mass compulsory indtitutionalization. Worth noting that this is out of the Dept. of Justice, the department to which the Office of Civil Rights overseeing special education rights violations was just relocated.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Reading the DOJ memo that was just published & seething with anger. On pg 3: "We start with whether Olmstead conclusively imposes an integration mandate as a requirement of Title II. We conclude that it does not." It gets worse. Read with caution, but I think it's important people know about this.

The Trump administration continues to hollow out the Dept of Ed, this time with the move of the Offices of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and Civil Rights. Among other things, this gives control of special ed to noted eugenicst RFK Jr. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/06/17/o...

The Trump administration continues to hollow out the Department of Ed, today by moving the Offices of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and Civil Rights (OCR). Some thoughts on what that means: www.disability-rights-watch.com

Here we go. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump moves oversight of special education and civil rights out of the Education Department

President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

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"The rule cites, as examples, that those who have H.I.V./AIDS, cancer or end-stage renal disease would not be exempt from reporting work hours unless their illness is serious enough to make it hard for them to work or volunteer."

Trump Administration Announces Stricter Rules for Medicaid Work Requirement

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Congratulations to @willfertman.com on the release of THE DEAF BABY INSTRUCTION MANUAL, a direct and approachable guide for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children! @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #deaf #HardOfHearing #DHH #parenting #nonfiction

Ugly Laws on steroids.

National Homelessness Law Center@homelesslaw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor. buff.ly/d6rXj5h

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

If they really do kill USPS, they're gonna take out a lot of old and/or disabled folks with it. So many people rely on mailed prescriptions. Some health plans also require folks to receive recurring prescriptions this way.

One hellscape after another.

ProfKFH@profkfh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Astonishing the flight crew is so utterly convinced that deaf passenger shld not fly. “In the footage, a gate agent can be heard defending the passenger & explaining to the flight crew that she is deaf & that the accommodation appears on her reservation.” www.newsweek.com/deaf-woman-r...

Cool, now reunite him with his first language, peers, home, belongings and education.

James Croxton@jwcroxton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A six-year-old student at the California School for the Deaf-Fremont has been reunited with his communication devices after being deported to Columbia last week.

Updates on two deaf children and their families kidnapped by ICE this month, including links and action items. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/03/08/i...

This Bay Area family was arrested at the mom's immigration check-in appointment. Their 7 year old is deaf and goes to CSD-Fremont. Lawyers can't find them. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Bay Area mom arrested by ICE with her two young kids. Her attorneys can't find them

Attorneys were scrambling to find a mother and her two young children after they were arrested by federal immigration officers in San Francisco this week, an attorney said.

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DRW Updates for February: the death of a blind refugee at the hands of CBP, Medicaid/care and medical supplier freezes, and that zombie Section 504 lawsuit. The latter two push an expected but disturbing trend toward forced indtitutionalization. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/02/27/f...

Important distinction because the captions are inconsistent in the video, the "pause" is on opening medical supply stores, not on purchasing medical supplies. The cutting off of funding to MN Medicare/aid, however, remains extremely fucked www.hhs.gov/press-room/t...

ICE released a blind Rohingya refugee onto a random street corner five miles from his home with no help, no phone, and without contacting his family to even let them know he'd been released. Alam did not speak English. He died in the cold. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold

"They just left him."

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STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)

All Eyes on the Senate

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Bloop! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41712465/

Avoiding unintended consequences: science of reading policies may harm deaf children - PubMed

Many U.S. policies inspired by the Science of Reading rest on two assumptions: (1) skilled reading always involves automatic mapping between written words and speech sounds, and (2) all children benefit from systematic instruction of phonological awareness and phonics. These assumptions are not whol …

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Another Bad Thing™ about the SAVE Act is that it puts a lot of restrictions on voters who need assistance at the polls. That compounded with mail-in restrictions is going to disenfranchise so many disabled folks.

Important read www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

US forced deportation, language exclusion, and disability justice

Deportation practices in the USA continue to undermine the communication and disability rights of asylum seekers with disabilities, especially deaf individuals, causing serious health consequences and...

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Updates on the intersection of ICE-related violence and disability, February 2026. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/02/03/i...