Jen Mankoff
@jcmankoff.bsky.social
Personal views on disability and accessibility. Disabled, chronically ill academic @UW. make4all.org
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."
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.
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
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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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.
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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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.
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!
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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Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago
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.
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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Time to get in gear again for disability rights... www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener...
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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🧵 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:
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
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.
Allen School@uwcse.bsky.social · last yr.#UWAllen @uofwa.bsky.social Ph.D. student @kglazko.bsky.social was an early adopter of #GenAI, seeing both benefits and risks from the technology — including its impact on people with disabilities. magazine.washington.edu/uw-computer-... #UWinnovates #GAAD #AI #Accessibility
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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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...
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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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...
'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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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.
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. 🏳️🌈⚖️
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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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...
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · last yr.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.
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
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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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.
CTA: House Committee Meets to Slash Medicaid on Tuesday 5/13 | Matthew Cortland
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This explains so much! I wonder what a similar study in the workplace on matched jobs by various identities would find
Prof Sam Illingworth@samillingworth.com · 2y ago🧠👩👦Household mental load: 71% on mums A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances. Why does this mental load still divide by gender? 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #SciComm #Parenting 🧪
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...
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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“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
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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