Disability News Round up - June 7, 2025
Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans by Lindsay Whitehurst on June 6, 2025 at AP
"The Trump administration says DOGE needs the access to carry out its mission of targeting waste in the federal government. Musk had been focused on Social Security as an alleged hotbed of fraud."
Disability Activists Bring Wisdom From the Pandemic to New Struggles Under Trump by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp on June 7, 2025 at TruthOut
"Disabled people hold immense expertise in navigating both chronic illnesses and moments of crisis. And yet, despite all the public reflections on “lessons learned” at the five-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — from which hundreds of people in the U.S. are still dying each week — disabled people find themselves under increasing attack by the Trump administration."
The 4chan-Coded Ideology Behind Elon Musk’s War on Normies by Julia Métraux in the July/August 2025 Issue of Mother Jones Magazine
"Jules Edwards, a board member at the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, a neurodiversity and disability justice nonprofit, calls Musk’s attitudes both an “anomaly” and the “epitome of Aspie supremacy.”
Why Do We Undervalue the Lives of Disabled People?by Kelly at The Disabled Ginger (newsletter), Posted May 31, 2025
"Ableism is why. Capitalism is why. A 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' mentality is why. We can and must do better, and it starts with a commitment to stop debating a person's worth."
The World Isn’t Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Extreme Heat by Madhusree Mukerjee edited by Dean Visser, on June 2, 2025 at Scientific American
"The coming summer is forecast to be a scorcher across the U.S. And climate scientists predict that at least one of the next five years will beat 2024 as the hottest year ever recorded globally. As heat waves are getting more intense and prolonged, their effect on the mind and body are also becoming more dire."