Dispatches From the Culture Wars — June 17, 2025
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Dress rehearsals for a showdown
Dress rehearsals for a showdown
Dress rehearsals for a showdown
This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29, 2025
Got Covid? Have You Tried Injecting Bleach? (2020), No Due Process for Armenians (1915), A Milestone for the Other-Abled (1920), A Dust Bowl Refugee Sings (1940), Harriet Tubman to the Rescue (1860), Don’t Mourn, Organize, Heart of Stone (2000)
Global Left Midweek – April 2, 2025
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As the world churns
Global Left Midweek – October 11, 2023
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A world-changing week
This Week in People’s History, July 18 – 24
Jelly Roll Morton's hit single in 1923. Women's Rights Convention in 1848. Disability rights a winner in 1968. Prepaid comprehensive healthcare in 1945. Investigation smoke and mirrors in 2004. Prisoner abuse in 2006. Civil disobedience in 1846.
Media Bits and Bytes – May 31, 2022
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The benefits and risks of digital activism, and more news from the wide world of media
The Social Security Disability Trust Fund Has Gotten Healthier: Have Workers?
Center for Economic and Policy Research
The annual number of denials have risen sharply. If people who are in fact disabled are too discouraged to apply or are being denied benefits, then the program is not performing the function for which it was designed.
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Disability, Class and Agency
International Socialism
The books under review give manifold examples of how Britain’s austerity regime penalizes differentially abled people, but the examples are equally evocative of conditions in the US and elsewhere. The essay looks at how affected people fight back.
'A National Disgrace': Trump Proposes Social Security Change That Could End Disability Benefits for Hundreds of Thousands
Common Dreams
"Donald Trump and his advisers know that this will kill people, and they do not care. Every current and future Social Security beneficiary must band together to defeat this horrific proposal, or else all of our earned benefits will be next."
Trump Administration Wants to Use Social Media to Monitor Disabilities
Care2
The Social Security Administration once again is floating an extremely ableist proposal: using social media accounts, such as Twitter and Facebook, to monitor people with disabilities who receive disability benefits from the government.
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