Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases
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A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.
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🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 46F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.
Mass. reversed course on the closure of Pappas Hospital, which provides services to children and young adults with disabilities. #disability
21 civil servants with the US Digital Service quit rather than work with Elon Musk's DOGE team.
Apple's shareholders have rejected a proposal to scrap the company's diversity programs.
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After many months of study and copious notes as an un-logged lurker, I have determined that the best way to connect broadly with the Fedi audience is to talk about sports.
Basketball saved my life. It’s how I rehabilitated my mind-body connection after developing Complex Regional Pain Syndrome a decade or so ago in my early twenties (on top of my already extant Fibromyalgia). The worst part about CRPS is that it scrambles the way our brains interpret pain so that extreme pain (“hello, old friend”), which in a healthy system is a signal to stop or change behavior, can also or simultaneously be a signal that we need to move more. I spend extraordinary mental energy distinguishing, poorly, between the two. What often happens is that it paralyzes (literally – this is how people lose limbs) not the affected limbs themselves (my arms, more recently my legs) but the part of your brain that processes the desire, need, or ability to move them. If you stop moving them for long enough, you lose the limb. I spent about five years with a type of ‘mental paralysis’ until I started dribbling a basketball and shooting free throws (with an un-housed man in his 70s who taught me to play like Pete Maravich; I miss you Dale).
Edited to add hashtags: #autism #crps #fibromyalgia #disability
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