A dissent by 77yr-old Supreme Court Justice #ClarenceThomas in #Alabama #DeathPenalty ruling this wk found 2 #conservative justices siding w/ minority liberal wing, & 3 othr conservatives wantng nothing 2 do w/ his recommendations

Thomas's extreme position in.. #HammVSmith case has exposed deep fissures within conservative majority, w/ 3 justices distancing themselves from his call 2 overturn 25 yrs of precedent protecting condemnd individuals w/ #CognitiveDisabilities

https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-2676935350/

Conservative justices distanced themselves from Clarence Thomas death penalty opinion

A dissent by 77-year-old Supreme Court Clarence Thomas in an Alabama death penalty ruling this week found two conservative justices siding with the minority liberal wing, and three other conservatives wanting nothing to do with his recommendations.According to a report from Slate, Thomas’s dissent a...

Raw Story

I also learned a phrase for the categories of work that are often made available to people with #CognitiveDisabilities: “The four Fs”
This stands for filth, food, flowers, and factories.

I’ve also seen some other examples with 8 Fs: “food, filth, fetching, folding, filing, flower, festive and friendly.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/10/24/sub-minimum-wages-disability/

The Truth Of Disability Employment That No One Talks About

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and it’s time that thousands of disabled workers receive a fair, sustainable wage.

Forbes
🇩🇪🇬🇧 First time #asterix in German #EinfacheSprache and English #EasyLanguage for the #specialolympics in Berlin 2023. It helps people with #cognitivedisabilities understand the story. Great!
VM Picks: Top Vancouver Summer Camps: Q&A with Easter Seals - Vancouver Mom

Easter Seals Camps offer fun daily, overnight and virtual camps for people with physical and cognitive disabilities aged 6-49.

Vancouver Mom

🔐 ‘User needs for people with learning and cognitive disabilities - logging in and #Authentication

“… the first in a series talking about #UserNeeds for people with learning and #CognitiveDisabilities.”

https://youtu.be/u_ARC6QZLPE

#Accessibility
#A11Y

^ via @vickytnz

User needs for people with learning and cognitive disabilities - logging in and authentication

YouTube
Haciendo la leición en casa de mami y papi, que estoy en España un mesecito. Este libro, Las manos cerradas de Francisco Bescós, habla de lo mismo que Una posibilidad de Cristina Durán y Miguel Ángel Giner, cómic del que hablo en mi tesis: de su hija, que casi muere tras el parto y le diagnostican parálisis cerebral. A ver qué tal
#estudiosdediscapacidad #parálisiscerebral #disabilitystudies #cognitivedisabilities

I have some crits of #leftist stuff in terms of #accessibility and #teaching that i have wanted to bring up for a while because i don't hear people bring this stuff up very much but it will probably have to be some other day because I'm heckin tired.
#politics #nzpolitics #nzpol

Short version is a lot of it isn't fucking #accessible to people with #cognitivedisabilities