Mia Ives-Rublee on Disability Directive
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Mia Ives-Rublee discusses the implications of a directive from the Trump administration's Department of Justice regarding disability policies.
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260703.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Disability Scoop ( 6/22/26 ) This week on CounterSpin : A former UK Prime Minister famously sniffed : I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand, “I have a problem, it is the government’s job to cope with it!” Or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the government must house me!” And so they are casting their problems on society, and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women, and there are families, and no government can do anything except through people, and people look to themselves first. That idea, from Margaret Thatcher , seems important to keep in mind as we watch corporate news reporters whistle past a directive from the Trump administration’s Department of Justice that says: That whole thing about policies encouraging disabled people to be able to live in community, with family, with friends—yeahh, you don’t need to do…
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