Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Local elections and referenda matter. Here’s my issue – I want a new library that empowers creativity and dreaming. Libraries provide the infrastructure for dreams. Also, it’s good business sense. Brookfield, IL, where I live, is a small suburb west of Chicago most famous for its zoo, but we moved there because of affordable houses and great …
1. ASL Voter Assistance Hotline video (above) 2. Transequality has a page on “Voting While Trans,” specifically talking about navigating voter ID laws. 3. Rooted in Rights has an amazing master page of resources dedicated to all kinds of disabled populations. Send me more in the comments or via social media. Will update!
Earlier today I wrote about a 12 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy (he uses a wheelchair and a communication device) who was 1) expelled from a Trump rally for holding up a Hillary sign and 2) got to meet President Obama. The moral: Trump supporters cannot tolerate any dissent, even from a disabled child. …
[Story updated 9:06 CST 11/6] White House Press Pool reports that President Obama met a disabled child who had been kicked out of Trump rally. Background: JJ Holmes, a 12 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy told his mother he wanted to go to a Trump rally to protest. He held up a Hillary Clinton sign. …
Today I’m participating (via remote) in the Iowa Justice Summit, sponsored by the Des Moines NAACP. I’ll be joined by a mental health professional and a person with mental disabilities to talk policing and mental health. Of course, Des Moines policing is very much in the national news, thanks to the ambush and murder of …
It’s faded from the news during this intense election cycle, but Orac makes an argument that one of Donald Trump’s most consistent positions over the years is that he’s a proponent of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. Antivax groups know it though, and they’re excited about having one of their movement appointing the head of the CDC. Orac …
UPDATE: Go to “Access the Vote NC” to protect your right to vote. Here’s a story from the “Voter Integrity Project” out of North Carolina. The image shows a screenshot from MSNBC (Maddow) with an article called, “Raping the ‘Retard’ Vote” and a picture of Kim Kardashian (for no coherent reason). You can read the …
An important case was argued at SCOTUS this week. Here’s the SCOTUSBLOG report. The most famous goldendoodle in America was outside the Supreme Court today, accompanied by some of his service dog friends. A Michigan school district’s refusal to allow Wonder, a trained service dog, to go to school with E.F., a student who was …
I’m going to write up yesterday’s adventures in Halloween hopefully for a venerable news outlet near you. In the meantime, cuteness: Winning the selfie game! pic.twitter.com/YL8xhmVhen — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) October 31, 2016 I can hardly believe it, but these magical kids are taking me and my wife trick or treating at the White …
I’m in DC with my family over Halloween. It’s going to be a great but complicated day in which I need to remember the following from my recent Washington Post article: “The effort to find ways to communicate belongs to all of us, not just to a person whose communication methods might be atypical.” I’m going to …