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https://x.com/theaisbarks/status/2069205038661042616?s=46
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/20/nx-s1-5865100/doj-memo-trump-disability-civil-rights-institutionalization
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-justice-department-memo-questions-decades-of-protections-for-people-with-disabilities
From Twitter https://x.com/Gianl1974/status/2069087162528624820
A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.
Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.
Here is what it means in plain terms.
Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.
This memo tells states they can cut all of it.
And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.
A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.
Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.
So why?
Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.
The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.
This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.
A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.
We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.
Profozpin
Nazis had the T4-program, americans have T2-problem
SquashDemon
Yup, another thing I was warning Republicans and protest voters about, only to be told I was "overreacting" all of them can go straight to hell.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
Y'all need to start setting stuff on faya real quick.
DirtPuppet
It almost seems like the cruelty is the point.
KillingTlme
I only know four families with disabled adults who require assistance. Of those four, three are MAGA die hards who collect $40,000 a year from the federal government to help support their child, while wanting to strip away the same support they depend on (without actually thinking they will be targets).
DukePhelan
All of this cruelty is by design. Conservatives always strike out at the weakest member of society, it is why they are bullies and scum and unworthy to stain this planet with their vileness.
slack3rdav3
you mean i finally get my dream pad(ded room)?
GaiusWydra
Add to this RFKJ’s desire to set up “Wellness farms,” and we can see where this is going à la Auschwitz work camps.
Since they have already (using Florida as an example) called for the death penalty for child molestors, they’re looking to exterminate people who are trans. So, if a trans person is mentally ill and an alleged child molestor, then the kangaroo courts can sentence them to death. Fulfilling the another aspect of Auschwitz, which was extermination of people who didn’t toe the line.
MauroMolinero
how about using all those rights to 🐻 💪🏻 to stop the tyrannical government?
Nalianna
Is this the timeline when the Nazi's destroyed the disabled?
Clayman8
Hey remember those camps in Germany? Sounds familiar? No? How strange...
theobstruction
Memos aren't laws or policy. They can be ignored.
CatShadowleaf
It's a first step, usually to test the temperature of the water.
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
so, what is the line where people will revolt once crossed?
lonelyrangerofthedreams
FFS it really seem your government is doing everything in its power to create pain, sorrow, hate and damage.
tirpider
Remember the scene in Office Space where Peter is explaining to the hypnotist that every day is worse than the last?
TexMexHex
My mother is disabled and voted for hom 3 times. Can I give them her address? Ill be able to sell her house that same week.
genericannie350
They are likely to start seizing properties as payment for care, I wouldn't count on getting the house.
MauroMolinero
Dew It.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
As a disabled person who never voted for that fetid slime I will buy it.
dcmirepoix2350
🤣
Imadethisaccounttopost
Hell, bring it up with her that, according to his administration, she has no rights to her property anymore.
notmyrealface
I'm sorry to hear about your mother's mental disability. Did she love when they drug all those disabled people out of the capital?
cdlong
I don't think it's a safe assumption that you or anyone else in your family will maintain control of the property.
mystik42
Watch out. They're probably gonna pin the bill for the nursing home/institution on you, with no way out. Some states already do this :-/
genida
"since they're no longer allowed to stay in their own homes, it's no longer their homes. yoink all your property are belong to us now."
MrNardtastic
STOP POKING ME!!!
Ac1dBurn72
Yep. When my grandfather got ill, we had to make sure that the land was transferred to my father. So that if his Medicaid bill got too high, they wouldn't try to seize the land (which they will...)
And then there's a period of time after the transfer, they can STILL take it.
Look up Medicaid Estate Recovery. The rules differ from state to state, but they will take your property to recover debts after your death.
BrdCdn
The myth of American freedom lol. A country founded on the fear that Britain was going to take their slaves away.
VagrantKoba
That's exactly what they plan to do. Force people into an institution and then charge them for that "oh, you can't pay? Well we will just have to sell your house" "oh look my friend will buy your house for you, aren't we so kind"
veronicablood
has anyone said, "CRUELTY IS THE POINT" yet?
JowesCrow
Weren't institutions shut down under Reagan?
rmcarboy
Yes. It seems disingenuous to criticize Reagan for shutting them down, then criticizing Trump for reopening them. We need to pick a lane.
GaiusWydra
It isn’t wrong to criticize Reagan for closing them. They needed extreme reform, but he just closed them and didn’t provide support for the people who were in them.
And it right to criticize the current admin about wanting to reopen them because it has repeatedly shown they have no concern for marginalized people especially the disabled.
Additionally, when they’re saying anyone who’s trans is mentally ill, it means they want to institutionalize them.
FlintNorth44
anjeleyezjr
I'm starting to think that it would be better burnt to the fucking ground than continue as it is.
anjeleyezjr
This country, that is.
LuminoZero
Wait till Congress is in session and you can limit it to the Capital Mall.
unluckyandbored
There are no institutions. Reagan got rid of them. So all those disabled vets are going to be out on the fucking street. And then, shortly afterward, they'll either be in prison, or the morgue.
OzRockabella
"When they knock on your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun?" The Clash said it best. Go down fighting and take some of the fuckers down with you. Fucking nazi Germany pogroms!
bolinotoyou
Well, institutionalization without an institution...IOW homelessness
marconipenguino
Oh I feel like they’ll be all too happy to start building institutions. Free up some of that Medicaid money and funnel it to the private prison companies, and voila, a place to send the homeless along with the disabled.
fillerbunny9
Same camps they put the people ICE disappears into. Two birds, one stone. Private prisons will love the profit expansion, and will treat them with just as much care as the other detainees. When the number of bodies gets out of hand, why, I’m sure they’ll even come up with a Final Solution.
jtxyz
No no, they're not going to institutionalize anyone or put them in hospitals. They'll simply kick them onto the street.
And then, since homelessness is a crime, arrest them and put them in for profit prisons. Then they'll force them to work and rent out the slave labor to amoral corporations.
They'll also spin this as teaching them useful skills to contribute to society.
GeorgeCostabaplaps
Revolting
hogeyegrex
You said it. They stink on ice.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
You'd think.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
If only.
TheGaryBuseyOf4nal
Adjective or verb?
slack3rdav3
heres to hoping verb!
Hexidimentional
The nazis didnt start with the jews, they came after the disabled first.
Poppypoppoppop
But now, the disabled are the disabled. Whereas the Nazis are the (zionist) Jews.
Hexidimentional
most zionists are not semitic people, mostly white evanjelicals
Iamatinylittlebanana
They went after both of them at the same time, the first anti Jewish laws appeared in April 1933, the first anti disabled laws appeared in July 1933. Though the first law removed Jewish people from public service ,the second law was the forced sterilisation of people considered disabled.
PinkyTheUnicorn2
I mean, this administration has targeted queer people, black and brown people, women, and the left. We're getting real low on the Martin Niemoller poem, it shouldn't surprise that disabled people are next on the menu.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
And people wonder why I don't go to marches aside from the obvious difficulty traveling. I know I will be targeted. If I had a motorized scooter that went 20mph or something I would be a lot less hesitant considering I would actually have the potential to escape some bullshit. But on my rickety old wheelchair right now? Nah. But apparently that makes me a coward.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Coming back to further my point. Note that NOT ONE PERSON who bothered to comment offered or even suggested help with travel, accompaniment, or anything. Only criticisms. These are my "allies" as a disabled person. These are the kind of people who, if they are to be believed, are at marches... and that is who I am supposed to count on to help me when I am there? Nah unless I have my own means to escape and protect myself I am good. Glad marches happen. I won't be there.
eathotdog
Maybe if your a good boy they won't eat your face
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
This is that exact fuckass able-ist bullshit I mean. You think not going to marches equals capitulation. That because I am not physically capable of showing up and protecting myself at a march means I am useless. Fuck you.
Goldensands
Yes. It does. You're in a wheelchair, you read the above, and this is your response?
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
The above being "They came after the disabled first" as they regularly have throughout history. I am not about to throw my life away in my bass ackwards ass town to protest at people who are not going to listen. I will go to town halls. I will go to rallies. I will go to many things. But not a march where police constantly instigate and claim rioting.
Goldensands
Meh ill give you this: there is no fight in you or your culture, so there's nowhere you -can- go. Not externally and not internally. You are a culture that worships wealth, fame, stupidity and yourselves, and as its been a decade nowit is perfectly evident: You will live and die a wage slave to your corporate oligarchy, never achieving a single meaningful moment of actual protest. All of this is in large part because of the fear you so clearly exhibit.
wealthychef
Not doing the right thing because you're afraid is cowardice. Being afraid and doing the right thing anyway is courageous. I can't change those definitions for you.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Yes... marching is the only way to do the right thing... FFS activism isn't just the big fucking showy things.
wealthychef
That's troll speak. You're putting words in my mouth that I didn't say or infer. You sound a lot like MAGA right now.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
I ONLY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT GOING TO MARCHES! That is the ONLY THING you can be arguing is that because I don't go to marches I am not doing the right thing and therefore a coward. Don't try to walk back from your shitass statement own it you asshole.
do7rkb5n
This seems like a set up for a legal precedent to list people as "disabled". Such as Trans folks... labeling it as a mental health issue and boom, theyre now disabled and legally allowed to be institutionalized.
darthnerdus6236
They have already moved to label trans people as a domestic security threat. Why lock them up when you could hunt them for sport? /s
nclu
My entire life I've heard background chatter from conservatives that anyone to the left of them must have some mental disability
GaiusWydra
Exactly.
crazyspelling
A new growth opportunity for the for-profit-prison schmucks.
thoushaltnotpass
Label any trans information as porn and boom, you can weaponize any anti-porn law against information for trans people
Wolfshead009
That is the plan. Look up the Project 2025.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
History repeats. I don't know how many times I have to repeat it.
rusrsdude
This admin started with women first, going against abortions, overturning roe v wade. Then went after trans, then immigrants, and now disabled people. But one thing is certain, they are always against colored people and their own veterans.
anaberration
The chilling political reality that before the Naz/i regime marched into Poland or Austria, their first target was the democratic institutions, press, and civil liberties of their own citizens. Through the rapid dismantling of civil rights, the suppression of political opposition, and systemic terror, the regime effectively conquered the country from within before turning its eyes outward.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"... George Santayana
Calistrasza
Until the lesson is learned. It's the same principle behind reincarnation. You're doomed to repeat the process until you learn the lesson that's meant to be learned.
Sticklebrickk
A good third of our country, including those disabled veterans
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ignotoCiResto
dont worry, the red have idiots that continue to refuse to look at history and proofs, dismiss em as "circumstantial" and when you call em on it, they leave the comment tree to an idiotic ai-bot that basically repeat what you say to you but add a couple of detail and speak in an insulting manner /gallery/cRrQZUi/comment/2502735951
Goldensands
A history professor who taught me used to say it doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. I find that more apt. The modern day wealth gap is the largest in history, and the ways that the rich enslave and control the rest are vastly different today than in times past. Yet it is still the same fight.
Hexidimentional
those who dont study history are doomed to repeat it and boy howdy is the education curriculum in the usa awful
fester9
And those who do study history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
Yes, because TPTB know and did purposely teach propaganda rather than reality.
bripi
This will not stand up to challenge and the ACLU ought to be right on top of it.
GaiusWydra
Unless the administration goes “judge shopping” finding one that will rule in favor of the administration, which they’ve done before
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
A lawyers memo is not law.
marconipenguino
The way this works is the federal government has to force states to provide these services. If they simply stop doing that enforcement, the states will see this as an opportunity to save money. Then it falls to individuals to sue the state to get their services back. I don’t envy anyone who has to do that.
Xrs2343
Well, this doesn’t make sense, even for Republicans. Reagan closed all the mental institutions because they were “too expensive.” Why on earth would the Trump administration want to spend billions rebuilding infrastructure that Republicans dismantled back in the 1980’s? Unless, of course, by “institutions” he means “death camps.”
GaiusWydra
🛎️🛎️🛎️ Got it in one
johnblood616
Yep. You answered your own question.
foxpotate
Good fucking luck finding any mental institutions that are still open. If they are they likely are full. Also the sheer number of disabled people in red states that voted for this are staggering.
HurrDurrImABurr
Easy, they already have concentration camps, they will just build more
Blunderwriter
I remember years ago Jesse Ventura did a story on all these fenced in buildings in the middle of nowhere with the barb wired tops facing inward and train tracks running through the buildings and thousands of black plastic coffin size boxes lying around...like they were waiting for someone to come through...pre AI so wasn't digitally altered. Wonder whatever happened to those places...
welcometothedystopia
I think it was from his conspiracy theory show, the episode is called Ozarks
genida
And tax payers will pay for it.
GaiusWydra
No! (Insert random country) will pay for it just like Mexico paid for the wall!
(/s in case it wasn’t blatantly obvious)
Luriden
I work in one. It's a state-run hospital that's been open since 1890. This year the governor slashed the entire Family and Social Services Administration, which includes us, by 70%. We're still open, we're here, we're trying so hard, but between management bring increased with money and having no connection to reality and chronic understaffing (we are a minimum of 7 below needed staff levels pretty much each night, sometimes over 10 below) we're all just so, so tired.
Starfox5
That's what the GOP wants. That's what their voters support. Every damn Republican supports this. Think of that when you meet the next one.
Selfinflictedwounds
The thing is that their voters are truly stupid enough to believe it will only happen to "them" not "us" not "me".
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Selfinflictedwounds
Closer to 30 years ago for me. Then, I deluded my self it to believing that it was not THAT many....but it is. It is systemic to the conservative base.
It has become a cult. Their media pundits tell them how smart they are while they do their thinking for them
Starfox5
And they want it to happen to others. They are scumbags, each and every one of them.
Selfinflictedwounds
You are what you eat. And they have been fed a steady diet of resentment, stupidity and hate.