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Audra Mitchell

@audralmitchell.bsky.social

In case you're short of examples of what #disabilityhate looks like when it's carried out by government

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses

Multiple pages scrubbed from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website due to a Trump order

www.theguardian.com

March 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM

Colin-Roy Hunter aka criquaer

@criquaer.bsky.social

#DWP #DWPfail

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/%E2%80%...

“Misleading”, “rushed”, and “unfair” consultation on work capability assessment reforms declared unlawful – an important victory for Disabled people | Disability Rights UK

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/“misleading”-“rushed”-and-“unfair”-consultation-work-capability-assessment-reforms-declared

January 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM

Audra Mitchell

@audralmitchell.bsky.social

Hard to imagine a much more explicit statement of how much this man hates Autistic people and how deeply he wants to ensure that we do not exist in the future. Reminder: we are a community, not an 'epidemic'. This is straight-up #eugenics #antiAutistichate #disabilityhate

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 10

RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."

April 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Bobbi Elman

@autismadvocate.co.uk

“The #lesbian #comedian and fellow comic #LeePeart have stated that three people mocked their voices, shouted #slurs, and threw a plastic wine bottle at them..”

Via @divamag.bsky.social

This is #DisabilityHate
& it is a #Crime
#Homophobia
#Ableist

diva-magazine.com/2025/10/07/r...

Rosie Jones targeted in “ableist and homophobic” train attack

The lesbian comedian and fellow comic Lee Peart have stated that three people mocked their voices, shouted slurs, and threw a plastic wine bottle at them

diva-magazine.com

October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Audra Mitchell

@audralmitchell.bsky.social

Compiling registries for politically persecuted groups is ALWAYS done with good intentions, right? Trust me, this is not going to be used to 'improve our lives'
#disabilityhate #eugenics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records

The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

www.theguardian.com

April 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM

Colin-Roy Hunter aka criquaer

@criquaer.bsky.social

Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.

Inter alia multiple breaches of #UNCRPD

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-sho...

Watchdog shows UK has taken zero action in response to UN recommendations in six areas of disability rights

Successive UK governments – mostly Conservative-led – have failed to take any action to address six key disability rights recommendations made by the UN over the last decade, according to the human…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

February 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Colin-Roy Hunter aka criquaer

@criquaer.bsky.social

“The callousness of the #Labour government has been exposed. Its own backbenchers have rightly hammered it.” #RichardMurphy

Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...

Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left

As The Guardian has reported in the last hour, Stephen Timms told the Commons after 5 pm with regard to the Bill delivering benefit reforms: I can announce that we are going to remove the clause five ...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

July 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM

GAZBEROTTEN

@gazberotten.bsky.social

#gaming #Tech #videogaming #Reform #DIsabilityRights #DisabilityHate Heres what anyone who is disabled and a gamer or sick will have to endure if Reform gets into the UK government www.reformparty.uk/making-welfa... Its not good and millions of people will loose out under this if they get in

www.reformparty.uk

August 18, 2026 at 1:55 AM