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Elizabeth Fenlon's avatar

Yes, Andra, you’ve been 100% right all along. They are creating a nightmare for the rest of us. And the machine of the Project will continue with or without the ahole. I will of course look for tomorrow’s essay. Thank you so much. It’s good to be validated but terrible to be right about such ugliness.

Andra Watkins's avatar

This should really be the thing that wakes up a lot more Americans. But because people frame it as "disability" in their reporting, Americans who don't consider themselves to be disabled (as they define it) or who don't get disability say, "Oh, I don't need to pay attention to that story." When what underpins this story is THE PLAN: This is how they're going to fill their concentration camps with everyone who refuses to comply. And by the time most Americans wake up, I'm afraid it will be too late to stop them.

Marc Guilbert's avatar

This article from Government Executive about penalizing disabled employees at the National Science Foundation seems eerily relevant to this week's theme: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/06/nsf-using-its-hq-move-revoke-telework-workers-disabilities-employees-say/414278/

I also think their constant blathering about "Tr*mp Derangement Syndrome" will factor into this theme of attacking the disabled. Just declare TDS a disability or mental illness, and identify anyone who voted D in 2020 as having TDS. The real reason, IMHO, they want all the States' voter records.

Andra Watkins's avatar

They are absolutely going to try to classify voting against the regime as mental illness. As well as dissent. And they will try to use your own medical history, which you were assured was private, against you.

And yes, this article is a timely example of how this can work on the ground.

Kathy Hughes's avatar

Classifying people who voted against Trump as mentally ill is disturbingly reminiscent of the Soviet Union. In the 1970s, the Soviets imprisoned some dissidents in mental hospitals, in which they were forcibly drugged with antipsychotic medications, which sometimes had harsh side effects such as inducing fevers and excessive sedation.

Andra Watkins's avatar

Yes, this is a totalitarian tactic. If implemented, the consequences will be disastrous. It will be a genocide.

Stephen Michael Kellat's avatar

I’ve been out doing daily hikes for therapeutic reasons to improve proprioception and no longer have a working account on Bluesky. What’s the announcement in question? Is it the function shift from Education to HHS? Is it something else? There have been so many disability policy announcements I’ve been lost keeping up…especially as we’ve had some state-level crap here in Ohio.

Andra Watkins's avatar

They’re trying to force disabled people into “institutions” by making it harder to get care at home. They’ve also stopped paying for things like wheelchairs.

But this is also concerning for mental health disabilities or diagnoses.

Stephen Michael Kellat's avatar

Well, I’ve been stumbling over things like this from ASAN: https://autisticadvocacy.org/2026/06/moving-department-of-education-offices-will-hurt-students-with-disabilities/

If I’m reading this Mother Jones article correctly, I’m in particular danger from institutionalization on account of the AuDHD if I ever stop working or lose my home: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-doj-memo-olmstead-psychiatric-disabilities-institutions-mental-health/

If the UK experience is instructive, this institutionalization push will just wind up kettling people with ADHD and autism who generally need modest to moderate support who can’t camouflage in “neurotypical” society: https://theconversation.com/how-gaps-in-education-work-and-welfare-support-can-push-neurodivergent-people-into-homelessness-281569

Knowing my luck we’ll see birthright citizenship deep-sixed in a bizarrely worded Supreme Court opinion Tuesday morning so my personal danger level is steadily rising.

Kathy's avatar

Talk about surveillance state… Flock cameras are everywhere.You can use this site to find where they are in your community.

https://deflock.org/

A woman in Florida was wrongly accused based on Flock video.

https://www.clickorlando.com/traffic/2026/06/10/woman-wrongly-jailed-in-i-4-deadly-crash-files-lawsuit-against-florida-highway-patrol/

And a man was also wrongly accused based on a government facial recognition system.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit-wrongful-arrest-ai-facial-recognition/

Andra Watkins's avatar

Flock cameras are terrible. Other Substackers have written reams on them. I’ll come back and link to a couple of stories about how communities have organized against Flock.

Elaine Konyha's avatar

Also as part of the surveillance state, I've been wondering if the bar codes they want to use on mail-in ballots might indicate who is most likely a democrat & many of those ballots may be "lost" in the mail?

Andra Watkins's avatar

Anything is possible with this crowd. I don’t want to be tin foil hat-ty, but anything is possible.

Georgina's avatar

“Stephen Miller’s goal is still a country for 100 million white people” ….I didn’t realize this? Is this aligning with something he thinks because of religion. I remember my mom telling me Jehovah witness think that about heaven or something along those lines and numbers so it kind of rang a bell? 🛎️

Georgina's avatar

Not gonna lie I almost texted you the first time I accidentally hit the listen button on the top of your newsletter a while back because I was in shock and thought you had stopped doing recordings yourself and it seriously made me want to cry. It just wasn’t the same. So today I would just as soon read this one and hear your voice in my head. I really find peace in your readings. That being said you always have to take care of yourself first and foremost but believe me when I say I am one of those who loves to hear you read! ! Hope you are well now not just because of the reading but really because I hate to hear that you’re sick!! 🤒

Kathy Baragona's avatar

once again, thanks for your clarity and tenacity