Mike Hixenbaugh

“It feels a little bit like Tinder, if the stakes of Tinder were: Do you get to take a shower tomorrow? Do you get to leave your house?” Here's my latest, on how the GOP's "war on fraud" has made it harder for disabled people in Ohio to find caregivers they need to live in their homes.

“We all agree that fraud should be prevented and prosecuted, but the government is going after it with a sledgehammer when they should be using a scalpel,” Justin Martin said. “I’m the one, and so many other disabled people are the ones, paying the price.”

“It feels a little bit like Tinder, if the stakes of Tinder were: Do you get to take a shower tomorrow? Do you get to leave your house?” Here's my latest, on how the GOP's "war on fraud" has made it harder for disabled people in Ohio to find caregivers they need to live in their homes.

And in a suburb near Columbus, a 30-year-old educator with cerebral palsy who recently bought a condo hoping to finally move out of his parents’ house, hasn’t been able to find the help he’ll need to live on his own.

“It feels a little bit like Tinder, if the stakes of Tinder were: Do you get to take a shower tomorrow? Do you get to leave your house?” Here's my latest, on how the GOP's "war on fraud" has made it harder for disabled people in Ohio to find caregivers they need to live in their homes.

Outside Dayton, a 56-year-old woman with a progressive muscle disease couldn’t hire two people who offered to fill a long-vacant weekend caregiving shift, leaving her trapped in her wheelchair for days without anyone to move her to bed.

Leigh Wambsganss no longer labels herself “ULTRA MAGA” on social media. She has removed a large “Trump Endorsed” banner from her campaign website and replaced a photo of herself and the president with a photo of her family. Her new campaign slogan: “Putting working families first.”

If you listened to our “Grapevine” podcast, about the fight to exalt Jesus and demonize LGBTQ people in a suburban school district, you might recall a right-wing board member bragging about having a list of “poison” teachers she was going after. Turns out the list was real and has now been released

Terrific story here about one of the major forces tearing America apart: Buc-ee’s.

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One of Jim Bakker’s final on-air segments was devoted to defending pastors accused of sex abuse and condemning their accusers as “tattletales.”

The context: bsky.app/profile/mike...

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

The administration’s abrupt turn against Olmstead appears to trace back to one of President Donald Trump’s central fixations since his return to office: aesthetics and cleanliness in the nation’s capital. It began after Trump complained about unsightly tent encampments along his motorcade route...

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

In Florida, the Justice Department is seeking to roll back a court order it won to keep medically fragile children out of nursing homes. In Texas, the department walked away from a 16-year lawsuit aimed at helping people with developmental disabilities live in their communities.

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

The 39-page DOJ opinion took a sledgehammer to that ruling. The June memo declared that states had no federal civil rights obligation to help disabled people stay in their homes through programs that millions of Americans rely on to live independently or to care for their loved ones.

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

The meeting with advocates and conservative think tank leaders came two days before the Trump administration did exactly what Miller's aide previewed: The DOJ issued a sweeping legal opinion repudiating decades of federal disability policy rooted in the landmark Supreme Court ruling Olmstead v. L.C.

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

Hugo Dwyer, one of those seated around the wooden conference table, couldn’t believe what he was hearing. The strategy described by Miller’s aide threatened to roll back decades of progress in the disability rights movement — all to serve Trump's demands to clear homeless encampments in U.S. cities

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

The fallout has already begun. In Florida, DOJ is seeking to roll back a court order it won to keep medically fragile children out of nursing homes. In Texas, the department walked away from a 16-year lawsuit aimed at helping people with developmental disabilities live in their communities.

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

If you buy this framing on what fueled the right wing school board backlash and national voucher push, I’ve got a book recommendation for you…