🚨 The Senate budget bill slashes Medicaid & SNAP.
❌ 15M people w/ disabilities at risk
❌ $300B cut to SNAP = lost food access
📢 Call VA Senators NOW:
📞 Warner: (202) 224-2023
📞 Kaine: (202) 224-4024
🗣 Share how these programs help you live independently.
The ATU Local 689 union of Metro employees is protesting this morning over, among other things, Metro’s plan to fully automate trains in the future. This is going on outside Metro headquarters before a board of directors meeting. #wmata
Mount Vernon invites neurodivergent individuals and their families to join them for a sensory-friendly evening tour on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 6:00pm. Tickets are available at this link (https://t.co/zLrXenh8rD).
Article | People with disabilities explain how Medicaid cuts could impact their lives. Read more, watch or listen at this link (https://t.co/c11mTA9YuN).
#DisabilityRights#MedicaidMatters
April 30 is National Assistive Technology Awareness Day. Celebrate the life-changing impact of assistive technology (AT) in helping people with disabilities and older adults live more independently. For more visit https://t.co/rvZRCguZTU
The American Association of People with Disabilities invites the disability community to a virtual screening of “Patrice: The Movie,” which is happening tomorrow, April 30, 2025 from 6:30pm - 7:30pm.
Get your tickets now: https://t.co/iZ3NVZMaQA
The next U.S. Access virtual and in-person meeting will be on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST.
More meeting information: https://t.co/Uul8vwVpYU
📚 Celebrate Disability Book Week ! 📚 Blind Gambit by Jon Cronshaw. Purchase: https://t.co/VSHZymdDNU. Brian's world is shrinking as his vision fades, but a revolutionary implant offers an escape, a virtual reality where he can see again.
Happy Friday DC Deaf Moviegoers & Allies! There are open captioned screenings in Washington, DC and around Northern VA this coming week, April 25-May 1, 2025! Read more at this link (https://t.co/PTnoFpFXvA).
🎦#DeafMovies#OpenCaptions#WashingtonDC#Moviegoers 📷
The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) wants to hear from YOU!
Help shape the future of transportation for individuals with disabilities by taking a quick survey by May 4.
Take the survey now: https://t.co/ul4NAIwf6s
The disAbility Law Center of Virginia (dLCV) will be hosting “Social Security for the Deaf Community” on Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm at the dLCV headquarters.
Register today: https://t.co/cs3d4cnqG1
The Virginia Board for People with Disabilities is developing their next strategic plan! This plan will guide their work for the next five years. Take their survey before it closes on Sunday, April 27.
English: https://t.co/Xi608Kp1dq
Spanish: https://t.co/pj8d0lBz2x
Please take 60 seconds to use this super-easy tool to contact your elected representatives in Washington to ask them to save #disability programs that are hugely important for people who need and use #AAC! Thanks@NDRNadvocates for making this easy!
Today, we teamed up with the Autism Transit Project for the third year in a row to host dozens of transit enthusiasts & their families for a day of fun with Metro! Continue to catch their in-station announcements throughout the month at a station near you 😊♾️
This weekend, free shuttle buses replace trains between Medical Center and Grosvenor on the Red Line, and the Silver Line runs to New Carrollton due to planned track work. Get more service information here: https://t.co/clh83ZphRo