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.
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KOSA IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE HOUSE
It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship.
MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK
202-224-3121
Quite a few people looping me in on news of Richard reclaiming rights to Ultima and asking what (if anything) this might mean for Alice.
And the simple answer is: It means nothing.
Garriott had a very unique deal in place with EA and was able to leverage aspects of that deal to achieve this result. I had and have no such deal with EA.
To this day, many people continue to operate on the false idea that I "sold Alice to EA." I did not. I was an employee of EA when Alice was created. They own it - as is normal for most companies - as a function of my being an employee at that time.
That being said, Richard is doing something here which I am also doing - renaming the thing so that it becomes unique (and his) again.
I did that with the "Victorian McGee's Alice" line of Wonderland-inspired plushies at @PlushieDreadful
And we're putting the Victorian McGee Alice stuff into "Spare Hearts" the Plushie Dreadfuls game as well into (eventually) Dreadfuland - the larger, more Alice-like 3D action game we hope to make off the success of Spare Hearts.
So, if you want to see a new "Alice" game from me - your best bet is to throw your support into Victorian McGee and Plushie Dreadfuls. You can do that by buying plushies, spreading the positive word, and correcting misinformation when you see it.
Best of luck to Lord British! I still have fond memories of epic parties at Garriot Castle in Austin waaaay back in the day. Richard is among my favorite people and he deserves all the good things ❤️
The only reason it took so long for this is because everyone kept treating it as the "you-cannot-have-kids-disease", instead of acknowledging that the condition was wrecking havoc in the entire body, and infertility was just a symptom
Jungkook, yo se que somos mejores amigos, yo sé que hemos pasado muchas cosas juntos, pero perdóname, hoy tengo que apoyar a México en el mundial contra Corea del Sur. Perdóname espero me lo entiendas. 💔
So glad the boy is okay! ICE agents are still raping and killing people inside detention centers. There is no propaganda in the world that will hide the fact that they are the modern-day Gestapo and deserve to rot in hell.
put my brother to rest this week 💔 he used to joke about making people put band stickers on his casket and throwing candy inside. never thought that day would come so soon but we made sure he had the most punk coffin in history
•george’s will be a meditative drama about loss and grief
•paul’s will be a cameron crowe-ish slice of life comedic drama
•john’s will be a romantically messy, political drama
•ringo’s will be a shot for shot remake of scooby-doo on zombie island
the recent shift in fandom spaces where a person can’t express their feelings or opinions without getting attacked is a huge reason why people do not want to create and end up leaving
"Es como pedirle a alguien que nunca ha visto un perro que dibuje uno. Podrás explicarlo al detalle, y tal vez acierte en algunos aspectos, pero nunca será como la experiencia de ver un perro".
Backrooms (2026