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Reporting like this, regarding RFK’s vile comments about children with autism, makes me glad to be a Mother Jones supporter.

“These are kids who will never pay taxes,” Kennedy declared. “They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date ..."

A crucial slogan of the disability rights movement is “Nothing about us without us”—so it seemed appropriate to get the reaction of an autistic poet. I spoke with Elizabeth McClellan, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-kennedy-hhs-autism-diagnoses-poet/

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