Eric Garcia

MSNBC Columnist

Eric Garcia is the senior Washington correspondent and bureau chief for The Independent. He is the author of "We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation."

Eric Garcia is the senior Washington correspondent and bureau chief for The Independent. He is the author of "We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation."

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Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities

Amid the government shutdown, the Trump administration fired almost all employees in the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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Trump’s announcement linking Tylenol and autism is already doing major damage

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made their announcement advising pregnant women not to take Tylenol.
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In seeking something to blame for autism, RFK Jr. wrongly attacks Tylenol

RFK Jr. reportedly plans to announce a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism in children, a link that scientists and doctors say doesn't exist.
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I’m autistic, and I work. And I made sure to let RFK Jr. know it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr's blanket characterization of autistic people not working and paying taxes is false. So are his claims of an autism epidemic.
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Linda McMahon and RFK Jr. could be a one-two punch for disabled students

Linda McMahon, President Trump’s Education secretary nominee, has a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday as HHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to be confirmed.
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As wildfires rage, this conservative attacks sign language interpreters sharing news

Christopher Rufo and Richard Hanania criticized ASL interpreters used to inform the public of California's wildfires and revealed an ignorance about deaf people and disasters.
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RFK Jr. thinks people like me are just evidence of Big Pharma’s crimes

By picking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the HHS, Trump is wrongly elevating someone who sees autism, and therefore autistic people, as problems to be solved.
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The ‘really messy system’ that limits where millions of disabled people can vote

Religious institutions are exempt from the rules that require accommodate people with disabilities. That may compromise those people’s ability to vote.
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This ruling from Ohio’s highest court is ‘an affront’ to disabled voters

Ohio’s Republican-controlled Supreme Court sided with state Secretary of State Frank LaRose and made it harder for disabled people to use dropboxes to vote.
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We’re still talking about Gus Walz’s display of emotion all wrong

Guz Walz, Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's son, doesn't need anyone's permission to express how he's feeling.
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Hunter Woodhall and other Paralympic athletes aren’t competing to impress you

The 2024 Paralympics is raising the visibility of disabled athletes, it's important to resist the 'inspiration porn' that treats them as uniquely inspiring.
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