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If that photo doesn’t terrify you then you don’t understand what’s going on

That would be considered inhumane, and torture, right? If that news got out, humanitarian organizations like Amnesty International would be up in arms. You know they would.

That’s what it means when you take away a person’s wheelchair. That’s why it’s terrifying. But because it’s happening to disabled people, no one except the victims is noticing.

Also note: Power mobility aids like those in the photo can cost as much as a brand-new automobile. And if they get damaged because the authorities don’t know what the hell they’re doing (or they do know, and are motivated by spite or malice), then the person will be just as helpless after they get out of jail.

And Medicare will not replace a damaged or broken wheelchair unless it’s at least five years old.

Now imagine being helpless in a jail cell, unable to move, and having  that worry in the back of your mind.

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“Sitting Republican senators have received $115,000 from Betsy DeVos herself, and more than $950,000 from the full DeVos clan since 1980. In the past two election cycles alone, her family has donated $8.3 million to Republican Party super PACs.”

We don’t know how much you’ve been paying attention to the news about Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (who is incidentally named after a Confederate general), but he’s a man with few prejudices, provided you aren’t a member of the black or LGBTQ community. But we’re sure that wanting to undermine the civil rights of just about everyone he hasn’t gone golfing with won’t have a negative impact on him being Attorney General, the position for which Trump has tapped him.

When he was a district attorney in Alabama in the 1980s, Sessions prosecuted three people for the crime of dropping the absentee ballots of elderly black voters off at the post office, charging them with mail fraud and conspiracy, for which they faced over 100 years in prison. Clearly, he was trying to send a message to someone, and we’re guessing that someone was “black people trying to vote in Alabama.” During a confirmation hearing for his appointment to a Reagan judgeship, several people testified that he had made racist comments in front of them, including calling a black man “boy,” declaring a white civil-rights lawyer a race traitor, and liberally using the n-word in private. The testimony ultimately kept him from a federal judgeship. That’s right: he was too racist for 1980s Congress, but not for the 2017 White House.