Diane Coleman Inducted Into New York State Disability Rights Hall of Fame, Class of 2025

In collaboration with the 2025 New York Association on Independent Living’s (NYAIL) statewide conference, the New York State Independent Living Council (NYSILC) held its sixth New York State Disability Rights Hall of Fame awards ceremony and dinner, and Not Dead Yet’s Founder and CEO, Diane Coleman, [pictured right] was the first of the night to be honored with a posthumous award “For lifelong achievements which positively impact people with disabilities in society.”

For those who couldn’t attend the awards ceremony and dinner, the Patients Rights Action Fund’s (PRAF) Executive Director, Matt Vallière, and NDY’s Executive Director, Ian McIntosh, accepted the award on behalf of Diane Coleman who passed away suddenly, last November 1, 2024.

Please find NDY’s acceptance speech and two more photos below:

Trump takes aim at Somalis as feds prep for Minneapolis operation

(NewsNation) — In its latest immigration crackdown, the Trump administration will head to Minneapolis, targeting Somali immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

The city is home to more than 80,000 people of Somali descent. News of the operation comes as President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against the community, saying he did not want immigrants from Somalia in the U.S. because “they contribute nothing.”

Trump also continued his attacks on Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, [pictured here]  who is of Somali descent, saying during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that Omar is “an incompetent person.”

It also comes as some in the community are under fraud investigations, including allegations that millions of dollars from Minnesota state welfare programs instead went to a terrorist group called al-Shabab in Somalia.

Omar told NewsNation she felt Trump’s comments on the Somali community were “totally irresponsible.”

Minelli Approved the Deaths of 4,200 Men and Women. Then He Killed Himself.

Raimundo Rojas  |   Dec 3, 2025   |  Washington, DC.

The day Ludwig Minelli died, November 29, 2025, he was in the same sterile blue room where he had approved the deaths of over 4,200 men and women.

The founder and main profiteer of Dignitas ingested the poison his organization had perfected, calling it a final victory. It was a chilling climax to a lifetime spent convincing desperate people that the world is better off without them.

Minelli grew up the eldest child of a Swiss house painter, with no signs of personal trauma or a tragic loss pushing him toward advocating for assisted death. He didn’t care for a dying spouse. He didn’t lose a child. No major tragedy molded him. What shaped him was cold ideology, cloaked in the noble language of rights, autonomy, and mercy, but beneath every polished phrase lurked an old, murderous lie: some lives aren’t worth living.

In 1998, Minelli turned his deadly lie into a thriving business, setting up in a quiet residential area on Gloria Street in Zurich. From the start, the bodies started to pile up. He welcomed people with treatable depression, disabled individuals who had spent decades proving their worth, terrified elderly men and women, and even healthy people feeling weary; he asked almost no questions, took their fees, and handed them death in a plastic cup.

Over 4,000 times, he faced suffering and prescribed annihilation.

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul [pictured left] wants to add a requirement that people videotape their requests for physician-assisted deaths, one of several conditions she’s put forward to sign the hotly debated Medical Aid in Dying Act.  

The Democratic governor proposed the amendments to the Legislature late last month, according to two people briefed on the negotiations but not authorized to speak publicly about them. Talks are ongoing, the people said.

The amendments are Hochul’s first foray into the wrenching debate over the topic, which has prompted lawmakers to share personal stories that touch on religious faith, individual liberty and their own experience caring for dying loved ones.

“I hear from a lot of people on that issue,” Hochul told reporters recently. “There are strong views on both sides of the spectrum — intense views on this. And I’m conscious of that, and it’s going to be a very weighty decision on me.”  Hochul is also pushing to create a seven-day waiting period for terminally ill patients who seek life-ending drugs from physicians. Another proposed provision would require all patients who ask doctors to help end their lives to undergo a mental health evaluation by a psychiatrist.  

New Jersey AG Investigates Group Accused of Trying to Harvest Organs from Patient Showing Signs of Life

Candace Hathaway, 12/03/25

'We're never really giving patients a chance.'

The New Jersey attorney general's office confirmed to Blaze News that it has launched an investigation into the NJ Sharing Network, an organ procurement organization, after nearly a dozen whistleblowers accused the group of numerous offenses, including allegedly covering up an attempted organ recovery from a patient who showed signs of life.

The NJ Sharing Network, a tax-exempt organization, was also accused of fraudulently billing Medicare, skipping hundreds of patients on the wait list, harvesting organs without appropriate consent, operating a fraudulent taxpayer-funded research program, and creating a culture of fear and retaliation.

'The only way patients will be protected is when law enforcement gets involved and prosecutes criminal activity.'

FDA Investigation Into Child Deaths and COVID-19 Vaccination: What to Know

Federal officials acknowledged for the first time that COVID-19 vaccines resulted in deaths among children.

The Food and Drug Administration has concluded that at least 10 deaths of children were related to COVID-19 vaccination.

It’s the first time federal officials have determined that COVID-19 vaccines played a role in the deaths of minors.

“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Vinay Prasad said in an internal memorandum sent on Nov. 28 and obtained by The Epoch Times.

Prasad, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, was one of the early opponents of keeping COVID-19 vaccines available for younger people. He has has supported COVID-19 vaccination for seniors and younger people with underlying conditions.

The FDA regulates vaccines and drugs, and the new finding means there will be changes moving forward, regulators said.

Here’s what to know.