CA is also losing 2000 or so public health jobs from one single line item (SNAP-Ed) cut by H.R. 1, along with deep tires to community programs and ultimately ripple effects in agriculture, food retail, and other industries. Other states, too, I just can't speak to their numbers.

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition)@firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🗞️ Media release from The George Washington University announces new report which finds FY 2026 budget cuts to CDC would lead to losses for state and local economies. ✅ States losing over 1,000 jobs each could include GA, CA, FL, TX, AZ, IL, NY, & PA. ✅ 42,000 jobs lost nationwide could happen.

“‘They’re blowing right through separation of church & state,’ said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate & Extremism. ‘They have no respect for other faiths. And in fact, that includes a lot of Christians who don’t agree w/ this far-right version of Christianity.’” 9/7/25 …1/

Texas attorney general wants students to pray in school – unless they’re Muslim

Ken Paxton, who is running for US Senate, is urging schools to say the Lord’s Prayer as a Republican law goes into effect

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🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

The Rosegarden CLUB? He turned the People's House into a private CLUB? He literally privatized a public good. He stole our house. Do you understand? This is no different than if he seized the Grand Canyon & put it behind a velvet rope, for members only. He's a fucking thief & a vandal to boot.

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this

White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

Remember when one of the wealthiest humans on Earth and proud South African colonizer helped get Trump elected; then was appointed to a made-up White House position; then stole all of our personal and banking information; then quit and returned to the private sector? That really happened.

I'm so proud of these SNAP-Ed partners for their dedication and hard work to create healthy environments for children across California. Fantastic job! 🍎⛹🏻‍♀️🎖️

Nutrition Policy Institute@npi.ucanr.edu · 11mo ago

Congrats to the 2025 LEAP Awardees!🏅🎉 123 schools, 85 out-of-school time programs, and 106 early childhood programs earned recognition for championing best practices in healthy eating & active living in partnership with CalFresh Healthy Living, CA’s SNAP-Ed program. Learn more: bit.ly/3JReDoQ

“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

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ICYMI ICE Poster Boy Dean Cain only made it one week And unlike hard-working Brown People, he will get short-term disability until Republicans eliminate that ICE must be stopped and investigated Call Your Representatives 202 224-3121

Placer County, this is our moment. Prop. 50 is how California fights back. While MAGA Republicans in Texas redraw maps to rig the 2026 election, Prop. 50 gives California the power to respond. It’s temporary. It’s targeted. And it’s how we protect democracy when others try to dismantle it.

Tell me the president doesn’t understand the economy without telling me the president doesn’t understand the economy.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Your occasional reminder -- as arrivals on student visas decrease 28% -- that tuition from foreign students counts as an export, which means that every rejected student visa is going to contribute to the US trade deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration says grants for Hispanic-serving colleges are unconstitutional and it won't defend them in court.

SNAP helps families get back on their feet and keeps dollars flowing to grocery stores, corner markets, and farmers' markets. Cutting it hurts everyone. #SNAPmatters

"We sign this declaration in our own personal capacities, on our personal time, and without the use of government equipment, as protected by our First Amendment rights..." www.savehhs.org

BREAKING: Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said Loving v. Virginia—legalizing interracial marriage—should have been left to individual states. That’s not misunderstanding, it’s blatant racism. Now he’s “walking it back.” We see your game, Gov. Watch this space, don’t let anyone forget.

Tens of millions of people have found the reservoirs of hope dangerously low in recent weeks, and they can't seem to shake the profound sense of dread hovering always in the periphery of their daily life. Yes, this is our collective Great Depression. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/how-to-men...

How to Mentally Survive America's New Great Depression

This morning was a rude awakening.

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Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses

Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.

latimes.com

Telling disabled people to formally complain every time they're faced with inaccessibility or ableism, is a pretty privileged and ignorant suggestion. We would constantly be complaining, and the processes are so inaccessible themselves, we don't have the energy or capacity.

Tonight, please spare a thought to all our scientists and public health workers who have dedicated their careers to saving millions of lives. Despite their amazing work they are constantly threatened due to politicization and the unfettered spread of misinformation. It should not be like this 💔

The Supreme Court just said disabled people don’t have the right to get help voting. How many won’t be able to vote.

It’s impossible to make sense of mothers who’ve witnessed him being found liable for sexual assault, watched him gleefully take away women’s autonomy, and work tirelessly to prevent the release of the Epstein files—and who’ve chosen to double down. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-und...

I Don't Understand Women Who Support Donald Trump

Yesterday, a MAGA Republican mocked me online for demanding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, laughing at me through condescending yellow emojis for being “desperate,” and assuring me that I a...

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It’s deliberate

From fringe to federal: The rise of eugenicist thinking in US policy

Trump’s inner circle is mainstreaming ideas that threaten the disabled, the elderly and the poor.

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Plain language is communication that your audience can understand the first time they hear or read it. This varies by audience, of course. What is common vocabulary for accountants won't necessarily be common for chemists, clergy, or engineers. Know your audience.

HR: We want you to know that it's okay to struggle with a disability ME: Okay HR: But, like, don't.

Why is it so hard for so many people to condemn pedophilia and/or genocide?

July 26, 2025 Disability activists take over Trump Tower to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicaid on the 35th anniversary of the Americans withdrawal Disabilities Act. We refuse to allow our rights to be taken away!

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

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Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.