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Ana B. Ibarra
CalMatters
10 days ago
Immigration raids are straining mental health among children and school communities across California, a state where about 1 million children have a parent who is undocumented and about 300,000 students are undocumented themselves.
https://cal.news/4gWGsss
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Charles Ornstein
19 days ago
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent more on administrative costs than on health care.
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Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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CalMatters
about 1 month ago
Tucked between two national forests, the rural county is home to 28,000 people. Without a local emergency room, they’ll instead have to travel at least 40 minutes to a neighboring county for critical care.
https://cal.news/46pbMwe
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Wendy Fry
about 1 month ago
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”
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Supreme Court allows immigration agents to resume indiscriminate sweeps in LA, siding with Trump
The Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, overturning a ruling that forbade agents from stopping people based on their appearance.
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/la-immigration-sweeps-supreme-court/
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Ana B. Ibarra
CalMatters
about 1 month ago
Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Southern California, overturning a lower court ruling that prohibited agents from stopping people based on their appearance.
https://cal.news/4nq5YZk
📝 @wendyfry.bsky.social 📸 Etienne Laurent, AFP via Getty
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CalMatters
2 months ago
Assembly Bill 1312 would require hospitals to check whether patients are eligible for charity care or discounted payments before sending them a bill.
cal.news/46BuJMW
📝: Ana Ibarra
@ab-ibarra.bsky.social
📷: Louis Bryant III
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Medicaid was signed into law 60 years ago. Trump's big bill is chiseling it back
This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps. On a July day in 1965, President Lyndon B.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-medicaid-cuts-snap-ed0d2c7c20b43c54265dbc9cb215b647
3 months ago
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Alexei Koseff
3 months ago
Kamala Harris will not run for California governor, ending months of feverish speculation and raising fresh questions about the next chapter of her political career.
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Kamala Harris announces she won't run for California governor
Conjecture about whether Harris would run for governor began almost immediately after she lost the November election to President Donald Trump.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/07/kamala-harris-governor-california/
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Sophia Bollag
3 months ago
The LA Times details how ICE arrested a deaf DACA recipient during a raid on the car wash where he worked (legally -- as a DACA recipient he has a permit to work in the US). They shipped him to a migrant detention facility in Texas:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas
Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U....
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-22/ice-arrests-daca-recipient-at-california-car-wash
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The Associated Press
3 months ago
The House gives final approval to President Donald Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid. Passed by a vote of 216-213, the bill now goes to Trump for his signature.
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House gives final approval to Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
The House has approved President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
https://bit.ly/44QqfPU
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The Associated Press
3 months ago
BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.
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Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.
https://bit.ly/40lj1lB
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Sophia Bollag
3 months ago
California launched an AI chatbot for wildfires. But CalMatters reporter
@malenacarollo.bsky.social
found it doesn’t reliably provide information such as a list for evacuation supplies and can’t tell users about evacuation orders.
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California launched an AI chatbot for wildfires. It can’t answer one crucial question
The bot fails at some basic questions. Cal Fire says it is working on fixes. Experts wonder if it launched too soon.
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/07/cal-fire-chatbot/
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Larry Levitt
3 months ago
The temporary $50 billion rural health fund in the Republican tax and spending bill gets distributed from 2026 to 2030. But, 63% of the Medicaid cuts hit after 2030.
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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A Closer Look at the $50 Billion Rural Health Fund in the New Reconciliation Law | KFF
The new reconciliation law includes a $50 billion rural health fund. This brief describes the rural health fund, explains what the law says about the allocation of funds, and highlights outstanding qu...
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/a-closer-look-at-the-50-billion-rural-health-fund-in-the-new-reconciliation-law/
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Ana B. Ibarra
CalMatters
3 months ago
Doctors regularly need to pay more than $300,000 for medical school, including tuition and housing. New regulations signed by President Donald Trump cap their federal borrowing at $200,000 for medical degrees.
buff.ly/GUSXLkd
📝
@mzinshteyn.bsky.social
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Ted Hesson
3 months ago
A California farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when US immigration agents raided a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.
@leahjdouglas.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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One California worker dead, hundreds arrested, after cannabis farm raid
A California farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when U.S. immigration agents raided a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid-2025-07-11/
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Chabeli Carrazana
3 months ago
Sharing a story that is very close to my heart. Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American kids — she cared for children w/ disabilities. Now, she and her seriously ill son have been detained by ICE. Her story:
19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...
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After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling
Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/child-care-worker-detained-immigration-community/
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CalMatters
3 months ago
The new federal budget signed into law by President Donald Trump is expected to raise some health care insurance premiums and force millions off coverage, reverberating the most in lower-income families and communities that are already struggling.
cal.news/4641KRG
📸 Larry Valenzuela
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STAT
3 months ago
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its partners are selling thousands of stem cell samples before many of them are discarded.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/11/s...
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California stem cell agency shutting down unique human tissue biobank
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its partners are selling thousands of stem cell samples before many of them are discarded.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/11/stem-cell-research-cirm-biobank-shutting-down-launches-human-tissue-closeout-sale/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=bluesky_organic&utm_medium=social
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Sergio olmos
4 months ago
Taken: LA immigration raids Masked men pull up quickly and approach Latino men. When someone runs, they’re taken. When they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. When they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
@wendyfry.bsky.social
@addonohue.bsky.social
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'It's not your country:' Stories from men who were taken in the LA immigration raids
CalMatters spoke with a number of migrants about their arrests and detentions after the first weekend of LA raids. Their accounts raise potential legal questions about the government’s operation.
https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/taken-la-immigration-raids/
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Levi Sumagaysay
4 months ago
The House wants to raise the SALT deduction cap, while the Senate wants to keep it at $10,000, the limit first established in 2017 to help pay for tax cuts for big corporations. Here's my look at how the outcome could affect millions of high-income California taxpayers.
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Congress is fighting over this tax deduction. Here’s how it affects Californians
The House wants to raise the SALT deduction cap, which would help wealthy Californians pay less in federal taxes. The Senate disagrees.
https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/06/salt-deduction-taxes-california/
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Los Angeles Times
4 months ago
The Trump administration says it targets undocumented “criminals,” but a Times analysis found that 69% of Angelenos arrested by ICE in early June had no criminal convictions, and 58% had never even been charged with a crime.
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Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street
The Trump administration claimed the sweeps were aimed at criminals, but data shows otherwise.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-24/detention-centers-swell-with-immigrants-with-no-criminal-record?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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“The mere threat of immigration enforcement near any medical facility undermines public trust and jeopardizes community health.”
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4 months ago
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Andy Donohue
4 months ago
Gregory Bovino is running Border Patrol’s LA operation right now. His last raid was a total mess. And he sees no difference between a farm worker and a fentanyl dealer. w/
@sergioolmos.bsky.social
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He misled the public about his last big immigration sweep. Now he’s leading the Border Patrol in LA
The immigration raids across Los Angeles have all the hallmarks of Gregory Bovino's Kern County sweep, which a federal judge says likely violated the Constitution.
https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/los-angeles-border-patrol-chief/
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CalMatters
4 months ago
Breaking: A federal judge halted President Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, finding that he broke the law in ordering them to put down urban unrest without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom.
cal.news/4l4l7y9
📸 Ted Soqui
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CalMatters
4 months ago
Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds.
cal.news/3SMlTDN
📸 David McNew, Getty
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
4 months ago
Helen Chu is one of the ousted
#ACIP
members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...
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Ousted CDC vaccine adviser says RFK Jr.'s message is clear: ‘Scientific expertise is no longer of use’
Terminated CDC vaccine adviser Helen Chu spoke with STAT about her fears for the future of vaccine policy
https://www.statnews.com/?p=1329815&preview=true
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Alexei Koseff
4 months ago
A carefully calibrated truce between
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
and Donald Trump, forged in the wake of January’s devastating wildfires across Los Angeles, collapsed over the weekend — putting both the governor and California at increasing risk of reprisal
calmatters.org/politics/202...
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The quiet truce between Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump is over
Newsom’s anger is escalating after Trump called in the National Guard to Los Angeles without his consent. Newsom is questioning the president’s mental fitness and called him a “stone cold liar.”
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-newsom-trump-national-guard/
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Lawmakers reject several of Newsom's spending cuts, but appear ready to back his proposal to halt enrollment and charge monthly premiums for undocumented adults who are covered by Medi-Cal — with some changes.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Lawmakers say no to Newsom’s big social service spending cuts
The governor proposed major cuts to Medi-Cal and other social programs to close a $12 billion deficit. Democrats in the state Legislature are proposing more borrowing to keep those programs afloat.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-budget-legislature-proposal/
4 months ago
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Levi Sumagaysay
4 months ago
David Huerta, the SEIU California president who was arrested at an immigration protest last week, is a U.S. citizen. His grandparents immigrated from Mexico. He’s been organizing janitors since the 1990s.
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
By my colleague
@jeannereporter.bsky.social
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Ana B. Ibarra
CalMatters
4 months ago
Hospitals. Schools. Shelters. Those are some of the places that CA lawmakers want to shield from immigration arrests and raids. They advanced a package of bills this week as President Trump’s administration continues its ramped-up deportation campaign.
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📸 Fred Greaves
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CalMatters
4 months ago
Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leading California Democrats criticized President Trump’s deployment of National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, calling it an unnecessary provocation.
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Over Newsom's objections, Trump deploys National Guard to LA after immigration sweeps
Hundreds of National Guard soldiers are patrolling Los Angeles following President Trump's order calling them up to protect immigration officers.
https://cal.news/4dRTfel
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Larry Levitt
5 months ago
The House reconciliation bill would penalize states to the tune of $92 billion if they use their own funds to provide health care to undocumented immigrants.
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Alexei Koseff
5 months ago
Before session today, Latino Caucus members say they flatly reject Newsom’s proposed funding cuts for immigrant Medi-Cal expansion. The caucus wouldn’t name specific other budget solutions, but Sen. Lena Gonzalez says everything is on the table, including tax increase.
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Juliet Williams
5 months ago
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed deep budget cuts this week. But he's doubling down on his proposal to boost Hollywood tax incentives to $750 million a year.
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Gavin Newsom pushes tax credits for Hollywood while proposing major cuts
As he details deep cuts to public health care and universities in his budget, one thing remains intact: $750 million in tax credits for Hollywood.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-film-tax-credit-gavin-newsom-hollywood/
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Apoorva Mandavilli
5 months ago
Come this fall, only older Americans and those with chronic health problems may be urged to get the Covid shot — assuming the vaccine is available at all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
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Federal Officials May Limit Recommendations for Covid Vaccine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/covid-vaccine-recommendations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU8.zz1u.upC1rU_45ocb&smid=url-share
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CalMatters
5 months ago
As proposed, coverage of the drugs would end on Jan. 1, 2026. Medi-Cal patients trying to lose weight would have to pay for the prescriptions themselves, at a cost of more than $1,000 per month, making it unattainable for low-income people.
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CalMatters
5 months ago
A year after granting Medi-Cal access to low-income immigrants without legal status, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to freeze enrollment of new recipients and charge premiums in a move expected to save the state more than $5 billion.
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📸 Lauren Justice
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6 months ago
A few weeks ago, I got emails from two people who saw their homeless family members -- who they hadn't heard from in years -- quoted in one of my
@calmatters.org
stories. Thanks to several lucky breaks, I was able to reunite them. But that was just the beginning...
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Her homeless sister vanished. Six years later, she turned up in a news story
After reading a CalMatters article, two people were able to reconnect with their homeless relatives. Here’s what happened next.
https://tinyurl.com/yhj4426s
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CalMatters
6 months ago
Breaking: A federal court on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the Border Patrol from conducting warrantless immigration stops throughout a wide swath of California.
cal.news/4jVGLnJ
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Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: 'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin'
'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,' a judge said in ordering the Border Patrol to halt warrantless sweeps in California.
https://cal.news/4jVGLnJ
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Hannah Wiley
6 months ago
More immigrants opt to self-deport rather than risk being marched out like criminals /
@rebeccaplevin.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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More immigrants opt to self-deport rather than risk being marched out like criminals
Even in liberal-leaning California, undocumented immigrants who have worked here for decades are making plans to leave, choosing to depart on their own terms rather than risk being forced out with not...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-18/immigrants-self-deport-rather-than-risk-being-marched-out-like-criminals?sfmc_id=6532abec25b3640666e84b29&skey_id=bc7975cd8c79a5585ebd247c003b965fa86e33a353b8032e9ef02aa4706ee862&utm_id=39502181&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Essential%20California&utm_term=Newsletter%20-%20Essential%20California
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CalMatters
6 months ago
The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again.
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Why California’s dangerous drivers get to keep their licenses
The California DMV routinely allows deadly drivers to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found.
https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/04/license-to-kill/
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Alexei Koseff
6 months ago
Lt. Gov.
@eleniforca.bsky.social
, who earns millions of dollars annually from extensive property investments around the Sacramento region and beyond, told me she’ll put “any assets that may present a conflict of interest” into a blind trust if she is elected governor.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Kounalakis vows blind trust for property if elected governor
Her extensive property portfolio includes Sacramento office buildings that rent to state agencies and dozens of organizations with business before the state.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-governor-eleni-kounalakis/
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Ben Christopher
6 months ago
The Trump Administration 2.0 is cutting off funding to a California dementia researcher because he structured his research project to comply with funding requirements set up by the the Trump Administration 1.0 Story by
@mzinshteyn.bsky.social
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Evident Media
6 months ago
A U.S. border patrol unit traveled 300 mi. to carry out sweeping arrests in Bakersfield, California. Officials claim it was a "targeted" operation, but evidence gathered in this investigation from Evident,
@calmatters.org
and
@bellingcat.com
shows otherwise. Full report:
evidentmedia.live/44fZ1mX
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Border Patrol Called This Raid 'Targeted.' The Evidence Says Otherwise.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
https://evidentmedia.live/44fZ1mX
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The Washington Post
6 months ago
A second child has died of measles amid an outbreak in west Texas, sparking a rare rebuke of the Trump administration’s top health officials from a Republican senator on Sunday.
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Second child dies of measles in Texas amid outbreak
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R), a medical doctor, called on top health officials to “unequivocally” endorse measles vaccinations before “another child dies.”
https://wapo.st/3G8HumG
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CalMatters
7 months ago
‘Everybody’s been denied some form of care,’ said one California mental health advocate. Now, lawmakers are advancing new bills on behavioral health coverage.
cal.news/4hjJLIM
📝 Jocelyn Wiener 📸 Gabriel Hongsdusit
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Yousef Baig
7 months ago
Another exceptional
@calmatters.org
project from the inimitable Julie Cart...this one on the unsuccessful billions spent on improving the health of the Tahoe basin, and the questionable tourism and recreation shift in one of the riskiest fire regions that exists
calmatters.org/series/lake-...
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Lake Tahoe: A tarnished jewel
Lake Tahoe is an innocent victim — but there isn’t just a single villain. This CalMatters series reveals the problems plaguing this alpine treasure.
https://calmatters.org/series/lake-tahoe-blues-series/
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Mikhail Zinshteyn
7 months ago
NEWS: University of California will enforce a systemwide hiring freeze, UC President Michael Drake just said at UC Regents meeting. Freeze is to prepare for a planned 8% state budget cut to UC as well as federal cuts to public health and research that are responsible for billions of dollars for UC.
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Jeremia Kimelman
7 months ago
This week was bittersweet for our merged union at CalMatters/The Markup. We were thrilled Monday to ratify our contract after months of bargaining, giving our members needed protections and raises.
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CalMatters
7 months ago
Several California Republicans represent communities that rely on Medicaid for health care coverage. Their recent budget-cutting votes angered some constituents.
cal.news/4iIU2zc
📝 Kristen Hwang
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They live in California’s Republican districts. They feel betrayed by looming health care cuts
Some of the state’s most conservative areas benefit disproportionately from Medicaid.
https://cal.news/4iIU2zc
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