What would the world look like if we achieved racial and health equity? BMSG Co-Director Katherine Schaff explores that question and the role of collective action in getting to a future where people not only survive, but thrive. Read here: http://bit.ly/4dCGrZz

I wanted to share a new Berkeley Media Studies Group blog, inspired by all the public health people who came together across the country on May Day and the thousands of people who took action that day to create the world we all want and deserve to live in.

An example of breaking the Spiral of Silence. @media-studies.bsky.social @katherineschaff.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-le...

The county health department should turn the tap off of xAI. open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

This is what we call #SocialMath. @media-studies.bsky.social @katherineschaff.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social

#SocialMath @katherineschaff.bsky.social @media-studies.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social

Dr. Zea leads with what is needed rather than what is feasible to glorious results. #AbundantBirth #GuaranteedIncome #Belonging The Politics of Loving Kindness: Insights from a Birth Equity Initiative - nonprofitquarterly.org/the-politics... @media-studies.bsky.social @katherineschaff.bsky.social

Brilliant analysis from @anandwrites.bsky.social: "an ugly and at times evil master class in elite solidarity" binding people together in "the solidarity of patriarchy" aligned on interests, not ideology. #Epsteinfiles #solidarity The Epstein class's secret weapon open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

For #MayDay, BMSG staff are taking action in different ways. Here's our director, Lori, and Director of Racial and Health Equity Strategy, Kathi, joining a protest today. How are you observing May Day?

What we’re reading: “Making the Case for Taxes” — new research from Topos Partnership about how tax advocates are communicating + the media landscape around them! Read here: vist.ly/4yjau Looking for more guidance? Check out our blog: vist.ly/4yjas

Want to bring your advocacy efforts to a larger audience? In BMSG’s latest blog, we sat down with Jolie Foreman, director of Shelby County Cares, to learn more from her experience being interviewed on 60 Minutes. Read the messaging tips: vist.ly/4yqib

Power influences what information becomes accepted as “fact.” That’s why if we are serious about health equity, justice, and democracy, we must be serious about building community power. Learn more and get involved: https://bit.ly/3LjwmGQ #healthjustice #HIP #PH4CP #healthequity

We're up over 3,000 letters sent. Can we get more than 5,000 letters sent to Senators opposing Casey Means' nomination for Surgeon General? Please sign and send a letter to your Senators now by clicking below! actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

Food is fundamental is health. Strong local economies are fundamental to health. Imagine a wildly successful GOV'T program that putts food on the table and keeps grocers working: #SNAP. Check out @media-studies.bsky.social latest blog for how to make the case for SNAP: www.bmsg.org/beyond-full-...

How do we make sure our communication strategies shift power toward equity instead of just spreading messages? Power mapping offers a framework. Learn more in our latest blog featuring BMSG’s Director of Racial and Health Equity Strategy. www.bmsg.org/power-mappin...

Tell Your Federal Representatives to Protect WIC www.congressweb.com/NACCHO/17?fr...

It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to tax new solar and wind capacity, as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB, when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022, and the grid is ever more fragile. Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

call me crazy but I don't think we should.

Senate offices are closed, but their inboxes aren't. Let's get 1,000 more out by midnight: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

New resource from @media-studies.bsky.social & @frameworks.bsky.social! Learn about common framing pitfalls and try out our sample messages in support of Medicaid & other critical components of our social safety net. ow.ly/z25n50W3xiz

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

NEW MESSAGING RESOURCE! As lawmakers move swiftly to slash significant funds from Medicaid, people are raising their voices to demand that their representatives save this vital program. Our new resource provides sample responses and tips to help advocates make their case. ow.ly/vG5I50VXnFt

The ‘spiral of silence’ makes us think we’re more divided than we are. BMSG shows us how to break it. www.bmsg.org/the-spiral-o...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

New blog from #BerkeleyMediaStudiesGroup! Coping with chaos: What’s keeping us going in this political moment In the spirit of solidarity, progress, and resilience, we’re sharing what’s been keeping us going and how we’re moving forward. www.bmsg.org/coping-with-...

🚨 Tell Congress: Don’t cut funding to give handouts to billionaires! Trump and his billionaire allies are working to cut funding for essential programs like health care, housing, & climate action. Tell your members of Congress to #StopTheCuts: ppls.ac/stopthecuts #PeopleOverProft

To be clear, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are instituting death panels for rural America. That’s what closing federally qualified health centers means, since they are often the only health providers available. bsky.app/profile/chan...

Senate Finance Committee is voting on advancing the nomination of RFK Jr (to burn down what's left of our public health care system) as HHS Secretary on Tuesday at 10AM StopRFKjr.com makes it incredibly easy to call Senators and tell them "no"— call + send StopRFKjr.com to at least 1 other person

Want to share some points from the @indivisible.org action call earlier tonight. Most urgent: Contact your senators (Dem AND GOP) and tell them to VOTE NO on Russell Vought (architect of Project 2025) running the Office of Management and Budget (the same one that was all over the news this week).

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire. This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy. It’s time to speak out and fight back. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Some NIH study sections for tomorrow have just been canceled. Who knows which of these grants would have led to the next life-saving invention. Who knows which scientists will throw in the towel bc of funding delays. Who can even begin to measure the impact of these reckless cancellations.😕🩺🧪🛟

How our news would cover what's happening if it were any other country: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Democrats will "lead" when and where voters tell them to do so.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Indivisible/MoveOn/WFP also promoted this protest at Treasury on Tuesday at 5 p.m., organized by what appears to be a new group supporting federal workers www.instagram.com/p/DFl2CETtrSy/

Armed. Robbery. With casualties.

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Hundreds of USAID employees have been fired or furloughed, and foreign aid operations were suspended after Trump issued a freeze on aid. The agency’s public affairs team has also been placed on leave and locked out of their systems. This situation is escalating quickly. More details to come.

USAID, founded in 1961 as the primary U.S. foreign aid agency, is now under threat of being dismantled by President Trump. Signs outside the USAID building have been removed, the agency’s website went offline, and its X account disappeared.

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

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