“Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump.”

“Disaster survivors in Arkansas left homeless by recent tornadoes have been blocked from receiving federal recovery aid after President Donald Trump rejected the state’s request to declare a major disaster in March.”

NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...

Musk affiliates are pushing agencies to use Starlink, with the FAA leasing kits. Critics fear these moves signal a shift in the telecom industry that could result in the world’s richest man deciding how the nation’s communications network works. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/I1wv9m

Wait, what the fuck? These orgs applied for and received grants from the government, and now, because this administration chooses to pretend climate change doesn’t exist, they’re going to be accused of FRAUD? For work already done and paid for as the government directed?

Measles If you were born between 1957-1968, your MMR vax was less effective than what came later & you may need boosting. If you were born before ~1984, there's a small chance it may no longer be protecting you & you may need boosting. I just messaged my doc to ask re: a "titer test" to find out.

NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

The White House asserted today that it would control who gets to cover the president in the White House and via the White House pool for the first time in our history - providing an authoritarian-style mechanism to shape coverage and retaliate against disfavored outlets. Right out of the textbooks.

Just as an FYI, hospitals NEED Medicare and Medicaid dollars to function. Smaller/ rural/ critical access hospitals will not survive without them. So even if you don't rely on Medicare, you still might lose your local hospital or find yourself stranded without care while traveling.

Ya know who uses Medicaid? CHILDREN. 40 million kids are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. That’s half of the kids in this country. Children don’t contribute to the workforce or buy goods or vote… so no one cares.

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

Cutting #Medicaid is devastating. If it wasn’t for Medicaid, I never would’ve had the necessary #surgeries, #therapies, & care access as a #disabled child + teen. Medicaid is a literal lifeline worth saving, not stripping down to its bones. Terrifying reality we live in.

This is going to be so good! Come through if you're in the Bay, join online if you're not.

This is a beautiful conversation with @edyong209.bsky.social. Listening to a kind & thoughtful soul talk about science (& moral injury, birding, & being in the world) is soothing & motivating at the same time. I recommend the audio version; it has content edited out of the written version.

There are many veterans with disabilities. They are included in DEI. Americans with disabilities warn protections are vanishing in Trump's DEI rollback www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

this is theft on an unimaginable scale

On Friday evening, President Trump reinstated a broad version of an anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule, which bans foreign NGOs receiving U.S. aid funds from engaging in abortion advocacy, counseling, or referrals. @garnethenderson.com reports: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/01/24/t...

Re-posting this. One of the best teaching tools I've come across that demonstrates the risks of getting long covid and the importance of masking. You can play this game in 5 mins w your students, conference/training attendees, organization, extended family gathering or any other large group.

The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government. Put that in a headline. www.expressnews.com/news/article...

president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

If you are providing gender affirming care or care to migrants and have questions about how to keep doing that, or generally step into your commitment to do no harm, please contact @interruptcrim.bsky.social's help desk for health care providers! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...

ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning: A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

“Ronald Reagan does not determine my mood. Its’s not his country. It’s our country.” -June Jordan 1986

I can’t overstate how abundant the resources and guidance are when it comes to building connection, working to stay grounded, staying present and feeling, and using the survival/thriving skills of joy, imagination, care, and creativity. I mean, the material is everywhere. We just have to do it.

You may not be aware that over the last 50 years, the Supreme Court has chipped away at your Miranda rights case by case, rendering them weak and ineffective. You no longer have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, not with the foece you used to. Time for a history lesson. /🧵

The Disability & Disaster Hotline is supporting disabled folks affected by the ongoing fires in southern California. Call/text 800-626-4959 or email [email protected]. You can also check the Genasys Protect app, Watch Duty app, or try calling 211 in LA County.

The indignities, hassle, and threats to life disabled people have to deal with on a regular basis tells you everything you need to know about the benefits of keeping this society going.

"at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

For @motherjones.com, I interviewed a Covid-19 mask organizer about his experience handing out masks to keep his community safe during LA wildfires–at a time when masks have become villainized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you want to help us purchase new tents for our unhoused neighbors, you can make a tax-deductible donation to our group, the South Bay Mutual Aid & Care Club (via our fiscal sponsor). SBMACC is one of the the longest continuously operating mutual aid groups in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.

There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.

This is so shameful.

Every pomegranate in my grocery store, those Halo oranges, Wonderful pistachios, Fiji water—it’s all these wealth hoarders.

My new story, going behind the scenes at the NYT is finally live! Huge thanks to @billiejsweeney.bsky.social as well as @kellymcb.bsky.social, @petrinkae.bsky.social, and @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social for chatting with me on this.

“The fact is, people want to believe that drinking is good for them, and the science in this field is easy to manipulate to convince them.” I just read this 2018 piece from @smencimer.bsky.social from start to finish… & you should too: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Breaking the bones of NICU babies . . . The heartbreak and rage . . .