CDC FoodNet removed 6 out of 8 pathogens from required surveillance on July 1st. Announced Aug 26. Citing "lack of funds". Cases of each pop up all the time around the country. 4 this month. #CDC #foodnet #health #foodsafety

The State Dept's annual reports on international human rights, meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign affairs, will no longer include things like: denying freedom of movement & peaceful assembly, political prisoners w/o due process, and restrictions on free and fair elections. - @npr.org

"Fuels are not really the issue in these big fires — it’s the extreme winds. Prescription burning [chaparral has] essentially no impact on Santa Ana wind-driven fires." “short of mowing whole hillsides down to nothing, there’s little management work to be done where houses meet undeveloped lands"

Up to 30% of California's firefighters are inmates in prison. More than 900 inmates among more than 7,500 personnel helping fight the Los Angeles, California wildfires. Inmates are there voluntarily and paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, with additional pay provided during emergencies. #fire

Mexico sent firefighters to California to help with the Los Angeles fires. #wildfire #fire #firefighters #mexico

Greg Abbott approves elimination of water breaks for construction workers. House Bill 2127 was passed by the Texas Legislature during this year’s regular legislative session. Abbott signed it Tuesday. #texas #construction #workers

1950s Operation Wetback deportations "While it might have temporarily slowed illegal immigration, Operation Wetback did nothing to curb the need for cheap Mexican labor in the United States or reduce unemployment in Mexico as its planners had promised." #immigrants #deport #economy

1930s Mexican Repatriation deportation 'Deportations also appear to have harmed the local economy. Far from protecting jobs for white Americans, the repatriation of Mexicans "may have further increased unemployment and depressed wages"' #immigrants #deport #economy

36x the 2nd place country in school shootings, 2018 2024 numbers are in the 300s #schoolshootings #guns #number1 worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Almost 1 /day #schoolshooting #guns #number1 k12ssdb.org/all-shootings

#healthcare #corps #ceos

⚠️ BREAKING: CDC's wastewater surveillance program shows H5N1 bird flu positive wastewater in 11 states.

2024 UHC spent almost $6million lobbying. 2024 Health sector spent over $500million lobbying. These are expenditures before their profit margin is calculated. And it does not include all lobbying expenditures. #healthcare #corps #lobbying www.opensecrets.org/industries/l...

Slavery continues in the United States under the guise of "prison labour" “Laws popped up that made it easier and easier for criminal legal institutions to continue to literally capture and extract the labor of the very same people whose labor was extracted under chattel slavery,” #opdeatheaters

US Healthcare could save billions while providing better outcomes. 2020, it's much worse now. #healthcare #corps

90% of Americans blame Corporate Executives for Healthcare System problems 91% blame Health Insurance companies 91% blame pharma companies #healthcare #corps #ceos d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

🚨This is AMAZING: Watch this elderly woman DESTROY a young right wing YouTuber on his weak sauce immigration talking points. Absolutely brilliant. H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social

The US could have saved 300k+ lives from covid with universal healthcare.... #healthcare #covid

85% of Americans support access to abortion 79% support funding for the development of permanently affordable housing 76% support LGBTQ rights 75% support reducing the cost of prescription drugs 70% support making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share of taxes ... 1/2

20-40% of construction labor are (15-30% illegal) immigrants, 40% in CA & Texas. 63% in NYC, 40% of those are undocumented. That means almost half of what might help increase housing supply and lower housing cost. #immigrants #illegalimmigrants #deport #economy #inflation

"I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world." Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 26, 1967

"How society treats its most vulnerable citizens is always the measure of its humanity"