“California has a choice: climate-smart, fiscally responsible governance, driven by data, or return to outdated office routines that undermine the state’s own environmental and budgetary goals.” #Telework calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Why learning how to disagree well is important to professional development, and four areas where organizational leaders and staff can start. ssir.org/articles/ent...

As the U.S. population ages, how is the country meeting the needs of people with dementia? #memorycare www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-m...

“Joseph’s mother is an asylum seeker & was told to bring her children to a routine immigration check-in. Instead, the family was detained at the check-in and deported. They were denied access to Joseph’s assistive devices & to their attorney… www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr26/y...

Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.

100% Full-Time Telework Accessible Parking at No Cost Commuter Stipend High Crime Worksite Stipend Clean Workspaces Statewide Investment in Local Downtown Economies and Small Businesses Take action today by signing the Coalition of CA State petition >> form.laborbase.org/260557089872...

massolidarity.org/2026/03/03/h... #telework #RTO #unions #hybrid #workforce #california

California has long championed diversity, equity, and inclusion and will continue to do so because California is a place where everyone can thrive! The time to advance #SCR89 is now. Thank you @sensmallwoodcuevas for your leadership! legiscan.com/CA/text/SCR8...

California is the most diverse state in the nation, and this is evident in our State Legislature, with the 2025–2026 Legislature the most diverse in state history. Diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t buzzwords here — they’re who we are. #DiversityIsNotACrime

Our new report, Anti-Blackness Is the Point, out today reveals how Trump’s second administration has worked to roll back 60+ years of civil rights and equal opportunity. From racist narratives to book bans, the attack is coordinated and historic in its scope. Read the full report here ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Trump is destroying the CDC, esp around vaccines, so CA is expanding our public health infrastructure to make up for it. Before we ended our legislative session, we passed legislation (SB 144) to transfer responsibility for vaccine protocols & recommendations to the CA Department of Public Health.

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

The Republican fantasy of lower taxes and hard-to-access social safety net programs will now be a reality. www.theguardian.com/...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

From the Cato Institute; this one is worth reading. Topline: "nonpublic data from ICE indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind." Don't let their lies dominate the narrative. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

“Games are surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about COVID-19 and Long COVID.” thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

My spreadsheet of studies implicating #COVID19 in longer-term, chronic health problems has now exceeded 2,000 studies. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

"Spanning four continents and enrolling hundreds of people, a new clinical trial will test the effectiveness of two anti-inflammatory medicines as potential treatments for long COVID, scientists from Western University and the Schmidt Initiative for Long Covid (SILC) announced today."

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

Pres & CEO of the National Women’s Law Center “This exec order instructs the government to stop enforcing key civil rights protections …But a president does’t have the power take away core civil right protections from the people of this country with a flick of his wrist.” nwlc.org/press-releas...

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We don’t have words for the gravity of this moment. They are working to destroy everything great about America. 💔

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Pandemic research was underfunded, and the U.S. was unprepared for COVID-19. In response, the U.S. has now slashed funding for future pandemic preparedness. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Breaking News: President Trump revoked security clearances for prominent figures like Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and more.

U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the Trump administration scrutinizes legal immigrants who have expressed opposition to its policies. It has prompted American allies to update their travel advisories.

"Over the years, extensive research has consistently shown that vaccines do not cause autism. This conclusion is supported by numerous large-scale studies." theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/a-comprehe...

The Trump administration just shut down a food safety committee to prevent bacteria in baby formula. They are also threatening to fire employees who prevent deli meat from being infected with Listeria and applesauce from being laced with lead.

This is a side bar, but telework is a huge traffic reducer. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is scrapping telework and ordering hundreds of thousands of state workers to commute to an office 4x a week. Which means a huge increase in traffic & pollution. He is deliberately making the climate crisis worse.

New research shows that AI chatbots often fail to admit when they couldn't answer a question accurately, instead providing incorrect or speculative responses. Premium chatbots were even more prone to confidently giving wrong answers compared to their free versions. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

Newsom doesn’t care about you. www.seiu1000.org/rto/

It's cruel to force RTO when WFH works. This isn't a coddled millennial opinion; w/the high cost of childcare, gas, parking, housing, etc this EO translates to huge pay cuts. State jobs are already underpaid and our traffic & smog is already thick. I complained & you should too! Not cool, Newsom 👎