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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.
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ANTI-BLACKNESS IS THE POINT RACISM, MISOGYNY, AND DONALD TRUMP’S ASSAULT ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITY REPORT.pdf
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November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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 ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
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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!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
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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.
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.
September 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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.
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.
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California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.
California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.
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"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.
Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
August 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"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.
Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
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The Republican fantasy of lower taxes and hard-to-access social safety net programs will now be a reality. www.theguardian.com/...
Trump’s big bill achieved what conservatives have been trying to do for decades
The Republican fantasy of lower taxes and hard-to-access social safety net programs will now be a reality
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Republican fantasy of lower taxes and hard-to-access social safety net programs will now be a reality. www.theguardian.com/...
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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-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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-... 🧪
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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.
June 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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.
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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...
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...
65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...
www.cato.org
June 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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...
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...
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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.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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.
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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.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care
Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.
www.cbsnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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.
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...
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...
“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games - The Sick Times
Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats o...
thesicktimes.org
May 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
“Games are surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about COVID-19 and Long COVID.”
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...
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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%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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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-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
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My spreadsheet of studies implicating #COVID19 in longer-term, chronic health problems has now exceeded 2,000 studies.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Studies
docs.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My spreadsheet of studies implicating #COVID19 in longer-term, chronic health problems has now exceeded 2,000 studies.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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"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."
Global clinical trial tests two anti-inflammatory drugs for long COVID
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 W...
www.news-medical.net
April 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"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."
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I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
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...
nwlc.org/press-releas...
NWLC Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Seeking to Repeal Core Tenet of Civil Rights Act - National Women's Law Center
Washington, DC (April 23) – Donald Trump signed an executive order to roll back the protections afforded to Americans against discrimination that has a “disparate impact” based on race, sex, or other ...
nwlc.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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...
nwlc.org/press-releas...
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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...
—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...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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...
—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...
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The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
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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...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
grants.nih.gov
March 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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We don’t have words for the gravity of this moment. They are working to destroy everything great about America.
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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...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
grants.nih.gov
March 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We don’t have words for the gravity of this moment. They are working to destroy everything great about America.
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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.”
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.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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.”
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.”
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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
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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