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Ellie Johns-Kelley
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Living the life on a farm. PCUSA Minister. Wife, mom, gardener, traveler, occasional swine/bovine herder. Once upon a time sailor and runner. Advocate for claiming your legacy.
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While indirect costs for NIH grants need reformed this is not the way to do it. This will gut current projects & severely harm our place within medical tesearch. One more action of this administration with devastating consequences.
NIH Cuts Back Its Payment Of Indirect Costs For University Research
The National Institutes of Health announced Friday that it will impose a 15% cap on payment for the “indirect costs” on grants it awards to universities, starting Monday.
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February 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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As life goes on for so many of us, SoCal is still in high alert — Hughes Fire threatens thousands of homes in northern Los Angeles County https://bit.ly/4huNpQJ
Hughes Fire threatens thousands of homes in northern Los Angeles County
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Firefighters on the ground and in the air rushed to slow a rapidly spreading brush fire that exploded near Castaic on Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of evacuations …
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January 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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“The rule Trump nuked, Executive Order 11246, forbade federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Just Revoked Anti-Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
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January 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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But in 1965, LBJ issued exec order 11246 banning discrimination in federal hiring and with federal contractors. That order helped re-build the Black middle class and today DC is home to the nation's most economically thriving Black community. Today, Trump rescinded that landmark order as well.
January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Section 3(b)(i) of President Trump’s 01/21/25 misleadingly named EO “ending illegal discrimination” provides:
“Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked.” There goes six decades of progress toward justice begun by LBJ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Praying for the housing insecure
January 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
-19 degrees this morning in Carmichaels, PA. 14 degrees by 4 pm.
January 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The PCUSA Advocacy Committee for LGBTQIA+ Equity on The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act: "The table Jesus set was one of abundance—where no one is excluded, all are valued, and God's justice flows freely."

Read the full statement at tinyurl.com/pcusaACQ-E
Advocacy Committee for LGTBQIA+ Equity urges opposition to recent House bill
We, the Advocacy Committee for LGBTQIA+ Equity (ACQ+E), write to express our unequivocal condemnation of the passage of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 by the U.S. House of Rep...
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January 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely

The need to do that hasn’t changed

If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
January 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Asked about her potential replacement, current House Chaplain Margaret Kibben told RNS, "The situation is not mine to comment on, except to say, I serve at God’s pleasure."
Speaker Mike Johnson pushing to replace House chaplain
(RNS) — Asked about her potential replacement, current House Chaplain Margaret Kibben told RNS, 'The situation is not mine to comment on, except to say, I serve at God’s pleasure.'
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January 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
18 years ago, I was introduced to Arran aromatics soap “after the rain” from Scotland.It was sold at target. I wish they would distribute it again.
January 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Truly appreciate PBS World
January 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reading Parker Palmer’s “On the Brink of Everything” and it is doing my soul good.
November 21, 2024 at 11:19 PM