Melinda Hohman

Orange County Families Confront Hunger & Financial Woes This Holiday Season Food bank leaders warn hunger will only worsen in Orange County without legislation to reverse the expected cuts to CalFresh

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Come to Disneyland!

NYT: Breaking News: Saying the CDC has become “a political tool,” California, Oregon and Washington announced plans to form an alliance that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states.

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

March 13, 2025 Stocks fell again today.

March 13, 2025:

SETH MOULTON TELLING SCHUMER TO GET A SPINE. IMAGINE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO MAKE THAT SENTENCE HAPPEN.

WAKE UP

If Republicans won't listen to voters in town halls, we will. That's why I'm hosting 3 "Benefits Over Billionaires" town halls with local leaders in Bakersfield, Anaheim and Norco, CA on 3/23. Thanks, @maddow.msnbc.com for sharing! RSVP to join: linktr.ee/ro_khanna_to...

Good morning!

#TaxDollars

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind. It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

Hint: The American People
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Trump and Musk are dismantling Social Security It's part of a game plan to handicap government — and secure the remains for corporations and the wealthy.

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

A child is dead from measles. 5 things on my mind and answers to your questions

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Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending

I wrote this about the foolish naivety of conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and political zealots who hate precisely the tolerant, rational society that protects them

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🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

February 14, 2025 On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in...

February 14, 2025

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Asking "What matters to you?" can also be applied to social work practice
#socialwork #motivationalinterviewing

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

Project 2025's anti-LGBTQ agenda fuels Musk's dismantling of USAID Constitutional crisis, ongoing coup, call it what you want, but unelected oligarchs controlling our government puts us in uncharted territory. Here's the reason behind Musk's takeover of USAID.

The dismantling of USAID is part of a far-right agenda that seeks to undo rights for women, minorities and the LGBTQ community—as prescribed by Project 2025. It’s all laid out in the manual, and is now being carried out by Elon Musk and his “DOGE” team. www.american-doom.com/p/project-20...

Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes? There can be no appeasement. None.

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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

“A sane government would never do this.” — the former dean of Harvard Medical School

Universities are reeling. Elon Musk’s allies are celebrating.

Looking at the major cut to federal research funding — which many scientists predict will be devastating

With @lenasun.bsky.social and Carolyn Johnson

It’s just bleak that there’s a considerable amount of people who are like “thank goodness the worlds richest human being is stopping the tyranny of the consumer financial protection bureau and that guy who collects atmospheric data”

February 7, 2024 Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to deman...

February 7, 2025

Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

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‎5 Calls: Contact Your Congress ‎**As seen on MSNBC...**

We should be calling leadership daily! They work for us!!!!
5 Calls is free and super easy to use

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January 30, 2025 Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.

January 30, 2025