I am a principal author of this Budget Advocacy Toolkit, which was official launched today, June 23, in Dublin at the #WCTC2025. 🥳

Want to change how your country funds tobacco control?
Come to our interactive Budget Advocacy Toolkit launch at the World Conference on Tobacco Control (#WCTC2025) this Monday in Dublin.

Join CTFK President & CEO Yolonda C. Richardson & leaders from around the world for this interactive session on how to fund what works -- sustainable, life-saving tobacco control programs.

9:00am–12:00pm -- June 23
📘Learn more about the toolkit’s 4-step model for budget advocacy success. #WCTC2025

On June 23, we’re proud to launch our Tobacco Control Budget Advocacy Toolkit at the World Conference on Tobacco Control 💼

Uganda Journalists Join Forces to Elevate Awareness on Civil… The Global Health Advocacy Incubator changes policies to save lives.

Without a birth certificate, children can be denied school, #health care and basic rights. #Journalists in Uganda are sharing real stories—and calling for action. Read our latest blog for more: www.advocacyincubator.org/news/2025-04...

Watch live: Leaders of NPR, PBS appear before congressional subcommittee Live feed starting at 10 a.m. today. NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger are scheduled to appear today before the House DOGE subcommittee

NPR and PBS may be next on the budget chopping block, even though their federal funding is less than 0.01% of federal spending. NPR & PBS leaders called before congressional subcommittee today. SAVE PUBLIC MEDIA!

#PublicMediaMatters #PublicMedia #supportpublicmedia

@npr.org @pbs.org @wamu.org

Save PBS from GOP budget cuts President-elect Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Elon Musk are escalating their war on public media – threatening to slash funding for our Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Americans consistently PB...

I just signed a Common Cause petition urging Congress to REJECT proposals to cut funding for PBS – and I hope that you will, too.

Petition: FIRE Elon Musk

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Action Alerts - RESULTS

Tell Congress: Don't take away food and healthcare from families. Reject cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and WIC.
CLICK BELOW to contact your Senators and House Rep.

Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.

BREAKING: The U.S. House just passed a bill that could devastate nonprofits, chill free speech, and hand Trump unchecked power.

Why H.R. 9495 is a disaster waiting to happen and why the U.S. Senate must reject it. ⬇️

Light for Democracy - Washington DC · Light for Our Democracy Tuesday, March 4th, marks the President’s Address to Congress. Instead of tuning, We the People will come together in community all across the country, including at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Was...

Not watching SOU: I'm attending Light for Our Democracy's event, “Light for Democracy - Washington DC” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/lightfordemo...

Sign on to stand w/ the #BleedingDisorders Community on Capitol Hill: Real Cost of #Healthcare Cuts. Proposed cuts could have devastating consequences for our community: Loss of #Medicaid coverage; Higher insurance premiums; Increased financial hardship.
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Tell Congress: Reject the SAVE Act URGENT: A faction of lawmakers are preparing to strip away our right to vote. They need to know that you oppose the SAVE Act.

Tell Congress: Reject the SAVE Act act.represent.us/s/2233288.Qt...

Call your Rep. to Protect Medicaid! 1/3 of the #bleedingdisorders #hemophilia community is insured by Medicaid. Proposals to cut or restrict Medicaid threaten to leave many without the coverage they depend on to stay healthy & avoid life-threatening complications.
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Congress needs pushback about SNAP (food stamps) & Medicaid cuts. They are expected to vote today!

They seek to cut $2 trillion from programs for $4.5 trillion in tax breaks. House wants to cut $880 billion from Medicaid & $230 billion from SNAP to give $1.1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1%.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

More true every day