Sue Nemeth

I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started.

📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.

Education Department to Fire 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

Education Department to Fire 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

And a lot of organizing in the states.

Where are all the women? • Indiana Capital Chronicle Though this year ushered a record number (13!) of female governors across the country, women remain chronically underrepresented in office.

Where are all the women? indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/24/w...

CAWP's Debbie Walsh in @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/1909...

Ditto for RSV. Horrible.

California’s Scary Product Warning Labels Might Be Working, Study Says Products must state if they contain chemicals tied to cancer or other risks. As a result, manufacturers have pulled back from using the chemicals, researchers found.

California’s right-to-know law, which requires companies to warn people about harmful chemicals in their products, has swayed many companies to stop using those chemicals altogether, a new study found.

Europe just stood up.

This is the way!

ACLU and other advocates sue for access to migrants moved to Guantánamo Bay The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys

The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.

Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.

Judge Rules the White House Failed to Comply With Court Order www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

The same media that wrote about Hillary Clinton’s email server 24/7 somehow does not have the time to delve into how Elon Musk, who has no top secret security clearance, is literally hooking up private servers to steal proprietary government data.

#Caturday mood

Supreme Court to hear case challenging Obamacare’s preventive coverage At issue is a provision requiring health-care plans to cover no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception. A Christian-owned business has challenged it.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception, to millions of Americans.

Today, Kelly Ayotte was sworn in as governor of New Hampshire, leading to a new record for the number of women governors serving concurrently.

With Kristi Noem nominated for DHS secretary, this number will likely soon return to the prior record of 12.

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