Christina Wong

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Irony in 2025 is hearing an NPR program sponsor ad for Amazon’s urgent care service with a tagline: Thanks to #Amazon health care just got better

#TaxTheRich

Communications Director Washington Conservation Action (WCA) seeks an experienced communications strategist to be our next Communications Director, a leadership position that oversees the brand, voice…

#Hiring
If you’re an experienced #communications strategist and team leader, come join my team at Washington Conservation Action!

#CleanAir #CleanWater #Foreste #Habitat #EnvironmentalJustice #RaceEquity waconservationaction.org/jobs/communi...

@wcav.bsky.social @lcv.org @fracposts.bsky.social @seiu.org

Guest Commentary: Budget bill would decimate health care access, food security and affordable energy On Tuesday, the Senate voted to send the “big” budget reconciliation bill back to the House to be considered for final passage into law. The first time they had a

The #BigUglyBill will take its greatest tolls of health and costs of living in #rural communities like districts represented by WA’s #DanNewhouse and #MichaelBaumgartner when #HealthCare and #FoodAssistance are slashed and #EnergyCosts skyrocket

www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/gues...

#Shame

Every #HellNo vote protects us from higher #EnergyBills, the expansion of #FoodApartheids, and the loss of #HealthCare
Every HELL NO vote counts so get on the phone and call your Reps!
#BigUglyBill #Reconciliation

1 vote got this to the Senate.
One tiebreaker vote by a feckless VP is moving it for final passage.
It’s time to turn the heat up to nuclear to rain down calls on your reps to reject this once & for all.
And if that fails, turn up the feral possum tenacity to live to vote them out.
#Reconciliation

We’re paying in national security, human lives, and our democracy because of the price of eggs.
Oh, and we’re still paying for the artificially inflated price of eggs too.
#Iran #BigUglyBill

Eating the popcorn like everyone else…
…. And talking with my mouth full on Senate voicemail boxes because we can’t get distracted by the #ElonvTrump beef from defeating the big, ugly, jobs and people and democracy killing bill
#ReconciliationBill

🥗 it’s a budgetary time bomb for states too, thanks to the SNAP benefit cost share

Would further add that our problem is greed

The CA clean car standards are the backbone of WA’s air quality policy- recent study from Ecology and Health Dept found 70% of our state’s cancer risk is from diesel exhaust.
Don’t let Big Polluters win- protect our air

The House W&M bill severely curtails tax credits for clean electricity and eliminates incentives for clean vehicles. These changes will lead to higher utility bills for households, job losses in areas facing underinvestment, & worse health outcomes in vulnerable communities.

Collab effort with my partner & kids to the tune of #PinkPonyClub
God, what have you done?
You’re a #WokeMarxistPope & you preach to the nuns, o Mama
He’s just havin’ fun, in his robes & his heels
While he roots for the Sox ‘cause he’s a:

#Seattle Blue Skyers— my friend & dedicated labor, small business, community centered advocate @votejeanie.bsky.social is running for #Dist2CityCouncil Please help her qualify for the ballot w/a one-time donation of at least $10 We need progressives like her! secure.anedot.com/jeaniechunn/...

Washington’s Model Toxics Control Act is a success worth defending | Opinion Continued cleanup is at risk because the state Senate proposes to raid MTCA funds to plug holes in the budget.

Washington’s budget can’t be balanced on cuts and raiding dedicated funds to clean up toxics in our most polluted communities, especially when there are common sense #TaxReform options on the table #waleg amp.bellinghamherald.com/opinion/op-e...

Only #MAHA and Republicans are capable of the complete non sequiter to identify the very real problem of #SNAP restrictions on hot prepared foods and say the solution is restrict soda and candy www.msn.com/en-us/health...
#HandsOffSNAP

Most importantly it’s a win for Washingtonians struggling to get by when we can reinstate programs that make affordable, cleaner energy efficiency options back on the table with incentives and rebates- programs that #I2066 had already restricted

This is a win for #democracy to ensure initiatives are clearly written so voters know exactly what they’ll get when deciding. #I2066Ruling

Today, a King County Superior Court judge ruled #I2066 unconstitutional. This decision validates what our coalition has said all along— the people were misled by intentionally vague and overly broad language that gets unwanted outcomes like limiting local gov ability to monitor #AirQuality

As more of our neighbors go hungry, WA lawmakers must do better | Op-Ed Last year, visits to food banks rose 26% in Washington, reaching 13.4 million visits, a huge increase from the 2014-2022 average of 8.2 million.

#FoodInsecurity in WA is nearly 2x since 2021 & fed budget cuts $230b from #SNAP will only grow need, costing more in long run Our legislature must reject Gov proposed cut for #FoodBanks Time to tax those who can afford it to meet need www.seattletimes.com/opinion/as-m... #waleg #CleanUpOurTaxCode

America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.

A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth.

An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.

No pay wall.

My 11yo: Well if that doesn’t perfectly capture the mood of these times

Go see the #AiWeiwei exhibit at the #SeattleArtMuseum It’s so so very good!

When the brief is a chocolate cake with white frosting, then you make a Nanaimo bar cake and get to call it an homage to Canada and a birthday cake becomes an act of resistance

Happy birthday, @jcmorrisonmd.bsky.social

Minority Leader Schumer blinked hard in the game of chicken, announcing his support, but Dems must hold strong because this bill gives unchecked funds to support DOGE efforts that are already shutting down our government & consents to tariffs that’ll tank our #economy
Demand NO from Senators

'Highly unusual': White House halts FBI background checks for senior staff, shifts them to Pentagon: Sources The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources say.

"The White House ordered a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive..."

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Breakdown of what EPA brags is the “biggest deregulation action in US history”
At its core, regulation protects the rest of us for our health and public good from the damage that can be caused by the economic benefits for a few.

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

Shutting down the work of improving the air quality in our most polluted areas makes all of us unhealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

RFK Jr. links measles outbreak to poor diet and health, citing fringe theories - The Boston Globe The health and human services secretary outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed from mainstream science.

So of course this lunatic is wrong. Let's start there.
But if he actually thinks this, then why is he not fighting to improve programs like #SNAP, #WIC and other federal programs that promote nutrition?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/10/n...

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

Funding for #FoodBanks and #Schools to purchase directly from #LocalFarms supporting those farm businesses is apparently no longer a priority for USDA. So tell me, what exactly are USDA’s priorities now? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...