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I need the FEMA program to complete my degree in emergency management. Spring class registration opened today, and I can't register for classes I want because I can't prove that I took the FEMA prerequisites. I haven't been able to take any new FEMA courses for a month, either.

It is minor compared to people losing their food aid or paychecks, but I'm pissed that the FEMA online education system is shut down. Everybody from disaster managers to public health to your fire department, county and state, use those free training programs, sometimes to qualify for jobs.

As someone studying disaster management, I was intrigued by their refusal to release those funds because they claim the funds were meant for "natural disasters". I guess man-made ones don't qualify. (Sarcasm. And weeping for FEMA.)

Due to the federal government shutdown, CalFresh benefits won't be issued in November. However, San Franciscans who are use CalFresh will get a letter from our agency next week with instructions for accessing a one-time prepaid card that can be used at grocery stores citywide: sfhsa.org/calfreshaid

When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.

It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.

This was me with the original Star Wars. Grainy terrible copy-of-copy VHS with a several minute blank spot that missed the entire trash compactor scene. And the first copy of Jedi I saw was so grainy/blurry that entire things in the background didn't even exist.

I suspect the shift to fascism is in part due to this very phenomenon.

There is a shift in late stage capitalism to plutonimy where those outside the ultra-rich are economically irrelevant, but even the limited franchise of a farce of a democracy like the US is getting in the way of this change.

youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

Join the movement to End Hunger in America
- volunteer at a food bank
- advocate
- donate

www.feedingamerica.org/take-action

After every disaster when people lose power, there are deaths of this kind. Please be careful with portable generators and don't use them indoors.

that jury deliberation would take forever and I would love to hear it.

I don't know if they can find 12 queer geek disabled ADHD ADA knowledgeable emergency management folks, but I would love to have dinner with them afterwards

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

4/ Russia may be able to pose a significant threat to NATO on a timeline much sooner than 2036 and without necessarily reconstituting its tank fleet.

European authorities continue to report increased unidentified drone sightings in European airspace near military facilities.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I don't want to shill for the Post, but this is a serious, silent and growing issue. Disabled folks below that age mark are in the same unpleasant boat. Nursing homes are not nice places to live, and we're supposed to have the right to care in the community - but that care is not great either.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

at its core, a lot of these guys use AI as a woman who can be forced to love them, cannot say no to them, and that they have 100% control over. the problem isn't the specific words used or the specific target, it's what such behavior indicates about the user themselves

Save Our Signs Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History

Check out this project to document and preserve existing National Park Service signs before they disappear under orders of the regime. Help gather information and spread the word.

sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

Here's what is so different about the brewing government shutdown | CNN Politics The possible government shutdown that seems imminent this week would be like no federal funding crunch before it.

"The possibly imminent government shutdown would be like no federal funding crunch before it," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/4pMhGiM

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...

“If this was done by another country, we absolutely would call this corruption,” said Kristofer Harrison, who served as a high-level State Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Because it is corruption.”

(Published May)

Here’s the text of a public health order issued by the Dir. of Colorado’s public health dept directing the state’s health officer to issue a new standing order to allow pharmacists to administer Covid shots & laying out add’l steps authorized by existing statutes: drive.google.com/file/d/1sNIV...

Republican legislators propose bill to prevent local ‘rights of nature’ ordinances - ICT The concept of granting natural entities legal rights is relatively new in American government, but countries around the world have enshrined legal rights for nature into their constitutions.

Republican legislators in WI propose bill to prevent local ‘rights of nature’ ordinances. Granting natural entities legal rights is relatively new in the US, but countries & Indigenous communities around the world have enshrined legal rights for nature. ictnews.org/news/republi...

JOINT STATEMENT CALLING FOR SECRETARY KENNEDY RESIGNATION Infectious Diseases Society of America  American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology American Academy of HIV Medicine  American Association of Immunologists American Public Health Association American Society for Microbiology American Society for Virology Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)  AVAC   Camenzind Solutions LLC  Fast-Track Cities Institute  ID Care International Association of Providers of AIDS Care  NTM Info & Research  Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society   Peggy Lillis Foundation Seattle Children’s Research Institute Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) Stop TB USA  Treatment Action Group 

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm…

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.

NEW: SSA chief data officer and whistleblower Charles Borges resigned today—but his resignation email quickly disappeared from recipients' inboxes, sources tell @wired.com. @makenakelly.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/charle...

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

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