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DC DEMANDS FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW PRESS CONFERENCE + RALLY TODAY AUG 18 @ 3 PM 14th ST NW & U ST NW FREE DC

DC — Press Conference & Rally TODAY

The Trump regime has escalated their occupation of DC—Federal agents are now violently profiling, harassing, and arresting Black and Brown DC community members.

Join DC community leaders to demand FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW:

📍 14th St NW & U St NW
⏰ 3 PM

FREE DC.

YouTube video by WIRED History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

I wish this was required viewing for every single American. Truly, this is one of the best breakdowns of fascism/authoritarianism/dictatorships that I’ve seen. Please share, and also ask the question; how is DT different than what she’s describing?

youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...

Doing required emergency training for work. Training emphasizes hand washing. Talks about airborne pathogens. Makes no mention of masking or air purification. Excuse me while I scream inside my head.

US court says Trump's DOGE team can access sensitive data A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a group of unions to block the Trump administration government downsizing team known as the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on Americans.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Healthcare costs are already unaffordable for too many Virginians — and Trump’s Medicaid cuts are only going to make it worse.

As Governor, I’ll work to lower healthcare costs by investing in rural clinics, taking on price gouging, and defending Virginians’ access to Medicaid.

Women in Virginia deserve to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions — they don’t need to be told what to do by politicians.

As Governor, I’ll always protect reproductive freedom here in the Commonwealth.

YouTube video by Sean Sublette Sean Sublette - Meteorologist for Congress: Welcome to Virginia

This is an unprecedented time in our nation's history.

Conspiracies, lies, and gaslighting are running amok.

We need more scientists in Congress.

I was born and raised here, and I am running to represent all Virginians from Chesterfield County to the Chesapeake Bay.

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it And they don't want you to notice.

The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last

The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially gerrymandered electoral maps hundreds of times, turns 60 Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Marc Elias & I discuss the fate of the Voting Rights Act A recording of Joyce Vance's Substack Live

Marc Elias & I discuss the fate of the Voting Rights Act
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Illinois Public Media launches Weather Realness, an Illinois weather and climate podcast Illinois Public Media recently premiered Weather Realness, a new weekly radio program and podcast in partnership with the Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences in the School o…

Illinois Public Media Launches Weather Realness, an Illinois weather and climate podcast envnewsbits.info/2025/08/05/i...

Seeking full-time position in health or science communication. M.A. in communication with science communication concentration. Currently in D.C. area. Willing to relocate at my expense. Thank you in advance.
www.linkedin.com/in/istudyepi...

County Emergency Official Says He Was Ill and Sleeping as Texas Floods Hit

What might you miss while you're home sleeping off a virus? If it's been a year, go grab your flu shot. Covid vax should arrive this fall; make a plan now to get it.

Older than 49? Grab your pneumonia vax while you're there. 60? Throw in an RSV vax.**

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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

Extreme heat is a teachable moment for climate change Email from Our resources for communicators on the dangers of extreme heat waves Dear Friends, Our research has demonstrated that extreme weather events, including heat waves, provide critical “teachab

Research on extreme heat from George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication
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Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says - Inside Climate News A peer-reviewed study found Afro-descendant territories outperform comparable lands in preventing forest loss thanks to centuries of sustainable land management practices.

Afro-descendant lands store 486M tons of carbon—roughly equal to Mexico’s annual emissions—and cut deforestation up to 55%. We have much to learn from their practices. Recognizing land rights and incorporating marginalized voices is a proven climate solution.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2207202...

The unspoken question here is more important, I think: Why would the country that used to be the helping hand and guiding light for others choose to abandon these vaccines when the virus is still with us? We all know the answer. As a NOVID, I am unsettled.

Is the US Quietly Ending COVID-19 Vaccination for the Young and Healthy As the FDA limits COVID-19 vaccine approvals to high-risk groups, healthy adults and pregnant individuals are being left behind. Learn how these changes could impact insurance coverage, long COVID pre...

Is the US quietly ending COVID-19 vaccination for the young and healthy? www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/is-us-q...

Forecasters warn a rare derecho with hurricane-force winds could plow through part of the US | CNN Damaging and potentially destructive thunderstorms are set to roar through the northern Plains on Monday, fueled by intense July heat and humidity.

👀 Forecasters warn a rare derecho (hurricane-force winds) could occur today in the northern Plains states.

‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts President’s assault on science –particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs

By me: ‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why Pakistan remains so vulnerable to climate disasters | Caliber.Az More than 170 people — including 63 children — have died in Pakistan over the past three weeks due to climate-related disasters, as the country braces for the full...

The author of this piece highlights a comment by Edward Maibach of George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication: Why Pakistan remains so vulnerable to climate disasters caliber.az/en/post/why-...

Read this now

The government does have an Epstein list — here’s the proof
BY CHRIS TRUAX

thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Release the Epstein files unredacted

Empowering Scientists to Inform Policy: George Mason Researcher Leads New Civic Science Initiative science.gmu.edu/news/empower...

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”

-Justice Sonia Sotomayor

We are paying dearly for the absence of civics education.

I’m curious. Do the R’s and climate deniers understand yet that by running down/out the clock to act
on the climate crisis, they are going to suffer and die just like dems? Some might profit, but the ship is still sinking. #DoSomething

Figure shows reduction in population life expectancy of 1 year on average, with racial and ethnic health disparities, such that outcomes remain worse for people who are Black or Latine. Data are from California through 2024.

Today in JAMA: COVlD still reduces life expectancy, especially via cardiovascular disease. Black & Latine communities most harmed.