Ariana Thompson-Lastad

From coast to coast, we’re protecting immigrant communities through #SanctuaryHomes trainings and practical resources for domestic employers standing in solidarity with the workers they employ, and in their communities. 🧵 1/4
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Our message to Congress: We demand a world where everyone has the care and support they need to thrive and survive— healthcare, home care, reproductive care, childcare. It’s time for the government to invest in the care people need, and stop putting profits over people.

Our message to Congress: We demand a world where everyone has the care and support they need to thrive and survive— healthcare, home care, reproductive care, childcare. It’s time for the government to invest in the care people need, and stop putting profits over people. #CareNotCuts #EndTheShutdown

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Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge is 'inclined' to order Trump to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants A San Francisco-based U.S. district judge, Rita F. Lin, said she was "inclined" to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA that the gover...

NEW: A federal judge said today that she’s “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA grants, the bulk of the remaining grant suspensions at the Westwood campus: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

New Mexico Will Be the First State to Make Childcare Free New Mexico Will Be the First State to Make Childcare Free. The move is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually.

“It is so timely and it answers so many needs”

On the good news front: New Mexico is making #UniversalChildcare a reality in November 👏

Let’s not stop there, let’s make that happen EVERYWHERE U.S. 💪 #CareCantWait

From @msmagazine.com 👇 msmagazine.com/2025/09/12/n...

Yes! Working on this with @domesticemployers.bsky.social

Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.

Bless the whistleblowers at NIH and everywhere. We have a lot to do www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

New Study to Explore Midwives Unionizing for Better Care UCSF research faculty Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD, and research associate Jessica M. Harrison, PhD, have been awarded a Mount Zion Health Fund grant to launch a pilot study on the growing movement tow...

Excited to be doing research with midwives who are unionizing with @jessicamharrison.bsky.social and team. keep us informed about midwives doing labor organizing! osher.ucsf.edu/news/new-stu...

Courage. end/

To work as a health care worker and choose to actively enable and cause harm and violence to your patient—to whom you have a duty to care for—is despicable.

For health care workers who care about your patients and want to resist criminalization and harm, connect with our Beyond Do No Harm network:

Importantly, the list will only include delayed applications that fit the following criteria: 1. The applicant is an APHA and/or UAW member; and The application touches on a disfavored topic (DEI, gender identity, vaccine hesitancy, Covid-19, foreign subawards, influencing public opinion, South Africa, and/or China) or The application is for a diversity pipeline program (non-exhaustive list: MOSAIC, F31 Diversity, IRACDA, MARC, ARC, IMSD, ReWARD, B-INSPIRE, CPACHE, BRAIN Initiative, Cancer Moonshot Scholars Diversity Program). Submissions must be received by 5 pm Eastern Time on August 1st to be considered for inclusion on the list, so that the lawyers can review the submitted information. It is possible that information submitted after that date will not be considered by the court for relief.

The ACLU is currently looking for terminated grants OR those that were submitted but will not be reviewed. You have to be an APHA or UAW member to be able to share your information, but participating may provide relief as part of ongoing litigation. Pls share!

www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

Love & Rebuke: Messages from IfNotNow to the U.S. Jewish Community Extermination by starvation is happening in our name. All of us must act right now.

Extermination by starvation is happening in our name.

All of us must act right now.

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**Scheduled to cut medi-cal services

CA leaders stand up for immigrant communities in many ways, but are also scheduled to Medi-Cal services for immigrants starting in January. This will have big negative effects on community health.

Cutting public health programs isn't “fiscal responsibility.” It's taking from the poor to line the pockets of the rich.
📉 Food aid snatched from the hungry
📉 Tens of millions dropped from Medicaid & the ACA
📉 Cleaner air and energy? Poof! Gone
Tell Congress NO on budget cuts! bit.ly/4koZF6d

2025 University Distinguished Professor Dr. Melissa Cheyney Dr. Melissa Cheyney has been named the 2025 University Distinguished Professor. Her distinguished professor lecture was held on Tuesday, April 29. 

This is a beautiful talk about midwives, doulas, research and lineage by Melissa Cheyney at @upliftlab.bsky.social. Watch it for some hope media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_n7...

The Trump regime’s Executive Order about “Gold Standard Science” distorts & weaponizes the principles of open science to intimidate scientists and reshape scientific production to support the political goals of Trumpism. Stand Up for Science is asking scientists to sign an open letter pushing back.

From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty “Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

The amount of money that @who.int is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, @drtedros.who.int says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
#globalhealth #IDsky

*Ring Ring* Hello. This is your constituent. I’m calling you because I HATE cancer but I LOVE innovation.

Alondra Nelson: "This is not to condemn those who remain. There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it."

Congrats! Does she have work on this published yet? Would love to read and share

In much better news: after our fury, HHS says “We are now working to fully restore funding to” the Women's Health Initiative.

Sharing the gift article. Reminding us all that we're in 'announcements about announcements' territory, but let's keep close eye on this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...

University of California staff, faculty, students, alums--sign to urge our leadership to speak up for immigrants in our UC communities. The silence is striking docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place.

A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5

For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST

Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.

What do you hear about national institute of minority health and health disparities or national center for complementary and integrative health?

This team is doing a thorough job documenting the devastation of NIH funding--you can add your terminated grants if they aren't yet on the list, and see relevant Congress members to contact for each grant

Academics Sue To Block Trump From Disappearing Students Over Their Political Views Lawyers for Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute argue the Trump administration’s crackdown on speech violates the First Amendment

Looking for courage in academia: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...