We have so much work to do & nobody’s slowing down…
Or did a signature gatherer try to corner you? (They get $15 if you sign!) This letter from the billionaire sponsors of “Building a Better California” is a fear-bomb, designed to make people believe that CA’s proposed 5% wealth tax, which only affects 200 of them, is actually coming after grandma’s pension!
Yeah. Ok, maybe. If grandma is a also friggin‘ BILLIONAIRE!
The letter says to sign in two places on the back – once as a registered voter and once as the petition circulator.
According to AB-481, a CA law passed in 2021, law enforcement agencies who want to buy military equipment have to obtain approval from their applicable governing body in public meetings. The law was adopted into Ventura County Ordinance 4603. For today’s example, we’re talking about the Sheriff’s office request to buy a drone on the V.C. Board of Supervisors (BOS) March 3rd consent calendar.
Why do law enforcement agencies in CA have to ask permission to buy military-grade equipment? The reasons for this public approval process was important enough to be written into the law itself.
Continue reading “Guess what’s on the Consent Calendar on March 3rd?”Make sure your legislators know these laws are important to you!
The corruption here is bizarrely obvious. But that doesn’t mean it will go away without a fight.
(https://youtube.com/shorts/ir-XY39VTVI?si=j4OWWjb1fKbz-v5w)
Continue reading “Scam Alert! Medicare’s new AI model lets corporations profit by denying services ordered by doctors.”
(This action is adapted from “3 Community Calls to Action for Renee Good.” Check with our “Events” page for scheduled protests.)
(This video is the best! Leeja Miller was one of the first to sound the alarm about Project 2025 – she is wicked smart and absolutely ferocious!)
(https://youtu.be/KfVE4xyNrO0) – Her sources she mentions are here)
Our Dr. Oz-run Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they intended to eliminate gender-affirming health care for trans youth, hiding Project 2025’s Christian Nationalist agenda behind bad science. Their proposed rules would block Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming care for transgender youth; and punish hospitals and providers that offer this care by threatening their ability to participate in Medicare and Medicaid altogether.
Like bullies everywhere, they’ve picked the smallest and most vulnerable target to pick on first. But these kids are symbolically important to Christian Nationalists, as they challenge the narrow set of conservative values they intend to force on all of us:
Continue reading ““First, Project 2025 came for a small group of kids…””Please watch this important video by historian Heather Cox Richardson before you immerse yourself in the MAGA cesspool of misinformation!
(https://www.youtube.com/live/7JXQhff9aGc?si=SvdZBbsAei5oqCpO)
(reason) “The real question isn’t whether this action was legal; it is what to do about its illegality. Ignoring the law and the people’s will in this fashion is a high crime,” writes Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic. “Any Congress inclined to impeach and remove Trump from office over Venezuela would be within their rights.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeCzzRY_RI8)
Ventura County will be celebrating its 40th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day observance on Monday, January 19th.
Note to organizers: If you are arranging a “Day of Service” event on that Monday instead of the weekend before, please time it for AFTER this local observance! Encourage your people to take part in what MLK Jr. called the “Beloved Community.”
Mobilize link here: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/878233/
$10 admission to the Observance Program includes great refreshments and vendor exhibits. Tickets may be purchased from MLK Committee members, at the door, or online at www.mlkventuracounty.com.
(https://youtu.be/Nbf6BJzpk1E)
Trump says his monstrous ballroom is being “gifted” to us. But like a puppy, this “gift” will incur major expenses for us in the future. Maintenance and staffing costs will be passed on to us taxpayers, while he’ll use it for free to to entertain his ultra-wealthy friends in dictator-chic comfort.
But what our venal president and his supporters have overlooked is that it’s actually illegal for it to be funded by private donors. Constitutional attorney Bruce Fein stated that “private money to build a White House ballroom flagrantly violates the Anti-Deficiency Act, which safeguards the congressional power of the purse by prohibiting the president from using non-appropriated funds donated by private parties for a government purpose indistinguishable from plutocracy. Without enforcement of the Anti-Deficiency Act, the congressional power of the purse is a scarecrow in the ‘golden age’ of billionaires eager to curry favor with the government in exchange for multi-million-dollar regulatory or tax favors.” Yeah, that!
And now, there’s a big lawsuit by a preservation group, for which we will also have to pay to defend Trump’s indefensible actions.
INDIVISIBLE VENTURA 