We have so much work to do & nobody’s slowing down…
Watch this great short video! (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5b7pDq-l4/)
EMERGENCY ALERT – GET READY TO WRITE!: Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, is trying to pass sweeping regulatory change that will end American science as we know it and catastrophically damage federal assistance that benefits all of society.
Vought is a key author of the ultra-right wing Project 2025 plan and is using his new powers to delete science for any subject that makes the far-right sad and GOP donors mad.
Since he doesn’t want climate change information to hurt the GOP’s fossil fuel donors, he tried to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. Damage was done before he was stopped. He also tried to dismantle dismantle the $368 million OOI system, which uses more than 900 sensors in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to stream continuous data. A bi-partisan pushback stopped him from destroying this gold-standard warning system for environmental mayhem.
Now, he wants to pencil out offending projects by grabbing power to delete their grants, especially research on women, people of color, LGBTQ+ communities, and religious minorities.
The Stand up For Science folks have a great website: (https://fight2win.standupforscience.net)
Here’s their references to make this task easy. Read Dr. Ginex’s overview and the guide to leaving public comments, then have at it. Talk about what’s really important to you!
– OMB Rule Related Resources
View the full OMB-2026-0034 Proposed Rule
(https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance)
– View the SUFS Overview of the Rule Proposal
(https://www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/blog-post-title-two-t5my5-k4xmd-4tbkf)
– Read Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi’s Overview on the Rule Proposal
(https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed)
– View the SUFS Guide to Leaving Public Comments
(https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed)
– Learn How To Talk to Anyone About the New OMB Rule
(https://www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/how-to-talk-to-anyone-about-omb-2026-0034)
• You can also go directly to their call action page here: (https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163674)
• They have a page to help you send an email here: (https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163673)
Watch this great video here (https://fb.watch/HH24_BiGkO)
VOTER GUIDE – QUICK LINKS TO:
Or did a signature gatherer try to corner you? (They get $15 if you sign!) This letter is a fear-bomb, designed to make people believe that CA’s proposed 5% wealth tax, which only affects 200 CA billionaires, is actually coming after grandma’s pension!
Yeah. Ok, maybe. If grandma is also a 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…””
