U.S. looking to lose its measles elimination status
847 cases in South Carolina
6 unvaccinated kids in Washington infected by a family from SC
#VaccinesSaveLives #getVaxxed #USpol #SCpol #WApol #publicHealth
Jon
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RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/115965274935918192
#WAPol
Please consider signing in "Con" against proposed abortion-access limiting legislation in Washington.
This would limit hospital charity abortion service to Washington residents.
Washington Republicans, man...
It took me a little under 3 minutes. See below.
Washington state legislation - urgent action alert
Please sign in CON on the harmful hospital charity care bill (HB 2250) by 12:30 pm tomorrow (Tuesday).
Some of the organizations that have signed in CON to oppose HB 2250 include Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, One America, Pro-choice Washington, Washington Poor People's Campaign, Faith Action Network, and WA People's Privacy.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=House&mId=33735&aId=168754&caId=27734&tId=3
- select your position - CON
- fill in the rest of the form.
- click Submit Registration
Remember any information you submit becomes part of the public record. The address is optional, and many privacy-conscious activists use a separate email address for governmental communications.
If you want to see for yourself how bad the bill is, here's the text: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2250.pdf?q=20260126145129
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/115965274935918192
#WAPol
Please consider signing in "Con" against proposed abortion-access limiting legislation in Washington.
This would limit hospital charity abortion service to Washington residents.
Washington Republicans, man...
It took me a little under 3 minutes. See below.
Washington state legislation - urgent action alert
Please sign in CON on the harmful hospital charity care bill (HB 2250) by 12:30 pm tomorrow (Tuesday).
Some of the organizations that have signed in CON to oppose HB 2250 include Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, One America, Pro-choice Washington, Washington Poor People's Campaign, Faith Action Network, and WA People's Privacy.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=House&mId=33735&aId=168754&caId=27734&tId=3
- select your position - CON
- fill in the rest of the form.
- click Submit Registration
Remember any information you submit becomes part of the public record. The address is optional, and many privacy-conscious activists use a separate email address for governmental communications.
If you want to see for yourself how bad the bill is, here's the text: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2250.pdf?q=20260126145129
tools for commensality 🧿
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RE: https://pnw.zone/@waprivacy/115937392646289125
STILL AWAKE?
This amendment to the Flock / driver surveillance bill is bad. Go message against it _right now_, before you go to bed.
#seattle #WashingtonState #flock #FuckFlock #regulation #bill #cascadia #waPol #waPolitics #politics
🚨🚨🚨 Urgent! A Washington Senate committee might vote on a horrible amendment tomorrow morning to the bill regulating Flock! 🚨🚨🚨
Among other things, this amendment increases retention time from 3 days to 21 ... why not just give the data to ICE and CPB?
If you're a WA resident, please contact your legislators! WILA has an action up at with a suggested script and a button to bring up a draft email -- and details about the changes.
RE: https://pnw.zone/@waprivacy/115937392646289125
STILL AWAKE?
This amendment to the Flock / driver surveillance bill is bad. Go message against it _right now_, before you go to bed.
#seattle #WashingtonState #flock #FuckFlock #regulation #bill #cascadia #waPol #waPolitics #politics
🚨🚨🚨 Urgent! A Washington Senate committee might vote on a horrible amendment tomorrow morning to the bill regulating Flock! 🚨🚨🚨
Among other things, this amendment increases retention time from 3 days to 21 ... why not just give the data to ICE and CPB?
If you're a WA resident, please contact your legislators! WILA has an action up at with a suggested script and a button to bring up a draft email -- and details about the changes.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115853222491234093
A thing I have come to wonder since moving to #Seattle: why is this one hedge-fund manager so obsessed with kids' genitals, and why is that allowed to dominate all of the state's politics?
Brian Heywood is an absolute monster.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-sports-ban-with-genital-inspections
Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
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Australia is still a deeply racist country when it comes to Aboriginal people.
This is some of the oldest written communications on Earth.
This rock art was already ~40,000 years old when the Giza pyramids were an ongoing capital works project by the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
But because Aboriginal and created it, we treat it as worthless.
I can't stress this enough.
This should be a source of deep and profound shame for every non-Aboriginal Australian.
We, collectively, see irreplaceable 50,000 year old cultural artifacts as having less value than a tank full of petrol.
Because we view Aboriginal history as essentially worthless.
"The oldest petroglyphs in the world are deemed to be those at Murujuga in Western Australia, which are 40,000–50,000 years old. Some petroglyphs are classified as protected monuments and some have been added to the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, or such status has been applied for."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph
"The Albanese government agreed to weaken conditions it had proposed to protect world heritage-listed Indigenous rock art from Woodside’s giant North West Shelf gas development after the fossil fuel company argued it could be forced to shut the plant.
"The change is explained in a “statement of reasons” document setting out why the environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an application to extend the operating life of one of the world’s biggest and most polluting gas export developments until 2070.
"The statement shows Watt accepted environment department advice that “multiple lines of scientific and other evidence” suggested industrial emissions were having a “significant adverse impact” on rocks in Murujuga, a cultural landscape in northern Western Australia that is home to more than 1m pieces of rock art, known as petroglyphs.
"The minister also accepted advice that future pollution from the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility could cause “degradation, damage, notable alteration, modification, obscuring or diminishing” of the area’s natural heritage."
...
"Watt provisionally ruled in May that Woodside could continue operating the LNG plant beyond 2030 only if it cut acidic pollution – particularly nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide – so that there were no air emissions “above the detectable limit” that affect rock art.
"But Woodside responded this was “not technically feasible”. It said the conditions were an “effective refusal” of the development that would lead to the “cessation of business as usual operations” at the end of 2030.
#auspol #wapol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Australia #Perth #WesternAustralia #capitalism #business #ausbiz
Australia is still a deeply racist country when it comes to Aboriginal people.
This is some of the oldest written communications on Earth.
This rock art was already ~40,000 years old when the Giza pyramids were an ongoing capital works project by the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
But because Aboriginal and created it, we treat it as worthless.
I can't stress this enough.
This should be a source of deep and profound shame for every non-Aboriginal Australian.
We, collectively, see irreplaceable 50,000 year old cultural artifacts as having less value than a tank full of petrol.
Because we view Aboriginal history as essentially worthless.
"The oldest petroglyphs in the world are deemed to be those at Murujuga in Western Australia, which are 40,000–50,000 years old. Some petroglyphs are classified as protected monuments and some have been added to the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, or such status has been applied for."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph
"The Albanese government agreed to weaken conditions it had proposed to protect world heritage-listed Indigenous rock art from Woodside’s giant North West Shelf gas development after the fossil fuel company argued it could be forced to shut the plant.
"The change is explained in a “statement of reasons” document setting out why the environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an application to extend the operating life of one of the world’s biggest and most polluting gas export developments until 2070.
"The statement shows Watt accepted environment department advice that “multiple lines of scientific and other evidence” suggested industrial emissions were having a “significant adverse impact” on rocks in Murujuga, a cultural landscape in northern Western Australia that is home to more than 1m pieces of rock art, known as petroglyphs.
"The minister also accepted advice that future pollution from the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility could cause “degradation, damage, notable alteration, modification, obscuring or diminishing” of the area’s natural heritage."
...
"Watt provisionally ruled in May that Woodside could continue operating the LNG plant beyond 2030 only if it cut acidic pollution – particularly nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide – so that there were no air emissions “above the detectable limit” that affect rock art.
"But Woodside responded this was “not technically feasible”. It said the conditions were an “effective refusal” of the development that would lead to the “cessation of business as usual operations” at the end of 2030.
#auspol #wapol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Australia #Perth #WesternAustralia #capitalism #business #ausbiz
HEY EVERYONE DOING PROTESTS LISTEN UP
One addendum to the last post:
We need to do our own reporting. We need to talk about these protests. To everyone. You need to post about them, at least to say you did them, that you were there.
The media’s not reporting it, so WE HAVE TO REPORT IT INSTEAD.
Which is one reason why I’m writing all this up. WE have to spread the news, because THEY will NOT.
Seriously, the fash podcasting littleman I talked about last post? He was literally the ONLY media to show up. No other media was there.
So once again, we have to be that media. For real.
