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100-Plus Head Start Programs Will Go Without Federal Funds If Shutdown Drags On: The programs were due to receive their federal funding allocations Nov. 1.
An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.
So glad to see this book out! Check out the multi-faceted perspectives included in this edited book on queer youth and bullying, including a conceptual chapter on administrative bullying written by Dr. Cris Mayo and yours truly!
Between falling salaries and rising scrutiny, it's no wonder so many districts are facing teacher shortages.
And of course, that's all by design.
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Host: On the anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville riot, the man who helped organize that march tweeted this. 'Eight years ago you were an extremist if you protest being replaced by immigrants... now it is official White House policy. Never give up.'
Firing someone for reporting factual data is unacceptable. You can’t bury the truth — we just had the worst 3 months of job growth since we lost 1.3m jobs during the pandemic. We support our economy by investing in working families, not just the 1%.
The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)
This month marks 100 years since the Scopes Trial, when a teacher was accused of breaking Tennessee law by teaching evolution. “The great thing about the past is it’s not dusty. And it’s not irrelevant,” says Brenda Wineapple, author of “Keeping the Faith," a book about the history of the trial.
Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.
Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.
What this narrative conveniently ignores is that this regression on trans rights is the result of a decade long political strategy by the far right funded to the tune of over billion dollars. I'm not making this up, they literally wrote this exact strategy down in 2015. Every aspect of it.
The health risks remain—but our ability to address them weakens.
These insights arrive as increasingly hostile policies target transgender students. Without accurate data collection on gender identity, policymakers lose vital insights into health trends, making it harder to advocate for evidence-based solutions.
New pub with @joecimpian.bsky.social in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social We discuss how new population-based YRBS results helps bolster our ability to examine transgender adolescents’ health.
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71 years after #BrownvBoard, US #k12 #schools are still divided along racial, ethnic, and economic lines. Our 2022 research shows that more than 1/3 of students (18.5 million) attended a school where 75% or more students are a single race/ethnicity. #EduSky
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So pleased to share this early career support from the W.T. Grant Scholars program that will further my work on improving the use of evidence concerning LGBTQ+ youth in schools. Looking forward to engaging with my mentors, the other Scholars, and the entire network.
Something you might not know: school meal programs are often linked to Medicaid. So when Medicaid gets slashed, students lose healthcare AND miss meals.
Congress is considering deep cuts to Medicaid—and the consequences could be huge. buff.ly/rHQ5sH2
As we point out in Science, the Trump proposal to convert NIH program officer jobs into political appointments (Schedule F) will mean, that instead of actual scientific experts, people like "Big Balls" will choose how to direct NIH funds. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can’t wait to start this journey together as we move through the Scholars Program, Ericka!
I won't be around today to read the HHS "Gender Dysphoria Report", but here's my comprehensive 2023 essay, "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental" (with over 100+ references) that will tell you everything that's wrong with it...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
This is the day every young voter should remember. For several years running, young people said they needed mental health counselors more than anything—while legislators fawned over vouchers. Washington finally listened in 2022. Trump just cut the program.
It’s been such a gift to learn from Dr. Gill, who presented a marvelous dissertation earlier this month. Congratulations, @erinkgill.bsky.social on another accomplishment!
The State Department has deleted information for travelers about safety concerns based on race, gender, and sexual identity. That could hamstring colleges that rely on the federal risk assessments for advising students who study abroad. chroni.cl/44ttpuh
