Xavier Becerra - Build, Protect, and Lead California We have to fight to make it possible for all of us to have the California Dream, and that’s why I’m running for Governor.

Today’s a great day to get to know more about Xavier Becerra, the most qualified Democrat currently running for California Governor. www.xavierbecerra2026.com

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Please endorse Xavier Becerra for governor.

Opinion | If California forces state workers to commute, it passes up $225 million in savings. Can we afford that? State workers must go to offices four days a week starting July 1. But if lawmakers let them telework, they’d save on gas and reduce carbon emissions.

“California has a choice: climate-smart, fiscally responsible governance, driven by data, or return to outdated office routines that undermine the state’s own environmental and budgetary goals.”
#Telework

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Teaching Disagreement Is Leadership Work (SSIR) Why learning how to disagree well is important to professional development, and four areas where organizational leaders and staff can start.

Why learning how to disagree well is important to professional development, and four areas where organizational leaders and staff can start.

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How to Solve the Looming Dementia Care Crisis More than 13.8 million Americans could have Alzheimer’s by 2060, and at the rate care facilities are closing, many of them will have nowhere to go. Regina Shih of the State Alzheimer’s Research Suppor...

As the U.S. population ages, how is the country meeting the needs of people with dementia? #memorycare
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“Joseph’s mother is an asylum seeker & was told to bring her children to a routine immigration check-in. Instead, the family was detained at the check-in and deported. They were denied access to Joseph’s assistive devices & to their attorney…

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Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.

Coalition of State Employee Unions RTO Petition 2026 Please click the link to complete this form.

100% Full-Time Telework
Accessible Parking at No Cost
Commuter Stipend
High Crime Worksite Stipend
Clean Workspaces
Statewide Investment in Local Downtown Economies and Small Businesses

Take action today by signing the Coalition of CA State petition >> form.laborbase.org/260557089872...

How civil service workers are fighting Newsom’s return to office order As many employers have forced workers back into offices since declaring the COVID-19 pandemic over, California’s unionized public servants successfully bucked the trend, at least for now.

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#telework #RTO #unions #hybrid #workforce #california

California has long championed diversity, equity, and inclusion and will continue to do so because California is a place where everyone can thrive! The time to advance #SCR89 is now. Thank you @sensmallwoodcuevas for your leadership!

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California is the most diverse state in the nation, and this is evident in our State Legislature, with the 2025–2026 Legislature the most diverse in state history. Diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t buzzwords here — they’re who we are. #DiversityIsNotACrime

Our new report, Anti-Blackness Is the Point, out today reveals how Trump’s second administration has worked to roll back 60+ years of civil rights and equal opportunity. From racist narratives to book bans, the attack is coordinated and historic in its scope.

Read the full report here ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Trump is destroying the CDC, esp around vaccines, so CA is expanding our public health infrastructure to make up for it.

Before we ended our legislative session, we passed legislation (SB 144) to transfer responsibility for vaccine protocols & recommendations to the CA Department of Public Health.

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?"

Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

Trump’s big bill achieved what conservatives have been trying to do for decades The Republican fantasy of lower taxes and hard-to-access social safety net programs will now be a reality

The Republican fantasy of lower taxes and hard-to-access social safety net programs will now be a reality. www.theguardian.com/...

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...

From the Cato Institute; this one is worth reading.

Topline: "nonpublic data from ICE indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind."

Don't let their lies dominate the narrative.

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Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.

We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.

Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games - The Sick Times Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats o...

“Games are surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about COVID-19 and Long COVID.”

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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Studies

My spreadsheet of studies implicating #COVID19 in longer-term, chronic health problems has now exceeded 2,000 studies.

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Global clinical trial tests two anti-inflammatory drugs for long COVID Spanning four continents and enrolling hundreds of people, a new clinical trial will test the effectiveness of two anti-inflammatory medicines as potential treatments for long COVID, scientists from W...

"Spanning four continents and enrolling hundreds of people, a new clinical trial will test the effectiveness of two anti-inflammatory medicines as potential treatments for long COVID, scientists from Western University and the Schmidt Initiative for Long Covid (SILC) announced today."

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