🏘️ A safer community doesn't happen by accident. It happens because people decide to build one.
That's exactly what this community did. Through a CAL FIRE-funded fuel break project, landowners in Spanish Flat in north El Dorado County worked to clear, mulch, and create defensible space on a large scale. When wildfire came, firefighters had a safe corridor to work from, and homes were successfully defended.
This is what preparation looks like. This is what working with your community makes possible.
#WildfirePrevention #FuelBreak #DefensibleSpace #ElDoradoCounty #ReadyForWildfire @CALFIREAEU@cafiresafe
Never before have we had so much income inequality.
Last year, the bottom 50% saw their income go down by $27, on average, while the top 0.01% gained $2.9 million.
And the top 0.001%? They saw their income go up by $20 million. In a single year.
Yes. We must tax the rich.
@michael_hoerger Trump is destroying our national security by blinding us. No disease surveillance, no weather ballon launches, no ocean temperature monitoring buoys, reduced food inspections, and invasive pest surveillance.
We are sitting ducks for disaster.
@michael_hoerger@lovebugtx We have large increases in STD, TB, whooping cough, flus, &
cov1d going.
Possible Hantavirus, & Ebola
So time to cut funding for last waste water data surveillance & the CDC?
Congress & senators, you DO KNOW you travel A Lot?
Have to campaign?
You wanna do that with ☣️?
"As part of President Donald Trump's budget plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) will see its funding cut from around $125 million a year to about $25 million." -Newsweek
We had eliminated measles and are about to lose our measles eradication status
We had eradicated screwworm but its making its way back
Keeping these scourges at bay requires active surveillance and action
.@RepThomasMassie & I achieved the two most consequential victories of Trump's 2nd term.
The Epstein Transparency Act exposed the cover up for sexual abuse.
Our Iran WPR, introduced months ago, led to passage last night.
Bipartisanship for the people, not the establishment.
We're seeing a revolving door between ICE and the private prison industry. The new head of ICE is a former VP at GeoGroup, the company that runs over a dozen detention centers, including Delaney Hall. This is corruption using taxpayer dollars, and we need to stop it.
You deserve guaranteed healthcare in the richest, most powerful country in the world. Don't let a corporation or a corporate-bought politician tell you otherwise. Pass Medicare for All.
California takes so long to count votes because here, we are allowed to vote by mail so we don't lose our pay in order to exercise our Consitutional right to vote. We also check every ballot signature that comes in from our 23.1 MILLION registered voters. There have been 71 cases of voter fraud total in California in 8 years and they have been prosecuted. Red states should try this instead of suppressing votes and letting voter fraud go unchecked.
#DemsUnited
This is the latest Trump corruption to push back on.
He's gotten the attorney general to exempt him from the tax laws that govern everyone else—including other presidents.
Bill and I released 30+ years of tax returns and were audited a few times! https://t.co/6JiiVjIv3F
Things are not always what they seem: The deer isn't crossing the road. The road is crossing the forest! 🌳
We need nature more than ever. #ActOnClimate#climate#energy#nature
"Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules."
https://t.co/GWFpUZuLrI
Michigan's seniors worked, paid in, and played by the rules. They deserve Medicare that actually covers all their health needs, Social Security they can live on, and a home they can afford to stay in.
My Aging Affordably in America platform delivers all 3 — and pays for it by making the wealthy pay their fair share. Take a look.
A late night prepping for Supreme Court opinions in the am. Here are the two that I am personally involved in:
-Watson (GOP challenge to mail-in voting)
-NRSC (GOP challenge to campaign finance)
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