Moms! One of the best ways to improve lives of families is through federally protected paid family leave for parents and affordable childcare for children under the age of 5. Would this help you or a mom you know? Join this zoom call to find an option for every level of involvement!

Join Mother Forward on Friday, March 14 at 6 PM EST to plan actions in our states. The first 100 days of any administration show what they care about—so far, child care and paid leave haven’t even mentioned. Is anyone in office fighting for our kids’ future?
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Measles and Rubella are making a comeback in a big way due to unvaccinated children. According to CDC data, currently only 3% of active cases are children with only one MMR vaccine. 2% for both. 95% have none at all. One child has died. Active measles cases are reported in 9 states currently.

Catastrophes abound lately, but at least some of the ones that haven’t happened yet are in your head.

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check

Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

I probably won’t encourage my redhead daughter to try hula. Mostly because she’ll look like Mertle.