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Learning to write. Words in @expositionreview @jmww. Public health💅🏽
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I love this poem so much!

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Meditations in an Emergency | Poetry Database | Split This Rock
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April 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · Apr 1
State AGs are suing HHS and Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for abruptly and unlawfully cutting $11B in critical public health grants—without warning or legal justification.

(CO, CA, MN, RI, WA, AZ, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, WI, KY, and PA.)
INTRODUCTION With no advance notice or warning, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") abruptly and arbitrarily terminated $11 billion of critical public health funding beginning on the evening of March 24, 2025. This funding provides essential support for a wide range of urgent public health needs such as identifying, tracking, and addressing infectious diseases; ensuring access to immunizations; fortifying emergency preparedness; providing mental health and substance abuse services; and modernizing critical public health infrastructure. These termination notices and substantially similar subsequent notices (collectively, "Public Health Terminations") immediately triggered chaos for State and local health jurisdictions. If the funding is not restored, key public health programs and initiatives that address ongoing and emerging public health needs of Plaintiffs (collectively, "Plaintiff States") will have to be dissolved or disbanded. Large numbers of state and local public health employees and contractors have been, or may soon be, dismissed from their roles. The result of these massive, unexpected funding terminations is serious harm to public health, leaving Plaintiff States at greater risk for future pandemics and the spread of otherwise preventable disease and cutting off vital public health services. 2. The sole stated basis for Defendants' decision is that the funding for these grants or cooperative agreements was appropriated through one or more COVID-19 related laws. According to Defendants, this vital public health funding has been terminated "for cause" because "the grants and cooperative agreements were issued for a limited purpose: to ameliorate the effects of the pandemic. Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary as their limited purpose has run out." HHS, Notice of Award (Mar. 24, 2025). In communications to grantees, that bare statement (or slight variations thereof) Defendants' analysis and explanation as to why "the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary" and could be terminated "for cause." Pursuant to these conclusory, boilerplate statements, Defendants issued mass terminations for billions of dollars in vital public health funding with no warning and effective immediately. 3. The Public Health Terminations exceed Defendants' statutory and regulatory authority and are unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"). The foreseeable end of the COVID-19 pandemic is not a lawful basis to terminate "for cause." See, e.g., 42 U.S.C. § 300x-55(a) (allowing "for cause" terminations only based on the grant recipient's "material failure" to comply with the agreement). Defendants have never alleged, much less demonstrated, any failure by fund recipients to comply with the applicable terms and conditions of the grants and agreements. Nor did Congress limit the funding at issue here to the period of the COVID-19 emergency. During the pandemic, Congress made wide-ranging public health investments extending beyond COVID-19 and the immediate public health emergency. And after the pandemic was declared over, Congress reviewed the COVID-19 related laws, rescinded $27 billion in funds, but determined not to rescind any of the funding at issue here. See, e.g., Fiscal Responsibility of Act of 2023, Public Law 118-5, Div. B, Title I. 4. The Public Health Terminations also violate the APA because they are arbitrary and capricious, for reasons including: (1) assuming, with no legal or factual support, that all appropriations in COVID-19 related laws were only intended for use during the pandemic, when the relevant statutes indicate the opposite; (2) failing to undertake any individualized assessments of the grants or cooperative agreements, including any analysis of the benefits of this public health funding or the dire consequences of termination;
April 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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7 years in the bay today! What better way to celebrate than making blueberry muffins with a chia seed egg 🧁
March 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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He’s doing this because he has nothing to lose. But also, if a politician as demonic as McConnell is like “NOPE” you know it’s BAD.
February 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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The way that I love LA 💗
February 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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alidavis.bsky.social Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · Feb 4
I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
February 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Do you love Selena and Nirvana?
Did your papi rock a lil mullet in the 80s/90s?
Have you spent anytime by a border?
Have you survived a man?
Do you think a better future is possible?

If you said yes to any of the above you gotta read this book! If you said no, I’m in awe, still buy the book!
January 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Bless me, ultima on this grief filled day
January 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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If you can't, no worries. Enact its lessons: Build your fellowship of fighters. Become a sanctuary for migrants and refugees. Learn to heal, protect, and fight for others. Become the radical history that inspires future fantasy: rebels, menaces, the banes of power. "You have my sword."🗡️
January 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM