Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 30/08/2025CDC FoodNet removed 6 out of 8 pathogens from required surveillance on July 1st. Announced Aug 26. Citing "lack of funds". Cases of each pop up all the time around the country. 4 this month. #CDC #foodnet #health #foodsafety 022
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The State Dept's annual reports on international human rights, meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign affairs, will no longer include things like: denying freedom of movement & peaceful assembly, political prisoners w/o due process, and restrictions on free and fair elections. - @npr.orgnpr.orgThe State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rightsThe agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses. 011
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"Fuels are not really the issue in these big fires — it’s the extreme winds. Prescription burning [chaparral has] essentially no impact on Santa Ana wind-driven fires." “short of mowing whole hillsides down to nothing, there’s little management work to be done where houses meet undeveloped lands"heatmap.newsCould More Controlled Burns Have Stopped the L.A. Fires?They can be an effective wildfire prevention tool — but not always. 052
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Up to 30% of California's firefighters are inmates in prison. More than 900 inmates among more than 7,500 personnel helping fight the Los Angeles, California wildfires. Inmates are there voluntarily and paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, with additional pay provided during emergencies. #firenpr.orgInmates are fighting California wildfires in long-running and controversial practiceCalifornia has turned to incarcerated firefighters since 1915. To those opposed to the use of inmates as firefighters, the system is seen as exploitative. 343
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Mexico sent firefighters to California to help with the Los Angeles fires. #wildfire #fire #firefighters #mexicoparriva.comMexico Has Deployed its Firefighters to Aid in The Los Angeles Fires 232
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Greg Abbott approves elimination of water breaks for construction workers. House Bill 2127 was passed by the Texas Legislature during this year’s regular legislative session. Abbott signed it Tuesday. #texas #construction #workerstexastribune.orgAs Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will soon be nullifiedGov. Greg Abbott approved a law this week that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin’s and Dallas’ mandated water breaks. 023
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 17/12/20241950s Operation Wetback deportations "While it might have temporarily slowed illegal immigration, Operation Wetback did nothing to curb the need for cheap Mexican labor in the United States or reduce unemployment in Mexico as its planners had promised." #immigrants #deport #economy 010
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 17/12/20241930s Mexican Repatriation deportation 'Deportations also appear to have harmed the local economy. Far from protecting jobs for white Americans, the repatriation of Mexicans "may have further increased unemployment and depressed wages"' #immigrants #deport #economyrsn.orgMillions of Mexican Americans Were Deported in the 1930s. Are We About to Repeat This ‘Ethnic Cleansing’?<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process during the Great Depression, reminiscent of what... 210
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 16/12/202436x the 2nd place country in school shootings, 2018 2024 numbers are in the 300s #schoolshootings #guns #number1 worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank... 011
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Almost 1 /day #schoolshooting #guns #number1 k12ssdb.org/all-shootings 367
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 14/12/2024 #healthcare #corps #ceosyoutu.beSickoYouTube video by YouTube Movies 111
Reposted by WonexusInfectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024⚠️ BREAKING: CDC's wastewater surveillance program shows H5N1 bird flu positive wastewater in 11 states. 13314155
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 13/12/20242024 UHC spent almost $6million lobbying. 2024 Health sector spent over $500million lobbying. These are expenditures before their profit margin is calculated. And it does not include all lobbying expenditures. #healthcare #corps #lobbying www.opensecrets.org/industries/l... 021
Reposted by WonexusAnonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Slavery continues in the United States under the guise of "prison labour" “Laws popped up that made it easier and easier for criminal legal institutions to continue to literally capture and extract the labor of the very same people whose labor was extracted under chattel slavery,” #opdeatheatersboltsmag.orgForced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison SlaveryColoradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments. 46811235
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 12/12/2024US Healthcare could save billions while providing better outcomes. 2020, it's much worse now. #healthcare #corpsnewsweek.comMedicare for All Would Save $450 Billion Annually, New Study Shows"Our study is actually conservative, because it doesn't factor in the lives saved among underinsured Americans," study author Alison Galvani from the the Yale School of Public Health told Newsweek. 042
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 11/12/202490% of Americans blame Corporate Executives for Healthcare System problems 91% blame Health Insurance companies 91% blame pharma companies #healthcare #corps #ceos d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... 252
Reposted by WonexusReally American @reallyamerican.bsky.social · 11/12/2024🚨This is AMAZING: Watch this elderly woman DESTROY a young right wing YouTuber on his weak sauce immigration talking points. Absolutely brilliant. H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social 460138502897
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The US could have saved 300k+ lives from covid with universal healthcare.... #healthcare #covidtheguardian.comUS could have saved 338,000 lives from Covid with universal healthcare, study findsReport’s author says people died because US healthcare ‘leaves millions without adequate access to medical treatment’ 220
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 02/12/202485% of Americans support access to abortion 79% support funding for the development of permanently affordable housing 76% support LGBTQ rights 75% support reducing the cost of prescription drugs 70% support making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share of taxes ... 1/2 121
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 18/11/202420-40% of construction labor are (15-30% illegal) immigrants, 40% in CA & Texas. 63% in NYC, 40% of those are undocumented. That means almost half of what might help increase housing supply and lower housing cost. #immigrants #illegalimmigrants #deport #economy #inflation 122
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024"I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world." Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 26, 1967 021
Wonexus @wonexus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024"How society treats its most vulnerable citizens is always the measure of its humanity" 1147
