California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the ADDE Act into law, making history for menu allergen transparency. California becomes the first state to require written notification of major allergens in restaurant menu ingredient descriptions.
Many businesses are outsourcing text messaging of their customers w/passwords & logins using a marketplace of unvetted companies, all offering to get messages worldwide quicker & cheaper than their competitors. >1000 companies are using these 3rd parties.
Altamides has added features that allow it to intercept SMS messages, listen in on phone calls, and even breach encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp.
Governor Newsom announced California and 14 other Governors are forming a non-partisan coalition to coordinate on public health guidance that is based in science, not politics.
Federal workers are trying to find out their job status after Trump launched a fresh wave of layoffs amid a federal govt shutdown, causing widespread confusion & panic. Dept of Education workers do not have access to their work email accounts during the shutdown.
For more than two-thirds of the products analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times. Lead lingers in the body, so even small amounts can add up over time.
This FRIDAY come out & support #FEMA at our solidarity rally. Let’s send a message, hands off FEMA & more importantly support our FEMA workers who are tired & want to do their jobs effectively.
Clothing is a powerful tool to spread fascist ideas to promote authoritarianism and recruit new members to this cause. Instead of coding things to move away from the masses, this fashion is coding things to move into the masses, and this is a purposeful shift.
On Friday, hundreds of CDC workers found out they were being fired as part of widespread layoffs across federal agencies. Hours later, a curt follow-up email informed them that they weren’t being let go after all. No explanation, no apology.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Trumpism will not simply end in 3 years. Why are we doing so little? Are we just going to stand in passive witness to the degradation of our democracy?
thehill.com/business/555... The Labor Department warned that the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts could cause an uptick in food prices amid a decrease in labor & an increase in demand for fresh produce.
apnews.com/article/trum... employees in mental health & disease control were among targets in weekend firings. The situation turned even more chaotic when more than half of CDC employees who’d gotten layoff notices learned they received them in error and were still employed with the agency.
apnews.com/article/trum... intervention in DC prompts calls for its 18-term House delegate to step down. Even longtime allies say Eleanor Holmes Norton has not risen to the challenge of pushing back against the Trump intervention into her city. They cite her age, 88, & her diminished demeanor.
apnews.com/article/port... rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display Sunday by pedaling through the streets wearing absolutely nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride.
apnews.com/article/tsa-... airports refuse to play Noem video on shutdown impact, saying it's political. The 1939 Hatch Act restricts certain political activities by federal employees.
