Maybe they can stop the abductions and violence ice is now inflicting on DC. Patrick Morrisey is a child-like coward who would rather militarize DC than address any of West Virginia’s problems. #USpol #WVpol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/post/3lwjpd3r56n2z

The inconsistency is what shows the intent. I can see an argument to make for removing things like candy and soft drinks (even if I don't think it's warranted) but the moment these same people end programs that give access to healthy, locally grown, fresh food they toss out any credibility they have to claim they are "concerned about the health" of their citizens.

It's not about health, it's about feeding the rich more money.

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/05/27/morriseys-request-to-change-snap-shows-poor-west-virginians-lose-when-rich-people-represent-us/

#USpol #wvpol #snap

Riley Moore stands out (again) as being especially egregious here but "taking credit for failing" is such a MAGA thing. Fight to take away rights and protections of citizens and then if they don't succeeded make a public display that rewrites history.

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/05/20/rfk-capito-and-moore-didnt-save-niosh-employees-jobs-a-lawyer-and-coal-miner-did/

#USpol #wvpol #niosh

#TheGremlinZoo #NIOSH #WVPol

From CBS News.com: West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-virginia-coal-miners-lose-black-lung-screenings-trump-slashes-worker-safety-agency-niosh/

West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH

The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that in West Virginia, Child Removal Capital of America, which tears apart families at a rate more than 4x the national average, no impoverished child is safe while the Legislature is in session. The latest bad bill encourages near-instant termination of children’s rights to their parents, no matter why they came into #fostercare And it makes it easier to keep them apart even from their siblings: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/04/still-another-bad-child-welfare-bill-in.html #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis
Still another bad “child welfare” bill in West Virginia.

The latest bad bill in West Virginia would make it harder to keep siblings together. In some cases, this one encourages moving instantly to ...

We're super-official back to the 80s and 90s with the West Virginia Senate passing a bill to overturn local civil rights initiatives protecting LGBTQ people in cities:

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/03/24/senate-wields-power-over-wv-cities-with-bill-overturning-local-anti-discrimination-ordinances/

Part of the intent - other than fucking over the queers, of course - is specifically to protect so-called "conversion therapy," which usually takes the form of parents sending their queer kids off to be abused into being straight. Somehow.

#uspol #uspolitics #lgbtq #lgbtqia #wvpol

NCCPR #Childwelfare Blog: In West Virginia, the Child Removal Capital of America, the bad bills keep on coming: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/03/in-west-virginia-bad-bills-keep-on.html #childabuse #fostercare #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis
In West Virginia, the bad bills keep on coming

First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing . Now, there’s another well-intentioned bill that would produce horrible results....

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: A well-intended bill will, if enacted, make everything even worse in the child removal capital of America: #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis #fostercare #childabuse #familypreservation https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/03/just-what-west-virginia-child-welfare.html
Just what West Virginia child welfare doesn’t need: A 48.7% INCREASE in “child welfare” investigator caseloads

West Virgina State Capitol (Photo by O. Palsson) But that’s what West Virginia is likely to get if a well-meaning, but ill-thought-out propo...

Even as a clean and sober WV mom mourns her son who died while in #fostercare, WV media still falsely stereotypes mothers whose children are taken as almost all drug users. It’s almost like an addiction https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/03/childs-death-is-failure-of-west.html #childabuse #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis #childwelfare
Child’s death is a failure of West Virginia foster care, but also West Virginia journalism

Here are all the stories I could find in West Virginia on the topic of the needless removal of children from their homes. A lawsuit alleges ...

#WVPol #Vaccines

West Virginia Senate OKs bill allowing for religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions

https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-west-virginia-exemptions-religious-312579131bce083f2d5afca601971400

West Virginia Senate OKs bill allowing for religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions

West Virginia senators have voted to dismantle one of the nation’s strictest school vaccination policies. Lawmakers overwhelmingly greenlight an exemption for families who believe required inoculations go against their religious or philosophical beliefs. The bill is expected to be signed into law by Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey if approved by the House. Morrisey has made allowing religious exemptions to vaccines a priority of his administration. West Virginia is currently one of only a tiny minority of U.S. states that only allows medical exemptions for vaccinations. The state’s policy has long been heralded by medical experts as among the most protective in the country for kids.

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