Celine McNicholas

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line plot showing average daily ICE removals in 2025. The title of the plot is "Trump is deporting more than 1400 people every day"

latest data from ICE: the pace of deportations continued to increase in August

Trump is now deporting people at a rate of about half of his stated goal of 1 million per year

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security

Great NYT piece on Elon Musk's takeover of Social Security and stealing our data. It also documents how he knowingly pushed absurd lies about 20 million people over age 120 getting benefits www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u... Don't worry, Musk is being rewarded with billions in government contracts.

America’s Labor Unions Are Souring on Trump And they're already planting seeds to help ensure the Democrats win back control of the House of Representatives.

Candidate Trump wooed labor unions & union members, but Trump 2.0 has repeatedly attacked America's unions

Unions have grown increasingly angry & disgusted with Trump

"We've been facing a barrage of attacks from the Trump administration," said AFLCIO President Liz Shuler
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

YouTube video by More Perfect Union How This Legal Immigration Program Became a Human Trafficking Scheme

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social documentary on farmworkers abused under the H-2A visa program, featuring @epi.org 's own @dcosta.bsky.social
youtu.be/1COm0C73CKw

Immigration FAQ Get answers to the most frequently asked questions about immigration such as, How many immigrants live in the United States? What are the immigration statuses? Where do immigrants in the U.S. come fro...

Everything you want to know about immigration and its economic impact but were afraid to ask www.epi.org/publication/...

Trump administration is gutting the National Center for Education Statistics: Here are five things we only know about schools thanks to the NCES Reports indicate that the Trump administration has laid off nearly all staff at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as part of a massive number of staff cuts across the Department of E...

My latest for @epi.org. Nearly everything we know about education comes from the National Center for Education Statistics. We depend on NCES to properly evaluate how our schools are or aren't working.

Here are five data points we only know thanks to NCES: www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...

There are over 80 million phone calls to Social Security each year.

Cutting phone service will cut benefits. Social security needs more people answering the phones, not fewer

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In another example of DOGE’s destructive and erratic form of “governing,” the NLRB told its employees today that agency credit cards are considered frozen for at least the next 30 days.

This throws any NLRB election or trial that requires overnight travel into question.

Yesterday I testified in full House Ed & Workforce committee on "Unleashing" America's workforce and strengthening the economy. (I was clear that none of the administration's priorities have anything to do with unleashing America's workforce or strengthening the economy.)

At a time where so much speaking up and out happens within the safety of social media, it is inspiring to witness the courage it takes to stand up and speak directly to power. May we all rise to our moment with Rev. Budde bravery over the next four years.

Here's a thought - the media could stop covering everything Musk posts on X like it has some official significance. Last time I checked he was not elected to anything and has no official power. At this point why not headline the random X posts of other 53 year old men with political opinions.