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How can @nytimes.com report that “Mr. Trump has made lowering health costs a key part of his agenda” with a straight face? He literally kicked millions off of Medicaid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

Proud to partner with @legalaidnyc.bsky.social on behalf of Plaintiff Philip Calderon & a class of CDPAP home health care workers. Public Partnerships, LLC has not paid tens of thousands of CDPAP workers accurately, on time, or at all.

More here: katzbanks.com/news/ny-home...

In this era of attacks on workers + unions by Trump admin, @governor.ny.gov wants to allow big corps who violated labor law off the hook, even when workers are already in court.

The @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social & @nysendems.bsky.social must stand strong against changes to pay frequency law!

Paging @schumer.senate.gov : Isn't this the red line you told @chrislhayes.bsky.social would constitute a full-blown constitutional crisis?

What?! We have to wait till the Supreme Court decides *and* Trump disobeys them for Schumer to finally conclude "democracy is at risk"? Trump & Musk are already ignoring *and* openly defying court orders!

One thing continues to be clear: Schumer is not the leader Democrats need for this moment.

"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View

Pelosi shivs Schumer: ‘Don't give away anything for nothing’ The former House speaker offered a sharp critique of the Senate minority leader over his decision to allow a vote on Republicans' government funding bill.

Pelosi has had great success in getting a Democratic party leader to step aside before. Can she do it again?

Commentary:  EmPIRE Worker Protection Act will help New Yorkers fight wage theft Commentary: With federal actions leaving workers more vulnerable, it's all the more important for the state to stand up for working New Yorkers.

As Trump & Musk upend federal labor law,
" @govkathyhochul.bsky.social and legislative leaders can include legal provisions in this year’s state budget that will expand enforcement of worker protections while adding over $100 million yearly in new funding for staff at the state DOL."

#EmPIREAct

You know people are furious when they show up at an 8am protest at @schumer.senate.gov house.

Chuck you are betraying us. It’s not too late to change your mind and actually fight back!

@indivisible.org @socialists.nyc @riseandresist.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

@indivisible.org

Good morning. I am a firm 100% NO on House Republicans' slush fund CR.

I will NOT vote to let Elon and Trump pick winners and losers with your taxpayer dollars.

Senators were not elected to beg Trump for federal resources.

Open the phone lines @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov — your constituents are trying to reach you because we are outraged you would vote yes on the Trump-Musk funding bill. Stop sending our calls to voicemail!

@rosalindadams.bsky.social

@rosalindadams.bsky.social seems like his and Gillibrand’s phone lines are all going straight to voicemail

a crowd of a couple hundred protesters is gathered outside of schumers home this am to tell him to vote no on the cloture vote

#BREAKING Katz Banks Kumin led a public comment joined by more than 150 law firms, bar associations, and organizations opposing proposed changes to the American Arbitration Association’s Employment Arbitration Rules.

#EmploymentLaw #WorkersRights #EndForcedArbitration

A Supreme Court Race May Shuffle the Rules of Wisconsin's Democracy, Again - Bolts T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved... Read More

It's now March, so we're at that point — the biggest non-governor election of 2025 is now officially 'next month.'

the stakes of Wisconsin's supreme court race, in which Elon has been spending millions, explained, icymi: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...

No State Actor, No Problem Unlike the U.S. Constitution, state constitutions can impose obligations on private actors.

Many thanks to the @statecourtreport.bsky.social and the @brennancenter.bsky.social for the opportunity to discuss my article, which will be published in the Syracuse Law Review. I am truly grateful for this amazing opportunity ❤️🇵🇷 #StateConstitutionalLaw

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Mayor Adams has forgotten that NYC has always been the international capital of the world, built and strengthened by citizens of the world. Given that he has badly betrayed the people of New York, he must step down. If not, we need Governor Hochul to remove him to save our city.

There are legit concerns about how corporate DEI programs can be deployed to weaken union organizing.

But that’s not why Trump is targeting DEI, and everybody on the left knows that. He just wants to Make America Discriminate Again.

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The Trump administration’s attack on “DEI” is really an attack on all of U.S. anti-discrimination law.

This @nytimes.com piece sidesteps that fact completely, in favor of a narrative about a left divided.

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Plaintiffs-Side Firm Katz Banks Kumin Opens NY Office - Law360 Plaintiffs-side firm Katz Banks Kumin LLP announced on Monday the opening of a New York City office boasting four attorneys, including three new attorney hires.

Thanks @law360.bsky.social for covering the opening of our NYC @katzbankskumin.bsky.social office!

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I am humbled & excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Partner at @katzbankskumin.bsky.social & co-Managing Partner of our just-launched NY office.

I’m looking forward to working with my new colleagues Dana Bolger, Elena Rodriguez Anderson & Emma Walters to grow our wage & hour practice in NY.

KBK announced that Debra Katz, Rebecca Peterson-Fisher, Marilyn Robb, and Bonnie Henry are joining Kreindler & Kreindler LLP in representing the Estate of Stephanie Cosme in a lawsuit against Ms. Cosme’s former employer, Sumaria Systems LLC and her supervisor, Derek Kirkendall.

I 100% agree with you that Dems are not fighting and leading the way we need them to in this moment, but not sure the result of this vote would be different if Schumer held it open, given that Sinema was so determined to vote on this. (Seems likely she will be a lobbyist for the CoC in 2025.)

Today is a big day for pardons, bit there’s still time for President Biden to go bigger and help protect millions of undocumented workers from deportation:
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Boeing whistleblowers reveal years of concerns over airplane parts | 60 Minutes A whistleblower says he was not surprised when a panel on a Boeing airplane blew off in the Oregon sky.

Boeing whistleblower and KBK client Sam Salehpour joined @60minutes.bsky.social with other brave whistleblowers last night to discuss safety concerns that he has raised regarding the assembly of Boeing’s 777 airplanes.

Watch the full segment now: www.cbsnews.com/video/boeing...

It would be incredibly important for Senate Democrats to confirm Lina Khan for another term. I've been working on consumer protection for more than 30 years, and she is the single most effective and remarkable public servant we have ever had doing this kind of work. She should be returned

“Business Goes To The Wage Cutter”: Abusive Labor Practices And Unfair Competition Antitrust enforcers have recently begun to treat abusive labor practices — such as worker misclassification and noncompete agreements — as unfair methods of competition. But this approach is not new.

Today, Eamon Coburn explains the tight connection between abusive labor practices and unfair competition: such practices not only directly undercut competitors, but also take implicit subsidies from the public and workers.

A previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth’s tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America, from 2013 until 2016, describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity—to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events. The detailed seven-page report—which was compiled by multiple former C.V.A. employees and sent to the organization’s senior management in February, 2015—states that, at one point, Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team. The report also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers, whom they divided into two groups—the “party girls” and the “not party girls.” In addition, the report asserts that, under Hegseth’s leadership, the organization became a hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an allegation made by a female employee that another employee on Hegseth’s staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the Louisiana strip club. In a separate letter of complaint, which was sent to the organization in late 2015, a different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!”

Absolutely essential reporting on Pete Hegseth from @janemayer.bsky.social

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