Shout it from the rooftops: ICE is targeting working people, not criminals.

We don’t need to accept this life for our kids. It’s our choice to subject children to this horror.

Talking with @chrislhayes on @MSNBC and then with @andersoncooper on @CNN later on the path forward.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Last night DC neighbors showed up at a police checkpoint at 14th & V ST. NW with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid the block.

After realizing that the community was successfully diverting all traffic, agents packed up the checkpoint and left. #WeKeepUsSafe

The Administration’s actions are unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.

There is no crime emergency in DC. Violent crime reached historic 30-year lows in 2024, and is down 26% so far in 2025.

We are considering all options and will do what's necessary to protect DC residents' rights and safety.

The District of Columbia is under attack today — not from violent gangs or thieves, but by the President of the United States.

The President's weaponization of the Home Rule Act is a direct attack on the 700,000 residents of DC and we will not stand for it.

Trump social media post: I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I think it's time to be skeptical of any jobs numbers going forward...

Y’all, this picture was taken in 1938.
In 1938 the CEO to worker pay ratio was about 20:1.
Today, it’s estimated to be 344:1.

People dying from lack of aid every day in Gaza: WFP official The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, a senior official with the UN World Food Programm...

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border.

The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.

Gutting government services kills people www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

** MEDIA ADVISORY ** Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer will Directly Harm U.S. Workers if She Proceeds with RIFs at DOL. Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, the Supreme Court released a shadow docket ruling that could embolden Trump appointees at federal agencies to proceed with mass Reductions in Force (RIFs), which had previously been paused after an injunction. In response, the Stop DOL Cuts Coalition made the following statement: “Under Secretary Chavez De-Remer, President Trump, and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Department of Labor staff has already been reduced by 20% thanks to ill-advised firings and the Deferred Resignation Program (DRP). A further Reduction in Force would have an immediate catastrophic effect on workers and employers. It would translate directly to: More wage theft and other crimes against workers (U.S. workers currently lose tens of billions of dollars per year from wage theft); Less investigation of child labor, leading to more children in exploitative and at times deadly jobs;

Fewer worksite inspections, leading to more worker deaths, injuries, disease, and disability; More mining deaths, which are up about 70 percent compared to the same period in 2024; Fewer opportunities for worker training, leading to poorer outcomes for workers, employers, and the economy; More forced labor and child labor in the U.S. supply chain; More workplace discrimination on the basis of factors like race, gender, and veteran status; and Fewer workers knowing about and exercising their rights at work. These are just some of the impacts we can expect if Secretary Chavez-DeRemer and DOGE enact RIFs at DOL. Should they decide to proceed with RIFs, the Stop DOL Cuts Coalition will announce a rapid-response rally outside the Frances Perkins Building, at which we will illustrate in plain terms how the RIFs will adversely affect American workers. We will not allow this administration to destroy the Department's critical work.” Inquiries: Contact fedworkers2025@gmail.com

🚨 Announcement from the Stop DOL Cuts coalition 🚨

We have already lost 20% of our staff. If RIFs are announced, we will not be able to fulfill our mission - and we are prepared to let the American people know.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

DC has roughly the same population as Alaska, but no one is looking out for our interests as this budget gets negotiated. That's wrong — and we all lose out.

So important. This is America.

Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.

Sen. Padilla: “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question…I can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.”

This is insane. I’m trying to think what the reaction would have been if Mayorkas, DHS Secretary under Biden, had got his security folks to manhandle and shove Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz in this way.

Graphic with balloons that says "Happy 105th birthday Women's Bureau. Here's to 105 more!"

Happy birthday to the Women's Bureau!

Addressing barriers to women's labor force participation is key to growing the economy and filling in-demand jobs. The bureau has been at the forefront since 1920, pushing for workplace policies in the U.S. that help ALL women thrive.

Trump wants to eliminate a 105-year-old office that supports women Staffers see the proposal as part of an effort to fundamentally reshape America's workforce.

105 years ago today, the Women's Bureau—a DOL office dedicated to promoting American women in the workforce—was born.

Today, Trump is calling for its elimination for the first time ever. Spoke to 9 current & former staffers about its work for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Disappeared In America A mother and her three children were seized by ICE in a pre-dawn raid near Trump’s border czar Tom Homan’s home, despite deep roots in their community. After ten days in a Texas detention center and a...

Our legal system is meant to provide due process for all, but immigrant families are being torn apart without ever getting their day in court. #DisappearedInAmerica tells their stories: disappearedinamerica.com

Venture capital firms are now reaching out to scientists who have faced funding cuts due to Trump/Musk/Doge and offering them funding.

A very shrewd move on their part but of course this means their discoveries from this funding will be owned privately instead of by the American people.

The Suspension Clause:

1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session;

2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and

3) *Even then,* applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)

Amateur hour at the FBI.

YOU HAVE RIGHTS! What Federal Employees Should Know about Reductions in Force (RIFs) Your Rights Generally speaking, for non-SES, executive-branch employees, your agency must: ● Provide 60 day’ advance notice of a RIF (though that can be reduced to 30 days based on “not reasonably foreseeable circumstances.”) 5 C.F.R. § 351.801. ● For any bargaining-unit employees, provide the union with at least 60 days’ notice of any RIFs, and more if a collective-bargaining agreement requires it ● Set a “competitive area” defining the organizational unit being cut and a “competitive level” defining the types of jobs being cut; RIFs must target positions, not people. ● Make a “retention list” that ranks workers based on their tenure, veterans preference, length of service, performance, and other criteria to decide who is terminated. ● Provide these rights to probationary employees as well as non-probationary employees. ● Provide severance pay: 1 week of pay for years of civilian service, 2 weeks for years > 10, plus an increase if you’re over 40 ● Allow employees whose functions are transferred to a different competitive area to transfer to those jobs What To Do ● Before RIF Notice: Organize your coworkers, discuss strategies with them, keep your union informed, download your eOPF folder, and consider what allies you can gather to fight on your and your coworkers’ behalf. ● When you get a RIF Notice: ○ Ask the person who sent you the RIF notice and your HR representative in writing for the retention register and check it thoroughly. Here is sample language that you can use: ■ “Hi, my name is [NAME]. I just received a Reduction in Force notice, dated [DATE]. Please send me the retention register that the Department of Labor has compiled that applies to my competitive area and competitive level immediately, along with any other information to which I am entitled under 5 C.F.R. Section 351.505. ○ If they don’t give the retention register to you, FOIA it …

date of [DATE YOU RECEIVED RIF NOTICE] and an effective date of[DATE NOTICE SAYS RIF IS EFFECTIVE]. In particular, I would like to receive any retention registers compiled for the Reduction in Force for which I received the attached notice. Please provide this information as soon as possible. For bargaining unit employees, file grievances over any failure to inform the union, lack of notice, placing employees on administrative leave without cause, or mistakes in the retention register. ● After RIF Notice: Challenge errors before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) or via union grievance. Continue to come to work if they have RIF’d you unlawfully. Stay in touch with your colleagues. Additional Resources ● Reductions in Force (RIFs): An Overview (QR code below) ● Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network (QR code below) ● How to Seek Compensation for Mental Health Conditions caused or aggravated by a Federal Employer - CFPB Union (QR code below) YOU ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH! As long as you speak in your personal capacity about a matter of public concern and your speech does not interfere with your job, you can generally say what you want. Click the last QR code above for a presentation explaining federal employee free speech rights. ● Your union representatives

🚨 We want to get this flyer out to DOL employees who have been RIFed but many of them are on administrative leave instead of in the building. If you know any feds who need this info, please share it with them!

Important info on what to do after receiving a RIF notice (alt text included) ⬇️⬇️

The Trump administration is carrying out a large-scale operation across the DC area targeting *restaurants,* clearly trying to round up people for working under the table without papers.

Not gang members. Not felons. Not criminals. Dishwashers. Busboys. Cooks. Waiters.

Targeting SCHOOLS. With children in the building? Horrific.

If the first 100 days of this administration have left you feeling scared, angry and/or hopeless, watch this. ✊

This should be enough for any American to be done with this Administration.

Screenshot of a Fortune article: "DOGE's mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone" The photo is of Elon Musk wearing a red hat that says "Trump was right about everything."

Honestly, this number could be much higher. The lost productivity at DOL alone is horrifying.
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I just joined Bluesky in large part to see this account regularly. Thank you, DOL friends, for sharing the news and taking the risk to speak out.