f you missed it this morning, you can listen anytime!
Kimberli and Tiffany did a beautiful job of describing the devastating impacts of ICE actions in the last few months on kids and childcare.
How ICE’s presence is affecting child care in Minnesota www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
CBPP's @tyjonescox.bsky.social on NPR's Morning Edition explains how new #SNAP work requirements are a major hit to working families and their kids.
"This requirement doesn't increase employment or earnings. It just cuts people off."
Listen here: www.npr.org/2026/03/02/n...
Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.
01.03.2026 16:41 — 👍 412 🔁 101 💬 15 📌 15
Families need affordable care all year long, including summers. That's why we advocate for a universal system that covers children through age 12, year round.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/n...
NEW, from me: I talked to people who shut down Patriot Front's rally in D.C. last month.
Counter-demonstrators made it impossible for PF to produce propaganda and recruit at the March for Life rally. The clown music set the tone.
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
I truly think it's a huge step backwards and it will become a decades long status quo that we will struggle to replace if it actually gets adopted. @lea9223.bsky.social has a great commentary here:
tcf.org/content/comm...
CWA Endorses Aparna
That’s my union!! As a @wbng.org member, I’m SO thrilled to share that the @cwaunion.bsky.social Maryland/DC State Council has officially endorsed our campaign!
Together, we’ll put more power in the hands of working people in DC and across the region.
“white genocide” has long been a white supremacist conspiracy theory, mainstreamed through variants such as “the great replacement” and these fictions about white South Africans. for 60 Minutes to “investigate” this conspiracy theory as if there are facts to uncover is to further mainstream it.
22.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 465 🔁 117 💬 2 📌 3
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
21.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 17125 🔁 4271 💬 473 📌 1107
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The most disturbing part is knowing ICE left a little girl alone and didn’t care.
Annabella was six years old when her dad was detained by ICE while he was picking up their food order. She stayed inside, waiting.
He never returned to her that day.
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NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.
Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
Like, if you want to find hypocrisies in public beliefs about gun ownership and authoritarianism, how about the fact that people and organizations that justified arming the citizenry because of authoritarianism have fuck-all to say once authoritarianism has actually arrived?
20.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 154 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 0
The market for child care is broken... can states fix it?
Our newest research highlight on work by @chloergibbs.bsky.social and colleagues @siepr.bsky.social focuses on California and how policy can make the market work better for everyone.
Read more: www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
#econsky
“Over and over again, we’re seeing a big focus on taking control of the elections from this administration. You have to wonder why, because there is certainly no evidence of election fraud."
16.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Remember Trump’s past talk about abolishing the income tax and replacing it with tariff income? It sounds outlandish, but it’s rooted in a longstanding effort on the US right to replace progressive taxation with regressive taxation, while starving the parts of the government that help the non-rich.
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A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The public sector saw a 0.7 percentage-point increase in union density in 2025, rising from 35.7% to 36.4%. This growth reflected an increase of 236,000 unionized workers. The most notable development in public-sector unionization in 2025 occurred among federal government workers. Despite—and likely because of—the Trump administration’s aggressive attacks on federal employees and their unions, federal workers increasingly turned to collective representation. Union density among federal workers rose from 29.9% to 31.1%, the largest single-year increase since 2011. This increase represented a gain of 40,000 unionized workers—notable given that federal government employment fell as the Trump administration slashed federal jobs. Unionization among state and local government workers also rose—from 37.1% to 37.6%, reflecting an increase of 196,000 unionized workers. Private-sector union coverage increased by 227,000 in 2025, pushing the unionization rate up from 6.7% to 6.8%. Within the private sector, there were particularly large gains in health care and social assistance, retail trade, and educational services. In contrast, the traditionally blue-collar industries of mining, manufacturing, and transportation and utilities saw declines. Construction was one heavily blue-collar sector to buck this trend, posting substantial gains in union coverage.
Here's some good news - the number of workers represented by a union rose by almost half a million last year. www.epi.org/publication/...
18.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 96 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1
“These girls are experiencing high-risk pregnancies and are some of the most medically vulnerable people in detention,” Zain Lakhani, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told Jezebel.
www.jezebel.com/ice-is-shutt...
Unions shrink the #WageGap. Among full-time non-union workers, women make only 82 cents for every dollar paid to men. Among union members? It’s 87 cents: nationalpartnership.org/after-years-... #FairPay #1u
18.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Descriptions of U.S. heritage and culture in terms of ethnic and racial groups … are inherently political. Here, now, they are explicitly political, arguments about an America that never was — in service of eliminating currently disfavored immigrant groups from the America that is.”
18.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The deliberate, systematic strategy of the Trump regime: Seize people indiscriminately, even if they’re going through the system exactly as they are expected to; detain them under brutally inhumane conditions specifically designed to break them - so that they will give up and waive all legal rights.
18.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 212 🔁 108 💬 6 📌 4
Run For Something Endorses Aparna
I’m excited to announce our TENTH endorsement: @runforsomething.net!
RFS has been a force in supporting the next generation of leaders and I’m honored to join their slate of candidates fighting for dignified housing, better public transit, labor rights, and affordable communities.
Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition wasn’t just a campaign—it was a blueprint for beating the authoritarian Right: multiracial, working-class unity, organized locally + nationally, built to outlast one election.
17.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 100 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 3
A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
My @liberalcurrents.com essay on the “repeal the 19th” guys from last November
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
