Clearest angle yet of the ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis. DHS said a "violent [rioter] weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them." Is that what this shows?

NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.

NEW: Stephen Miller has been the public face of the Trump's unprecedented immigration crackdown, but George Borjas, a Cuba-born Harvard economist provided the intellectual underpinnings until he left the White House last Friday. My profile of Borjas: wapo.st/3NwJbhs

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Breaking news: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday. The ruling comes after the partial funding disbursed had yet to reach those who qualify for the benefits.

STORY: Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade. Even in an era of skyrocketing CEO pay, the award is unprecedented. The closest comparison is Musk's prior, $56 billion deal, which is mired in a court dispute. wapo.st/3Xf0Qfi

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Several South Korean firms have pulled or prolonged a pause on investment in U.S. projects after a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia that resulted in hundreds of Koreans arrested. By @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Finding a job is becoming exceedingly bleak: more than 1 in 4 workers without jobs have been unemployed for at least half a year, according to new data Since 1950, this has only happened a few times and always after a recession

EJ Antoni, Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shared a Darwinism-inspired theory about inherent differences between men and women's IQs during a talk to Heritage Foundation interns last year. from @jacobbogage.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Breaking news: President Donald Trump will nominate E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a staunch critic of the agency and the top economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Trump is nominating the top economist at the Heritage Foundation and a Project 2025 contributor to lead the BLS. EJ Antoni, a staunch critic of the agency, emerged in recent days as a favorite candidate among influential Trump advisers, including Bannon www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News: The Labor Dept announced an "aggressive" deregulatory agenda today to cut 63 regulations On cutting board: -union protections for migrant farmworkers on H2a visas -minimum wage/overtime for home health workers - affirmative action requirements for apprenticeships

Big news: The NYC Central Labor Council - AFL-CIO just announced that it is endorsing Zohran

NEW: The Trump admin has vowed to hold companies accountable for employing undocumented workers But ICE has overwhelmingly focused on arresting workers rather than punishing employers www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Powerful NYC unions, including SEIU's 32BJ, are switching their endorsements from Cuomo to Mamdani (32BJ's endorsement helped propel Eric Adams to victory in 2021)

Baltimore! Really, really exciting event happening at @redemmas.org this Saturday—all labor folks should join us! @jazbrisack.bsky.social, one of the original worker-organizers from Buffalo at the first Starbucks to unionize in 2021, will be in convo w/ the great @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social ❤️✊🏽

On Saturday, I'll be talking to legend @jazbrisack.bsky.social about their new book on organizing the first unionized Starbucks in the US, at Red Emma's in Baltimore at 7pm. See u there! Jaz is co-founder of @sbworkersunited.org , which has unionized 600+ Sbux stores since late 2021.

This Saturday, don't miss @jazbrisack.bsky.social, barista salt and co-founder of @sbworkersunited.org, in conversation with @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social! withfriends.co/event/234725...

SCOOP from last night: ICE reversed its guidance from last week that exempted farm, hotels, restaurants from immigration raids. DHS told agents to continue those raids. washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DAVID IS RELEASED and with his family! He still faces an unjust felony charge. While we’re relieved that David is out after three nights in detention, we demand the Trump regime drop the unjust charge against him & end the raids! seiu.co/endraids #FreeDavidEndRaids

"The job market is lukewarm... It won't take a lot of further weakening for that to take a turn for the worse." Thanks to @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social for chatting with me about tte jobs report! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

BREAKING: A judge just blocked Trump admin from eliminating Jobs Corps, a job training program for low-income young people started during LBJ's War on Poverty - 99 job training centers that serve 25k were set to close - admin cited "financial challenges" & "serious incidents" as reason for closure

NEWS: A federal judge just blocked Trump admin from invaliding union rights for 50,000 TSA officers. DHS Sec. Kristi Noem revoked their union rights in March saying “Eliminating collective bargaining removes bureaucratic hurdles that will strengthen workforce agility enhance productivity."

The Dept of Labor is suspending its job training program for low-income youths that began during LBJ's War on Poverty, mirroring Trump's budget cut proposal. - Admin cites "serious incidents" and "significant financial challenges" - 99 job training centers to close www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

SCOOP: The Trump regime’s continued attacks on the Mine Safety and Health Administration have put coal miners at risk of deadly disease. Today, 32 district/field offices in 20 states that had been marked for closure received notice that those orders had been *cancelled* This is very good news!!

NEW REPORT from Rutgers: As of May 2025, the total number of federal wage theft investigators -- 611 -- has reached its lowest level since 1973. The authors estimate that minimum wage workers lose more each year from wage theft than all Americans lose from property theft.

The US Administration has ended legal deportation protections for 350,000 Venezuelans. Just getting started. What will be the economic effects on Americans? I spoke about the research on this, with @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com —> www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox was reinstated today (after being fired by Trump, reinstated by a district court, then removed by appeals court) The NLRB has a quorum again so the board can resume business as usual for now. Trump expected to appeal today's decision to SCOTUS

scoop in @dealbook: Tech workers at The Washington Post are unionizing. It's the first public union drive at The Post since Jeff Bezos purchased it in 2013. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

NEWS: 20K University of California healthcare, research, & technical workers are on strike today over "a staffing crisis hurting patients, students, and research."

BREAKING: A federal appeals court just said that Trump can fire National Labor Relations Board & Merit Systems Protection Board members for now The case is expected to land before SCOTUS, which could weigh in on Trump’s expansive view of presidential power www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Scoop: Labor Department emails show that Trump admin has plans to immediately end U.S.-backed programs that combat child labor, forced labor, & other abuses in more than 40 counties. "This will affect some of the world’s most vulnerable children.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEWS: REI illegally denied hundreds of union workers years of merit pay and other pay given to non-union workers, per National Labor Relations Board complaint.

Tesla is contesting a $49k OSHA citation related to the death of contract worker who was electrocuted at Tesla’s Giga Factory in Austin in August. @jbarab.bsky.social

NEW: Columbia expelled & fired the president of its student workers’ union today, a day before contract negotiations were set to begin, per UAW The union is calling it “part of a wave of crackdowns on free speech against students and workers who have spoken out…against the war on Gaza”

How Trump is reshaping reality by disappearing public data W/ my fabulous colleague @ashendruk.com wapo.st/4iCmMtn

BREAKING: The Senate just voted 67-32 to confirm Lori-Chavez-DeRemer as Trump's Labor Sec, w/ support from 17 Dems. She previously co-sponsored the PRO Act but has since called the bill "imperfect" opposing its ban on right-to-work laws Trump picked her after lobbying from the Teamsters

“If you are looking for a job, it hasn’t been great or even, frankly, good... It’s not as bad as it would have been in 2009, 2010. But it’s a challenging environment.” Thanks to @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social for including me in her jobs day roundup! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEWS: A bipartisan group of House and Senate members (Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Bobby Scott, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick) re-introduced the PRO Act today.

The Senate HELP cmte just voted 13-9 to advance Trump's labor sec. nominee, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, w/help from Dems (Hickenlooper, Hassan, Kaine) The International Franchise Association, National Restaurant Association & National Retail Federation, recently threw her their support

An internal DOL "memo details plans to shrink the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs from more than 50 offices nationwide staffed by nearly 500 people to just four offices staffed by 50 people" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Breitbart is reporting that there’s a labor task force in the works at the FTC. I have sources telling me this task force is also interested in issues pertaining to multi-level marketing business schemes, franchising, wage fixing, and no-poach/no-hire agreements.