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.

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...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

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...

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.

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.

"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. 1/2

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.

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?

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."

Remember 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.

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...

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/...

“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

“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.”

The 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.

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.

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...

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

American women getting too independent? The Heritage Foundation has a fix for that. It involves pushing women out of higher ed, making divorce near impossible, and doing a massive cash transfer from poor single moms to married male-breadwinner couples with kids. www.throughline.news/p/the-plot-a...

🚨🚨 It's new research week for me on the socials! 🚨🚨 First up, just released today as an NBER working paper: "More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment" with fantastic coauthors Esra Kose and Maria Rosales-Rueda www.nber.org/papers/w34831

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

It should be obvious that criticizing ICE—or any government agency—on social media is protected by the First Amendment. It is not a crime. Tech companies must not comply with sweeping government demands that seek to unmask users simply for expressing their opinions online.

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

To bring down costs, several states and cities have implemented #policies that provide free, universal child care or increase public funding to bolster the sector. In this post, experts break down private equity’s role in #childcare, concerns about investment, and the need for more #evidence.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Last week, I joined Bi Night at Sinners and Saints to share more about my campaign for a Ward 1 and a DC where everyone can live freely, without fear. At a time when we are under attack, DC needs a Councilmember who will fight for every one of us to live the life that we deserve.

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

“Universal child care is incredibly popular, being able to access affordable child care that works for your child and your family is not a ‘red’ or ‘blue’ issue, it’s something that people across parties experience every single day,” - @kashenj.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2026/02/aoc-...

We’re here to say #FundChildCareNotICE ✊ @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @childcareforeveryfamily.org @spacesinaction.bsky.social @momsrising.org @nwlc.org @americanprogress.bsky.social @domesticworkers.bsky.social @caringacross.org @clasp.org

“The crisis is that people can’t afford #childcare” Thanks Senator Kaine!

@murray.senate.gov is on fire at the Senate HELP committee. Few better champions for solving the child care crisis #childcareforall

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

The House of Representatives passed a bill on Feb. 11 that would require proof of citizenship to vote.

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

A majority of cases will never be reported, either. Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

while this is funny, the amount of resistance folks who think BLS is *already* a mere propaganda machine—instead of a group of dedicated public servants still doing the best they can, with the support of an institutionalist interim chief—is really concerning!

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money