Caregiving is a massive economic opportunity or a massive economic crisis in waiting because nearly the entire care infrastructure rests on the unpaid labor of women, especially.

We can't accept the future Trump is giving us where getting sick means going broke. Grateful to @pelosi.house.gov for partnering with me on this piece & for her decades-long leadership fighting to make health care more affordable for families. Read: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on a Houston street Tuesday morning. "It's using the same script it always uses. No video. No independent witness. Just ICE's word — the same word that didn't hold up the last three times.” migrantinsider.com/p/ice-killed...

Our new analysis of the 2022 USTS finds that transgender respondents who were denied equal treatment or verbally harassed in the past year were significantly more likely to have seriously considered or attempted suicide. Read the full report: tinyurl.com/Trans-Suicide

After 17 years without an increase, the federal minimum wage has lost nearly a third of its purchasing power. It's long past time to restore a meaningful national wage floor. Our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and @epi.org’s @hshierholz.bsky.social explain how in @thehill.com:

When 18-year-old Elder Chavez was pulled over for going 15 mph over the limit, he tried to show officers docs the US govt granted him after his parents abandoned him in Honduras and he crossed the border alone. He was put in ICE detention anyway. 🧵 1/ www.propublica.org/article/unac...

Why does Congress get months of sick leave at taxpayers’ expense, and other workers don’t? I’m all for people getting treatment if they need it, but don’t all workers deserve the same benefit? #TomKean www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As NC sees scorching 100+ temps, remember NC labor commissioner Luke Farley ran on promising corporations he would ensure the government wouldn’t require them to provide basic accommodations to prevent workers from dying from extreme heat.

Same vibe

Paid sick days cut food born illnesses by over 20% but we don’t have universal paid sick days bc of the Chamber of Commerce. Same folks who got a ballot initiative for paid sick days in MO overturned

The right’s version of patriotism is “my country right or wrong.” The left’s is “my country when right to be kept right and when wrong to be set right.”

Powerful video from the National Partnership for Women & Families, the National Women’s Law Center, and the 75 Million campaign on how for the past 250 years women played a central role building this country and what working women need from Congress to secure the future youtu.be/ZtQkEubYAf8

Institutional investors must DIVEST from GEO Group. "The company has positioned itself as a one-stop shop for President Trump's mass deportation agenda," reported NPR. #$GEO #DIVEST

Are they gonna make women pee in a cup at the airport? Or just eyeball it based on her body?

“The Court’s ruling will further embolden the EEOC to reject its mission in favor of the Administration’s anti-worker and anti-civil rights politics.” NPWF President Jocelyn Frye on what SCOTUS’s Trump v Slaughter decision means for other independent agencies nationalpartnership.org/news_post/sc...

Dems worried about DSA need to learn “researchers have found, strategies that “accommodate” right-wing positions “lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.”“ This is closer to where Dem voters are. Stop chasing folks who went far right. See also UK www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

“Once all of the law’s major provisions are fully phased in, Congressional Budget Office estimates show, the poorest households will end up with roughly $1,200 less each year on average, while the wealthiest Americans will gain about $13,600.”

NRSC v. FEC has been a bit slept on but it's arguably the biggest campaign finance case since Citizens United the GOP justices are drowning democracy in big money ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nrsc-...

We’re currently fighting an initiative in Washington State that has genital exams as part of the enforcement mechanism. www.kuow.org/stories/tran...

“The affordability crisis is the lack of care infrastructure by another name” @symonedsanders.bsky.social at the @paidleaveforall.bsky.social Lifelines screening

1) EEOC noticed a public meeting where the commissioners would vote on rescinding its affirmative action guidance 2) Meeting is pulled down 3) EEOC announced they secretly voted to rescind it How is this not a Sunshine Act violation? www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...

I had the privilege to meet B.P.J. and her mom. This kid has so much grace and courage and kindness in her. She deserves leaders with even a fraction of her integrity. There are people behind these decisions and my heart breaks for them

“In the five years since the ban has been in place, B. P. J. is the only transgender girl publicly identified in the State who has sought to play sports with other girls. Today the Court holds that neither Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause protects B. P. J.’s ability to do so.” So cruel

Between this and the bribery case a couple of years ago, they've really decided to let Kavanugh be the point person on *allowing billionaires to buy politics* and *unvarnsihed public corruption.*

Enraged we still have so many sex pests in robes who can rob people of rights

Incandescent with rage

First case is West Virginia v. PBA. "Coach" Kavanaugh --who famously touts that he coaches girls basketball even though he's been accused of attempted rape-- writes WVA is allowed to exclude trans girls from sports.

Corporations spent $517 MILLION in the 2026 election cycle alone. That's nearly 1/3 of ALL corporate political spending since the 2010 Citizens United Decision. Corporate domination of our elections has long been a problem, and now it’s getting MUCH worse.

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

If that rapist writes an opinion claiming harming trans kids is needed to protect women I am going to lose it

Japanese internment survivors and faith leaders completed a 45-mile a pilgrimage from World War II internment camp in Crystal City, TX to Dilley to protest what one internment survivor described as "inhumane and a tragic 'repetition of American history.'”

Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

“The [Slaughter] decision effectively prioritizes the political preferences of the President over ensuring that independent agencies can carry out their enforcement and regulatory functions consistent with the law and operate with integrity” nationalpartnership.org/news_post/sc...

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car

The UN's top human rights official is demanding independent investigations into deaths inside US immigration detention, and says those responsible for breaking the law must be held to account. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The wonderful @marisakabas.bsky.social let me go long on the grim historic parallels between the Prairieland defendants and 19th century America’s brutal repression—and execution—of anarchists, union organizers, and political dissidents. We are all antifa now. www.thehandbasket.co/p/haymarket-...

Tomorrow marks 3 years of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. This bipartisan law cut miscarriages by nearly 10% but Paxton wants it overturned. NPWF heard from thousands of new moms and learned the gov needs to hold employers accountable for enforcement nationalpartnership.org/health-justi...

The main ask in #Venezuela monetary support to prevent supply chain clogging and further strain on limited logistical channels that physical goods (food, clothing, etc.) require PLS SHARE w/ your networks Special thanks to @caracaschronicles.tierra-de-gracia.com for their resource compilation

This 6-3 decision from SCOTUS ignores the reality that justice cannot exist when people fleeing persecution are blocked from even accessing our asylum laws. Denying a person the chance to seek protection undermines both fairness and the rule of law.

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

KBJ dissenting in Wolford (decision invalidating Hawaii law that creates a presumption of no firearms on private property w/o property owner's consent): "Today’s decision makes one thing clear: The Court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law."

Alito apparently doesn’t believe these comments are racist

Read @immcouncil.org's statement on today's disastrous decision for asylum seekers here: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-releas...

25 years ago, a Michigan district court embraced a bizarre theory about the limits on Congress's power under the Spending Clause—one that was quickly repudiated. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court's six Republican appointees quietly revived it while making it harder to enforce an array of federal rights:

On the 4th anniversary of Dobbs, sharing the stat that made me see just me how big an issue low info voters are: nearly 1 in 5 voters, over 1 in 5 Republican voters, believe Biden ended Roe. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/u...

This decision is not at all based on the text of the INA and I’m physically ill thinking of the ways the Trump majority is allowing Stephen Miller torment green card holders.

This Court wants to go back to the Lochner era so badly

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Turns out corporations and their lobbyists are full of BS when they claim paying workers will kill jobs and drive up costs. Reality, workers wages rose over 10% and stay at their jobs longer while consumers only saw a 6 cent increase capitalandmain.com/despite-apoc...