“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

Howard Zinn: Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day?

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this."

Hawaiʻi just passed a new law that limits corporations' ability to engage in political campaigns. Let’s see this in other states.

all americans are created equal which is why equality demands that we obliterate all representation for 40 percent of the people of the state

An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s wrongful death law, reports @sofiaresnick.bsky.social.

I feel sick thinking about the danger these electeds are willing to place children in

And who’s gonna take on that debt? Unpaid family caregivers, disproportionately women, who are earning less anyway.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

‘A New Level of Corruption': DHS Bought ICE Warehouses From Trump Cronies For 10x Markup "Folks very close to the White House... were sitting on properties that were causing them losses... The decision was made to buy them at taxpayer expense.""

On Wednesday, Gov. Abigail Spanberger also signed paid sick time into law, making Virginia the first Southern state to enact both paid family and medical leave and paid sick time protections statewide.

Our trans kids deserve a safe learning environment. But instead, Republicans passed a bill that requires teachers to forcibly out them to their parents & peers. This is unconscionable & will only put trans kids in harm's way. I voted NO because our trans kids deserve better.

none of the occupations are over

Life happens. Babies are born. Parents get old. My friends and I are the age where we need knee and hip surgery. At some point, we will all need time to care and be cared for. NPWF found paid leave is the difference between making ends meet or being in debt nationalpartnership.org/families-can...

Barney Frank was a trailblazer protecting LGBTQ people fleeing persecution. I had the privilege of working with him to tell the story of how his work paved the way and what more was needed. Heartbreaking to see Trump take an axe to this work www.americanprogress.org/press/releas...

Rep. Mark Pocan is introducing a bill to tax the payouts from Trump's taxpayer-funded slush fund at 100% — "so that all taxpayer funding goes back to the Treasury rather than into the hands of Trump allies."

“As long as data reveals something opposite to their narrative, it’s harder to make their case,” she said. “If you don’t collect it, you can tell whatever story you want.” Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families news.bloombergtax.com/in-house-cou...

“The affordability crisis is the care economy. Just a different name” 🔥🔥🔥Symone Sanders Townsend explaining how not including care in BBB tied into the affordability crisis we face today

A new analysis adds numbers to the debate. It makes clear how monumental the decision to accept partisan gerrymandering was to blocking a truly colorblind map. A non-partisan map would preserve a similar number of Democratic and minority-leaning opportunities as the VRA did.

It just hit me like a freight train that very few of the “thought leaders” and “advocates” have linked the anti DEI tip lines to tolerance building for surveillance Were so normed to it and everyone is so comfortable with the idea of surveilling Blackness it’s not even mentioned

This is a moral, legal, and policy failure on so many levels. I hope a full and transparent investigation is done and that this woman gets the justice she deserves, although nothing can truly remedy such dignitary harms

Never in my life have I seen such a perfect depiction of this moment in our history

Trump’s EEOC nom just asked the WH for permission to eliminate a 60 year old requirement for large companies to produce data on employee demographics (a Project 2025 rec) why? Bc the data doesn’t match their claim white men face the most work discrimination nationalpartnership.org/news_post/na...

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Great read examining the tensions between what America is and what it can be through the story of the Declaration of Independence and the voices who have presented their own interpretations of its promise of liberty over the past 250 years www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Vast majority of my law school professors were white, inc one who refused to believe English was my first language and believed I was less intelligent than my white classmates. No surprise, student body was also very white bc who wants to spend $300k+ to be treated like garbage

BIG STORY: ICE arrested, shackled and separated Israel and Max Makoka as they were about to board their school bus in Diamondhead, Miss. While one brother endured confinement and pressure to self-deport in a Louisiana prison, the other was sent to a youth home in Texas. Now, they tell their story.

UNC is not a serious university. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

I see you @interfaithalliance.org!

Gov. Gavin Newsom portrays himself as a resistance leader—though in his budget proposal, he is once again attacking Medicaid funded home care that helps disabled people live independently. My latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“ Unfortunately, the president and his allies are fixated on pushing a false narrative that white men are the primary targets of discrimination in this country, and they appear determined to suppress or ignore any data that might prove otherwise.” nationalpartnership.org/news_post/na...

"You can't be having all these trans women being murdered by men in the headlines when you're trying to convince the public that the safest thing would be for trans women to use the men's bathroom and locker room. "You run the risk of people seeing through the propaganda that way."

Cannot stress how f*cked up it is that the agency Congress tasked to enforce workplace discrimination laws is now asking the Trump White House for permission to stop collecting the data on sex/race/job data it’s collected for 60 years to help spot discrimination. www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eo...

If you're very online you might think that men are in some kind misogynistic death spiral -- but new data tell a really different story about a cultural transformation among some men. I wrote a little about it today: www.axios.com/2026/05/15/f...

Trump’s EEOC chair continues to be unserious while actual discrimination persists. Wtf even is an anti-American slur? www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...

the audacity to commit genocide and then sue over an article you didn't like.

New from @alexjn.bsky.social and me at @motherjones.com: Trump's Medicaid fraud campaign has come to California. Not only is there no evidence of fraud, it puts disabled people on home care's lives at risk. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Overall, women receive a larger ‘union bump’ than men, with women union members typically making 23% more than their non-union counterparts, compared to 15% among men workers nationalpartnership.org/after-years-...

Praise from Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post editorial board for union busting is not a flex wapo.st/4eQs8mt

Didn’t Deloitte just cut back paid leave and eliminate family formation benefits for its administrative staff bc of costs?

New NPWF analysis finds young workers (16-24) entering the workforce today are more racially and ethnically diverse than their parents’ generation. Enforcement of protections against workplace discrimination is especially important for these young workers nationalpartnership.org/young-worker...

We’ve been digging into the data on paid leave and found moms need paid leave and use it when they have access

Zoom is treating its workers so poorly it is making me prefer Teams. That’s how bad cutting basic supports for workers like paid leave is!

It's a moral outrage that we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.

It's a little more polished/tight version of what I wrong on substack already. www.kedits.com/p/what-are-w...

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

A particularly chilling detail: This site includes a guide to “conscience protections” for parents who want to refuse medical treatments for themselves or their children That comes as more newborns are bleeding to death because their parents refuse a vitamin K shot at birth @autonomynews.co

Trump's war in Iran has eaten up and undone two-thirds of the inflation-adjusted wage gains since he took office. Between January 2025 and February 2026, inflation-adjusted wages grew at the same pace they had in the last two years of the Biden admin. Then Trump attacked Iran and spiked inflation.

As Justice Sotomayor's dissent notes, the district court's finding of unconstitutional discrimination is unaffected by Callais. But if the dist. ct. now reinstates that finding on remand, the state will run to SCOTUS and say Purcell forbids the court to do so. You can guess what happens next.

Trump in the Oval Office oscillating between IVF and war and sidestepping questions about pandemic preparedness feels like watching a live demo of the uncertainty Anna Louie Sussman describes impacting decisions to not have kids www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...