Minnesota just launched our statewide paid leave program. Starting today new parents, small business owners, and people recovering from illness or injury will have the security to take needed time off work without risking their paycheck.

Literally this year the MN Speaker was murdered at her home when a white male MAGA chud dressed up as a fake cop & killed her Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐

I feel like I'm constantly going nuts by how casually people de-prioritize the lives of trans people for short term political gains, and I feel equally grateful that Katelyn holds a mirror up to these people, via @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social and @theflytrapmedia.com 🫡

Gosh, maybe bc median hourly wages for Nursing Assistants, Childcare Workers, and Home Health and Personal Care Aides are 21%, 37% and 30% lower than the median hourly wages across all occupations nationalpartnership.org/caregiving-c...

US citizens don't want home healthcare jobs. Not because they don't care about the elderly. But because the jobs are underpaid, overworked, and exploitative. Take Sylvia, a mom I interviewed who took a home healthcare job because it was her only option, then left it as soon as she could. 1/🧵

1970—no fault divorce finally legalized, female suicide rates drop 20% 1974—Equal Credit Opp Act passes, women finally have basic access to finances 1993—Marital rape finally criminalized Call me old school but countering record high suicide, financial imprisonment, & suffocating DV IS Liberation

“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

“he is obsessed with deploying the might of the government to stamp out what he deems “anti-white hatred” and “anti-white racism” and “anti-white discrimination” — no matter the cost.” It’s apparent the EEOC chair, Andrea Lucas, lives in terror of him www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I want to stress, also, how when we approached the Trump White House with a lengthy comment request on our findings, the only things they disputed - among the batch of lawless, titanically rancid shit - were a) Stephen miller was NOT regularly made fun of by his former GOP Hill colleagues…

UNC BOT is determined to devalue my degree 🙃 Carolina alums, here’s how you can defend the centers that make Carolina a leader docs.google.com/document/u/0...

All veterans should have full access to reproductive care, whether it is contraception, counseling, abortions, IVF, or surrogacy. They should not have fewer benefits than the All-Volunteer Force or civilians. This furtive policy change is an insult and an attack on America's promise to veterans.

ah i see where the confusion's coming rom here. none of this has ever been about saving money. it's about racism. hope that helps

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Instead of what helps families afford life like paid leave for all, universal child care, or home and community based services, Republicans are trying to extort business, philanthropy, and governors to fund the BS “Trump Accounts” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

President Donald Trump says he wants Americans to have more babies. However, there is one method for conceiving children that thousands of people use every year, but that has divided the Trump White House and the larger MAGA coalition: in vitro fertilization (IVF). voxdotcom.visitlink.me/6R0edY

Dying to know how the Manhattan Institute recruited its Gen Z Republican focus group bc the responses are pretty fucked up www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.

In the latest chapter of the Trump admin war on trans people existing, it is now trying to illegally regulate medical practices

More Trump admin hypocrisy “You say we’re going to improve insurance coverage, and we’re going to do all these things, and then I can’t leave work to go to my doctor’s appointment. We’re looking at a future where workers under this administration would not have the actual right to access IVF.”

Cool, cool, nothing to see here about a key part of the workforce in an aging country

While Trump admin claims a 2% change in white men’s employment over a decade reveals widespread discrimination, remember the last jobs day revealed Black women’s unemployment is a whopping 7.1% and NPWF found highly educated Black mothers are being pushed out nationalpartnership.org/report/share...

You know what would make government cool again - not firing 271,000 of the current workers (see the November #JobsReport) www.opm.gov/news/secrets...

A huge win for maternal and infant health worth celebrating: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which passed three years ago this month, has helped lower the national miscarriage rate by helping expectant moms protect their health on the job. www.abetterbalance.org/new-study-th...

Ah I think it's a bit worse than I said! My take was that the bit re the failure of the meritocracy when it turns on these people didn't seem well supported by argument. Having read this I now think it's even more substantially just false, incorrect. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

A federal judge nominee admitted today that he said during a sermon that disabled people shouldn't get married. As I wrote for @motherjones.com, in fact, many can't out of risk of losing their benefits. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Repro advocates know repro rights are entwined with trans rights. That’s why 50+ banded together to tell Congress that just as politicians have no place making decisions about people’s pregnancies, they have no business interfering with gender-affirming care. nwlc.org/wp-content/u...

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI

Check out the whole toolkit here and check back often for updates! Download the template to make your own signs or graphics for your action to BLOCK ICE - there are countless ways to say Don’t Build It, Don’t Fill It, Don’t Fuel It! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

I have to say it is surreal looking at the #JobsReport and seeing a blank under October 2025.

It’s #JobsDay – In November, the #unemployment rate rose to 4.6%. 7.8 million #workers were unemployed and 24% of these unemployed workers were out of work for 27 weeks or longer. Let’s look more closely at workers facing long term unemployment… 🧵 www.nelp.org/november-job...

If you’re telling Head Start programs they can’t say “disability”, “Black”, “female”, or “Tribal” in order to get funded—you don’t care about kids. Period. This administration is attacking the very protections that keep children safe and supported. Our kids are not political props.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

DOL Secretary took a page out of Hegseth’s leadership book and had a prayer service and invited a homophobic right wing rabbi to address employees www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...

Cancer made me a man

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

Me enjoying Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

Mothers with young children are leaving the workforce at rates not seen in over 40 years. Join this fabulous group of women on 12/16 at 12pm EST to find out how to solve this national emergency and build an economy that works for us all, not just the billionaires. streamyard.com/watch/b7Ur5B...

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

"At least 11 Indiana Rs got death threats after he [Trump] called for primaries—but it still failed."

Indiana Republicans rejected a proposal to redraw the state's congressional maps despite a furious pressure campaign by Trump

BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

Proud to have co-led this effort with @nwlc.org of 44 orgs calling on Congress to hold the Trump Admin/DOJ accountable for its baseless attacks on NY AG James nwlc.org/nwlc-leads-a...

Since most of these words have nothing to do with applying to a Head Start program, my guess is the admin is using this list in other contexts as well

It is not an exaggeration to say the fate of the republic rises and falls with the fate of one guy www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Today is the 68th anniversary of the creation of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and over 200 recent employees have shared an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.

A lawyer who helped lead Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election was also heavily involved in lawsuits seeking to ban trans women from sports. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social took a deep look at the strategies and coordination behind sports bans in one of our most read pieces this year.

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

THE WINS IN 2024 WERE ABORTION BALLOT INITIATIVES THEY ARE POPULAR AND PEOPLE VOTE FOR IT. I’m tired of these political strategists focusing on some mythical voter and not actual evidence