Something in the Kamala Harris book that I loved is when she said things like paid family leave aren’t “socialism” but capitalism because they help businesses bottom line. Employers don’t have to absorb costs of frequent absenteeism if government covers part/all of child care for example

Only 27% of workers have paid family leave. It should be 100%. DWC is proud to endorse the FAMILY Act, ensuring that every worker has access to family and medical leave. In hard times, you shouldn’t have to choose between your loved ones and your livelihood. We’re #ForFAMILY.

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So X is now entirely maga and, with love and complicity, over here seems quite likeminded and puppy pics, and more than half of all of it is now bots. I’m beginning to think philosophizing in 280 characters to people who think the same thing or aren’t actual people perhaps isn’t serving any of us.

Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator… www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

People with autism and their family members say that the messages coming from President Trump and RFK Jr. about their families, that “autism destroys families” and that autism is a "“horrible, horrible crisis,” are harmful and wrong. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/23/r...

We are the only industrialized nation that does not give workers access to a national paid family & medical leave program. I am an original cosponsor of the FAMILY Act because investing in families is an investment in our workforce. Nobody should have to choose between a loved one and a paycheck.

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

Something I love about this platform is #PaidLeaveForAll applies to all of it—improving child (and family/community) health outcomes, affording all workers financial security and dignity, giving small business a more level playing field with big employers, and protecting care workers’ rights.

WORKERS: Fran wrote a universal paid leave bill last session. In 2027, we're going to sign it. Nobody should have to choose between taking care of themselves or a family member — when an inevitable illness or emergency his — and being able to make rent. This includes self-employed workers, too.

The “richest men in the world are all media owners or executives”—and capitulated to Trump. Anyone running to change this country has to change the game. They have to understand media and how to reach people in ways a lot of folks saying they’ll stay in office or run again seem to fundamentally not.

“Is this MPD? Is this DEA? Is this HSI? Is this ICE? We don't know.” After the surge of federal agents began, 60+% of D.C. residents said they felt less safe, but community members and lawmakers have been especially outraged by the presence of anonymous masked officers. 51st.news/masked-feds-...

CADE SMITH WHAT

Arizona voters today are filling a vacancy in the U.S. House, and both candidates have publicly expressed their intent to provide the deciding signature on the discharge petition to circumvent Johnson and force a House vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. newrepublic.com/post/200787/...

It would be funny if it really, truly was not at all. Every day going forward must be in some way trying to prevent this, in every branch and level of government.

Funny how infrastructure and services we all may need and use can just suddenly stop without funding

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Of course they’re blaming women. Keep taking the Tylenol for gods sake, and throw in a glass of wine and sushi.

So if the National Guard is in college and they’re missing semesters of school, how is Trump dealing with their education and tuition?

The new MAHA report recommends that the United States increase its breastfeeding rates. But the report makes no mention of a federal paid parental leave program that experts in breastfeeding / caregiving say could make a difference. My latest for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/09/gove...

The US is one of only 7 countries in the entire world that doesn’t have any sort of guaranteed paid maternal leave. I looked into which other countries we share policy with over childbirth and women in the workplace: -Papua New Guinea -Suriname -Micronesia -The Marshall Islands -Nauru -Palau -Tonga

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

I wish it were funnier but we’re living in Biff’s World

NEW: Hundreds of comedians have signed onto a letter, supporting Jimmy Kimmel and saying that when the government targets one of them, it targets all of them. Read the statement below. bit.ly/Comedians4Ki...

Listen, after this mortifying display I’ve never had more respect for Harry and Meghan. This is not how you deal with men like this.

Anyone in a position of leadership who’s comfortable with indiscriminate killing, genocide, ethnic cleansing, displacement of a civilian population—much less for some cheap riviera investment scheme on the graves of children—or is afraid to say otherwise has no place in leadership.

There should be a big, platformed road show with all the great comedians losing their jobs.

Stephen Colbert for president.

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

Canceling Disney as I type.

Boycott. Boycotts.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Some small men never forget the times they are roasted or embarrassed and spend a whole lifetime trying to avenge or prove it wrong. No matter what you’ll never really feel bigger.

He was fired… for this?

It’s so clear there are so many inept, morally lost or cowardly men in charge of way too many things. Most of you don’t even care about trying to be a hero for the narcissism of it.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

If John Oliver gets canceled, the US is dead.

I’m sorry, a young Black man was found hanging—from a tree—and authorities said they had no reason to suspect foul play?

The FAMILY Act is being reintroduced — the only bill for meaningful paid family and medical leave in Congress. We’re #ForFAMILY and #PaidLeaveForAll.

Paid family and medical leave is good for everyone. It is pro-worker, pro-family, and pro-growth. It ensures nobody gets left behind just to get better or care for a loved one. In an increasingly unstable economy, the FAMILY Act is an investment in stability.

Today, working families are stretched to the breaking point in this cost-of-living crisis, yet the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation without paid leave. The FAMILY Act is our next step forward.

This month we are asking who you do the work for, who you fight for—billionaire backers and wealthy corporations, or working families and our future? In difficult times, this movement gives me hope. #PaidLeaveForAll is about all we share and what matters most, and I believe it is the path forward.

All working people—in schools and elsewhere—deserve time off to care for their families. The newly reintroduced FAMILY Act would give workers up to 12 weeks of income when they take time off—and enable the lowest-paid workers to earn up to 85% of their normal wages. #PaidLeaveForAll

Today @delauro.house.gov & @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social reintroduced the FAMILY Act! Just 27% of the workforce has paid family leave from their jobs. The FAMILY Act would address America’s paid leave crisis AND benefit working people, families, and businesses. We’re #ForFAMILY #PaidLeaveForAll. 👏

I’m joining @delauro.house.gov and Sen. Gillibrand to reintroduce the only bill in Congress that gives Americans REAL paid family and medical leave: The FAMILY Act.

No American should have to choose between their job and their family. I’m proud to join Senator Gillibrand and @delauro.house.gov to introduce the FAMILY Act, guaranteeing paid family and medical leave for every worker.

As the FAMILY Act is being reintroduced today, we ask you to email your lawmakers and tell them to support this legislation to ensure that all workers can take the time they need without risking their job or income. #ForFAMILY #PaidLeaveForAll act.nationalpartnership.org/a/family-act

We’re #ForFAMILY and #PaidLeaveForAll — and we call on congress to support working families.