Elon Musk and Trump’s DOGE was actually one of the most inefficient and dishonest efforts of all time. They produced negligible savings at ENORMOUS cost to human lives and our national security. Here are the numbers:

It’s not very often I meet someone who’s just an “ideas girl.” Would love to see more men performing invisible labor and some more women with the mic and also how about elected office.

It has been a full year since Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was taken from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza by Israeli forces. He’s still being held in administrative detention. (1/4)

Starting January 1, parents in Colorado whose infants are in a NICU will have up to 12 weeks of paid leave to be there with their child, on top of paid family and medical leave already offered. It is a first-in-the-nation policy that will touch—and save—countless lives.

Funny how once it’s forced on you, you realize you really love a functioning society that serves everyone.

It is hard to watch candidates with training and government resume not prepared to flip tables in the way the country needs. It is harder to watch lifelong and privileged table flippers convinced they can do it better but not show willingness to learn how or do the slow work of service.

If the US invested in child care and had national policies like paid leave comparable to other industrialized countries, we would generate $775 billion of economic activity a year. The question should not be, “how can we afford to do this?” The question is, “how can we afford not to?” Let’s do this.

I was one of the founders of Minnesotans for Paid Family and Medical Leave. After years of organizing, we got it done. Starting January 1st, Minnesotans won't have to choose between a paycheck or taking care of a sick loved one.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

Do it

I’ve felt emotional about the solstice a lot of my adult life, and I’m eager for the day it feels a little less meaningful. Till then, thinking of everyone feeling darkness this year and hoping for the coming, growing light.

I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.

A lot is wrong, this is perfect

You can laminate the walls of the Kennedy Center with your name, you can put Hobby Lobby plastic gold all over the Oval Office. None of this will last.

He’s not even capable of… Matching fonts?

If I were Mayor of New York City and appointing my first ever deputy mayor for economic justice, I’d pick @juliesulabor.bsky.social. Another huge hat tip to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Wow imagine living in a society

The thing about Trump teasing some absurd Hunger Games like concept, after a series of other low turnout, failed public spectacles and parades, is it’s still the eve of the Epstein files.

I don’t really have words for this. Because it’s so shocking and revolting to the point I gagged, but it’s also so very familiar and not shocking and undergirds our entire country and its systems and power, that will not truly reform or function until we uproot it.

Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.

The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”… BULLSHIT. @repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition. This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.

Y’all can call it whatever you want to, but it’s still the Kennedy Center.

We teamed up with @blairimani.bsky.social and @changedotorg.bsky.social to call for #PaidLeaveForAll. Too many families are struggling to make ends meet and no one should have to choose between their job and a loved one. Join us and SIGN TODAY! #PaidLeaveForAll bit.ly/3LER9Eq

Tr*mp to all of us: who are you going to believe - me or your lying wallet? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

I’m sure you’ll be shocked to hear—voluntary and public-private partnership models of paid leave, depending on the market, are not actually expanding access to paid leave, lack transparency, increase inequities, and aren’t sustainable.

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Minnesota’s new paid leave policy launches next month, guaranteeing up to 12 weeks off for workers with new babies or who need time to deal with an illness or care for a loved one.

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Happy Hanukkah! In a year when we could all use as much light as possible.

I make my GYN appointments a year in advance…

Central Park was under a canvas of snow Sunday morning, with its trees, meadows and pathways frosted in a wintry icing after New York City’s first big snowfall of the season. trib.al/1iP7AJr

I’d like someone to tell me like I’m a child, if the survivors wanted the truth and the evidence out, why none of this was leaked.

Martha and Julia and Ina could never I made marshmallows with my bare hands and no corn syrup

The wheels. They’re coming off the bus.

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

It’s been a hell of a week but Sharita is out here doing the Lord’s threads. Keep going.

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.

Imagine being this mad for this long—about Calibri. Now if it was Comic Sans

Do we ever ask how we’re going to pay for the NDAA, or tax cuts for the 1%? If we chose working families instead of bombs and billionaires, we could cover paid family and medical leave for every working person in America for the next ten years with either of those investments. Twice over.

We can bail out the auto industry, major airlines, big banks, farms. But god forbid it’s students in debt from the predatory private loan market or hardworking families making $7.25 an hour amid greedflation.

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...

But corporate America hasn’t solved the problem of paid leave—because only one in four people working in the private sector has paid family leave from their employer. Which is why we need good government and a federal paid leave program.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

Completely ready for a party fit to shed this year of the snake(s). Get out of the grass and giddyap. 🐎

Today, I joined dozens of my Democratic colleagues in introducing legislation that guarantees paid family and medical leave for all workers. This is the kind of thing a government of, by, and for the people should be doing.

Nicely done, old friend. 👏 @senchrislarson.bsky.social

Having paid time off for health-related crises should be a right, not something we have to negotiate from our bosses. I proudly led on securing this benefit for Milwaukee County employees when I was a supervisor — more places should follow MKE’s lead. (2/3) county.milwaukee.gov/EN/County-Ex...

Minnesota is launching Paid Leave in January. Wisconsin could’ve been right there with them — but Republicans blocked it at every turn. So this week, we reintroduced the bill. >>>

National paid family and medical leave. #PaidLeaveForAll