Great to hear @warren.senate.gov at the @americanprogress.bsky.social CAP IDEAS conference talking about the child care market failure, child care as infrastructure and the need to invest in the ECE workforce.

For too many families in America, child care is either unaffordable or inaccessible. The cost of child care drives 134,000 families into poverty every year. They deserve solutions, not federal cuts making the crisis worse.

46% of kids under 6 live in a licensed child care desert. That’s modest progress from the 51% in 2018, but millions of families are still without access. Explore the deserts in your community with our new map 📍 https://www.americanprogress.org/feature/child-care-deserts/

Check out @americanprogress.bsky.social updated Child Care Deserts report. Nearly 50% of children <6 still lack access to child care. Lots of great data in this report + a cool interactive to see if you live in a child care desert. Kudos to @haileygibbs.bsky.social @kcpeeks.bsky.social and team!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

the $200 billion dollar Pentagon request for the Iran war could fully fund universal child care in the United States #priorities

As a fan, I find this so frustrating and just more evidence of sports league's focus on profits over fan experience. "a Yankees fan will need access to eight networks for the full 162-game slate, plus potentially two more if the Yankees make the playoffs." www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

Sobering thread

Interesting reporting of NAEYC's recent survey results in the @upshot.nytimes.com. Child care providers are facing increasing costs, and decreasing revenue. The child care crisis is only going to get worse if state and federal governments dont step up: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Every single Republican president in my lifetime has launched an illegal war and crashed the economy—every single fucking one of them. Trump is no different.

Yes! This is a huge problem here in Tompkins County where not only can new families not enroll, but existing families risk losing their subsidy if they are up for renewal.

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This is crazy. Why would anyone want to come to the US while this regime is in charge?

minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/m... “It has always been injustice against people of color,” Stumon said. “So for me, if they’re around here — and I’m just going to say it — if they would kill a white man, I have no chance as a Black woman.”

Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $852 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2026: $265 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2026: $249 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2026: $7.25 an hour

Ep. 2 of BridgeCare's Child Care Matters Podcast digs into the complex mix of child care funding streams, and the growing disconnect between what families can afford to pay and how much it costs to provide quality care. And it features me :) Check it out here: getbridgecare.com/podcast/epis...

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Holy shit. He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him. His hands were on the pavement when he was shot. He never had his hand on a weapon. Cold blooded murder.

How many executions will it take until half the country decides enough is enough? 🤬🤬🤬😢

"beyond a reasonable doubt"

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

Unconscionable. What are we doing, America??

Yes, being a dictator does make things easier than the messiness of democracy. FFS. Is there any step that is too far for republicans before they call this guy out.

Im not sure what another 3 years of this looks like. Even if more checks and balances are in place after the midterms, that only works in a functioning government, which we dont currently seem to have...

You can tell the administration is serious about rooting out fraud in Minnesota by the fact they just forced all of the prosecutors working those fraud cases to resign.

As the old saying goes, everyone—whether Democrat, Republican, or independent—relies on someone who relies on childcare.

Some good news to end the week.

"We had whistles. They had guns." This tragedy made all the worse by the lies this administration has been spreading about Renee Good.

The freeze on child care funding will have a devastating impact on child care providers, children, and families across the country. Use this resource from @childcareforeveryfamily.org to contact your member of Congress: childcareforeveryfamily.org/action/

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

If the United States Constitution doesn’t protect you from a federal agent shooting you in the face for the “crime” of turning your car around, it doesn’t exist. ICE has become a paramilitary force with zero oversight and a Secretary in Kristi Noem who encourages the chaos. ENOUGH.

Abolish ICE.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

This is going to have big impacts on child care providers’ ability to keep their doors open. And the idea that the administration can review data quickly to check authenticity and keep mine flowing is farcical when DOGE cut half the regional offices!

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

From the world’s policeman to the world’s thief and bully. What an absolute disgrace.

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

This broad brush action will have a devastating impact on thousands of MN families who rely on child care assistance to work. And even a small delay in payments can threaten the livelihood of child care providers given the slim margins on which they operate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

The overt racism coming out of our national institutions is so jarring.

Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan

Shameful.

This is a helpful overview of the challenges that have to be addressed to realize universal child care in NYC: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

How can anyone with morals support this administration? They are working overtime to make sure low income Americans go hungry. 🤬🤬🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Our analysis of the cost of universal child care in NYC is quoted in this @theatlantic.com piece on Mamdani's child care proposal. Big cost, but potential for big reward. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Unconscionable and indefensible.

2 statewide races in GA, 3 PA state Supreme Court races, Virginia Governor, New Jersey Governor, California redistricting. Dems winning HUGE everywhere. The resistance is alive & well. Tonight is a TOTAL repudiation of that cruel, corrupt, lawless madman in the White House & his cowardly enablers.

As always with this family, the so called weaponization of the Justice system is actually the complete opposite. Completely fair and right investigations, that disappeared due to corrupt or incompetent judges, a slow moving AG, and then the misguided votes of several million people...

A single mother of four in Ohio whose children receive SNAP benefits puts it very clearly. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/28/o...

Cash-strapped Head Start centers across the country are being forced to close their doors, with more expected to shutter as the shutdown continues.