When working people peacefully come together, we can stand up to the wealthiest bosses and the most powerful politicians. Let’s build worker power across the country! Join America’s unions at a #MayDay event near you: https://www.mobilize.us/aflcio/?q=May%20Day

It is true that it remains hostile to women and queer people, and Trump has ended some successful harassment training programs. But modern career and technical education isn't just about entering the trades. I've written about it newrepublic.com/article/2061...

because the cruelty is the point

Caregiving college students are juggling school, work, family—and often unaffordable or unsafe housing. 🔓 Today, our #HigherEd team released new data that shows how expanding emergency aid, improving cost-of-attendance calculations, and strengthening data collection can help.

Join @americanprogress.bsky.social .social for a discussion about the federal and state policy outlook for community colleges next Wed, April 15th. Panelists will discuss affordability, workforce alignment, & apprenticeship legislation. Register here ⬇️ www.americanprogress.org/events/feder...

(virtually) stop by to hear about federal and state policy updates & how community colleges are responding so they can continue meeting the needs of learners in their regions. Thank you to @americanprogress.bsky.social for hosting!

Don’t ask me how it’s going.

New from me: by the end of the week, the war in Iran will likely have cost $25 billion, with Trump poised to ask for $200 billion more Below is a writeup, but the meat of it is this table, which shows what an equal amount of funding could cover domestically www.americanprogress.org/article/by-t...

$1 billion could give 120,000 people free tuition for a two-year Associate’s Degree, or it could provide free child care for a year for $71,000 kids. That’s the cost of this war every single day.

Change is brewing at Starbucks! Congrats to the Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas at Banksville Plaza on winning their union - the 21st Starbucks in Pittsburgh to unionize. America’s unions stand in solidarity with baristas across the country as they fight for a fair contract. ✊

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Next time you hear anyone say they shouldn’t “have to tip” show them this schedule of the tipped hourly minimum by state $2.63 Arkansas $4.35 Iowa $3.63 Maryland $3.27 NH $2.83 PA $2.33 WI $2.13 AL GA IN KS KY LA MS NC NE SC TX TN UT VA WY www.dol.gov/agencies/whd...

I’m in Senate Judiciary today, where DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is expected to answer oversight questions related to immigration enforcement tactics, the arrests of U.S. citizens, children in detention centers, terrorism threats + more

Our @sbworkersunited.org baristas at corporate stores are asking customers to #DeleteTheApp to show you stand with workers, not billion-dollar corporations. Deleting the Starbucks app sends a message: there's no business as usual while union-busting.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Congratulations to @uaw.org workers at Volkwagen’s Chattanooga plant on their historic tentative agreement. This life-changing first contract shows what is possible when workers stand up to demand their fair share.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers. A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers. The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025. 1/ me, for @forbes.com

“The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,” Ms. Weissman said. “And clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

because the government is not reopen yet. The Senate's vote on Sunday was "procedural" (a step towards passing said deal, not actually passing said deal).

Like clockwork, we are back to the Republican framing that government assistance is okay if its farmer bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy & big corporations but hell no for people who need help with healthcare, food or housing.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Seven years ago, Congress’ Preventing Maternal Deaths Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump — but the funding it provides to states to address maternal health disparities is set to expire at the end of this month. via @virginiamercury.com

It is funny for sure. The reason for the difference is that the closer analogy here is between Columbia's board and ABC's executives, who responded similarly. Kimmel is more like Columbia faculty who have resisted their bosses' capitulation. The recurring pattern is: management cowers, labor fights.

We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/

I went to Texas A&M. I took the sort of classes Dr. McCoul teaches. This is scary and sad and telling of the times we are living in.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

BREAKING: Washington, D.C. sues the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard in the nation's capital.

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”

I was fcking around with ChatGPT to prove a point about Newsom’s trolling just now and LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT.

It's just completely looney-tunes to me that a huge number of flight attendants aren't paid until the plane is in the air. Like when you hear the announcement "flight attendants, please prepare the cabin for departure," they're being instructed to do a work task that they literally won't be paid for

En route to this morning’s encampment eviction with tents, camping supplies, & moving/storage bags. Help us order more supplies as evictions ramp up: CA: $RemoraHouseDC GB: givebutter.com/remorahouse

The Trump admin is weakening federal agencies that support worker rights, and wants to make it easier for employers to get away with discriminatory practices. More on this in my @educationwork.newamerica.org blog with @morganpolk.bsky.social: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Do THIS kind of reporting on everything:

🚨 Medicaid cuts will affect *millions* of students who receive services and support at school. 🚨 🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po... #Disability #Disabilities #OBBB #OBBBA #SpecialEducation

The for-profit prison company GEO Group has surged in value under President Trump. But despite its soaring fortunes, the ICE contractor has continued to resist having to pay detainees more than $1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live. (Published March)

xAI’s Memphis campus is located in a predominantly Black community known as Boxtown which has been historically burdened with industrial projects that cause pollution. "This isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a public health emergency,” wrote State Rep. Justin Pearson.

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

NEW: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

The administration gave varying rationales. SAMHSA said it didn't want to "silo" services. HHS claimed spending on the LGBTQ option jeopardized the rest of the hotline. But this is part of a clearly stated Trump admin effort to eliminate services for, and recognition of, trans people writ large.

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The administration wants to change how gun rights are restored but hasn't laid out what the process will be, raising concerns that domestic abuse offenders will get guns back — and women will die 19thnews.org/2025/06/trum...