"Relax. I'm just boning up on the old constitution." "You're going to regret that, pinko. Oh, I am so sick of people Hiding behind the bill of rights. Look, he got chocolate on it." "I didn't mean to." "Mm-hmm. You just licked off the part that forbids cruel and unusual punishment." "Beautiful."

Today's the last day for 150K+ feds who took the "Fork" (deferred resignation program), including 800+ at the Social Security Administration. The experience at SSA demonstrates 3 things about the DRP: 1. It's the tip of the iceberg 2. It wasn't really voluntary 3. It hurts service to the public

I was so physically ill after reading through a bit of my following feed tonight I went in search of diversion classifying wildlife in my volunteer gig at Snapshot Wisconsin (Zooniverse, citizen science). Here's some critters that made me feel less lost. 🌿📷🌎 1/10 red fox

TERFs: "We are the only true defenders of women's rights!" Also TERFs: "Women can be basically considered a form of currency"

What a waste of District resources, at a moment when we're cutting services for non-billionaire people.

Brilliant letter!

the "work" of this vile man with odious views was making a fortune fomenting racism and sexism, so... no

man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence

SSI lifted millions from poverty last year. The Trump Administration plans to cut it next year, harming nearly 400K low-income disabled and older people. www.cbpp.org/blog/analyzi...

Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.

Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy!

Unions boost wages 🚀 On average, a union worker earns 12.8% more in wages than their nonunionized peers. But unions don’t just help union workers—they help ALL workers by raising standards. Read our new report about how unions are good for workers AND communities: www.epi.org/publication/...

My friend wrote a book! Go read it on a beach!

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them

I realize we're all in the business of normalizing the fertility panic now, but what the heck is this. Folks, even if the birthrate magically quadrupled tomorrow, millions of infants could not backfill a deported immigrant workforce. Why mention fertility here at all? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

Enraging -- but the story you may not know is that local and state governments have been dramatically expanding paid sick leave in recent years with laws that protect low-wage and part-time workers as well as others. nationalpartnership.org/travesty-27-...

Today, we protected I-82 and the fair wages of tipped workers, upholding the will of 74% of DC voters.   I'm grateful to my colleagues for rejecting a repeal that would ignore the realities workers face while trying to live and work in one of the most expensive cities in the country.

last night’s thunder turned our compasses

Today’s ruling on birthright citizenship has the potential to cause chaos at the Social Security Administration, which assigns Social Security numbers to over 99% of all babies born in the US in an automatic data exchange with states.

We found a big, persistent gender gap in unpaid caregiving. But a gender gap is not a gender war. This isn't a story of women versus men -- it's about all of us versus an economic system we need to fix, together.

Fresh off the presses with @jessicamason.bsky.social: Americans’ unpaid caregiving is worth more than $1.1 trillion annually – and women are doing almost two-thirds of the work. #CareCantWait nationalpartnership.org/if-americans...

This is the administration going to the hilt to prosecute a cancer researcher whose only misstep was not properly declaring some research materials. This is for no other reason than they’re angry her immigration detention garnered sympathetic coverage and want to signal that no one is safe

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

ok but what comes after the second time as farce

This is why right now is dumber than thr Iraq runup. There was a year of endless propaganda on top of the war mindset of post-9/11 and Bush at +60% approval. Right now its a historically unpopular president following an unpopular ally into a war nobody wants and he's making zero attempt to sell it

JFC. It is not feminist to trade our bodily autonomy for social supports. It is not feminist to say we owe babies to the nation. It is not feminist for our reproductive capacities to be subject to government demands. Pronatalism is not a tool feminists can use. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

As a serious, hard-nosed Beltway observer, I'm taking seriously arguments on both sides

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

"chaotically deporting our neighbors" and "kicking poor people off health insurance" are popular American values only in the charnel house of Stephen Miller's brain

Happy Pride all, more photos on Monday

every joke about the Trump administration will eventually look like a premonition

oh american discourse is "too polarized"? then how come no one is talking about robert falcon scott, roald amundsen, frederick cook, manhauling, scurvy, frostbite and the submarine nautilus??????

your kids only need five pencils

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Who else is excited for "CEO of Walmart threatened with prison unless prices cut"?

Experts fear that this system wouldn't only put the privacy of undocumented immigrants at risk, but the privacy of authorized immigrants and natural-born citizens. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

I am reminded of the report about Israel's "AI" systems to identify bombing targets in Gaza, successfully churning out coordinates regardless of what they actually were -- much less questioning anything about the core immorality of the task itself. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/d...

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...

NPEU members turned out in DC alongside @ifpte.bsky.social to tell Musk and Trump #HandsOff our unions.

In addition to the big #HandsOff rally in DC today, also a solid showing against the genocide in Gaza, calling for an arms embargo and for ICE to free Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and others.

Madison, WI #HandsOff 🥰🥰🥰

Something deeply wrong with Silicon Valley-brained weirdos who find a future of full high-tech eugenics easier to envision than building a society where all of our kids don't have to get into Harvard to have a good life www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

90% of the people in the US with institutional power:

NEW: Frank Bisignano, the nominee to run the Social Security Administration, is CEO of an oligopoly for back-office banking services, buoyed by at least 40 acquisitions in the last 40 years. SSA could be his latest conquest. prospect.org/health/2025-...

We have a paper out this morning on the risk of significant damage to Social Security from actions taken by the Trump Administration and DOGE. Here’s a summary 🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

On Sunday, join @lettercarriers.bsky.social for a day of action to say HELL NO to gutting the U.S. Postal Service! Find an event near you: www.nalc.org/news/fight-l...

The shared history of humanity runs deep and broad, connecting people everywhere in the world. There was once a time when all of us today share exactly the same ancestors, who are a gateway that connects us all to the same place within the great Tree of Life on our planet. Image: NASA