Chan voted for a ceasefire resolution in early 2024, calls for end to military aid to Israel and labels Israel's actions as a genocide. She didn't accept AIPAC money. DropSite News' reporting claiming otherwise is just misrepresenting so much stuff. jweekly.com/2026/06/01/a...

Hey, #NEISvoid and #MECFS ppls-- I know we SAY this a lot but is it cited anywhere you know of? - We're probably not diagnosing ppl at the mild end AND ppl at the severe end at the rare we're dxing moderate presentation.

Gabriel Zucman, the world's foremost expert on income and wealth inequality, released a chart that shows REAL INCOME growth in 2025. The bottom 50% of wage earners fell behind, the next 40% averaged a measly $500 more. The top 10% captured nearly every cent of economic growth.

TURN YOUR BALLOT IN

Independent reporting is incredibly important and @rangemedia.co has the best coverage of the #Spokane3 trial. It looks like the US Attorney's Office put democracy on trial. Democracy lost.

You should vote either in person at a vote center, or drop your mail-in ballot off at a ballot drop-off box. Click the link to find one near you, and make a plan to vote today! www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...

🚨 NEW: The Stop AI Strip Searches Act sponsored by @californialabor.bsky.social and the California Teamsters just PASSED the Assembly! 🚨

Larry Levitt (@larrylevitt.bsky.social) and Molly Brodie (@mollybrodie.bsky.social) have worked hand in glove with me to provide strategic direction for and oversee KFF, and I trust they will sustain what we have built. They will be the perfect leadership team for KFF’s next chapter.

Today on Volts: It has rapidly become conventional wisdom that Biden's industrial policy was weighed down by labor-quality standards. Betony Jones developed those standards for DOE & has since surveyed companies who received federal money about whether they slowed things down. Turns out they didn't!

Seconded. Or thirded. Or flatted thirded. Or whatever note he would have played over whatever change that would have sent a chill up our spines. New York should do this.

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Big energy at the REI Boycott action at the Berkeley store. If you'd like to have fun, sharpen your 30 second pitch skills, and support terrific recreational equipment store workers, you can do so Sunday and Monday at the Boycott Anniversary Sale days. Solidarity is infectious!

How high could policymakers set a national minimum wage? NEW report from @benzipperer.org proposes an evidence-backed benchmark that would lift pay for nearly 40 million workers without the job losses critics typically predict. 1/3

NAACP STATEMENT: “.. The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

My op-ed in the Boston Globe today. Gifted link below:

Governor Spanberger’s decision to veto public sector collective bargaining is a betrayal to Virginia’s workers who were promised change. We’re disappointed, not deterred. We will not stop fighting until all workers in Virginia have their rights protected by law. Onward.

The point is to control women, not to protect the fetus.

1) 🇬🇧 Good news from the UK: the government is investing 4.75 million pounds in the study "Sequence ME & Long Covid" It will allow the sequencing of 6000 ME/CFS samples previously collected through DecodeME. The project is led by the University of Edinburgh and Action for ME.

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

A looming University of California-wide strike of 40,000 workers could delay medical appointments and shut down parts of campus life, including many dining halls. Workers say inflation, healthcare costs and housing struggles are pushing them to the brink: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Does anyone think Jimmy Carter created the global stagflation crisis of the 1970s? If anything voters overblamed him. While Trump is singular and sole driver of current inflationary conditions, from his tariffs wars to Iran. So voters are objectively correct in rating Trump worse on inflation.

BREAKING: Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has announced a balanced budget with no cuts to essential services, no property tax increases, $4 billion more from the state government, and a new tax hike on the ultra-wealthy. prospect.org/2026/05/12/m...

Unnecessary, preventable, cost-push inflation. Trump's policies have directly led to a decline in real wages for American workers. It's rare that a President controls real wage growth - but in this case he has absolutely caused a negative real wage growth.

The average hourly wage for private-sector workers in April 2026 was $37.41. When Trump took office in January 2025, it was $37.35 (adjusted for inflation). There has been essentially zero real wage growth under Trump 2.0.

Pay isn't keeping up with inflation. The combination of slower wage growth and higher prices means that real wages are falling for the first time since the postpandemic inflation surge. #NumbersDay

brutal but extremely important piece from Nick Kristol www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Extremist is the death and destruction that Benjamin Netanyahu government brings on a daily basis. Extremist is them introducing the death penalty for Palestinians. Extremist is this apartheid, genocidal Israeli Government that our Government shamefully supports.

Insightful new paper on California's fast-food minimum wage. One key finding: an important payroll dataset negatively biases estimated employment effects because the policy sharply cut turnover, so fewer workers get double-counted within a pay period

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

"Fighting antisemitism," clumsily (and offensively) defined in these measures, must not be used as a smokescreen to attack immigrants and our freedom to dissent. And you know who else would be disqualified for green cards based on these guidelines? Many, many American Jews!

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Monopsony

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Uber has failed to create an appeals system to give drivers due process when they’re kicked off the app, violating the California law it carved out that declared app-based drivers independent contractors, a lawsuit filed Monday alleges. cal.news/4tWVKCC 📷️ David Swanson

35 Years of research time, lost. And now, with this administration, another decade, or more.

I'm not disappointed because I never bought into her, but I am disappointed someone running for Governor of California thinks this is a winning message.

“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”

Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.

HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Dems, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Dem could get censured for holding this position. @aoc.bsky.social moving on this moved...

Good followup, AP!

Huge shift in American views of Israel 2022: 55% view Israel favorably, 42% unfavorably 2026: 37% view Israel favorably, 60% unfavorable Generational divide hits both parties: 57% of *Republicans under 50* are negative on Israel via Pew Research Center poll: www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...

"During the past decade, voters in four Republican-leaning states — Arizona, Florida, Missouri, and Nebraska — enacted big minimum wage increases." In the four states, "wages rose substantially, while restaurant and retail employment was unaffected." – @arindube.bsky.social

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

"Long COVID received 14% of its disability commensurate funding... ME/CFS is the most under-funded condition, receiving <1% of its YLD [years lived with disability] proportionate funding." Plus the LC disability weight of 0.21 likely underestimates its burden. www.nature.com/articles/s43...