An important piece by @brycecovert.bsky.social on Trump's destruction of fair housing enforcement: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I just handed in a draft, which marks the end of my working year. I can't say this is a year I will miss. But I did do work that I'm really proud of, so yeah, let's do that end of year thing:

Under Trump, the Fair Housing Act is essentially dead www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Trump administration has completely abandoned enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, a key Civil Rights era achievement. That's left Kenneth Hansbrough, a blind wheelchair user, trapped in an apartment that puts his safety at risk. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Here's Trump's EEOC chair making a specific callout to ask white men who have "experienced discrimination at work based on [their] race or sex" to file complaints x.com/andrealucase...

The Trump admin announced today that it would no longer fund health systems that accept Medicaid/Medicare and offer gender-affirming care. That will affect everyone receiving the care -- not just people *on* Medicaid/Medicare. Hospitals will likely choose Medicaid/Medicare over trans patients.

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

Under the second Trump administration, enforcement against bosses who steal workers' wages has dropped 97%. Enforcement against bosses who put workers at risk of injury, illness, or death is down 35%. goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...

This headline basically says it all except I'd argue it's not very quiet ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Interesting to see the people fighting against prison slavery start to put public pressure on the companies that profit from it

I'm also thinking of Cornelius Taylor. He was killed in Atlanta when the city cleared a homeless encampment and crushed the tent he was inside—across from Ebenezer Baptist Church, just days before MLK Day, when crowds gathered to honor justice and equality. Story by @brycecovert.bsky.social:

A Trump official “received authorization to expense more than $35,000 in taxpayer money for the trip” to Nairobi while “pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud”

Disparate impact discrimination is literally written into civil rights law. The EEOC, which enforces civil rights in the workplace, has decided to erase it. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Shout out to the 1.1mn men who took paternity leave so far in 2025, up from 843k last year with one month to go in the year. Some good things are happening too! h/t @laurarosner.bsky.social

Under Trump, the EEOC has turned its back on a crucial tool for fighting workplace discrimination www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Where are the work requirements for rich failsons

The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.

OK, starting to see a trend here--unemployment is up a tenth every month since midsummer (approximate b/c missing data) www.bls.gov/news.release...

The unemployment rate, at 4.6 percent, is now at its highest level since September, 2021, as the economy was still emerging from the pandemic. It's up from 4 percent in January.

Australia's already moving to tighten its gun laws in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting. If only we could see anything close to that kind of action here. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

No one should be fired without just cause. Racially abusing or sexually harassing a customer (or coworker) is quite often a just cause for termination, because we live in a society and people’s actions affect other people. It’s not as simple as “siding with a corporation against a poor racist”

A cop car has been parked so illegally in my neighborhood since at least 6am this morning that it's forcing cars to drive in the oncoming traffic lane to get around it

The agenda could not be more blatant

The Trump administration is not anti-crime. It is totally for crime done by rich people.

Since January, I've been tracking how immigration is affecting the child care industry. This report brings stunning numbers to what I've heard: 39,000 foreign-born child care workers have been driven out of the profession due to increased immigration enforcement hechingerreport.org/immigration-...

NEW: Here's my story on Arlington, Texas, becoming the first known city in the nation to kill a city-wide LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination policy in response to the Trump administration. With no statewide protections, it was one of the few things protecting LGBTQ+ Texans: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I can attest to this, and will add that the editors are genuinely nice people, which counts for a lot in this industry.

For a brief time American workers had a lot of leverage over employers. That power has now evaporated.

Celebrating good news when I see it news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

"An attorney with [the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project] explained that despite a desire to assist the child, the nonprofit lost most of their federal funding in March after the Trump administration terminated contracts" coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...

NEW: Rural health is in crisis. Congress created a $50B rescue package and gave states just weeks to compete for a slice of it. $3.75B hinges on whether states pass a series of Trump-approved policies, including restrictions on SNAP. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

I'm sorry, a third of Republicans support universal childcare, even when they're told that it would mean increasing the federal deficit? That's a lot more than I would have guessed! brightspotcdn.byu.edu/ea/ce/3e5b7e...

My first @hellgatenyc.com byline! A look at what Zohran Mamdani has to do starting day one if he wants to deliver on his promise to create universal childcare: hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Clark County converted several older motels into non-congregate shelters, including one to house families. Since its family shelter opened in 2021, the county estimates 1,838 children – roughly 875 families – were diverted from the child welfare system. My latest via @nevadacurrent.com

Heritage Foundation and their ilk aiming to legalize sex discrimination in employment.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's cuts to foreign aid have fueled the first increase in child deaths in decades www.wsj.com/health/for-f...

The number of children in Nevada taken from their families due to housing has been rising since eviction moratoria and pandemic supports went away nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/03/h...

Studies have found that higher staffing levels result in better care and fewer deaths and more than pay for themselves. Nurses, radicalized by the pandemic, fought ferociously for codified staffing ratios. And now this. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“My pay has ranged from 40 cents per day as a janitor to as much as 26 cents an hour as a graphic designer in the printing plant when I was at Nash Correctional, where, among other duties, my job entailed proofreading the 2016, 2017, and 2018 annual reports for Correction Enterprises.”

The EEOC, the main federal agency in charge of protecting American workers' rights, has abandoned trans, nonbinary, and other gender non-conforming workers, leaving them with little ability to get justice www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Analysts told me that they agree with @amnesty.org in that Israel's genocide in Gaza is not over. The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Old enough to remember when the federal government withholding Medicaid funds from states that didn't expand the program under the ACA was deemed unconstitutionally coercive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Lifetime ban. This is the energy we need in response to these powerful, depraved men.

Among the more than 40,000 people bailed out by The Bail Project since 2018, 92% returned to court. A third had their cases outright dismissed.

Next time you hear that we can't afford healthcare subsidies or food stamps, remember that we're basically setting $16 billion on fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Trump administration has officially killed a Biden rule that would have required retirement advisors to act in their clients' best interests. Read more about what that rule mattered: inthesetimes.com/article/unle...

“Missouri’s leadership is not interested in preventing children from coming into foster care.” — Darrell Missey, former head of the Children’s Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services. www.thenation.com/article/soci... by @brycecovert.bsky.social

North Carolina as of today has implemented a draconian law that makes it more difficult for people to be released pretrial. It eliminates entirely pretrial release with a written notice to appear, which is, quite frankly, the most retrograde thing I've seen. nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/2025/11/04/i...

That's two coffee shops on strike--Starbucks workers are on day 14 of their strike. Don't cross the picket line, find your coffee somewhere else! And read more about the coffee shop labor movement here: www.bonappetit.com/story/barist...