She/her. Economic Justice VP at National Partnership for Women & Families. Previously VP LGBTQI+ Research and Comms at CAP. Hyperfixated on cats, raccoons, and administrative law đłď¸âđ
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Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander women still face far too much discrimination in society and the workplace. Today, on NHPI Women's Equal Pay Day, we must recommit to ending wage disparities & improving worker protections to break these harmful economic patterns in our country.
No one should have to work nearly 8 extra months just to make as much as their white male counterparts do in a yearâbut thatâs the reality Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander women face. This NHPI Womenâs Equal Pay Day, we renew the call: Equal work should always mean equal pay.
This is a monumental case for American democracy and the health of our countryâs economy. The courts must rule in favor of Federal Reserve independence and against Trumpâs authoritarian instincts. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Why are we not more outraged?
Looks like it's gonna be "Give Trans People $20 Day" tomorrow!! - Texas HB 8 - Pod Save America platforming Yglesias - Matt Walsh reacting to the Minnesota tragedy Reply here with your GFM and I'll reskeet you and give 10 folks $20 each.
How did the worst person in my college class get elected labor commissioner in NC đ¤Śđ˝ââď¸? His latest move? Eliminating a metric that his GOP predecessor created to asses whether workers in his agency âtreats people fairlyâ bc he considers it illegal DEI. www.theassemblync.com/politics/nc-...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin's new research shows us why the pronatalist argument of returning to traditional roles of men as providers and women as homemakers would actually cause the birthrate to drop even further. 19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...
Itâs hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
âas long as Republicans can keep defining Democrats by terms Democrats themselves rarely use, and everyone comes to believe this through repetition is a much bigger challenge for the impressions of the Democratic Party than any lefty words they might on occasionâ
Washington Spirit AND Bay FC fans, letâs chant âFree DCâ tomorrow at Oracle Park at the 51st minute to show solidarity! Spread the word. đŤśđ˝â˝ď¸
BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
Florida panther: 1 Trump: 0
Workers built this country and made it strong, and we arenât about to let billionaires and union-busters take it from us. Join us for our Workers Labor Day week of action where weâre fighting for freedom, fairness and security #WorkersDeserve. WorkersLaborDay.org
Hell is patient đ
New ICE recruitment ad just dropped via Jesse Welles
How itâs going in DC today: tried to order catering for a goodbye lunch for our law fellow but the restaurant couldnât deliver bc there are no drivers bc of Trumpâs reign of terror.
"my guess is that arrests and deportations will eventually do even more economic harm than tariffs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/iceing-the...
The crazy thing is that despite this costing literally billions of dollars; they have the money for it! Thatâs right, Congress decided to cut funding for public broadcasting and benefits for Americans and instead give CBP billions for the border wall, which theyâll now use to paint the wall black.
In Petworth and just saw MPD smoking a cigar and watching teenage boys at football practice. They looked like they were having a great time just hanging out while surveilling kids đ
âSocial Security is a benefit â and a promise â that no one who has earned it should ever have to worry about losingâ bluevirginia.us/2025/08/new-...
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign âpermission slipsâ & take police escorts to leave? Thatâs not procedure. Thatâs some old Jim Crow playbook.
Big news: a federal court just ruled that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act WAS passed constitutionally and will remain the law of the land. Pregnant and postpartum workers will keep their hard-won federal rights under the #PWFA nationalpartnership.org/report/know-...
Just saw a bunch of military vehicles by the Lincoln Memorial. What crime are yâall stopping? Is Nicholas Cage stealing another national treasure?
In Virginia Beach with @cffe.bsky.social to for a community roundtable talk about why Social Security is so important for veterans
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphereâs promise.
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Trump to newborns of VA workers:
Trump admin motto: Have more babies but we will claw back your paid leave
It doesnât have to be this way!!! If we fully enforced protections against pregnancy discrimination and retaliation, #paidleave4all, fully funded home and community based services, and affordable accessible childcare. Trump removed the DOL report on this but you can still watch youtu.be/ukypv3Y47ic
Trumpâs pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggested a pause of the monthly employment reports, the only timely economic measure of how women of color are faring in the economy. 19thnews.org/2025/08/susp...
"Among the favorite pastimes of Republican men, two stand out: first, boasting about what strong, courageous, hypermasculine operators they are; and second, publicly melting down about how pants-pissingly terrified they are of American cities." prospect.org/justice/2025...
Letâs also place this into context with basketball players in the W having sex toys thrown at them and the subsequent assertion and acceptance it was all in âinnocentâ fun to promote a memecoin.
You can assert your right even after answering some questions Did you tell an officer that you did buy a sub earlier that night? Or confirm that you own a pink polo? That doesn't mean you have to tell them that you threw sandwich. You can still assert your rights and then stop talking đ§ľ4/4
That's ten times what the federal government has ever spent on sex changes for trans people in prison btw
Trump's war on immigrants shows up clearly in the data: the age 16+ immigrant popn has dropped 3.8%â1.9 millionâsince January. It's a moral catastrophe, and an economic one. Deporting 1 million immigrants per year will cost ~6 million jobs over Trump's term. www.epi.org/publication/...
Iâm an influencer www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BdRgWg/
âWithin a mere 90 days, hundreds of thousands of heads of households, parents, caregivers, and contributors to the local economy lost their livelihoodsâ madamenoire.com/1446523/a-37...
And the very concerning part: âShe [Director Eschbach]also said that remaining employees would examine contractorsâ previously submitted affirmative action plans to determine if thereâs evidence of âlongstanding unlawful discriminationââ
After months of not working on audits, investigations, or complaints of discrimination against veterans and disabled employees and job seekers at federal contractors www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
The U.S. just saw the highest level of monthly layoffs since the pandemic â driven by DOGE cuts, AI, and corporate concerns over Trump's tariffs. "New Golden Age" for whom, exactly? https://www.newsweek.com/us-hits-highest-layoffs-since-covid-2111794
Pure evil
Btw the Trump admin is also making it harder for veterans to find jobs. It gutted the office in charge of fair hiring for veterans and admitted they havenât been investing complaints of discrimination against veterans.
âWhen they said, âyou wonât be able to work,â Iâm like, my God. I cried. Because I had a good relationship with the clients and they love me so much. They love me so much because I took good care of them,â said Robert in a phone interview. via @wgbh.org
Ahead of the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, the National Partnership for Women & Families breaks down why it matters for women, disabled people, and why paid family and medical leave is part of the program's unfinished legacy nationalpartnership.org/social-secur...
âIf weâre not enrolling everybody in this program, weâre likely to see only higher-income people taking advantage of itâ
Great tips for what to do when you see cops
TL:DR DC doesnât need MORE policing. Stop stalling and release the Epstein files.
âIf the President wants to help D.C. residents, he should walk across the newly paved Rose Garden, exit the White House, visit a few neighborhoods, and listen to residentsâ nationalpartnership.org/news_post/tr...
âThe U.S. is the only advanced economy thatâs had declining female labor force participation in the last 20 years, and a lot of that is" because of lack of social safety net and caregiving supportsâ @lipstickecon.bsky.social right as always www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
We are less than a month away from when we should get regulations on whether the FDA will ban (or not) shocking disabled kids at the strength of tasers. Only one school in the US does this. www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eA...
The data out of Washington State is clear: mandatory paid leave programs mean smaller wage gaps between genders and races. Getting sick or taking time off shouldnât mean losing a paycheck. Itâs time to pass paid leave at the national level. nationalpartnership.org/report/stron...
"We canât lose sight of the conservative takeover of the Court and the damage itâs doing to our democracy. In case after case, the Court has made life easier for the rich and powerful and harder for the rest of us." â AFJ President @rachelrossi.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
BREAKING: With #2030Census prep already underway, President Trump says he's instructed Commerce Dept to "immediately begin work" on a "new" census that excludes people living in the states without legal status from a count the 14th Amendment says must include âwhole number of persons in each stateâ
âFrom 2017 to 2022, a total of 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in the USâ Add this to the list of unacceptable consequences of Uberâs refusal to treat drivers as employees and refusal be held accountable www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
LBJ signed Voting Rights Act 60 years ago today. It ended Jim Crow & transformed American democracy But now countryâs most important civil rights law under attack from every angle, from Texas Republicans to Supreme Court. This is 5 alarm fire for democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Restaurants are closing because employees make too much!" Not one word about the thousands of people laid off in the DMV in 2025. It's all about those greedy waitstaff. Nothing about bizarre and arbitrary fees. Nothing about the refusal to increase prices up front. Nope. It's the waiters.
For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted govât data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling. I canât say that anymore. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
Read more about what's happening to Black women's unemployment in this piece from @chabeli.bsky.social: 19thnews.org/2025/07/blac...
Unemployment among single moms has climbed to the highest rate in nearly four years at 6.5% in July, showing the increasing challenges women workers and caregivers are facing in the Trump economy. 6/10
Certain groups of workers are particularly bearing the brunt of the Trump Slump. Unemployment for Black workers hit 7.2% last month, and Black women rose to 6.3%, making July their worst month since the fall of 2021. 5/10
Womenâs meager job growth has been buoyed by growth in the health care industry â a sector that is now likely to see cuts in the wake of the Republican spending bill. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru... 4/10
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It's time for academics to seriously consider collectively organizing a boycott of institutions that cave to the Trump Administration and surrender their academic freedom while imperiling everyone else's. No visits. No publications. No tenure letters. No lectures.
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
A must-read on the breadth of Trumpâs war on disabled people. And donât miss NPWFâs post on his 4 worst attacks on disabled workers: nationalpartnership.org/trump-labor-...
Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a misconduct complaint against a federal judge overseeing high-profile lawsuits against the Trump administration, escalating President Donald Trumpâs ongoing assault on the judiciary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Short post about the meaning of Trump's homelessness EO publiccomment.blog/p/gulag-first
From the president and HR director of a meatpacking plant in Omaha â¤ľď¸ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
âMamdaniâs detractors donât care about his race; they care about clawing back a century of civil rights and the multicultural liberal democracy that liberalism aspired to build.â
âTrumpâs orders havenât changed the statutory requirements in Title VII or the equal pay measures in other federal and state lawsâ but his attacks on equal opportunity are confusing employers and putting workers at increased risk of wage discrimination news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
President Donald Trumpâs tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported, a slight increase in the projection that takes into account the final tweaks that Republicans made before getting the legislation over the finish line.
TIL Trumpâs daily immigrant arrest quotas means when Iâm going through precheck in Ohio the TSA agent goes and finds a MAGNIFYING GLASS bc he is so ready to find my brown ass has a fake ID. I really wanted to ask what exactly he was looking for with the magnifying glass đ
đ¨ICE is using its billions of new dollars to go on a hiring spreeâand they wonât be sending their best. Expect lowered standards, less background checks, no social media vetting for extremist views(!) and LESS training on de-escalation, former ICE and DHS officials tell me đđ˝
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Trump administration is rolling back our protections. But I plan to keep fighting. I hope you will too. #ADA35 #Medicaid
Weâre here with our partners at #FamiliesFirst New Jersey to say #CareNotCuts. Cutting Medicaid, care, and food all to serve billionaires is a betrayal of families everywhere.
This moment from todayâs Medicaid vigil is so powerful⌠Question: What do you say to the people who voted to cut Medicaid? Be honest. Samantha Phillis: They voted against my childâs life. #MedicaidCutsKill
3 Supreme Court justices just said theyâre fine with race discrimination in elections www.vox.com/scotus/42109...
I really need UNC to stop devaluing my diploma
New: government watchdog agency GAO finds the trump administration has illegally paused Head Start grantmaking, illegally not spending as much on funding preschools as it is required to under law.
In what has been described as a âbarrage of attacks on workers,â the U.S. Department of Labor under President Donald Trump is planning to overhaul dozens of rules that protect workers from exploitation and wage theft.
NEW: The Supreme Court has already cleared the way for Trumpâs power grabs. Now, with states like Texas launching mid-decade gerrymanders, itâs becoming clear that "our nationâs highest court wonât be stepping in to protect voters of color." Read @BillyCorriher.bsky.social's full opinion here:
So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.
New @motherjones.com: Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants? Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false). Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.
My only hope is that one day Trump and his officials will face a tribunal on crimes against humanity.
No right wing politicians are fans of LCD Soundsystem, the only band that it's safe to like
âWithout immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.â
TOMORROW: @gruberg.bsky.social @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social @mauricewfp.bsky.social @akapczynski.bsky.social & I will be talking about how to build power in this new world we're living in. Need inspiration? Someone to ask all your unanswered questions? Join us! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Having spent most of my career covering the agencyâs gross mismanagement and horrific abuses, this chills me to the bone.
âICE now occupies the position of the largest US federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money at its annual disposal than the military of any country in the world apart from the US and Chinaâ www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Funny how all that protect womenâs sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
The Trump admin insists there are only two genders, but its immigration appeals boards just basically said, "'We donât think women are a socially cognizable group,' which certainly sounds like youâre saying, 'I donât know what you mean when you say âwomen.'â
lol I had no idea folks into sexist and racist shit posting were still on this site until I posted about the WNBA. Ran out of the shadows like roaches.
Simply because the WNBA is younger than its NBA counterpart and revenue has not yet reached the level of the NBA, does not mean that women should be saddled with unfair and inequitable shared revenue agreements. As the WNBPA said: pay us what you owe us! nationalpartnership.org/equitable-pa...
let's take stock here: (Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it. Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... đ¤ˇââď¸ YOLO?
they want to destroy higher education and do as much as they can to segregate what remains. basically, then the clock back to before the 1960s, when university education was reserved for a small slice of the public.
good job men! keep it up www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
T-1 hour! Join me and all-star panelists @leahlitman.bsky.social, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social , and @anthonymkreis.bsky.social as we talk about (sorry for legal jargon) the shitshow that is the Supreme Court www.americanprogress.org/events/presi...
From rallies to free David Huerta, to rapid response networks that unite communities and unions, to a successful battle to protect street vendors in NYC, Labor is mobilizing to fight ICE. @nataschaelena.bsky.social and I report on how.
It wasnât the type of job it was the good pay and benefits that came with them bc unions made them good jobs. Anyway, Congress just gave $5 billion+ in tax cuts to large corporations that already provide paid leave rather than mandate paid leave for all⌠nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/u...
CONGRESS MAKES THIS CALL, NOT TRUMP