I agree, no one should have to make the impossible choice btwn a paycheck and caring for yourself or a loved one. Unfortunately Trump’s law was just a big beautiful handout of taxpayer $$ to multibillion dollar corporations already providing paid leave benefits home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

Treasury, IRS Issue Guidance on the Permanent Expansion of Paid Family and Medical Leave under the Working Families Tax Cuts

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2026-28, providing guidance on the employer credit for paid family and medical leave (PFML) under the W...

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NEW: The House Democratic Women's Caucus is calling on Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) to resign after the House Ethics Committee concluded he violated House rules over sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Story first from Axios. 👇

Exclusive: House Democratic Women's Caucus calls on Chuck Edwards to resign

"A censure has no real consequences," the group said.

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Just your regular reminder that: 1) Almost everyone has an underlying health issue if you look hard enough 2) People with underlying health issues don't deserve to die for eating lettuce 3) We should be strengthening, not weakening our regulatory processes. And properly funding them.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

! The House Ethics Committee says it's finished an investigation into Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) and has "concluded there was substantial reason to believe Representative Edwards violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces."

Check out the latest edition of @interruptcrim.bsky.social's This Month in Criminalization by yours truly for the latest updates, calls to action & resistance around criminalization of migrants, Muslim groups, protesters, trans & unhoused folks www.interruptingcriminalization.com/newsletters/...

This Month in Criminalization: July 2026 — Interrupting Criminalization

The July 2026 installment of IC’s monthly criminalization roundup, in which IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie and researcher Kelsey Kitzke share hot topics and developments in criminalization, as well a...

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NEW: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and others had harsh words for the Trump administration Friday after our investigation into immigrant children who spent months in federal custody. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

DeLauro: Trump intentionally delaying immigrant children's release

U.S. Rep. Rosa Delauro called for action Friday on unaccompanied immigrant children held for months in federal custody.

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“Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Markwayne Mullin is a member of an Assemblies of God church, and nearly 9 in 10 members of the Assemblies of God voted for President Donald Trump in 2024.” www.christianitytoday.com/2026/07/rele...

Released Pastors Say Immigration Agents Mocked Them, Threatened Family Separation - Christianity Today

The Texas Assemblies of God leaders were detained on their way to a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event.

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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5d ago

While a Latino Christian National Network board member said that the Assemblies of God pastors came to the US legally and hold valid R-1 religious worker visas, ICE reportedly threatened them with prolonged family separation in order to pressure them into signing documents agreeing to self-deport 👇🏽

No matter how hard women work, our economy is set up to keep women overworked and underpaid to benefit a wealthy few. At the National Partnership, we found women make up more than 8 in 10 workers in the most AI vulnerable occupations. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...

In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing. (Gift Article)

Despite the administration’s best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women’s employment.

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Abilene city employee Frank Cortez died on the job July 21. The city provided no details, but reports say his death was "a medical issue & not the job he was performing" Heat related? It was 101 degrees that day but TX public workers aren't covered by OSHA. We may never know. tinyurl.com/mwtcvm52

Heat Related Death? Who Knows? - Confined Space

Did Abilene Public Works employee Frank Cortez die from excessive heat? We may never know, because Texas public employees aren't covered by OSHA.

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Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged

Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.

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The price of everyday essentials are rising faster than what people are earning, meaning missing work for life’s responsibilities hits even harder. Now more than ever, we need better paid leave.

Families Can't Afford to Go Without Paid Leave | National Partnership for Women & Families

We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...

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The Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the Trump regime to unjustly terminate #TPS for Haiti and Syria is set to upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of our immigrant neighbors—and the many sick and elderly Americans who depend on them to survive: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

Mass Deportation Of Healthcare Workers Will Devastate Families, Home Health And Eldercare

A special thanks to Donald Trump, Congressional allies for abandoning your loved ones needing special care. More than 350,000 immigrants' legal status is set to expire today.

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I believe this is what "moving to collaboration with MAHA" means

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last wk.

Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

AWFUL. Ordering ICE to target an ethnic group the president has repeatedly attacked is bigotry as official government policy. TPS recipients are the most vetted immigrants here. They have to pass background checks every 18 months. Most Haitians with TPS entered legally also!

ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say

The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.

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1 in 5 workers in the US don’t have access to a single paid sick day nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/u...

Reminder that many of the states with high measles cases don’t require paid sick days and prohibit cities from requiring it AND we don’t have a national requirement that workers have a single paid sick day nationalpartnership.org/report/nearl...

Nearly 73 Million Workers Live in States That Block Local Communities from Making Progress on Paid Sick Days | National Partnership for Women & Families

Lawmakers in 18 states across the country – the majority of which are in the South – fail to guarantee that workers can earn paid sick days, and at the same time block local governments from setting t...

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Ed Markey@edmarkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Measles vaccines are the best way to protect your family from this dangerous disease. Our federal health leaders should be saying that loudly, instead of pushing conspiracies. RFK’s anti-science agenda is deadly. For the health of our loved ones, RFK must go.

Glad I left when I did. Know who isn’t backing away from full throated support for trans rights and recognizes our rights are entwined?

Sal r.r. tamarkin@sal.gay · 2w ago

center for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"

What CAP said: the government should not ban trans people from sports How WaPo reported it:

Just gonna say, as the author of the 2021 report, I stand by every single thing I wrote

Sal r.r. tamarkin@sal.gay · 2w ago

center for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who assassinated Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, just got sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years. He will die in prison.

Man Who Killed Dem Lawmaker and Her Husband Sentenced to Two Life Terms Plus 40 Years

A federal judge said it was the longest sentence he's ever handed down, for a man who posed as a police officer to gun down elected officials in their own homes.

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What the actual fuck. First pic is a google search. Second is what comes up when you search. Really hope the story was pulled bc it’s nonsense www.washingtonpost.com/information/...

I wanted to visualize what it looked like when the 988 hotline’s LGBTQ+ youth services shut down. This is what it looks like: almost 70,000 people reaching out for help, then nothing. As of today, it’s been a year since "Option 3" went away.

The 988 cliff for LGBTQ+ youth | Created with Datawrapper

From September 2022 to July 2025, LGBTQ+ youth and young adults had specialized help when they reached the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Then that help went away.

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“When people know something is terribly wrong in their lives, they simply won’t trust those who think tax credits and means-tested vouchers will fix it. They would rather burn it down” Shane Burley author of “Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse”

We're bringing you a panel of our partners and legal experts to break down the attacks on transgender people and what this means for the future of gender equality under the law. Join us this Friday at 11 AM EDT; register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Republicans in MO overturned a ballot measure requiring employers to provide paid sick days to workers and tried to overturn a ballot measure raising the min wage. They are more beholden to the Chamber of Commerce than the people of MO.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 3w ago

All ballot measures in Missouri currently require a majority vote statewide, but a GOP proposal voters will decide on next month would require citizen-led initiatives to also win majorities in each of the state’s eight congressional districts.

Republicans know voters oppose their party’s policies, so they want to disenfranchise voters up in red states.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 3w ago

All ballot measures in Missouri currently require a majority vote statewide, but a GOP proposal voters will decide on next month would require citizen-led initiatives to also win majorities in each of the state’s eight congressional districts.

Gender affirming care for me but not for thee

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

We're bringing you a panel of our partners and legal experts to break down the attacks on transgender people and what this means for the future of gender equality under the law. Join us this Friday at 11 AM EDT; register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This Friday: join leading legal experts for a webinar on how attacks on gender identity undermine gender equality protections for all women. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w ago

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.