As @lfevalle.bsky.social, @jaimieworker.bsky.social, Kathy Mendes, and @kashenj.bsky.social write, "Care policies grow the economy, support people’s health and well-being, and foster a more responsive and supportive government. Investing in the care economy families need has never been more urgent."

Lea Woods@lea9223.bsky.social · 5d ago

States have been progressing in care, but federal cuts put it at risk. A new report card from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @caringacross.org grades all fifty states on care affordability and access. See how your state scored in the report. #CareMatters go.tcf.org/CareReport26

States have been progressing in care, but federal cuts put it at risk. A new report card from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @caringacross.org grades all fifty states on care affordability and access. See how your state scored in the report. #CareMatters go.tcf.org/CareReport26

NEW: How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery @lisalsong.bsky.social

How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

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Imagine being a kid and learning that both your parents have been arrested by ICE. You’ll need to survive on your own. This is the reality the Perez kids are living. This week, we shadow the four siblings as they face an impossible choice: Go to Guatemala or stay in Florida as a family torn apart.

Children are being left behind as ICE detains parents across the country

Six miles from Mar-a-Lago, Guatemalan families are being ripped apart. Kids are left to fend for themselves as ICE detains their parents.

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Imagine working an extra 6 months just to earn what someone else made last year. That's the reality Black women face today. On Black Women's Equal Pay Day, TCF's Michaela Minnis and Michelle LaVere explain why the wage gap won't close on its own, and what policymakers can do:

Tradwifery is a trap. Without a career, Christine has surviving off of a small salary as a hotel staffer since divorcing. “When I filed for divorce, I learned very quickly that I had even less control over my life & finances than I’d thought.” nypost.com/2026/07/07/l...

Exclusive | Divorced, destitute and left for dead — the dark side of tradwife life after 35

Tradwives often become subservient subordinates whose sole purpose is to please their partner.

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While I am decidedly NOT pronatalist, I do think that many parents might have another kid, or have another kid sooner, if they could find and afford childcare near where they live and work. Fixing the cost side of it should NOT entail cutting staffing & safety regs, BTW.

Lea Woods@lea9223.bsky.social · 4w ago

New research from @haileygibbs.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social finds nearly half of all young children in the country (ages 5 and under) live in a licensed child care desert. Sustained federal investment is needed to build program supply. www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...

ICE agents are making house calls for online critics

ICE agents are making house calls for online critics

DHS keeps accusing people of ‘doxing’ its agents/

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We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

New research from @haileygibbs.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social finds nearly half of all young children in the country (ages 5 and under) live in a licensed child care desert. Sustained federal investment is needed to build program supply. www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...

America’s Child Care Crisis Leaves Many Families Without Access to Licensed Care

The child care system faces severe affordability and supply crises, leaving more than 50 percent of young children without adequate access in 42 percent of U.S. congressional districts.

americanprogress.org

New, for @talkingpointsmemo.com, my look at the history of the term "remigration," a euphemism for ethnic cleansing (a euphemism in of itself); & how Thomas Rousseau, leader of Patriot Front, used it in private Nazi chat 8 years ago. Now it's official US policy. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/when-yo...

When You Hear ‘Remigration,’ Know That It Means Ethnic Cleansing

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

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America, the capital city is under military occupation. It’s not about the fountains. It’s not about the Fair. This task force has killed people. They are reinforcing ICE. They are making arrests without legal authority. WAKE UP

America was founded on the principle of no taxation without representation. We even fought a revolution for it. Yet over 700,000 Americans in the nation's capital still don't have full democratic representation. That isn't democracy. It's hypocrisy. D.C. statehood now. https://dcstatehoodnow.org/

DC Statehood Now

It’s long past time to correct this 200 year historical wrong. Let’s make D.C. the 51st state.

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Good morning DC! Congratulations to @aparnafordc.bsky.social for a sizable lead that will likely lead to victory! She ran an impressive field operation, and her win is well-deserved. Here are some maps. Aparna swept every single precinct in Ward 1. Highest was 55% in Columbia Heights. (1/3)

Cassandra Boyle joins about 100,000 people in Tennessee who have lost the federal food aid since July 2025, according to state enrollment data. One out of every seven individuals who relied on the benefit last year no longer have it. @tennesseelookout.com

After One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 100,000 Tennesseans’ lose SNAP food aid

As she neared her 60th birthday, the stable pieces of Cassandra Boyle’s life began to fall away: first, she was laid off from her job. Then, a newly-purchased used car died in the middle of the…

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“Trump and Republicans have done nothing to address the child care crisis. Trump has taken a wrecking ball to federal programs and infrastructure that help American families access affordable child care,” Say @schumer.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov 19thnews.org/2026/06/chil...

Americans agree that childcare is expensive. Democrats are running on it.

In a report shared first with The 19th, three top Senate Democrats say Trump and Republicans have ‘taken a wrecking ball’ to childcare.

19thnews.org

Indigenous congresswomen have used their power in government — power that has long been denied to Native Americans in this country — to expand power for others. It is a practice built on endurance, even in the face of the government’s efforts over decades to eradicate Native Americans.

The first Indigenous women in Congress carry a legacy older than American democracy itself

The Declaration of Independence promised equality while denying power to Native Americans. Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids are pushing to take it back.

19thnews.org

NEW: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate. w/ @opb.org

A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford

The federal tax credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate.

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Child care shouldn't be a privilege just reserved for the rich—it’s public infrastructure.

free speech, it turns out, is only about the freedom to use racist language

Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The writers, as always, are not subtle

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

tl;dr: Alabama's ability to administer a new congressional map disenfranchising Black voters has been complicated by the fact that Alabama is celebrating Jefferson Davis's birthday today.

this is NOT funny. Societies only invest trillions of dollars in $30k care robots instead of paying home care workers a living wage when they are VERY sick

A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?

The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some develo...

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Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

nature.com

During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.

How Fry Bread Fed Minneapolis During the ICE Raids

At a Twin Cities coffee shop, the Native American community nourished protestors with an Indigenous symbol of resilience.

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"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect

Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.

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For the title of his manifesto, one of the San Diego shooters coins the term “MisanthropistCEL” and refers to perpetrators as “incel saints,” a popular trend of claiming and glorifying violent perpetrators in misogynist incel communities.

Male Supremacism and Misogyny Was Central to the San Diego Mosque Shooting. Why Did So Much Coverage Miss It?

Male Supremacism and Misogyny Was Central to the San Diego Mosque Shooting. Why Did So Much Coverage Miss It?

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My piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social early 2018 warning #RussiaGate wasn't an internet meme: Trump/his Russian friends wanted to turn America into their slush fund, like Putin's oligarchy. Women warned you. White men in media laughed at us, published hit pieces www.damemagazine.com/2018/02/20/w...

Why RussiaGate Matters to Our Democracy - Dame Magazine

In a normal election year, one political catchphrase is often used to sum up the key issue of the electorate: It’s the economy, stupid. This is not a normal election year. Since the scandal-ridden cam...

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"Universal child care is the best investment we can make in strengthening our middle class, and that should matter to everyone. 👏 @warren.senate.gov

Congratulations, @gaylegoldin.bsky.social! Can’t imagine a better leader for the role

Edward Fitzpatrick@fitzprov.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Former state Senator @gaylegoldin.bsky.social, a PVD Democrat, is the new executive director of @familyvaluesatwork.org, which supports state-based coalitions/leaders working to advance paid family and medical leave, paid sick days, child care.