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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

The hardest fights are the ones that matter the most.

Paid family and medical leave. Raising the minimum wage. Free lunches for kids.

They took guts. There were times when the outcome was uncertain. But we organized together - and that's how we won. That’s exactly what I’ll do in the Senate.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 5m

They got bot farms saying Stephen Miller is hot and charismatic. They’re doing White House roundtables on things that don’t exist. They’re releasing piles of dubious mugshots. They’re saying vibrant cities are boarded up and war torn. They think saying anything enough will make the truth irrelevant.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 15m

Absolutely, the paid leave movement fights for paid family *and medical leave for all working people (along with safe leave and military deployment leave)

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 35m

"...I see some of the elevator speech trickling into the political mainstream, where many of us have fought for it to live for years. Here it goes: paid leave is not just powerful policy; it's good politics."

-- @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social

Paid leave, politics, and the new guard.

(My elevator speech).

dawnhuckelbridge.substack.com

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 23m

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear, Johnson claimed he supports back pay to furloughed workers, praised the “extraordinary Americans who serve the federal government.” Johnson and Thune both voted for the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act in 2019. Trump signed it. So stop threatening your own workers.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a great point or question—couldn’t someone else swear in Grijalva?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

3 MAGA extremists have introduced a bill in South Carolina that would allow the state to execute women who get an abortion.

South Carolina govt lists their cell phone numbers, in case you want to call them directly & let them know what you think.

Details here:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe they’re in Portland—and posting about facing down antifa when it’s a guy in a chicken suit and senior citizens singing “This Land Is Your Land” on ukuleles. I can’t believe this isn’t satire. I can’t believe the wanton stupidity and recklessness of this entire administration.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 1d

Karoline Leavitt is trying to misdirect blame for the shutdown for things like WIC.

Listen, Karoline, if you’ve suddenly found the value in government programs, come on in, the water’s fine. You know people depend on them.

Trump’s budget cut $300 million from WIC. Amazing deflection.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 1d

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019—which President Trump signed into law—is clear in its mandate to give automatic back pay to furloughed workers.

I have no doubt they’d love to never pay or just fire most feds but they’re leaking that memo to scare and bully people.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 1d

And… more coverage of the burning of a circuit court judge’s home who just denied the Trump administration the personal data of more than 3 million voters??

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like the press to cover the investigation into Kirk’s murder, to ask questions about Reed’s death, to cover the zip-tying of children and militarization and the resistance, I’d like more about the flotillas. I want the media to ask why Johnson won’t seat Grijalva or release the Epstein files.

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Paid Leave for All @paidleaveforall.bsky.social · 1d

One of "the most significant determinants of breastfeeding is related not to health care but to the labor market: whether or not a mother works... Paid parental leave is a lever for changing this.

MAHA mothers should be all over this."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

MAHA Wants Breastfeeding. Its Moms Should Demand Paid Leave.

Pediatricians recommend that babies consume only human milk for the first six months. America makes that harder than it should be.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 1d

So in his reveal I realized I’ve been mispronouncing Tom Sietsema’s name this entire time.

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Axios @axios.com · 3d

JUST IN: Judge temporarily blocks Trump from sending California's or any other state's National Guard troops to Oregon.

Judge temporarily blocks Trump from any sending National Guard troops to Oregon

The ruling came after California joined Oregon in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's actions.

www.axios.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

JUDGE: MR HAMILTON. You are MISSING my point. There is no change on the ground in Portland. What's the authority for what you're doing?

HAMILTON: 12406 hasn't been used much in history so ...

JUDGE: Tell you what. Why do you think it's not been utilized? 5/

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 3d

Steak and Shake closed 200 restaurants and thinks this is relevancy.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3d

I’m glad Van Jones apologized for his sick joking about dead kids in Gaza.

But the problem goes deeper: he spread Netanyahu propaganda that the mass killings of civilians in Gaza—including 20K+ kids—is Iranian fake news.

It’s not the students and young people who are fooled. It’s Van Jones.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 3d

National Guard have circled my 10 year old kid’s soccer game three times now with absolutely nothing to do.

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 3d

Blowing up civilian boats. Zip-tying children. Putting armed military into peaceful parks. Destroying for sport. The work of smallest, most insufficient, dangerous of men. And we fight back but I believe we beat them with bigger work, bigger ideas, bigger heart. Power that doesn’t need to be faked.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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