Layne Amerikaner
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Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows!
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
Announcing the 2026 WFRN Early Career Fellowship Recipients - Work and Family Researchers Network
The WFRN Welcomes 2026 Early Career Fellowship Recipients! To date, 170 early-career scholars have participated in the WFRN’s Early Career Fellowship Program. This program is designed to deliver a var...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows!
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
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BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
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NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE!
It looks like tens of thousands have joined.
This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
It looks like tens of thousands have joined.
This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
September 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE!
It looks like tens of thousands have joined.
This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
It looks like tens of thousands have joined.
This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
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I love our city.
Thinning out now. DC police the only ones left, and they're packing up too.
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
August 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I love our city.
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Thinning out now. DC police the only ones left, and they're packing up too.
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
August 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Thinning out now. DC police the only ones left, and they're packing up too.
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.
"You should be fucking ashamed!"
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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"In sadness, I dissent."
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"In sadness, I dissent."
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Sotomayor: "The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST CHALLENGE TO TENNESSEE LAW BANNING GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH
June 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sotomayor: "The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."
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My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
June 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
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Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
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Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
June 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
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The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
June 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
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Our new report finds that LGBT adults are twice as likely as non-LGBT adults to have Medicaid as their primary source of health care.
Cuts to Medicaid would disproportionately affect LGBT people with low incomes, those raising children, and people with disabilities. bit.ly/Medicaid_LGBT
Cuts to Medicaid would disproportionately affect LGBT people with low incomes, those raising children, and people with disabilities. bit.ly/Medicaid_LGBT
May 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Our new report finds that LGBT adults are twice as likely as non-LGBT adults to have Medicaid as their primary source of health care.
Cuts to Medicaid would disproportionately affect LGBT people with low incomes, those raising children, and people with disabilities. bit.ly/Medicaid_LGBT
Cuts to Medicaid would disproportionately affect LGBT people with low incomes, those raising children, and people with disabilities. bit.ly/Medicaid_LGBT
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This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.
June 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.
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About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
May 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
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In light of the DC raids we want to reshare our ICE watch 101 graphics. Reminder to verify, document, and then report to our hotline.
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In light of the DC raids we want to reshare our ICE watch 101 graphics. Reminder to verify, document, and then report to our hotline.
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The US minimum wage sends the message to employers that trapping vulnerable people in poverty is perfectly okay.
Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
April 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The US minimum wage sends the message to employers that trapping vulnerable people in poverty is perfectly okay.
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I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home and denied due process.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home and denied due process.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
“In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.” 💔
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.” 💔
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the fundamental problem with these people (not jonathan) is that they don’t seem to believe in anything. if you’re willing to sacrifice one of the foundational rights of constitutional government on the altar of “buh this might not be popular” then what won’t you sacrifice?
If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).
April 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
the fundamental problem with these people (not jonathan) is that they don’t seem to believe in anything. if you’re willing to sacrifice one of the foundational rights of constitutional government on the altar of “buh this might not be popular” then what won’t you sacrifice?
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I spent a decade studying kids' help-seeking. So, I can tell you that if a child asks their teacher to call them something other than what's on file, it's because that child fundamentally trusts that teacher. And, I'm appalled that a teacher would be fired for inspiring that kind of trust.
April 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I spent a decade studying kids' help-seeking. So, I can tell you that if a child asks their teacher to call them something other than what's on file, it's because that child fundamentally trusts that teacher. And, I'm appalled that a teacher would be fired for inspiring that kind of trust.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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After relentless attacks from the Trump administration on the transgender community, trans Americans and allies from across the country will convene in Washington DC to show we’re not going anywhere.
Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.
Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.
March 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
After relentless attacks from the Trump administration on the transgender community, trans Americans and allies from across the country will convene in Washington DC to show we’re not going anywhere.
Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.
Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.
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My grants were terminated.
I have heard of so many LGBTQ+ grants terminated today. I am so sorry to everyone affected. This is devastating to our communities and to us as researchers. I have nothing more eloquent, comforting, or helpful to say. This is all just immeasurably horrible.
March 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My grants were terminated.
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The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.
March 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.