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Lea Woods

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She/Her. Women’s economic policy at The Century Foundation. Formerly Economic Policy Institute and Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Memes and labor rights. Tweets my own.

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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · Sep 8

State and local policymakers looking to increase child care affordability, supply, and compensation must continue expanding public funding. Tri-Share does not build supply or substantively improve wages and benefits, making it a poor solution to the child care crisis. tcf.org/content/comm...

The Tri-Share Model Is Not a Solution to the Child Care Crisis

Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called child care a “textbook example of a broken market.” The problems plaguing this broken market were aptly

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.
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Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

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Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · 6h

Pure evil.

"A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030."

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 7h

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 21h

The U.S. has spent over $30 billion supporting the Israeli military and conducting war across the Middle East over the first two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza — a genocide only made possible by the U.S.’s financial support, a new report concludes.

Report: US Spent Over $30B Backing Israel, Regional Wars in 2 Years of Genocide

This is just the “tip of the iceberg,” Costs of War noted, as many other other transfers haven’t been disclosed.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

There it is. “Trump told reporters on Monday that he would consider utilizing the Insurrection Act…to sidestep any court rulings restricting his orders to send Guard troops into cities over the objections of local and state officials.” 10/7/25 … 1/ www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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CLASP Child Care & Early Education @claspchildcare.bsky.social · 1d

Attacks on child care and Head Start hit families with low incomes the hardest, worsening the affordability crisis and deepening inequities. www.clasp.org/blog/federal...

Federal Cuts to Child Care and Head Start are an Attack on Families with Low Incomes | CLASP

By Shira Small The Trump Administration’s cuts to federal child care and early education programs and staff are putting children, families, and the economy at risk. Children are already losing access ...

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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 1d

America’s child care crisis isn’t a problem that will go away on its own. Instead of solutions, Trump and Congressional Republicans passed a megabill with child care tax updates too small to fundamentally change how families are experiencing the child care crisis.

Learn more: go.tcf.org/crisis

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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · 1d

From Ruth Friedman: Our child care system doesn’t work, making life worse for millions of families. Republicans claim to be lowering costs, but minor tax credits are no substitute for effective solutions to make child care affordable. Instead, R's are making the crisis worse
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Trump and Republicans in Congress Are Making the Child Care Crisis Even Worse

America has a child care crisis that’s hurting millions of families every day, and Trump and Congressional Republicans are failing to help working

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

NSPM-7 defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest,” which means the FBI will almost certainly turn its powers to conduct “enterprise” investigations into terrorism or racketeering on those who would challenge power, such as unions.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

Today would’ve been Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday. In 1964, she asked a question that still echoes:

“Is this America… where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?”

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Fannie Lou Hamer addressing the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964. (United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division)

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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re a federal employee or contractor affected by the government shutdown, you’re not alone.

To qualify for UI/UFCE benefits, there are important additional steps beyond the standard application.

Learn more: go.tcf.org/uiguide

Government Shutdown and UI Benefits: 12 Things Federal Workers Need to Know

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Aug 15

Trump’s 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.

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Suspending monthly economic reports would be really bad for women of color

Trump’s 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.

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Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 5d

1. This would-be #JobsDay, but today Equitable Growth dives deeper into the uses of public labor market data, their value to the economy, and the risks associated with their potential destabilization 🧵

More from @michaelslinden.bsky.social & Chris Bangert-Drowns:
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The status of U.S. labor market data amid the government shutdown

The work of the BLS, the impact of the agency not releasing its employment situation report, and how BLS budget constraints will affect data collection.

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Jahd Khalil @jahd.bsky.social · 5d

ICE detains lawfully present Richmond father as son waits for school bus www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

ICE detains lawfully present Richmond father as son waits for school bus

Silviano Mora Vera's U visa should have insulated him from detention.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6d

Immigration authorities are continuing to patrol with D.C. police weeks after the expiration of President Trump’s federal takeover, leaving some local leaders and residents alarmed about D.C. police’s role in immigration enforcement.

Trump’s D.C. crime emergency is over. Immigration officers are still patrolling with D.C. police.

The Washington Post reviewed photos and videos of at least half a dozen incidents since Sept. 10. They show D.C. police officers with masked agents in vests labeled HSI for Homeland Security Investiga...

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

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White House fires many members of the National Council on the Humanities

The White House fired many members of the National Council on the Humanities on Wednesday, with the council's website showing that only four appointees of President Donald Trump were retained.

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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 6d

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data.

We detail how that happened:

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How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 6d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7d

Trump just said the shutdown will cause disruptions to Social Security services - but Social Security funding isn't impacted by a shutdown, and the staff who run it are "necessarily implied" & continue to work.

If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: "Incidents like this are proof that civil rights protections in America are only as strong as our willingness to enforce them. What happens when government agencies act as though the Constitution doesn’t apply to them?"

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · 8d

“I call it the ‘n-word,’” the president said of the submarines, appearing to allude to the vessels’ nuclear power. “There are two n-words, and you can’t use either of them.”

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Peter Feaver, a political scientist at Duke University, said the military “managed well a very difficult walk along a high wire” by listening respectfully to partisan speeches from President Trump and Pete Hegseth without responding.

Military leaders absorb highly partisan presentation from Trump, Hegseth

The unusual, hastily organized event became a forum for the president to tout his political agenda while his defense secretary lectured the brass on standards.