Reposted by Carla2626Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Increase in productivity since 1979: 93% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 34% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power. 17373932698
Reposted by Carla2626CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 05/09/2026🎶I AM WOMAN🎶✊💜 Survivors raising their voices alongside Rosie O’Donnell, turning pain into power & silence into strength! There is something incredibly powerful about women standing together and saying: We survived. We are still here. We will NOT be silenced🔥 #BelieveTheSurvivors #SheShed 8531021368
Reposted by Carla2626Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍nytimes.comGloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large. 368182114370
Reposted by Carla2626DemCast USA @demcast.com · 02/09/2026Troy Jackson, Dem Senate Candidate for Maine, enters to raucous applause for his first town hall in Lewiston tonight. He's a fifth-generation logger, lifelong fighter for workers' rights, and former Maine Senate President who's ready to unseat Susan Collins once and for all. 331084412
Reposted by Carla2626Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem 10385241964
Reposted by Carla2626Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases! 1027181795681
Reposted by Carla2626optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now? 32497893124
Reposted by Carla2626Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org 20756412599
Reposted by Carla2626Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The measure of a society is how it invests in its children. For decades, I have advocated for Head Start because every child deserves a strong start in life. Today, I stand with the more than 100 civil rights and child advocacy organizations opposing efforts to dismantle the program from within. 9337021058
Reposted by Carla2626NPR @npr.org · 08/08/2026Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants. n.pr/45TAofrn.prFederal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fearsDrug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants. 44367164
Reposted by Carla2626Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is generational damage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...nytimes.comTrump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating ItThe White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth. 610942
Reposted by Carla2626Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 02/08/2026@charlotteclymer.bsky.social said it best: open.substack.com/pub/charlott...open.substack.comWhat Do I Think About Sophie Cunningham?I'll tell you. 529053
Reposted by Carla2626Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools. 237122224101
Reposted by Carla2626Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Thought we didn’t have money in the USA for healthcare. Yet the Defense Department’s latest estimate puts the cost of the war with Iran at $37.5 billion. Funny how we’re always told we can’t afford to invest in people’s health, but somehow tens of billions of dollars for war can be found. 42492692968
Reposted by Carla2626RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 07/07/2026“The next generation of battles over abortion, voting rights and democracy will not be decided primarily in Washington. They are being decided right now in real time at the state level.” #Vote #Midterm2026 www.huffpost.com/entry/aclu-f...huffpost.comACLU Set To Spend $25 Million Boosting Abortion, Voting Rights In MidtermsThe group is targeting state Supreme Court and legislative races, as well as referenda, in nine states. 532564858
Reposted by Carla2626Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026We are in the fight of our lives against fascism - a force that seeks to control women - from what we do with our bodies to how we live our lives. The only way to defeat this force is to repudiate it wherever it manifests, whether in legislation, executive decree, or interpersonal action. 331089
Reposted by Carla2626Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.substack.comA Terrible Thing Happened to My FamilyEven in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone. 1979230036647
Reposted by Carla2626Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026“The left has abandoned patriotism.” Delaney Hall, today, right before she was hit by a car driven by ICE. 251260356
Carla2626 @carla2626.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The Supreme Court appears captured and moving backwards. November matters. 000
Reposted by Carla2626Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR 3131331427
Reposted by Carla2626Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 09/05/2026The gumption of the young journalists here alone is worthy of commendation, but I’m most heartened by how local reporting by local people breaks through: “It’s like, ’Yeah, your granddaughter is going through this...it’s something different than Fox News.’” #icymimprnews.org‘The power of truth:’ How high school students reported on the ICE surge in their front yardStudent journalists at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis witnessed federal agents shove staffers and students and deploy pepper spray on school grounds last January. That inspired them to report st... 4622213
Reposted by Carla2626jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state 112118902829
Reposted by Carla2626Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana. 596183526301
Reposted by Carla2626Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Get with your people. Do good work. Keep at it. Ask for support and give it when you can. No way out but through. 1465
Reposted by Carla2626Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026FWIW, this is what we train people to do inside the Ripple Effect Institute too, and it works. 06219
Reposted by Carla2626Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comInvestigating the Good GuysDOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise. 14237791539
Reposted by Carla2626Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛 172195404014
Reposted by Carla2626Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... 154112271784
Reposted by Carla2626Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 07/04/2026I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example. 4749041250
Reposted by Carla2626Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order. 14471402794
Reposted by Carla2626Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/04/2026In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly. 1506155424881
Reposted by Carla2626Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Bring back shame. Bring back dignity. 819313
Reposted by Carla2626Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026So far the war on Iran has cost $25 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met. 426107333882
Reposted by Carla2626Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/03/2026America first is letting foreign companies come into the US to mine copper? 870144737267
Reposted by Carla2626Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?ms.nowDark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidateProgressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.” 766199637909
Reposted by Carla2626Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage... 2471254777584
Reposted by Carla2626Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The Trump administration has unfurled banners on the Department of Education building featuring Booker T. Washington, Catharine Beecher, and Charlie Kirk. Washington and Beecher were influential figures in American education whose legacies shaped schools and teaching nationwide. 81832176
Reposted by Carla2626Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com 751883847
Reposted by Carla2626Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it. 34555142088
Reposted by Carla2626Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Any executive order like the one being threatened to be signed by POTUS will be challenged in court before any of us can blink. He doesn’t have that authority. Even in an emergency. Our elections are administered by the states. 815248
Reposted by Carla2626Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.thehandbasket.coThe Handbasket100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas 49894673095
Reposted by Carla2626Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/02/2026A big thank you to Anthropic! After a weeks-long standoff between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic over how the military can deploy its technology, CEO Dario Amodei said tonight that the company will not loosen its usage policies.anthropic.comStatement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of WarA statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI 862450533