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Sharita Gruberg

@gruberg.bsky.social
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She/her. Economic Justice VP at National Partnership for Women & Families. Previously VP LGBTQI+ Research and Comms at CAP. Hyperfixated on cats, raccoons, and administrative law 🏳️‍🌈

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SO excited to see the launch of The Propaganda Playbook - this is a critical resource for everyone and it's coming at exactly the moment we need it. Check it out! propagandaplaybook.org
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The Propaganda Playbook | Onyx Impact
A practical guide to identifying, verifying, and responding to political propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation in the digital age.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Been thinking about when my 100+ law school crim class covered sex crimes and dozens of men spent the hour arguing with the professor bc they believed the US code definition of rape was unfair. That day, the handful of women in the class realized just how many of our classmates had raped someone.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The reality is that we’ve largely retreated from the fight against sexism and we’re actually going backwards. And thus, many of our young men feel entitled to their classmates’ bodies.” It’s devastating to see the nation regress on sexual violence losingmymanners.substack.com/p/cornell-is...
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Cornell is Not an Outlier
The Harsh Truths About Campus Sexual Assault
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow the Trump admin is publishing a new rule rewriting campus sexual assault protections to remove mention of LGBTQ students. As usual, attacking trans people for existing instead of doing anything to actually protect students from sexual violence nwlc.org/press-releas...
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NWLC Warns Dept. of Education’s Title IX Rule Erodes Protections for Student Survivors - National Women's Law Center
WASHINGTON D.C., – Today the Department of Education issued a rule formally reviving the 2020 Title IX rule, which significantly weakens protections against sexual harassment in education.  The Depart...
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/09/2026
your favorite bar can't be a safe environment for revolutionary praxis if it goes out of business
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From the US to Israel, targeting children is intentional
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are all terrible, but Stephen Miller is determined to be impressively evil.
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no scientific evidence that paying Palantir a boatload of money to surveil workers combats food poisoning but there is ample evidence giving workers paid sick days does www.wired.com/story/chipot...
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Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks
The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US...
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Women Employed @womenemployed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For every $1 paid to white, non-Hispanic men, NHPI women earn as little as 59¢. Disaggregated data identifies discrimination & deepens equity. We need policies that protect NHPI women & close the wage gap. #NHPIWomensEqualPayDay #EqualPay #PayGap #Vote2026 #EPCC #GOTV #NationalVoterRegistrationDay
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EEOC chair going all in on great replacement conspiracy theory with support from the vice president. Abhorrent racist rhetoric from the agency tasked with enforcing workplace civil rights x.com/JDVance/stat...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
From my convo with @adambonica.bsky.social Osita Nwanevu for @bostonreview.bsky.social, right before this latest round of conflict over the Democratic Party's position on trans rights www.bostonreview.net/articles/whi...
But I think the base has stopped believing the pitch—first, because it didn’t appear to work in a couple of moderate nominee losses, so that strategy fell flat in terms of electoral victories. But then Bonica hit this other point, which is, that’s a costly action. I’m just taking trans rights activists as an example of a faction within the Democratic Party network that is being asked to put its priorities on the back burner for now. That’s a costly thing for the faction to do on behalf of the whole party, right? And the establishment as well, party elites are hitting you up for donations, saying, “Democracy’s on the line, we all need to sacrifice. That also includes trans rights activists falling back.” But then in office, the Democratic Party in Congress does not appear to be taking costly actions. And then Adam’s point on corruption is one of the biggest ones, where it doesn’t look like the Democratic Party is, at the elite level, willing to do costly new actions for itself that would put the party as a whole in a better position: whether that’s older, unpopular nominees retiring before dying in office; whether that’s not doing corrupt insider dealing or taking big super PAC money; whether that means, if you’re telling trans rights activists or Greta Thunberg climate kids or Gaza activists to fall back, then on an unpopular issues like data centers and some AI policies and weapons to Israel (which is polling at 11 percent support), you also need to take a haircut on those. And I think the base is noticing, “wow, you consistently are pointing out that the Democratic Party needs to moderate on these issues you don’t care about but the base seems to, and not the ones that are unpopular to the median voter that the democratic elites like and the base doesn’t like.” So that is all really reduced credibility in this appeal from the party that, “trust us, we know how to do electability.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: The first deportation of the constitutionally suspect Alien Terrorist Removal Court happened weeks ago, following a secret plea deal. DOJ told the public about the deportation on 9/11 — a choice that tells us much about where 9/11 took the U.S. and where we are now. Today, at Law Dork:
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The first deportation of the constitutionally suspect Alien Terrorist Removal Court happened weeks ago, following a secret plea deal
DOJ told the public about the deportation weeks later, on September 11 — a choice that tells us much about where 9/11 took the United States and where we are now.
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No matter how much they try, conservatives can't deliever on their male breadwinner economy. New post. Industries that already employ women are growing faster, indeed they are the only thing growing overall and still the majority effect since November. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-are-wo...
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Why Are Women Over 100% of Jobs Gained Under Trump’s Second Term?
All their effort at a gender vibe shift is in service of a plan that is failing on its own terms.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Deep dive into how the Trump admin has weakened the school-to-work pipeline for disabled students preparing for adulthood nationalpartnership.org/report/trump...
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The Trump Administration Is Weakening the School-to-Work Pipeline for Disabled Students | National Partnership for Women & Families
This brief examines how the Trump administration's restructuring of key disability programs affects the systems that prepare disabled students for adulthood and, ultimately, employment and long-term e...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Former Trump labor chief shows why Democrats should never play ball www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Former Trump labor chief shows why Democrats should never play ball
New revelations about Lori Chavez-DeRemer underline the perils of aiding and abetting President Donald Trump.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Americans do the equivalent of $1 trillion in unpaid care work every year and need gov supports, but pitting single working moms against married stay at home moms is not the support anyone needs nationalpartnership.org/americans-un...
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Americans' Unpaid Caregiving is Worth More Than $1 Trillion Each Year
Caregiving is essential work that our families and communities depend on – and the economic impact of this labor is enormous. Americans’ unpaid care is valued at more than $1.1 trillion a year – and w...
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They want to take child care $$ away from low-income single working moms and giving it to stay at home moms, but only if they are married. We need more supports for all caregivers but taking child care assistance away from struggling moms just to advance Vance’s social engineering goals is cruel
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They want to take child care $$ away from low-income single working moms and giving it to stay at home moms, but only if they are married. We need more supports for all caregivers but taking child care assistance away from struggling moms just to advance Vance’s social engineering goals is cruel
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For every $100 US foundations donated in 2024, only 3 cents went to trans communities. That same year, right-wing groups spent nearly $215 million in television ads attacking trans people www.them.us/news/trans-r...
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Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement
​Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump and his appointees are trying to play Calvinball with civil rights, but Bostock remains the law of the land. You still have the right to pursue your claim in court, no matter what Trump’s EEOC chair says
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“It’s like they’re selling an insurance policy against EEOC investigations”
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Never before heard of the former president of an org going into government and then granting their former employer future immunity from enforcement of civil rights laws. The Trump admin’s corruption is next level theintercept.com/2026/09/01/c...
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Christian Employers Can Now Discriminate Against Trans People
A settlement with the Christian Employers Alliance blocks the EEOC from ever investigating the group’s members for gender identity discrimination.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Racist af @cbsnews.com
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Next week the National Partnership for Women & Families will be closed for care week. This is a week to give all staff a much needed break to recharge and I’m grateful to work for an org that lives its values.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/08/2026
Since Trump passed his Big, Beautiful Bill last July, roughly 5 million people have lost food assistance.   Families will have a harder time putting food on the table all so that billionaires & corporations can get another tax break. It's cruelty as policy. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Interviewing Dolly Parton remains one of the highlights of my entire music journalism career. She truly was a rainbow in the dark ♥️ www.vice.com/en/article/e...
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Everyone Loves Dolly
At 70 years young, America's favorite working girl is still a rainbow in the dark.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly did what other disaster nonprofits are too chicken shit to do — she gave the families affected by a wildfire a universal basic income. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
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How Dolly Parton Gave $12.5 Million And Unprecedented Research To Sevier County
It’s been two years since wildfires burned Western North Carolina and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Country music superstar Dolly Parton…
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/08/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about some new data showing that LGBTQ people are a massive voter base and Dem candidates should be wary of alienating them. www.burnsnotice.com/democratic-c...
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Democratic Candidates Must Beware of Betraying Queer Voters
New data from the Human Rights Campaign shows how much power LGBTQ voters have at the ballot box
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Your mom gets sick, you have a baby, your husband is in an accident and you have to take 12 weeks off of work. For the typical American worker w/o paid leave this means covering at least ~$7,500 in expenses w/o a paycheck You have to eat and pay your rent so what do you do? take on debt. (2/?)
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Families Can't Afford to Go Without Paid Leave | National Partnership for Women & Families
We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There are a bunch of new orgs passing billions from far right Christian nationalist foundations (eg Servant Foundation & National Christian Foundation) bankrolled by billionaires (eg Hobby Lobby family) funding ALEC, Heritage, and law firms to make the backlash to “woke” happen and appear organic
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Women accounted for all the job losses in July. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is trying to eliminate 60+ years of demographic reporting requirements that help identify discrimination in private sector, education, and local and state government employment nationalpartnership.org/women-losing...
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Women Are Losing Jobs – and the Stock Market Loves It | Jobs Day August 2026 | National Partnership for Women & Families
Women lost 32,000 jobs in July, prompting a stock market rally in the face of workers' pain.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Women accounted for all the job losses in July. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is trying to eliminate 60+ years of demographic reporting requirements that help identify discrimination in private sector, education, and local and state government employment nationalpartnership.org/women-losing...
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Women Are Losing Jobs – and the Stock Market Loves It | Jobs Day August 2026 | National Partnership for Women & Families
Women lost 32,000 jobs in July, prompting a stock market rally in the face of workers' pain.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1 in 5 private sector workers doesn’t have a single paid sick day. This story shows the devastating consequences for workers but Congress could remedy this by passing the Healthy Families Act and guaranteeing all workers paid job-protected sick days nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/u...
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I agree, no one should have to make the impossible choice btwn a paycheck and caring for yourself or a loved one. Unfortunately Trump’s law was just a big beautiful handout of taxpayer $$ to multibillion dollar corporations already providing paid leave benefits home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
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Treasury, IRS Issue Guidance on the Permanent Expansion of Paid Family and Medical Leave under the Working Families Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2026-28, providing guidance on the employer credit for paid family and medical leave (PFML) under the W...
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Axios @axios.com · 04/08/2026
NEW: The House Democratic Women's Caucus is calling on Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) to resign after the House Ethics Committee concluded he violated House rules over sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Story first from Axios. 👇
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Exclusive: House Democratic Women's Caucus calls on Chuck Edwards to resign
"A censure has no real consequences," the group said.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
! The House Ethics Committee says it's finished an investigation into Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) and has "concluded there was substantial reason to believe Representative Edwards violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces."
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Check out the latest edition of @interruptcrim.bsky.social's This Month in Criminalization by yours truly for the latest updates, calls to action & resistance around criminalization of migrants, Muslim groups, protesters, trans & unhoused folks www.interruptingcriminalization.com/newsletters/...
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This Month in Criminalization: July 2026 — Interrupting Criminalization
The July 2026 installment of IC’s monthly criminalization roundup, in which IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie and researcher Kelsey Kitzke share hot topics and developments in criminalization, as well a...
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Screenshot of NBC News article that reads “Rep. Jim Jordan faces deposition about OSU sex abuse scandal
The powerful Ohio Republican coached wrestlers who say he knew team doctor Richard Strauss molested them but did nothing to protect them.”
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
NEW: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and others had harsh words for the Trump administration Friday after our investigation into immigrant children who spent months in federal custody. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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DeLauro: Trump intentionally delaying immigrant children's release
U.S. Rep. Rosa Delauro called for action Friday on unaccompanied immigrant children held for months in federal custody.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Markwayne Mullin is a member of an Assemblies of God church, and nearly 9 in 10 members of the Assemblies of God voted for President Donald Trump in 2024.” www.christianitytoday.com/2026/07/rele...
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Released Pastors Say Immigration Agents Mocked Them, Threatened Family Separation - Christianity Today
The Texas Assemblies of God leaders were detained on their way to a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No matter how hard women work, our economy is set up to keep women overworked and underpaid to benefit a wealthy few. At the National Partnership, we found women make up more than 8 in 10 workers in the most AI vulnerable occupations. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
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In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing. (Gift Article)
Despite the administration’s best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women’s employment.
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Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Abilene city employee Frank Cortez died on the job July 21. The city provided no details, but reports say his death was "a medical issue & not the job he was performing" Heat related? It was 101 degrees that day but TX public workers aren't covered by OSHA. We may never know. tinyurl.com/mwtcvm52
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Heat Related Death? Who Knows? - Confined Space
Did Abilene Public Works employee Frank Cortez die from excessive heat? We may never know, because Texas public employees aren't covered by OSHA.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.
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A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged
Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The price of everyday essentials are rising faster than what people are earning, meaning missing work for life’s responsibilities hits even harder. Now more than ever, we need better paid leave.
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Families Can't Afford to Go Without Paid Leave | National Partnership for Women & Families
We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...
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