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Molly Weston Williamson

@mollyww.bsky.social
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Senior Fellow at CAP, fighting for #PaidLeaveForAll. Lawyer, mom, wonk, advocate, not necessarily in that order. Philly-based, KY-raised. Personal account.

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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🥳 Paid leave is law in Virginia! 🎉 Virginia is the 14th state (+ DC) to guarantee paid family and medical leave and the first in the South. Details below from me for @americanprogress.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/fast...
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Fast Facts About Paid Leave in Virginia
With the governor’s signature, Virginia will guarantee paid family and medical leave to nearly all workers starting in December 2028.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sometimes, advocates, impacted folks, and electeds work together and enact REAL change. Overjoyed that over 3.2 million Virginians will no longer have to make the impossible choice between taking time off to care for themselves or their loved ones and their paychecks! Congrats, VA on #PaidLeave4All
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A Better Balance @abetterbalance.org · 13/03/2026
Breaking: Virginia just became the first Southern state to pass paid leave! Both paid family and medical leave and paid sick time legislation are now headed to the Governor's desk. This is a huge win for VA families and the national paid leave movement. 🎉👏
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Paid Leave for All @paidleaveforall.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Today Virginia passed paid family and medical leave—a huge, historic win. This happened twice before and both times Youngkin vetoed it, against the will of the state. Governor @abigailspanberger.com, and legislators and advocates who wouldn't give up, will now get it done. #PaidLeaveForAll
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Virginia's legislature just sent a strong paid family and medical leave bill to the governor, who has pledged her support. Find out what you need to know with new from me for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/fast...
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Fast Facts About Paid Leave in Virginia
With the governor’s signature, Virginia will guarantee paid family and medical leave to nearly all workers starting in December 2028.
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Trump Administration has pushed out thousands of staff members from the Social Security Administration, harming claimants and customer service around the country. New from me for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Social Security Administration Is Bleeding Staff
New data show rapidly shrinking staff numbers at the Social Security Administration, reducing the agency’s ability to serve older adults, people with disabilities, and other claimants.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 30/01/2026
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
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‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest. The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care. wapo.st/4o48J24
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Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar
The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Nearly 1.2 million disabled Americans are self-employed. For many, expiring enhanced premium tax credits threaten health care access and affordability. New from me, @seemiaroll.bsky.social, & @nzmurphy.bsky.social for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/aca-...
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ACA Premium Spikes Will Derail Disabled People’s Careers
The expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits threatens the economic stability and health coverage of self-employed Americans with disabilities.
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Corey Husak @chusak.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New @americanprogress.bsky.social I find that 4.4 million small business owners and self-employed people face a $1,500 mean tax hike this year. When enhanced marketplace tax credits expire, businesspeople making <$150k, face a larger tax hike than eliminating the passthru deduction
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
With inflation on everyone’s minds, it’s a good time to recognize one of Social Security’s most valuable features: Its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which will be announced tomorrow. 🧵
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The Trump Administration is planning a proposal to prevent too many people, especially older adults, from qualifying for Social Security disability benefits they need. New from @seemiaroll.bsky.social & me for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Administration’s Plans To Covertly Cut Social Security Disability Benefits
An upcoming regulatory proposal would change the rules of Social Security disability programs to make it harder to qualify, particularly harming older adults.
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
90 years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act, creating protections Americans have built lives and livelihoods on for generations. But this crucial law has had a missing piece since its creation: paid leave. A 🧵 (1/7):
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The Department of Child Snatching
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Biden’s FCC passed rules to make phone calls from prison cheaper, to help keep people connected to their families. Trump's FCC has now blocked that change. An incarcerated writer on what this means for people behind bars, in a must read, icymi: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
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Priced Out of Phone Calls Home - Bolts
The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
After Social Security arbitrarily cut thousands of staff, the only way to “fix” anything is moving them from one critical area to another—most recently, abruptly shifting 1K staff from local offices to the 800 number. But it’s not a real fix at all…it only creates new problems. wapo.st/44nQiPx
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Social Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone line
The agency, which serves 73 million beneficiaries, has struggled to improve customer service amid cutbacks, long wait times and a crashing website.
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Kierra @kierrajones.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It’s ugly and it’s deadly. But hey, as long as the rich get richer, right?
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Congress Traded Your Pap Smear for a Billionaire’s Tax Break
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," argues Kierra Jones, is part of "conservatives’ political crusade to ban abortion and gender-affirming care, and to deprive Americans of their reproductive and bodily aut...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The Social Security Administration put out a statement celebrating a bill that would lead to faster insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund
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Social Security Applauds
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) is celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a landmark piece of legislation that delivers long-awaited tax relief to millions of older Americans.OASI trust fund goes insolvent a year faster under OBBBA
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A disgraceful story. The absolute disregard and hostility the power centers of our country exhibit towards young people is part of the story of this time. And the NYT caught the car on affirmative action. So now begins the process of retroactively excavating race-conscious admissions. Awful.
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Also: the OBBBA would accelerate both Social Security & Medicare's trust fund reserve depletion by a year. They are touching Social Security, Medicare, AND Medicaid. www.crfb.org/blogs/obbba-...
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OBBBA Would Accelerate Social Security & Medicare Insolvency | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
As Lily, 24, said: "There could be a time in my life where I have to make the decision between staying home to care for my daughter when she is sick and making money to put a roof over her head and food in her mouth.”
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Young Workers Least Likely To Have Parental Leave, Sick Days—Report
The U.S. is a global outlier in paid time off. And the youngest members of the workforce are the least likely to get the paid leave they need. Experts say it could spell disaster for their careers—and...
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Pssst . . . it costs about the same amount to shore up Social Security's finances as it does to make the Trump tax cuts permanent. But Congressional Republicans are on the verge of shoveling trillions at the wealthiest, while leaving a shortfall in the program we ALL need and love.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Women already do 2/3 of the unpaid care in the US, equating to $683 billion a year in unpaid care work. infogram.com/1pdd7xxy9p5x...
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ATUS 2025 Value of men's and women's caregiving - Infogram
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Family Values @ Work @familyvaluesatwork.org · 23/06/2025
New @americanprogress.bsky.social data: half of LGBTQI+ people have called on chosen family for care, along with a third of non-LGBTQI+ people. We need #PaidLeaveForAll that includes all families. More from @mollyww.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/lgbt...
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LGBTQI+ People Are Working, Healing, and Caring in a Country Without Guaranteed Paid Leave
New Center for American Progress survey results show LGBTQI+ Americans are trying to balance work, health, and caregiving, despite gaps in supports such as paid leave.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
New for @teenvogue.com: Republicans love to talk about how much they care about the American worker, but the Trump admin’s anti-worker, anti-regulatory, anti-science agenda is putting millions of workers in danger—and more of them are going to die because of it www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
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The Trump Administration Is Making All of Our Jobs More Dangerous
That’s very bad news in a country where a worker died on the job every 99 minutes in 2023.
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Haley Norris @hvnorrisphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This is my favorite stat: 50% of us called on chosen family for support. Our communities are strong and keep us going. 💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💜
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Haley Norris @hvnorrisphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@mollyww.bsky.social latest look at caregiving and leave for LGBTQI+ folks is a must-read today. www.americanprogress.org/article/lgbt...
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LGBTQI+ People Are Working, Healing, and Caring in a Country Without Guaranteed Paid Leave
New Center for American Progress survey results show LGBTQI+ Americans are trying to balance work, health, and caregiving, despite gaps in supports such as paid leave.
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
New survey data shows LGBTQI+ people are more likely to take time off work for health or caregiving needs than non-LGBTQI+ people, despite being less likely to work in ways that provide paid leave. My latest for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/lgbt...
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LGBTQI+ People Are Working, Healing, and Caring in a Country Without Guaranteed Paid Leave
New Center for American Progress survey results show LGBTQI+ Americans are trying to balance work, health, and caregiving, despite gaps in supports such as paid leave.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
meanwhile the issue the Court is saying should be left to the democratic process is 'does this group of people have equal rights yes or no' the Constitution already told us the answer is yes, right there in the name of the Equal Protection Clause and yet
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Always read @kathleenromig.bsky.social on Social Security--full 🧵 on the trustees report below:
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 17/06/2025
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Brad Lander--comptroller of the city of New York, and one of the leading mayoral candidates--has just been arrested by masked federal thugs. @bradlander.bsky.social www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
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BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork
City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
In 10 states with active paid parental bonding leave programs, men took at least 40% of the leave in 8 states, 35% in DC and 30% in NJ. In WA and CO, fathers take more than half of the leave. www.axios.com/2025/06/14/f...
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Exclusive: More fathers are taking paid parental leave, new study finds
Dads and moms are coming close to parity in states with paid leave policies.
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
When the Trump Administration repeatedly undermines the Social Security Administration's functions and betrays the agency’s values, the nation’s children pay the price. New from me for @americanprogress.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Attacks on Social Security Put Kids and Families at Risk
Millions of American children and their families count on benefits from the Social Security Administration each month—but Trump administration actions are undermining these essential supports.
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
NYT: “Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
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The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 14/06/2025
Here’s a look at Hortman’s legislative history and legacy on key policies during her 20 years in office.
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Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families
Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care
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AFT @aft.org · 14/06/2025
Philadelphia: Opposing kings since 1776. #NoKings
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Words just fail when I try to tell you how cool Speaker Melissa Hortman was. She was a dear friend, amazing public servant, and a great person. Can’t believe she’s gone. Heaven help her family and all of us. Rest in Power.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Minnesota has exceptional local news. @mprnews.org and @startribune.com know their communities and will steer you right.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
On the Ben Franklin Parkway, they keep coming and coming
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2025
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
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Paid Leave for All @paidleaveforall.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“It turns out men across party lines and different walks of life overwhelmingly want government policies that allow them to be actively involved in their families—and this is connected to their ideas of masculinity, not contrary to it.” #PaidLeaveForAll www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...
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Here’s what dads really think about the state of their country – and masculinity
This Father’s Day, a new poll offers an eye-opening view of the top priorities among men, including how they feel about the country, as well as the problems and policies that motivate them.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
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