Pat Thomas

I'm attending North Carolina AFL-CIO's event, “Labor 2026: Campaign Kickoff Phonebank” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/aflcionc/eve...

How will Trump manage to make this game today about him?

I'm attending Alliance for Retired Americans's event, “Justice in the Balance/Justice on the Ballot” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/allianceforr...

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And the gall to take this photo in front of the Declaration of Independence.

Donald Trump is trying to con Americans into believing that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy in order to hide the the fact that Donald Trump and his corruption is the greatest threat to our democracy.

My husband turned 90 & got his YES ballot in weeks ago. You?

Trump and his Republican acolytes have declared war on coal miners. Refusing to enforce the silica standard, repealing safety and health regulations and destroying NIOSH. Meanwhile, more miners have already died this year than all of last year Blood on their hands. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

Even the chemical industry opposes Trump's plan to close the Chemical Safety Board. “The risks are borne almost exclusively by workers who are there putting in the work, day in and day out,” said former board member Rick Engler. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...

Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"

Last week 3 workers died of heat stroke.  1 slashed his throat open with a chain saw. 1 baked to death in an industrial oven. Several were electrocuted. Another was crushed to death when a grain silo collapsed on top of him. A highway worker was killed by a hit-and-run driver. tinyurl.com/2pr77buz

How much more wrong can this administration do? Its jaw dropping

More on Nevada's standard here: jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

Raising my Pride Flag. Love who you want to love

Regulatory Battle: #OSHA heat standard hearing begins with tragic stories of workers dead on the job whose lives could have been saved by a strong standard -- and the same old tired arguments and imaginary theories from business representatives. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

#No Kings With my daughter in San Francisco

I recently gave my first major political speech of this campaign season to retire Lauren Boebert. Like, share, follow, pitch in if you can. LET'S GO!!

At least 5.4 million U.S. children are estimated to be caring for family members at home, a number likely to rise if Medicaid cuts hit home-based care services.

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

New CBO analysis: The Republican party-line reconciliation bill would decrease household resources by 4% for the bottom 10 percent, while increasing them by 2% for the top 10 percent. As of 2033.

It’s 10 pm on a Sunday night and Republicans on the Budget Committee are cutting food assistance, health care, and access to education to give billionaires a tax break.

🚨🚨🚨 The House GOP just passed the #MedicaidMassacre bill out of the Budget Committee. #CA22 Rep. David Valadao (R) won by just 6.8% (Dems have overperformed by 12% so far this year)... ...while up to 198,000 of his constituents (21.3%) would lose healthcare coverage if this bill goes into effect.

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Trump and MAGA Republicans are slashing Medicaid so billionaires can get another tax break. That means fewer people get the care they need—just so the rich can get richer. Tell them: hands off our healthcare:

What we’re watching this week is the President of the United States using his public office to personally enrich himself. He’s using the office we put him in to take bribes from foreign governments. It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.

Democrats have been saying it for months And here it is-in black and white for all to see Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break Don't Mess With Medicaid

It’s official: Republicans want to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.

Trump's tariff war could reduce the supply of Christmas toys. But deporting children could reduce the demand.

The worst thing you can do right now is hide or go quiet. Stand up and talk back.

AFL-CIO issues "Death on the Job Report" for Workers Memorial Day. Meanwhile, Trump's OSHA is planning an event: “Honoring Those We’ve Lost and Supporting Those Left Behind” Nice sentiment. But an administration that destroys NIOSH does not honor those we've lost. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Judas Iscariot got paid off around Easter. Why shouldn’t I? by Donald Trump

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

#trump #donaldtrump #Liberty #ICE #detainment #democracy

"It was the worst type of magical thinking to imagine Trump would have any serious constraints in a second term ... If his voters believed he wouldn’t be stupid and malevolent enough to obliterate the economy for no good reason, they simply didn’t pay attention to his first term or 2024 campaign."

If I dangle you over a building then pull you up I didn’t save your life, I nearly killed you! Keep that in mind as you watch Congress and the WH as they claim to protect you. #scpol

Those tariffs were so beautiful that the king had to hide them

Trump, Elon and RFK Jr. destroy the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( #NIOSH)-- the only government agency that researches occupational safety and health hazards, and certifies respirators. The result: More workers will get sick and die. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

Once again for the folks in the back: he doesn't like you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

There was a reason they attacked DEI first. It's because white christian male supremacist views are core to their movement. Dems should, contrary to the advice of some reflexive compromisers among us, respond by picking up the fallen banner of equality & opportunity. We should proudly champion it.

92 years ago today: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act ("Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich"), giving the Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, power to make and enforce laws. The Center Party provides decisive support. With the Communist Party banned, Social Democrats are alone in opposition.

A completely serious question. When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country. cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others