Simon Workman

Truly a national emergency. This country needs a full reckoning with the issue of gun violence among troubled young people and solutions that address all the causes.

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Maybe The State shouldn't be in the business of killing people...

1.7 MILLION months of child care! but no, we get a ballroom and arch...

Infant care is incredibly expensive to provide—but one solution could reduce the burden on both states and parents, Kendra Hurley writes:

Cornyn and Tillis folding on Blanche is the most predictable thing ever. They are cowards. The minute Blanche is confirmed, there’s nothing stopping him from reneging on this weaponization fund deal they’ve made. Vote for Democrats if you want a Congress that might actually stand up to this fascist.

This treatment of Fauci is so shameful. He did a great job against a horrific plague and despite a mendacious president and fearmongerers and grifters. What happens when there's another global emergency. Do we think civil servants and experts will rise to help save us when they are so treated?

To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.

It will be nice one day to have a President who doesn’t manage to be a complete and utter embarrassment in multiple ways each and every day.

This is so awful.

Ridiculous.

More of this. Call out the corruption.

Worth the read. The sort of clear description of the craziness we are leaving with in the US, as maybe only a foreign outlet can capture.

For too many families in America, child care is either unaffordable or inaccessible. The cost of child care drives 134,000 families into poverty every year. They deserve solutions, not federal cuts making the crisis worse.

46% of kids under 6 live in a licensed child care desert. That’s modest progress from the 51% in 2018, but millions of families are still without access. Explore the deserts in your community with our new map 📍 https://www.americanprogress.org/feature/child-care-deserts/

Check out @americanprogress.bsky.social updated Child Care Deserts report. Nearly 50% of children <6 still lack access to child care. Lots of great data in this report + a cool interactive to see if you live in a child care desert. Kudos to @haileygibbs.bsky.social @kcpeeks.bsky.social and team!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

the $200 billion dollar Pentagon request for the Iran war could fully fund universal child care in the United States #priorities

As a fan, I find this so frustrating and just more evidence of sports league's focus on profits over fan experience. "a Yankees fan will need access to eight networks for the full 162-game slate, plus potentially two more if the Yankees make the playoffs." www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

Sobering thread

Interesting reporting of NAEYC's recent survey results in the @upshot.nytimes.com. Child care providers are facing increasing costs, and decreasing revenue. The child care crisis is only going to get worse if state and federal governments dont step up: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Every single Republican president in my lifetime has launched an illegal war and crashed the economy—every single fucking one of them. Trump is no different.

Yes! This is a huge problem here in Tompkins County where not only can new families not enroll, but existing families risk losing their subsidy if they are up for renewal.

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This is crazy. Why would anyone want to come to the US while this regime is in charge?

minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/m... “It has always been injustice against people of color,” Stumon said. “So for me, if they’re around here — and I’m just going to say it — if they would kill a white man, I have no chance as a Black woman.”

Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $852 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2026: $265 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2026: $249 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2026: $7.25 an hour

Ep. 2 of BridgeCare's Child Care Matters Podcast digs into the complex mix of child care funding streams, and the growing disconnect between what families can afford to pay and how much it costs to provide quality care. And it features me :) Check it out here: getbridgecare.com/podcast/epis...

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Holy shit. He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him. His hands were on the pavement when he was shot. He never had his hand on a weapon. Cold blooded murder.

How many executions will it take until half the country decides enough is enough? 🤬🤬🤬😢

"beyond a reasonable doubt"

Unconscionable. What are we doing, America??

Yes, being a dictator does make things easier than the messiness of democracy. FFS. Is there any step that is too far for republicans before they call this guy out.

Im not sure what another 3 years of this looks like. Even if more checks and balances are in place after the midterms, that only works in a functioning government, which we dont currently seem to have...

You can tell the administration is serious about rooting out fraud in Minnesota by the fact they just forced all of the prosecutors working those fraud cases to resign.

As the old saying goes, everyone—whether Democrat, Republican, or independent—relies on someone who relies on childcare.

Some good news to end the week.

"We had whistles. They had guns." This tragedy made all the worse by the lies this administration has been spreading about Renee Good.

The freeze on child care funding will have a devastating impact on child care providers, children, and families across the country. Use this resource from @childcareforeveryfamily.org to contact your member of Congress: childcareforeveryfamily.org/action/

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

If the United States Constitution doesn’t protect you from a federal agent shooting you in the face for the “crime” of turning your car around, it doesn’t exist. ICE has become a paramilitary force with zero oversight and a Secretary in Kristi Noem who encourages the chaos. ENOUGH.

Abolish ICE.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today: