Young, humpback whale launching itself into the sky: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Price effects of the Iran conflict already showing up in March data. For the month, prices up a lot and real earnings are down. And it almost surely gets worse from here. 1

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.

A truly extraordinary moment.

We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Act like it.

A growing number of workers went on strike in 2025 From sanitation workers in Philadelphia to Boeing machinists in Missouri to nurses in California, thousands of workers across the country went on strike last year to demand higher pay, better benefits...

New numbers out this morning from @usbls.bsky.social show that in 2025, a growing number of workers went on strike. 1/ www.epi.org/blog/a-growi...

GOOD NEWS WHEREVER YOU CAN GET IT ALERT: We’ve entered the stretch where the days get longer really fast. Daylight got 1.5 hours longer over the last 60 days, but it will get 2.5 hours longer over the next 60 days. (Exact amounts vary by location, but in this hemisphere, it’s all good.)

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

I just read your piece— really powerful. Thank you for sharing it.

Photographer @mostafabassim1 photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Live with Heather Cox Richardson A recording from Paul Krugman and Heather Cox Richardson's live video

A can't miss conversation between two of the best out there in @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social.

Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.

The Republican budget bill is truly grotesque.

It exposes (for the millionth time) the true intent of MAGA Republicans: make life all sunshine and rainbows for folks who are already wealthy and destroy economic security for the rest of us.

The "Joe Rogan for the left" everyone is looking for isn't a podcast, it's a union.

EPI condemns House passage of dangerous tax and spending bill Today, the Trump administration and nearly all Republicans in the House of Representatives took another step toward advancing their top economic priority: keeping taxes for the wealthy and corporation...

Today, House Republicans passed a bill that takes food from kids and healthcare from the poor while adding trillions to the deficit—all to provide tax cuts that go overwhelmingly to the rich. It’s cruel by design and terrible for the economy. The Senate must reject H.R.1. www.epi.org/press/epi-co...

A Mother’s Day truth about the “Fertilization President” The White House’s avowed concern about the nation’s declining birth rate is a pretext for something else.

A Mother’s Day truth about the “Fertilization President”
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The GOP billionaire tax scam is outrageous...

The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days How Unions are Resisting Authoritarian Attacks on Workers’ Rights—and Why It Matters for Everyone

Many now understand that Trump’s attacks on judges, law firms, universities, non-profit groups, and the media are all related—all part of a fascist power grab.

Missing from that list? Unions.

A detailed inventory of Trump’s attacks on working people, and how unions are fighting back:

Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

Wow. The dog whistles are loud tonight over in the Cap Rotunda.

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

The Washington Post reports that Trump is preparing to issue an illegal order to fire the Postal Service board & place the agency under control of the Commerce Dept. Trump’s nominee to head the dept, Howard Lutnick, has encouraged Trump to privatize USPS. 🧵 1/9 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A snapshot of the federal workforce that is now under attack from the Trump administration In the first month of his new administration, President Trump has taken drastic steps to reduce the size of the federal workforce, from offering nearly all federal employees a “deferred resignation” b...

The federal workforce is under attack from the Trump administration.

But who are federal workers?
🔹 ~3 million people
🔹 93% work outside of DC
🔹 Diverse representation of race & age
🔹 Top occupation: medical/public health

www.epi.org/blog/a-snaps...

In the global clash between democracy and oligarchy, the US is switching sides | Robert Reich As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world

As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/2...