PTO, parental leave, pensions: Even the most prized benefits are on the chopping block In a tough labor market, workers often have fewer options for job-hopping, and employers can rethink what benefits they offer.

Well, of course the benefits that companies shrink first are paid time off and parental leave.

www.businessinsider.com/deloitte-zoo...

Woman with long gray hair and light skin with dark-framed glasses, smiling.

Quite a thrill to talk to Kim Villanueva and Rose Brunache of the @nationalnow.bsky.social on their podcast. We spent most of the time busting the myth of meritocracy and explaining why we cling to the idea lnk.to/feminismNOW!...

Residency Applications After Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization This cross-sectional study using an interrupted time-series analysis investigates disparities in the residency application rate to programs in abortion-restricted states compared with nonrestricted st...

Repercussions of Dobbs. *All* medical school residency applications from people of all genders and interested in all specialties go down, creating healthcare deserts in states that restrict abortion. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

The amazing @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social tells us not to write the obituary on feminism too soon "I tell these stories to encourage people to see how far we have come, with the hope that the evidence will make the case that the work is well worth continuing." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

Investigative reporting shows that Meta is restricting their AI chat bots from providing information on abortion keeping people from knowing about reproductive health. @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One Weird Trick for Being a Better Man When a man is with other men, why does he lose his moral compass so reliably?

As always, love Kate Manne's analysis. Here, she documents the powerful peer effects on men and boys, and how to disrupt them. @katemanne.bsky.social katemanne.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.

People are leaving states that restrict reproductive rights. Total abortion bans reduced rents by an avg of 2.2% from July 2022-June 2025 (4.0% in the most recent year) and increased rental vacancy rates by an avg of 1.1-1.8 percentage points. (Same for home values!). 19thnews.org/2026/03/abor...

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

"They want us talking about furries and bathrooms, so we don't realize they are picking our pockets... closing our schools, gutting our healthcare...The culture wars are a smokescreen."

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As usual, @sorayachemaly.bsky.social cuts through the noise and tells us like it is: "DARVO, in the Epstein case, has consistently made victims the face of the crimes and ensured that the network that enabled Epstein remains an abstract force." www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/12/i...

Trump's Racism Isn't News Donald Trump’s racist meme featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is shocking but utterly unsurprising.

As usual @borowitzreport.bsky.social tells it like it is: open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, David Rubenstein (whom he fired as head of the Kennedy Center) and Jerome H. Powell (the outgoing Fed chairman) celebrating confederate Robert E Lee.

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal.

I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

granular, practical, well organized info here:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Katie Johnson is Still at the Heart of the Epstein/Trump Story Plus what the new files released tell us and what they don’t

Read this about Trump. Your blood will run cold. Thr heartless cruelty. The abuse of children. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Looking to support Minnesotans? Here are some ways to help. www.standwithminnesota.com #ICEoutNow

The Telemetry All the news the headlines missed in 2025.

So, it's 2026. Things are scary but we can remember all of the good things that happened in 2025. @angushervey.com does a great job of re-orienting us. "Doom is dramatically satisfying in ways that incremental progress never can be." fixthenews.com/p/the-teleme...

Why are so many Americans worried about falling birth rates? The 19th News/SurveyMonkey Poll found that half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth rates on society.

Worried about falling birthrates? Apparently many Americans are. Here are some policy solutions: (1) make childcare affordable and (2) create Medicare for all. One of the reasons people don't have kids is that they are afraid they can't afford them. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A new report from the Institute for Gender and the Economy! Caregiving and education are intertwined - both are vital to our collective well-being.

Read the full report here: www.gendereconomy.org/wp-content/u...

@sarahkaplan.bsky.social @bdhuey.bsky.social @lindawhite.bsky.social @utoronto.ca

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 in the US say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014." news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

i”It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power.”

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

“Their rhetoric — and the conventional wisdom that flows from it — suggests that we cannot talk about economic solutions without abandoning our commitment to the Black, Latino, gay, transgender and female poor that are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party’s base.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Why We Resist For the Country, For Each Other, For Ourselves, for the World

“The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. That we will surrender, without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and that of our children.”

Alexei Navalny prison diary 01/17/22

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GBH Documentaries | There Are Things To Do A love story to Urvashi Vaid: a lesbian immigrant who helped shape the modern gay rights movement.

If you weren't as lucky as me to know the incomparable Urvashi Vaid, you can still be part of her aura. She knew there was a place for everyone in the movement, that we had to build bridges to make change, that we didn't have to compromise our values to get things done. www.pbs.org/video/there-...

NO TYRANTS DAY - TORONTO, ON CANADA · No Kings **We don’t put up with would-be kings in the US.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO TYRANTS” and "NO KINGS", born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on po...

Hey Toronto peeps! #NoKings www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

WATCH: What frog guy can teach Democrats -- and you Anat Shenker-Osorio on Portland, Chicago, No Kings, and how you can start changing minds right now

This is so good. Creating magnetic messaging, not "pollingism" and what the Democrats could be doing that they mainly are not. (But exceptions! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, @govandybeshear.bsky.social)Attract people and don't be afraid to repel!

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How Meta's New Rules Are Putting LGBTQ People in Danger [Opinion] The company's systematic dismantling of digital civil-rights protections has consequences that extend far beyond our screens.

On top of everything else going on...Oppression and hate built into the algorithms. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/how-metas-...

Ugh.

Women in the workplace - have we made progress? | IRL YouTube video by In Real Life • Steph Wong

This was a fun and provocative conversation. Stephanie Wong asked great questions that allowed me to bust many myths! You'll hear a lot of "howevers" because there's nuance when it comes to understanding gender inequality and the parenthood penalty! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaaZ...