While the surge of federal agents in the Twin Cities grabbed much of the attention the past few months, stories of children hiding at home, crying in class and being detained have quietly gripped some Minnesota small towns since January.
Never base the entire economic outlook on one report, but this is *not* great. For months, we have been holding our breath watching the labor market get weaker and weaker. It may finally be beginning to break. #jobsday
Manufacturing jobs fell again, down 12,000 between January and February 2026. Since January 2025, the manufacturing sector has lost 100,000 jobs. I repeat: The manufacturing sector lost 100k jobs since Trump took office.
#EconSky #NumbersDay
Today's jobs report was much weaker than expected. Payroll jobs fell 92k in Feb, and revisions to Dec data show a loss of 17k jobs. Average job growth over the last 3 months now under 6k.
Household survey population controls indicate a significant drop in the labor force.
#NumbersDay #EconSky
The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February.
According to our polling, 24% of Americans say Trump has made the economy better since becoming president, vs 53% who say he's made things worse.
Voters say 2:1 Trump isn't focused enough on the things they care about.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/53-of-amer...
Now that Kristi Noem is out of a job she can spend more time at home doing what she loves best. Cheating on her husband and murdering her children’s puppies.
let me guess: the winning ticket is to throw trans people under the bus while being more corporatist and conservative?
peppered with a little empty lip service to "affordability" while doing absolutely nothing about the unchecked corporate power responsible for it?
Our new DHS Secretary is best known for trying to fight a Teamster on the Senate floor, so that bodes well. youtu.be/CR94QQXO_4s?...
“If you’re looking at trying to reduce the cost to families, the solution lies in how you’re going to subsidize it — there’s not much to do to run down the cost of child care,” - @haileygibbs.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social #FundChildCare www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Gen Z men want kids. Gen Z women have questions. www.vox.com/podcasts/480...
NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses.
But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n
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I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:
Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.
Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane
This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster
Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran.
So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?
I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...
I have written about the Biden-era child care rules as an example of how regulatory expertise can be used within the bounds of an outdated, inadequate law to really improve lives when a sclerotic, unresponsive Congress does not. This fraud bullshit is an invented pretext to destroy progress.
The administration is setting up the idea that anyone opposing Trump is engaging in "domestic terrorism," as Trump's EO set out. (This is a way to get around the specific definition of "domestic terrorist" in U.S. law.)
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
There is an “emerging sense that Trump’s centrality to right-wing politics has an endpoint in the not-so-distant future,” @samrosenfeld.bsky.social tells @willoremus.com. “That all serves to loosen Trump’s symbolic grip on the right’s discourse.”
“AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.” www.404media.co/ai-translati...
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@nonprofitunion.bsky.social has endorsed our campaign in the Ward 1 race! 🙌🏾 This is our fifteenth endorsement!
As a nonprofit employee myself, I'm honored to stand with NPEU members in the fight for fair wages and benefits, stronger worker protections, and more respect on the job.
New explainer: Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs): A Tool for Building Lasting Investments in Workers and Communities.
When public dollars fund development, communities deserve enforceable benefits — good jobs, accountability, and shared prosperity.
Learn more: bit.ly/explainer-20...
"The Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program functions as a nationwide voucher system, diverting public dollars to private schools while allowing them to play by different rules—evading civil rights protections, academic oversight, and public reporting requirements.” tcf.org/content/comm...
Immigrants are successfully challenging the Trump administration's mass detention policy and winning release from ICE custody—thanks to a centuries-old legal principle and constitutional right. My latest for @motherjones.com:
I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.
“Bounty hunter” laws designed to incentivize people to sue their neighbors for getting an abortion are spreading throughout the country. @queenmab.bsky.social reports:
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
f you missed it this morning, you can listen anytime!
Kimberli and Tiffany did a beautiful job of describing the devastating impacts of ICE actions in the last few months on kids and childcare.
How ICE’s presence is affecting child care in Minnesota www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
