Celine McNicholas
@cmcnich.bsky.social
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latest data from ICE: the pace of deportations continued to increase in August
Trump is now deporting people at a rate of about half of his stated goal of 1 million per year
Trump is now deporting people at a rate of about half of his stated goal of 1 million per year
August 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
latest data from ICE: the pace of deportations continued to increase in August
Trump is now deporting people at a rate of about half of his stated goal of 1 million per year
Trump is now deporting people at a rate of about half of his stated goal of 1 million per year
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Great NYT piece on Elon Musk's takeover of Social Security and stealing our data. It also documents how he knowingly pushed absurd lies about 20 million people over age 120 getting benefits www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u... Don't worry, Musk is being rewarded with billions in government contracts.
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Great NYT piece on Elon Musk's takeover of Social Security and stealing our data. It also documents how he knowingly pushed absurd lies about 20 million people over age 120 getting benefits www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u... Don't worry, Musk is being rewarded with billions in government contracts.
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Candidate Trump wooed labor unions & union members, but Trump 2.0 has repeatedly attacked America's unions
Unions have grown increasingly angry & disgusted with Trump
"We've been facing a barrage of attacks from the Trump administration," said AFLCIO President Liz Shuler
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Unions have grown increasingly angry & disgusted with Trump
"We've been facing a barrage of attacks from the Trump administration," said AFLCIO President Liz Shuler
slate.com/news-and-pol...
America’s Labor Unions Are Souring on Trump
And they're already planting seeds to help ensure the Democrats win back control of the House of Representatives.
slate.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Candidate Trump wooed labor unions & union members, but Trump 2.0 has repeatedly attacked America's unions
Unions have grown increasingly angry & disgusted with Trump
"We've been facing a barrage of attacks from the Trump administration," said AFLCIO President Liz Shuler
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Unions have grown increasingly angry & disgusted with Trump
"We've been facing a barrage of attacks from the Trump administration," said AFLCIO President Liz Shuler
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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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...
April 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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...
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@moreperfectunion.bsky.social documentary on farmworkers abused under the H-2A visa program, featuring @epi.org 's own @dcosta.bsky.social
youtu.be/1COm0C73CKw
youtu.be/1COm0C73CKw
How This Legal Immigration Program Became a Human Trafficking Scheme
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
April 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social documentary on farmworkers abused under the H-2A visa program, featuring @epi.org 's own @dcosta.bsky.social
youtu.be/1COm0C73CKw
youtu.be/1COm0C73CKw
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Everything you want to know about immigration and its economic impact but were afraid to ask www.epi.org/publication/...
Immigration FAQ
Get answers to the most frequently asked questions about immigration such as, How many immigrants live in the United States? What are the immigration statuses? Where do immigrants in the U.S. come fro...
www.epi.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Everything you want to know about immigration and its economic impact but were afraid to ask www.epi.org/publication/...
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My latest for @epi.org. Nearly everything we know about education comes from the National Center for Education Statistics. We depend on NCES to properly evaluate how our schools are or aren't working.
Here are five data points we only know thanks to NCES: www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...
Here are five data points we only know thanks to NCES: www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump administration is gutting the National Center for Education Statistics: Here are five things we only know about schools thanks to the NCES
Reports indicate that the Trump administration has laid off nearly all staff at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as part of a massive number of staff cuts across the Department of E...
www.epi.org
March 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My latest for @epi.org. Nearly everything we know about education comes from the National Center for Education Statistics. We depend on NCES to properly evaluate how our schools are or aren't working.
Here are five data points we only know thanks to NCES: www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...
Here are five data points we only know thanks to NCES: www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...
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There are over 80 million phone calls to Social Security each year.
Cutting phone service will cut benefits. Social security needs more people answering the phones, not fewer
Cutting phone service will cut benefits. Social security needs more people answering the phones, not fewer
Under pressure from DOGE, Social Security may sharply cut back on phone service options for processing claims and direct-deposit changes, forcing millions to go in person to field offices or make changes online www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service
Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There are over 80 million phone calls to Social Security each year.
Cutting phone service will cut benefits. Social security needs more people answering the phones, not fewer
Cutting phone service will cut benefits. Social security needs more people answering the phones, not fewer
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In another example of DOGE’s destructive and erratic form of “governing,” the NLRB told its employees today that agency credit cards are considered frozen for at least the next 30 days.
This throws any NLRB election or trial that requires overnight travel into question.
In another example of DOGE’s destructive and erratic form of “governing,” the NLRB told its employees today that agency credit cards are considered frozen for at least the next 30 days.
This throws any NLRB election or trial that requires overnight travel into question.
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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In another example of DOGE’s destructive and erratic form of “governing,” the NLRB told its employees today that agency credit cards are considered frozen for at least the next 30 days.
This throws any NLRB election or trial that requires overnight travel into question.
In another example of DOGE’s destructive and erratic form of “governing,” the NLRB told its employees today that agency credit cards are considered frozen for at least the next 30 days.
This throws any NLRB election or trial that requires overnight travel into question.
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Yesterday I testified in full House Ed & Workforce committee on "Unleashing" America's workforce and strengthening the economy. (I was clear that none of the administration's priorities have anything to do with unleashing America's workforce or strengthening the economy.)
If Trump was serious about helping working Americans, he would protect critical programs like Medicaid, Social Security, & SNAP, "not advance measures that give tax cuts to the wealthiest at the literal expense of poor children, the sick, & the elderly," says EPI President @hshierholz.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Yesterday I testified in full House Ed & Workforce committee on "Unleashing" America's workforce and strengthening the economy. (I was clear that none of the administration's priorities have anything to do with unleashing America's workforce or strengthening the economy.)
At a time where so much speaking up and out happens within the safety of social media, it is inspiring to witness the courage it takes to stand up and speak directly to power. May we all rise to our moment with Rev. Budde bravery over the next four years.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
At a time where so much speaking up and out happens within the safety of social media, it is inspiring to witness the courage it takes to stand up and speak directly to power. May we all rise to our moment with Rev. Budde bravery over the next four years.
Here's a thought - the media could stop covering everything Musk posts on X like it has some official significance. Last time I checked he was not elected to anything and has no official power. At this point why not headline the random X posts of other 53 year old men with political opinions.
December 20, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Here's a thought - the media could stop covering everything Musk posts on X like it has some official significance. Last time I checked he was not elected to anything and has no official power. At this point why not headline the random X posts of other 53 year old men with political opinions.