Katie
@littlelistmaker.bsky.social
Writing about the narratives that shape US child care policy. Fighting for universal child care.
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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The right will never ever hand it to you on a single fucking thing even if they secretly agree with it. They will contort themselves into shapes that do not exist and spite themselves and destroy their own families just to fuck you over. Insane to me that people don't know this yet.
Listen, I'm as liberal as they come, but they have a point that...
NO THEY DO NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP.
NO THEY DO NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Exactly. This whole thing is liberals trying to be high minded and handing it, somewhat, to their enemies. Their enemies will gladly take that fracture you’ve opened and exploit the hell out of it!
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
The right will never ever hand it to you on a single fucking thing even if they secretly agree with it. They will contort themselves into shapes that do not exist and spite themselves and destroy their own families just to fuck you over. Insane to me that people don't know this yet.
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Child care providers make it possible for parents to work & kids to thrive. But this administration is cruelly targeting providers, children and working parents to settle a political score. We just filed a lawsuit to protect this funding and help families afford care. www.afscme.org/press/releas...
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Child care providers make it possible for parents to work & kids to thrive. But this administration is cruelly targeting providers, children and working parents to settle a political score. We just filed a lawsuit to protect this funding and help families afford care. www.afscme.org/press/releas...
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
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Our new paper on the Trump Admin’s unlawful, unsupported-by-evidence, and harmful efforts to freeze ~$10B in funding for child care & other essential needs in 5 Dem-led states, a fundamental threat to everyone's access to public services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Our new paper on the Trump Admin’s unlawful, unsupported-by-evidence, and harmful efforts to freeze ~$10B in funding for child care & other essential needs in 5 Dem-led states, a fundamental threat to everyone's access to public services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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A federal judge ruled Friday that President Trump's administration must keep federal funds flowing to child care subsidies and other social service programs in Minnesota and four other Democratic states.
Judge says Trump administration must keep funding child care subsidies in 5 states for now
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said earlier this month that it was pausing the funding because it had "reason to believe" the states were granting benefits to people in the country illegally, though it did not provide evidence or explain why it was targeting those states and not others.
www.cbsnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Trump's administration must keep federal funds flowing to child care subsidies and other social service programs in Minnesota and four other Democratic states.
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There is a through line between the conservative parents’ rights movement to ICE attacking children in the streets.
The white supremacist argument that “we should be able to treat OUR children however we want” very quickly turns into “we should be able to treat YOUR children however we want.”
The white supremacist argument that “we should be able to treat OUR children however we want” very quickly turns into “we should be able to treat YOUR children however we want.”
January 23, 2026 at 6:14 PM
There is a through line between the conservative parents’ rights movement to ICE attacking children in the streets.
The white supremacist argument that “we should be able to treat OUR children however we want” very quickly turns into “we should be able to treat YOUR children however we want.”
The white supremacist argument that “we should be able to treat OUR children however we want” very quickly turns into “we should be able to treat YOUR children however we want.”
Pronatalism is fascism. There is no liberal pronatalism, only people who do not realize (willfully or naively) they are laundering fascist ideology.
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Pronatalism is fascism. There is no liberal pronatalism, only people who do not realize (willfully or naively) they are laundering fascist ideology.
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My Instagram feed is just videos of regular people in bitter cold trying to prevent children from being kidnapped even AFTER showing their proof of citizenship in 2 I saw today.
I don’t what else it will take to abolish what has become a child trafficking outfit.
I don’t what else it will take to abolish what has become a child trafficking outfit.
January 23, 2026 at 6:14 PM
My Instagram feed is just videos of regular people in bitter cold trying to prevent children from being kidnapped even AFTER showing their proof of citizenship in 2 I saw today.
I don’t what else it will take to abolish what has become a child trafficking outfit.
I don’t what else it will take to abolish what has become a child trafficking outfit.
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Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.
Gutting story from @shefali.bsky.social
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Gutting story from @shefali.bsky.social
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A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks
Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.
19thnews.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.
Gutting story from @shefali.bsky.social
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Gutting story from @shefali.bsky.social
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"Kidnapping? We like to think of it as carenapping"
ICE spokesperson Marcos Charles: "My officers stayed with the child. They cared for him. Took him to get something to eat from a drive-thru restaurant and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of. Again, my officers did that, not his father ... his family refused to open the door and take him back"
January 23, 2026 at 5:35 PM
"Kidnapping? We like to think of it as carenapping"
Please I worked for OCFS for 6 months 9 years ago please take me off the emergency list that also robo calls me twice if I don't immediately confirm a text about snow or water mains. Please. Is NYS IT on here? Please.
January 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Please I worked for OCFS for 6 months 9 years ago please take me off the emergency list that also robo calls me twice if I don't immediately confirm a text about snow or water mains. Please. Is NYS IT on here? Please.
I don't know how many ways I can say that I'm more angry than I've ever been in my life and hate these people with more hatred than I have ever felt.
Bovino: "Here in the US Border Patrol, I will say unequivocally that we are experts in dealing with children"
January 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I don't know how many ways I can say that I'm more angry than I've ever been in my life and hate these people with more hatred than I have ever felt.
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Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
January 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
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The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
Imagine asserting that the problem with this deal is the POSSIBILITY of Chinese influence instead of the certainty of the Oracle surveillance state part.
My statement on the TikTok deal between the U.S. and China.
January 23, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Imagine asserting that the problem with this deal is the POSSIBILITY of Chinese influence instead of the certainty of the Oracle surveillance state part.
There's a Christian nationalist cult that teaches that empathy is a sin because liberals wield it manipulatively to turn you against what is most important, which is caring only for people who look like you. That is the philosophy that allows them to use a child as bait and refer to him as "it."
"They used a child to appeal to the most innate and essentially human impulse to show care, concern and protect — to capture those who care for him. They weaponized decency, the last incorruptible defense we have against absolute misery and evil"
Column | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE
An image like this could once change history. Can one still?
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January 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM
There's a Christian nationalist cult that teaches that empathy is a sin because liberals wield it manipulatively to turn you against what is most important, which is caring only for people who look like you. That is the philosophy that allows them to use a child as bait and refer to him as "it."
I'm really interested in this choice to go with a protecting sex offenders narrative while the Trump admin is being criticized even by devotees for covering up the Epstein files. Is this a narrative they think they can reclaim? Are they right?
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I'm really interested in this choice to go with a protecting sex offenders narrative while the Trump admin is being criticized even by devotees for covering up the Epstein files. Is this a narrative they think they can reclaim? Are they right?
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As slavery exhibits are removed in Philadelphia, and scholars like Lisa Cook are targeted in ways that threaten independent economic research and policy; good people must be reminded that arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend toward justice on its own—it bends in the direction that we push it.
January 23, 2026 at 2:54 PM
As slavery exhibits are removed in Philadelphia, and scholars like Lisa Cook are targeted in ways that threaten independent economic research and policy; good people must be reminded that arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend toward justice on its own—it bends in the direction that we push it.
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One more compromise, bro, just one more, and we will put the issue behind us forever and get back to the important work of constructing the most complicated tax code in history
January 23, 2026 at 1:05 PM
One more compromise, bro, just one more, and we will put the issue behind us forever and get back to the important work of constructing the most complicated tax code in history
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ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
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Spending a bazillion dollars on marriage promotion when the evidence is clear it’s largely ineffective, as Heritage wants, is a waste. In this @nbcnews.com interview, I suggest we’d be better off investing in early childhood programs bc the evidence is pretty clear about its benefits.
Group behind Project 2025 pushes ‘marriage bootcamps’ in effort to focus on family
The group behind Project 2025 is pushing potential "marriage bootcamps" run by the government in an effort to boost the U.S. population, without immigration. NBC News’ Jonathan Allen explains Democrat...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Spending a bazillion dollars on marriage promotion when the evidence is clear it’s largely ineffective, as Heritage wants, is a waste. In this @nbcnews.com interview, I suggest we’d be better off investing in early childhood programs bc the evidence is pretty clear about its benefits.