Ryan Davis
@rydav96.bsky.social
#Workforce nerd, policy wonk, sports fan, tennis player, and national park lover. Pro-planet, Pro-union, Pro-universal healthcare, and anti-fascist.
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We've been working as quickly as possible to get information out to folks so they can take action re: HHS rules against trans youth health care. Here's my latest guide for those who want to submit a public comment! www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
How To Submit Public Comments To Oppose Proposed Rules Restricting Transgender Health Care Access
Comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can help fight the Trump administration’s latest attempt to restrict federal funding for transgender health care for youth. This toolkit deta...
www.americanprogress.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We've been working as quickly as possible to get information out to folks so they can take action re: HHS rules against trans youth health care. Here's my latest guide for those who want to submit a public comment! www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
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Never cross a picket line! Better yet…join the line!
Three holiday season ways to support:
1. Visit a local coffee shop for your caffeine
2. Don’t buy and tell your friends and family not to buy Starbucks gift cards for others
3. Encourage your company to use local vendors for coffee services
Three holiday season ways to support:
1. Visit a local coffee shop for your caffeine
2. Don’t buy and tell your friends and family not to buy Starbucks gift cards for others
3. Encourage your company to use local vendors for coffee services
It's DAY SIX of our national, open-ended ULP strike 🔥
Check out this incredible customer who immediately turned around and joined the picket line with us in Philly this morning to SHUT IT DOWN! THIS is what solidarity looks like. #NoContractNoCoffee
Check out this incredible customer who immediately turned around and joined the picket line with us in Philly this morning to SHUT IT DOWN! THIS is what solidarity looks like. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Never cross a picket line! Better yet…join the line!
Three holiday season ways to support:
1. Visit a local coffee shop for your caffeine
2. Don’t buy and tell your friends and family not to buy Starbucks gift cards for others
3. Encourage your company to use local vendors for coffee services
Three holiday season ways to support:
1. Visit a local coffee shop for your caffeine
2. Don’t buy and tell your friends and family not to buy Starbucks gift cards for others
3. Encourage your company to use local vendors for coffee services
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Happy Halloween! While handing our sugar fluff to trick-or-treaters, let's also send some dough to our local food banks and other organizations helping all of our neighbors who rely on SNAP food stamps to feed their families.
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Happy Halloween! While handing our sugar fluff to trick-or-treaters, let's also send some dough to our local food banks and other organizations helping all of our neighbors who rely on SNAP food stamps to feed their families.
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour.
I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.
I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour.
I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.
I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.
Whelp. Looks like we won’t be able to trust employment data out of BLS now: fortune.com/2025/08/01/t...
Trump orders firing of government labor data chief after jobs report stuns market with massive revisions to previous reports
Stocks fell sharply as investors digested weak employment numbers alongside the turmoil within the government’s statistical agencies.
fortune.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Whelp. Looks like we won’t be able to trust employment data out of BLS now: fortune.com/2025/08/01/t...
This is not a “longstanding custom” it is part of the constitution. You can bet your side of fries this is going to be in the governments next brief citing that it’s a custom not law. Do better @nytimes.com
Fuck you, bootlickers. It’s not a “longstanding custom,” it’s the fucking law.
July 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is not a “longstanding custom” it is part of the constitution. You can bet your side of fries this is going to be in the governments next brief citing that it’s a custom not law. Do better @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
This rescuers story is just heartbreaking. Remember those that are doing the search, rescue and recovery. Their wounds will last well after this tragedy falls out of the headlines.
This rescuers story is just heartbreaking. Remember those that are doing the search, rescue and recovery. Their wounds will last well after this tragedy falls out of the headlines.
Update from David Montgomery
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
This rescuers story is just heartbreaking. Remember those that are doing the search, rescue and recovery. Their wounds will last well after this tragedy falls out of the headlines.
This rescuers story is just heartbreaking. Remember those that are doing the search, rescue and recovery. Their wounds will last well after this tragedy falls out of the headlines.
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Under the Trump administration's cruel immigration enforcement agenda, it's important we all know our rights.
Everyone — no matter our immigration status — has constitutional rights in the U.S.
Make sure you know what to do if you encounter ICE:
Everyone — no matter our immigration status — has constitutional rights in the U.S.
Make sure you know what to do if you encounter ICE:
Know Your Rights: What to Do If You're Detained by ICE
With the Trump administration's largest immigration operation underway, it's important to know what to do if you're detained by ICE.
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June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Under the Trump administration's cruel immigration enforcement agenda, it's important we all know our rights.
Everyone — no matter our immigration status — has constitutional rights in the U.S.
Make sure you know what to do if you encounter ICE:
Everyone — no matter our immigration status — has constitutional rights in the U.S.
Make sure you know what to do if you encounter ICE:
Three volcanoes on the way out of Seattle today. This view never gets old.
June 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Three volcanoes on the way out of Seattle today. This view never gets old.
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If you're in the St Louis area and can help with tornado clean up;
Date: Saturday, May 17th
Location: O’fallon Park YMCA - 4343 W Florissant Ave Saint Louis, MO 63115
Time: 10am
Date: Saturday, May 17th
Location: O’fallon Park YMCA - 4343 W Florissant Ave Saint Louis, MO 63115
Time: 10am
May 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
If you're in the St Louis area and can help with tornado clean up;
Date: Saturday, May 17th
Location: O’fallon Park YMCA - 4343 W Florissant Ave Saint Louis, MO 63115
Time: 10am
Date: Saturday, May 17th
Location: O’fallon Park YMCA - 4343 W Florissant Ave Saint Louis, MO 63115
Time: 10am
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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins testifies the department has about $5B frozen after starting off at $20 billion.
"We are working around the clock, going line by line by line."
"We are working around the clock, going line by line by line."
May 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins testifies the department has about $5B frozen after starting off at $20 billion.
"We are working around the clock, going line by line by line."
"We are working around the clock, going line by line by line."
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Vibe check: three councilmembers are openly LGBTQIA+, including me. I deeply and wholeheartedly appreciate the mayor and deputy mayor’s comments tonight. This is allyship in action.
@masonthompson.bsky.social and @ramiok.bsky.social never disappoint when there is an opportunity to show up. 💜
@masonthompson.bsky.social and @ramiok.bsky.social never disappoint when there is an opportunity to show up. 💜
A bunch of folks showed up to the Bothell City Council tonight to speak against a potential resolution affirming Bothell as a welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ people.
Here was Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson's response.
Here was Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson's response.
April 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Vibe check: three councilmembers are openly LGBTQIA+, including me. I deeply and wholeheartedly appreciate the mayor and deputy mayor’s comments tonight. This is allyship in action.
@masonthompson.bsky.social and @ramiok.bsky.social never disappoint when there is an opportunity to show up. 💜
@masonthompson.bsky.social and @ramiok.bsky.social never disappoint when there is an opportunity to show up. 💜
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Today — April 7 — AANHPI women finally catch up to what their white male counterparts made last year.
These wage gaps are enormous and they drive income inequality. Congress must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to level the playing field.
These wage gaps are enormous and they drive income inequality. Congress must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to level the playing field.
April 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today — April 7 — AANHPI women finally catch up to what their white male counterparts made last year.
These wage gaps are enormous and they drive income inequality. Congress must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to level the playing field.
These wage gaps are enormous and they drive income inequality. Congress must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to level the playing field.
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🚨 For #AANHPIEqualPay day aggregates fail to tell the whole story. New analysis by @americanprogress.bsky.social & @napawf.org highlight that many AANHPI women are likely to work in lower wage service occupations #DisaggregateData www.americanprogress.org/shareable/aa...
AANHPI women tend to work in lower-wage, service occupations
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April 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚨 For #AANHPIEqualPay day aggregates fail to tell the whole story. New analysis by @americanprogress.bsky.social & @napawf.org highlight that many AANHPI women are likely to work in lower wage service occupations #DisaggregateData www.americanprogress.org/shareable/aa...
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firsttheycamefor.com is being updated to list all of the people being illegally detained or deported by the Trump administration in one place
#signalboost #resist #freeRumeysa #freeMahmoud #freepalestine #abolishICE
#signalboost #resist #freeRumeysa #freeMahmoud #freepalestine #abolishICE
First They Came For
A website dedicated to cataloging the people who are being kidnapped by the Trump administration.
firsttheycamefor.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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March 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is terrible news. He was one of the truly good guys. Rest in peace good sir
A huge loss for WA. Frank Chopp, the Seattle Democrat who was the longest serving speaker in state history, has died. #waleg
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Frank Chopp, former WA Former House speaker, dies
An advocate for health care and low-income housing, Frank Chopp was the longest-serving House speaker in the state's history and a rare legislative force.
www.seattletimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is terrible news. He was one of the truly good guys. Rest in peace good sir
The new fee policy has reportedly been a nightmare for Alaska employees weighing customers’ emotional baggage at the check-in desk.
@alaskaairlines.bsky.social you gotta get in on this.
@alaskaairlines.bsky.social you gotta get in on this.
Alaska Airlines Announces Emotional Baggage Fee: bit.ly/4bOqH4d
March 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The new fee policy has reportedly been a nightmare for Alaska employees weighing customers’ emotional baggage at the check-in desk.
@alaskaairlines.bsky.social you gotta get in on this.
@alaskaairlines.bsky.social you gotta get in on this.
Congratulations to the @afacwa.org for finally getting to a contract with @alaskaairlines.bsky.social As a frequent Alaska flyer their cabin crews are amazing. The raise and benefits are well earned!
www.afacwa.org/alaska_fligh...
www.afacwa.org/alaska_fligh...
Alaska Flight Attendants Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract
Today, Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants voted to ratify a new contract. The industry-leading three-year agreement provides an immediate, double digit wage increase for the 7,000 Flight Attendants, bo...
www.afacwa.org
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Congratulations to the @afacwa.org for finally getting to a contract with @alaskaairlines.bsky.social As a frequent Alaska flyer their cabin crews are amazing. The raise and benefits are well earned!
www.afacwa.org/alaska_fligh...
www.afacwa.org/alaska_fligh...
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30% of new teachers left their school after the 2022-23 school year. We want to know why.
If you’re an early career teacher (≤5 years), fill out our survey by March 14 to share your experiences in the classroom and recommendations for policymakers: forms.gle/ad657ggsE6nJ...
If you’re an early career teacher (≤5 years), fill out our survey by March 14 to share your experiences in the classroom and recommendations for policymakers: forms.gle/ad657ggsE6nJ...
February 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
30% of new teachers left their school after the 2022-23 school year. We want to know why.
If you’re an early career teacher (≤5 years), fill out our survey by March 14 to share your experiences in the classroom and recommendations for policymakers: forms.gle/ad657ggsE6nJ...
If you’re an early career teacher (≤5 years), fill out our survey by March 14 to share your experiences in the classroom and recommendations for policymakers: forms.gle/ad657ggsE6nJ...
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Hey #seattle people would you like a fun night out for a good cause? Fare Start hosts guest chefs nights where you get a three course meal for around 60 bucks. Volunteers staff front of house and students work the kitchen.
Make your next night out for a cause! #socialenterprise #workforce #
Make your next night out for a cause! #socialenterprise #workforce #
February 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Hey #seattle people would you like a fun night out for a good cause? Fare Start hosts guest chefs nights where you get a three course meal for around 60 bucks. Volunteers staff front of house and students work the kitchen.
Make your next night out for a cause! #socialenterprise #workforce #
Make your next night out for a cause! #socialenterprise #workforce #