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📣SNS Advocacy Day is Tuesday, May 13th
Join us for a rally, meetings with legislators, and time to connect with activists and art-ivists!
📅 Register by May 5th to reserve your seat on the 🚌!
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@stevievargas.bsky.social
#SolutionsNotSuspensions

I wrote down some comms lessons for Democrats...

Breaking News: The Trump administration is moving to deport migrants who were allowed into the U.S. temporarily under Biden-era programs, an internal memo said.

Over the last year I have spent some time writing as a way to process my grief. I’ve always loved fantasy novels but always wished I could read one that reflected my own culture & identity. So that’s what I aimed to do. Diving into Puerto Rican myths & folklore helped me connect & process my grief.

Parents across NYS are struggling to find and afford quality child care. The good news is that right now Gov. Kathy Hochul has the power to help ease the struggles that many parents are facing with the stroke of a pen! @govkathyhochul.bsky.social, parents all over the state are counting on you!

Happy @govkathyhochul.bsky.social signed presumptive eligibility, but we cannot celebrate until she signs the bill ending the deeply inequitable minimum earnings rule and the bill to decouple child care assistance from work hours.

Sign #3childcarebills, Governor!

As one child care director told me when I asked how higher staff-to-child ratios impact her: "Literally all you're doing is changing diapers and trying to keep them alive."

The story behind our investigation on child care deregulation:

At the 37th Annual Child Care & Early Learning Advocates Meeting in D.C.

With the incoming administration I am connecting with advocates from across the nation to conspire with one another to protect our gains, grow our base, and get a bigger picture of the federal landscape.

#palante

Turns out the childcare cliff was real and it means working parents are worse off now than during the peak of the pandemic www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

There is a rise of class consciousness happening in America.

It’s time that the working class comes together and sees how the ultra wealthy are gaming the system to hurt our communities—from healthcare to wages to education and more.

@govkathyhochul.bsky.social has the opportunity to help NYS families and child care providers by signing some critical bills that were just called to her desk. If you know the struggle of finding affordable childcare or work and child care and can barely make ends meet, call the gov to act now!

When schools are underfunded, we all feel the impact.

In response to the Rockefeller Institute’s recommendations for NYS’ Foundation Aid formula, the takeaway is clear: Governor Hochul and the state legislature must fully fund our schools in 2025-2026 ✊🏽

My first attempt at a Basque burnt cheesecake. It’s like a cheesecake and a crème brûlée had a child.

Is no one else concerned that our county exec Adam Bello is looking to the state to fund a youth detention center? Instead of investing in programs that support our youth he is pushing reactive policies that further criminalize our youth & prop up the carceral system. No one is safe w/ this approach

Now available! Our History Has Always Been Contraband
In Defense of Black Studies 📚

Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2154-our-history-has-always-been-contraband

Every day I realize people don’t hate white supremacy as much as they say they do 🫠 And it’s beyond disappointing.