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Trump Admin Said to Plan Rolling Back Pregnancy-Related Job Protections: The Biden era law was meant to help women stay in the workplace, but some conservatives say rules went too far with coverage for abortion & fertility treatment. https://t.co/reJNhnPNUv Background below.
Federal judge issues preliminary injunction against employee abortion, IVF protections at thousands of Catholic employers nationwide in lawsuit around the EEOC rule for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: https://t.co/iRKvYl0FOT It’s more expansive than the previous in USCCB case.
NYC Passes Law To Protect Pregnant Wkrs From Discrimination http://t.co/OY24CJcnvm 1/5 of EEOC discrimination charges related to pregnancy.
It’s embarrassing this story about a law school student not having flexibility around an exam to deliver her baby takes place at a Catholic university: https://t.co/9ERVtXlNE6
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Happy Election Day! GOTV in Battle Creek, leggo!
Alright, all these headlines demand I start a 2026 thread for the million & one IL races on the ballot. Online ‘influencer’ challenging Rep. Jan Schakowsky: https://t.co/rZwBjCxD9P I expect to have plenty of good options when she retires.
Cook County Dems trying for blue sweep in board races: https://t.co/2kDDZ2hHdr Hear this loud & clear in my head with Madame President’s precise, matter of fact delivery:
Block Club has info on mayoral challenges, but I’m still refreshing waiting for the Board of Elections update on all the aldermanic challenges: https://t.co/af4gjZb9BK
Fine, I'll make a mayoral candidate thread even though it's too early. On Mendoza, I'll just say no one should be surprised about the places she's willing to go on crime. https://t.co/pDv0HeTItM https://t.co/nKFF2jWJU3
The SAFE-T Act did not create the presumption of innocence, a bedrock principal of our oft-challenged democracy that’s pretty important everywhere, but especially in a region that has such a long and painful history of wrongful convictions and police misconduct.
For the first time, Chicago’s challenge season might include an incumbent mayor: https://t.co/PO7iOko2mx His campaign called the process, which requires 12,500 valid signatures, “archaic and anti-democratic.”
Elon Musk Tests What Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Can Buy in the Midterms: Never before has a single ultrawealthy person who was not running for office spent this much during a single election cycle. https://t.co/t3WlWn1uS6 Only Bloomberg spent more when he ran for prez in 2020.
“Twitter’s significance is not about revenue or advertising platforms or new features. It is about communities that create ideas. The real Twitter lives in the practices of people who can migrate at any time.” Only Twitter + Elon Musk piece I’m posting: https://t.co/UZqOXpj5NR
Grok & the AI P0-n Problem: https://t.co/CZUx9bXcxn
Talk of diversity had gone quiet. This year’s midterms show class politics are back in. 🎁 https://t.co/QPIYyU12y6 So long as we don’t forget this: Even as Trump has decried liberal identity politics, the result of his 2nd term has been a de facto promotion of white identity.
In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old party message: that the Republicans are selling out to the highest bidder. How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism: https://t.co/cYDsu0TNWB
Most comprehensive look at all of last night’s elections, includes statewides, municipals & referendums: https://t.co/dAcoywNbo9 + Victories in NYC, NJ, VA & elsewhere were decisive, but new political tests loom for a party still rebuilding its brand: https://t.co/MXT2cD1vEt
In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old party message: that the Republicans are selling out to the highest bidder. How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism: https://t.co/cYDsu0TNWB
Between the coasts, populist Democrats see room to reclaim lost ground in red states: In parts of the Great Plains & Midwest, Dems are betting anger at corporate power & both parties might succeed when voters believe the economy & gov’t aren’t working. https://t.co/OmpfyUCBDJ
Inside India’s Cockroach Protests: https://t.co/XTYtGSENHI
Ahead of Elections, India's Cabinet Approves Food Security Prog http://t.co/0PntM2uycW If passed, likely world’s largest food subsidy system
Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy? The Modi gov’t has removed >100M people from voter rolls & is cracking down on a vigorous protest movement. https://t.co/lxQ9YzJ8Nv + Modi faces unprecedented challenge to power: https://t.co/eV32tc3pV9
Citizenship law that excludes Muslims sparked lethal riots when it was passed. Now, after 4-year delay, it has come into force on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election campaign. https://t.co/nz6LLUbABM + Free read from AP: https://t.co/Hn7ENIpS0v
😱 Staff was literally waiting for [Haley Stevens] at this morning’s Clyburn unity event thinking she was about to arrive. https://t.co/DQB0jgPfLg
A Michigan primary that wasn’t on my radar until a few days ago: A state senator running for the House against some intense personal funding: https://t.co/V6zNilQCoy + AIPAC is spending there as well: https://t.co/tGC0XxpuyY Busy day in Michigan today!
GOP Feuding & Chaos Endanger the Party’s Chances in Michigan:
https://t.co/RT4qwyEUmJ I’d lost track of the Trump v. DeVos beef. Few more deets from an article earlier this week: https://t.co/PzFsyu1yXQ
A few days ago, I argued Haley Stevens needed to drop her man if he, no one we know, couldn’t silently let her support Abdul. Fast forward, & she reveals she’s a Mike Rogers supporter. The Dems dodged a bullet. May these trash folks be happy together & forever out of our lives.
In the last stretch of school board races, a push to get out the vote: https://t.co/uXQTregTe8
Spending in Chicago school board election tops $9 million as election nears https://t.co/sFkCAmGlPN ⭐️ Scroll down for a helpful graphic by district to see who is spending for/against in each. Really shows how little direct campaign spending there is across the city.
Much bigger than these particulars, do other CPS parents feel concerned the OIG seems to be implying that two concrete instances aren’t concerning if they weren’t preceded or followed by other concerning behavior? When I get some free time, I want to dig into their standards…
Great article from the Trib: Tangle with Springfield forms crux of school board president debate on CPS finances. https://t.co/tpZMu5nqNs Was genuinely surprised to see one of the main revenue sources to fund his members referred to as “wickedness.”
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. https://t.co/PhswMGzAVa
ICE previously issued a blanket denial about having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light: What they meant was they don’t have a "separate, standalone database" but they absolutely collect & maintain info on ppl not arrested. https://t.co/4NCeHmLgwy
Reupping this for those that may have missed the news on the most recent version of COINTELPRO. https://t.co/camBvN0JuH
Black identity extremists? I cannot. https://t.co/OcixwGn4BY
Party meetings w/Israel’s Prez begin Wed. ahead of 1st attempt at forming gov’t. Yest Eisenkot signaled openness to working w/Arab MKs that accept principles: https://t.co/UBNJYPw4i6 Rally for gov’t w/Arab parties: https://t.co/0rik7zVhnK Tough road ahead: https://t.co/0dWyPqU1rV
Netanyahu, at risk of losing power, steps up attacks on Israel's Arab parties: https://t.co/HnBW8IPoEk Reminder that Arabs make up 21% of Israel’s population. Nuanced look at navigating the electoral deadlock + deciding what to prioritize vs. renege on: https://t.co/2YyM5pYyID
For the third time this year, Netanyahu is accused of corruption. But this time, his governing coalition is already teetering. Israeli Police Urge Bribery and Fraud Charges: https://t.co/gWh4NABYwM
If Gaza Brings Down Netanyahu’s Government, Can He Rise Again? https://t.co/UPuBhGY3QE “He’s got no competition. He’s running against himself.”
Netanyahu, at risk of losing power, steps up attacks on Israel's Arab parties: https://t.co/HnBW8IPoEk Reminder that Arabs make up 21% of Israel’s population. Nuanced look at navigating the electoral deadlock + deciding what to prioritize vs. renege on: https://t.co/2YyM5pYyID
Virginia voters will decide whether to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. Some advocates in Mississippi are watching closely. https://t.co/t27I6iqQBH
New 🧵 on disenfranchisement of folks w/felony convictions: Youngkin is ending predecessors’ policy of automatically restoring voting rgts. https://t.co/T8fX9DP9FW Virigina is only state where someone convicted of felony is barred from voting FOR LIFE, unless Gov. gives clemency.
Virginia has been one of the toughest places for someone convicted of a felony to get their voting rights back. An amendment to the state constitution -- on November's ballot -- would change that. https://t.co/xIlsEi8398
Virginia Democrats Advance a Measure to End Lifetime Voting Ban. Now It Gets Complicated: https://t.co/eGRjqOiOW4
How the downfall of Serbia's Vučiċ mirrored that of Hungary's Orbán https://t.co/QQXLLuTUYm
Foreign Policy on why Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party lost: https://t.co/0BVLyP7dNU
Missed this completely: Anti-govt protests resume against Serbia's populist leader. Protesters marched through downtown Belgrade demanding more democracy & media freedom in Serbia. Such marches have been held every Saturday since last December. https://t.co/24PxYA5Mnm
Serbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift: https://t.co/jCInBZ7kQm
Tusk-Nawrocki battle escalates as chief judge is ousted from Poland’s top court: https://t.co/vu2anF7R5e + Protesters clash with police over sacked court chief: https://t.co/Fytt9upRGm You have to scroll way up the 🧵for the very intense fight over the judiciary some years back.
Poland’s dispute with the E.U. over how it treats its judges heats up with new rulings: https://t.co/7K5HnLR7iI More background on the actual reforms from this older article: https://t.co/sB0VyrbB6X
Why Are Poland’s Nationalists So Popular? Ask a Local Librarian. https://t.co/iLuYP4jr2W Most of the articles I’ve read on Law & Justice focus entirely on the ways they’re curbing democracy, they’ve delivered some very concrete benefits which result in them polling btwn 40-45%.
Poland’s parliament votes to ease abortion ban by removing some penalties for those helping women access abortion, but faces likely veto from president: https://t.co/HGKOBshGwh + Pro-choice women took to the streets in >20 Polish cities: https://t.co/edSAJsFCwG
I knew about the pregnancy registry, but it’s news to me that the Polish government is using laboratory tests to detect abortion drugs: https://t.co/ojs52mPSaF
Judge blocks Trump policies designed to fast-track the deportations of unaccompanied children seeking asylum: https://t.co/9VD6eRloiL One policy eliminated a 21-day notice requirement for asylum interviews & provided minors sometimes fewer than 24 hours notice of interviews.
How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense: After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Admin is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise & the capacity to take them on. https://t.co/OqwO1UpZPo
A War on Women at the US Border. The White House is seeking to overturn a longstanding legal principle in immigration law providing asylum protection for victims of domestic abuse + splitting migrant families at the border. https://t.co/tU2kKDHSUO
Maryland has passed some of the strictest data privacy provisions in the country, a coalition filed a complaint alleging data brokers were violating the law by selling info to ICE: https://t.co/8C3yvae0pB MD's law is unique b/c it bars assisting with immigration enforcement.
ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’ https://t.co/ABRNN7a1JI A newly renewed, $25M/year contract with a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters further expands the power of ICE under the Trump administration.
He questioned Thailand's monarchy dressed as Harry Potter. Now he's in jail for 34 years: https://t.co/TWkZjf1ds1 The past 6 years have seen the most extensive use of lèse majesté in Thai history, in response to unprecedented student protests in 2020. Scroll 👆🏾for background.
In Thailand, thousands of students call on the military (& ‘death eaters’) to get out of politics. https://t.co/YWbMjsQdcv Protesters raised their hands in a “Hunger Games” inspired three-fingered salute, a gesture that was forbidden by the junta that orchestrated the last coup.
Thailand's Parliament was dissolved for elections early next year: https://t.co/NsOD4RnPfN The PM won a September vote in Parliament w/a promise to dissolve Parliament w/in 4 months & organize a referendum on the drafting of a new constitution by an elected constituent assembly.
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