Kate Thomas

politics, parenting, abortion. Raising littles 👧🏼👶🏻 w/ @kweidleman. Find me on Bluesky:

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In the US, spending on data center construction now exceeds spending on public transportation infrastructure — including airports, marine terminals, and all mass transit.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Private equity firms now own 1 in 8 American apartments — according to a new report from @PEstakeholder.

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

I am relieved that mifepristone will remain—at least for now—available for women and their care providers to rely on. But a provider’s ability to prescribe safe, effective medication and a woman’s right to make decisions over her body and future should not be up for debate, now or ever.

https://t.co/Ez4NLxjD5s

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

This is not news to those of us who live here, unfortunately.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Washington DC has the highest unemployment rate in the US," per the Guardian.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Reminder: If Republicans really opposed gerrymandering, they could pass a national ban tomorrow.

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

Literally people just want affordable healthcare & the ability to pay their rent WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

[CBS News @CBSNews]

American taxpayers will help fund the construction of President Trump's planned triumphal arch in Arlington, Virginia, according to the spending plan for the National Endowment for the Humanities released by the administration this week. https://t.co/Gy36CrzaeU

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

Sweet baby Jesus, if this had been posted on April 1st I would've 100% been like "Obviously no sitting president could POSSIBLY be stupid enough to strip this much from the American people to fund a war w/ no concrete goals that MOST Americans don't even support!"

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Are people still claiming billionaires create jobs or can we officially consider that lie dead?

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I don’t think there’s ever been en a technology whose builders constantly promise that, if they succeed, tens of millions of jobs will be destroyed and the world might end.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

30% of renters were behind on rent at the height of the Great Depression

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

Amazon's tax bill fell by 87% even though its profits rose by 45%.

Shoveling more money to the richest people and richest corporations at the same time so many people will be losing health care access

https://t.co/9rO81mFFin

[Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @Chasten]

Private jets and tax breaks for them and their rich friends, and one piece of broccoli *AND* a tortilla for you!🤦‍♂️

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

@PhilipGreenspun @WSJ Do you even LIVE in the real world, sir. There are soooo many barriers to being a young mom in our society & also a lot of good reasons for many women to wait & yet you seem…ignorant to all of them? https://t.co/e35LYUZRzR

[Susan @susanbordson]

In 2021, the @nytimes did a rare thing. Published analysis of economic outcomes under Dem vs Republican presidents, by David Leonhardt. This was the headline

Republicans have never EARNED — via actual outcomes — the branding that they're better at managing budgets or the economy

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

"We can't tax the rich, they create jobs and bolster the economy and it all trickles down to us."

Really?

Because we've been cutting taxes for the rich for forty years.

And now three guys own as much as the bottom 50% of Americans and the economy sucks for working people.

[Amanda Goodall @thejobchick]

3 reasons why this paper on AI & jobs is so important:

1) It’s the first large-scale evidence showing real declines in entry-level employment from AI (not just speculation).

2) The damage is concentrated on young workers... the EXACT group that fuels future innovation and productivity.

3) It’s already changing behavior because students are abandoning computer science majors after seeing early-career jobs collapse.

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

It's about f*cking time. https://t.co/Cs6iMJemhw

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

I’m so sad about the DCA plane crash just a few minutes from where we live.

BUT: If Trump hadn’t put a hiring freeze on air traffic controllers, thrown the fed government & everyone in DC into chaos AND put a drunk in charge of the military…maybe this wouldn’t have happened.

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

Can't applaud hard enough for such a smart and powerful teaming up! SEIU will now be the biggest union within the @AFLCIO. Stronger Together definitely applies here! ✊

[SEIU @SEIU]

2M SEIU Members 🤝 13M AFL-CIO Members

SEIU just joined America’s biggest federation of labor unions, the @AFLCIO. Together, we’re taking on corporate union busters and changing the rules so every worker who wants a union can have one. Let’s do this!

[Kate Thomas @KateThomas]

Smart take on how we got here and spoiler: it's the rightwing media https://t.co/W6YKM78s23