The people funding Riley Gaines would love for you to think that this story is about trans athletes competing in women's sports.
It's not.
It's about following the money — and the female athletes, actually victimized by men, that those funders cannot even pretend to care about:
I’m sorry, but the Governor’s approach on encouraging AI to go unregulated and unaddressed in California is the real disconnect with working class voters.
As we read headline after headline of fresh dystopian hell coming out of the Trump/Musk administration, it’s easy to feel powerless. There's been no way to limit Musk's influence—until now.
Let’s match Elon’s $1.5M investment with 1.5M actions. Join us: https://t.co/x6mpCk8lX7
This week, CITED’s Senior Policy Advisor, @davidevanharris, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Privacy, Tech & the Law.
Senators leading on AI regulation looked for ways to take inspiration from our work in California 🧵 1/5
🎥: @cspan
I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California.
You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content -- including deepfakes.
I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California.
You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content -- including deepfakes.
Democracy at the national level may feel hopeless and hard, but across our state, California Common Cause is on the march.
We are working every day to make it stronger, better, and more inclusive.
Check out what the team is doing today alone….. 👇🏾
We just won a just transition at General Motors.
Facing the threat of a strike at its most profitable plant, GM has agreed to put battery production under the master UAW contract.
This is what winning looks like.
#StandUpUAW
Pretty evident people don't understand a key piece of House Dems' thinking on McCarthy and governance of the House. The idea that we acted out of schadenfreude or pique with no thought to the legislative outlook is, of course, silly nonsense. Here's what the takes are missing-
We are deeply disappointed and saddened by @CAgovernor@GavinNewsom’s veto of SB 686 (@SenMariaEDurazo). With a swipe of the pen, he has upheld the unequal exclusion of hundreds of thousands of women of color and immigrant women from basic labor protections.
EEOC General Counsel nominee Karla Gilbride:
✅ Steadfast champion for working & disabled people,
✅ Backed with bipartisan support,
✅ First blind person to hold this office.
It’s time to #ConfirmKarla!
NEW: A ProPublica investigation has found that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events – a breach of judicial norms that one federal judge said “takes my breath away.” 🧵👇
Our new story:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events – a breach of judicial norms that one federal judge said “takes my breath away.”
https://t.co/nmdZbi0XEi