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Monique Morrissey

@moniquemorrissey.bsky.social

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Labor economist at pro-worker Economic Policy Institute. Low tolerance for infighting. Otherwise happy to hear from you on this new-to-me site, especially if you make me laugh. Views my own. Daughter of a French-Canadian immigrant. No random DMs. (she/her)

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · Feb 6

ICYMI, @epi.org has two new resources for researchers and anyone tracking Trump actions:
data.epi.org
www.epi.org/policywatch/
#EconSky

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shuts down USAID and State Dept. seeks to absorb parts of the agency and eliminate the rest

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk and a team of his followers, entered the offices of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), shuttering much ...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Three senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR has language that would begin to address this, but Trump and Vought are completely opposed.

"If you're a Democrat - even just like a mainstream Democrat - your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism," said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. "Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"

"I don't think the Democrats want to shut down either," Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. "Their concern right now, and it's a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we're not going to spend them there?"

Julie Tsirkin @news_jul •1h
MURKOWSKI blames Russ Vought for making it harder to negotiate shutdown end:
"The appropriations process is being run over, and that, to me, is absolutely unacceptable."
She understands why Democrats don't trust them given Vought's rescissions and layoffs.
"Why would you?"

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 3h

If Trump can order the murder of people on boats without any accountability, he can order the murder of people on land without any accountability.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 12h

Did you know that kids as young as 10 can be employed on farms, and there are no limits on how many hours they can work?

Federal child labor laws are much weaker in agriculture, the most dangerous industry for children.

But states can step in to keep kids safe: www.epi.org/publication/...

Child labor standards: State solutions to the U.S. worker rights crisis

What does current federal law say about child labor? The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets guidelines for the hours and nonhazardous jobs for which employers can hire minors under 16. The FLSA...

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 15h

🚨@appvoices.org and the United Mine Workers rally today to protest Trump administration delays in implementing regulations to protect miners from breathing in silica dust.🚨

Appalachian Voices @appvoices.org · 1d

Tomorrow, 10/14, #CoalMiners and their families and supporters are rallying in front of the Dept. of Labor to demand that the administration stop delaying a rule meant to protect miners from #BlackLung disease.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/climate/coal-miners-black-lung-protest-trump.html

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

NYT article featuring miners with black lung and their supporters

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

So far, the only media outlet that has signed Pete Hegseth's new prohibitive press policy for covering the Pentagon is One America News.

Even Newsmax and the Washington Times have rejected the letter.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Even Newsmax rejects the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of signing deadline

‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday. ‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

www.independent.co.uk

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Bernie Kerik is one of the worst characters of our time. He was carrying on an affair as police commissioner using an apartment specially reserved for 9/11 crews clearing debris from Ground Zero. He was a convicted felon and helped wreck Iraq. He deserved precisely zero tributes in public life.

Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 1d

"Kerik's professional biography is long, fascinating, and so chock-a-block with outrageous and alarming episodes of moral failure that his life takes on a sort of mythic scale, a tall tale of rolling skullduggery." - @nickpinto.bsky.social

hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

hellgatenyc.com

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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 1d

An optimistic book in a grueling time. @dskamper.bsky.social gives us hope with stories of strategic fights led with the awakening of worker power. Solidarity is essential and so is reading this book. I was honored to write the foreword of Who✊s Got the Power?

Cover of Dave Kamper’s book, “Who’s Got the Power? The Resurgence of American Unions”

Title page with a very kind note from Dave to Sara. Kind note covered by humbled Sara, but Solidarity with Dave’s signature is plain to see.

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Adam S. Hersh, Ph.D. @ahecon.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to speaking at @NABE tomorrow morning, with Caroline Freund and Robert Koopman: Impact of Tariffs and Trade Wars on Businesses and the Global Economy

In case you need to kill some time until Chairman Powell speaks after me.
bit.ly/48uICNW

AM 2025 Main Page

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to Paul Simon
youtu.be/LHHWT2VQKhM

Paul Simon performing Homeward Bound on Parkinson in December 1975

YouTube video by Salvage Operation

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt was not the only Republican governor to publicly oppose Trump's invasion of Illinois and Oregon, Vermont Governor Phil Scott also did prospect.org/politics/chi... There is still some respect for the Constitution in the party.

Chicago Strikes Back, With an Assist from Republican Governors

A federal judge calls out the Trump administration’s “simply unreliable” portrait of the city, while a group of former governors deconstructs the constitutional threats.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

"Inflatable frogs have been practically omnipresent, especially after a video went viral last week of a law-enforcement official shooting pepper spray into one of the frog costume’s posterior air vents (a sentence that I truly never thought I would write)."

www.thebulwark.com/p/can-democr...

Can Democrats Mock Trump Into Defeat?

As the president embraces strongman politics, Democrats are increasingly trying to make him seem little.

www.thebulwark.com

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 1d

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

“And there’s just a real, existential question of how do you write down a law that binds an actor who’s already demonstrated willingness to disregard the law?”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

www.thebulwark.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 2d

Black unemployment surging and this time it’s an active malevolent policy choice

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

This is like disbanding your military during World War Two.

The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown

CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.

nypost.com

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 3d

It figures that the “crime” Letitia James is being charged with is kindness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

www.nytimes.com

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