@daringlymyself
✨First-Gen Indigenous Latine Social Justice Worker | 🫡Daughter | 💋Tía | 🐾Fur Mom | ✍🏽📚 Published Author | ☕️ #IdiopathicHypersomnia | Why Not Me❓| #Payment4Placements | #StopASWB | #CancelStudentDebt | https://www.payment4placements.org
New: A federal court declined to approve a settlement between the Dept of Ed and the State of Missouri. This means that the SAVE plan is immediately and fully effective.
We're calling on the DOE to retroactively apply credits to debtors and immediately process cancellation.
Advocates warn OBBBA risks Medicaid coverage loss via work rules and checks. States must build "landing pads" to protect enrollees. 🔗 https://healthlaw.org/preparing-a-landing-pad-mitigating-obbbas-harms-to-the-medicaid-safety-net/ #Medicaid #SafetyNet #DisabilityRights
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
The final installment of our speaker series features Olivia Watts, MSW, a P4P-NY organizer. She urges the legislature to support Bill #S7894 #A9379, emphasizing that #SocialWorkers support NY's constituents and are the backbone of this state—it's time for the budget to reflect that. 🏛️ #NYSPolitics
#SocialWorkers are essential, and their labor has value! 🗽
@DaringlyMyself.bsky.social from the @Payment4Placements.org -NY Coalition took the mic at @NASWNY.bsky.social Capitol Action Day (Feb 10) to support #S7894 #A9379. This bill would establish a Paid Field Work Pilot Program for MSW students.
"We need more people to be in social work from various backgrounds...and we need to find a way to encourage them by making it easier to attend graduate school." AM @JoAnneSimonBK52.bsky.social (the lead Assembly sponsor of Bill A.9379/S.7894) explains why this bill is essential. #SocialWork #P4P
The real reason CBS didn't let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico is that the Ellisons are still trying to buy Warner Bros.
David Ellison runs Paramount, which owns CBS.
He's using CBS to show what loyal oligarchs they are as they seek FCC approval for a WBD deal.
For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.
Why should I be worried? I’m a U.S. citizen, after all. Because the reality is that that never mattered to them. And if you believe that your “citizenship” will protect you, you’re a fool.
and waited in there for over half an hour, blocking the entrance to the house. I couldn’t see the driver, but the passenger was calling and texting someone before they took out their notepad and started marking stuff off.
ICE was just outside my house. They tried to see if my front door was unlocked but unfortunately for them it was locked. They stood outside my house ringing the doorbell and knocking loudly for over half an hour. Then they went back to their car
The ASWB has $40M in the bank while #SocialWorkers face massive barriers. Meanwhile, repeat test-takers outnumber first-time examinees. 🚩
Join us for a discussion on exam reform and alternative pathways to licensure.
🗓 Tuesday, Jan 27 | 7pm ET
🔗 bit.ly/p4p-advocacy-mtg-jan2026
#StopASWB #P4P
Exactly. Republicans are forcing you further into medical debt so that they can pay ICE agents to terrorize communities.
Promotional flyer for a webinar on ASWB exam reform and alternative pathways, featuring images of three guest speakers and event details for January 27, 2026, at 7:00pm ET. The registration link is: bit.ly/p4p-advocacy-mtg-jan2026
P4P Advocacy Alliance Meeting: Jan 27 @ 7pm ET! 📢
Spotlight: Dr. Matthew DeCarlo, Dr. Mary Nienow, & Will Doyle, LICSW discuss the ASWB Exam Pass Rate Analysis and the fight for equitable entry into social work.
Open to all! 💫
Link: bit.ly/p4p-advocacy-mtg-jan2026
#StopASWB #SocioEconomicJustice
Take a stand for a healthy workforce! Stop making students choose between their degree and their basic needs.
📽️ Watch the full testimony on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/@PaymentforP...
#MentalHealth #NYSAssembly #EndUnpaidLabor (3/3)
With a 30-40% vacancy rate in the workforce, NY is in crisis. Pilar’s testimony highlights the barrier to entry: 900 hours of unpaid labor.
Students shouldn't be skipping meals or facing homelessness to become providers. It's time to prioritize funding for bill S7894/A9379. (2/3)
#S7894 #A9379
NO MORE UNPAID LABOR 🛑
#SocialWorkers are the backbone of NY’s mental health system, yet they are forced into 900+ hours of unpaid labor just to graduate.
@daringlymyself.bsky.social from P4P-NY, just took the floor at the NYS Assembly to demand change—and won a new sponsor for Bill S7894! 🧵 (1/3)
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
"Let’s get one thing clear, Santa: I ain’t a scab. The collective bargaining agreement clearly mandates the sleigh be led by a union-approved eight-reindeer team. Your little 'won’t you guide my sleigh tonight' routine is a bald attempt to dilute the team’s negotiating power."
Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions.
Apple doesn't recognise unions.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
The big corporations are not on your side.
#Christmas is a happy time for some but it can be a sad, depressing or even anxiety-producing time for others; but no one should measure their self-worth by what their family of origin says to them or about them or if they're missing family of origin or adoptive family who are gone...
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Always be nice to retail workers and all workers in general. Nobody gets paid to be your punching bag.
A testament to elite, institutional cowardice and enabling.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...
Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT?
Earlier this year, our team compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.
These are their stories.
https://propub.li/492QTqQ
#authorlife #writerslife #writeitdown #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
if it seems like Black people ask for help more often it’s because our requests rarely go viral enough to be seen by people who can help complete a big goal on time.
then we’re always just trying to catch up to latest problem and that big goal gets further away…
Screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump claiming Democrats are using AI against him and stating, “I was never on Epstein’s plane.” Below the post is a redacted email from an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York titled “RE: Epstein flight records,” stating that flight records show Trump traveled on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously reported, including at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, some with Ghislaine Maxwell present.
This was a very strange thing for him to lie about
