Lea Woods
She/Her. Women’s economic policy at The Century Foundation. Formerly Economic Policy Institute and Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Memes and labor rights. Tweets my own.
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsChild at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsThey’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
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- Reposted by Lea Woodsprobably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"
- @wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
- Reposted by Lea WoodsI get this, but here's where I'm at: Trump & Vance are the worst of us. America is bigger than them, and they win if we let them define us. Team USA is the best of us. It's filled with Americans MAGA hates—first-generation + immigrants, LGBTQ+ athletes, people of color—& I'm gonna root for them.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsIn the coming months, the majority of states will be accounting for changes in federal nutrition programs that push more of the financial burden onto their books. trib.al/3IiyMn8 “This is not a magic check that someone can write and fill it in—$2 billion is a major impact."
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsThe Trump administration's disruption of federal data collection is compromising government transparency. Researchers estimate that over 3,000 data sets are no longer publicly available.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsWomen’s college attendance delivers wage and job-quality gains that grow over the life cycle, alongside improvements in children’s early-life health, from Na'ama Shenhav and Danielle H. Sandler www.nber.org/papers/w34767
- Reposted by Lea WoodsINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsWith the closing of the Kennedy Center and the cuts at the Post, the Washington, DC metro area has lost its biggest arts institution and of its largest local journalism outlet.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsPage One. @wsj.com
- Reposted by Lea WoodsJoined KCBS Radio this morning to talk about the child care market in California -- why it doesn't work well for families or the child care workforce and providers, and how public investment can shore up the supply of high-quality care to better meet families' needs: www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...
- THIS IS LITERALLY A BLACK MIRROR EPISODE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Righ...
- Reposted by Lea WoodsThese are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsI hope we all understand that the extraction class is building a state media akin to what we've seen in Orban's Hungary and Putin's Russia, and it is not at all subtle. What's left of the independent press needs to start framing this properly.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsI guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling
- Reposted by Lea WoodsThe testimony was harrowing; you can watch it all here www.youtube.com/watch?v=UagE...
- Reposted by Lea WoodsICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
- Reposted by Lea WoodsA manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
- Reposted by Lea Woodshappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsPresented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8
- Reposted by Lea WoodsIf you want to understand the philsophy/ideology/plan Tim is referring to, I explain in this post (see Group 3) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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- What in the Succession is this?
- “Mutual aid is the politics of our city. Taking care of one another is a very Minnesota ethos … it’s a very common idea that we just take care of each other.” - @ziibiing.com As a native Minnesotan, I whole heartedly agree ❤️
- Reposted by Lea Woodsall those people complaining about a protest in church are going to rise up over this too right?
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsUK minister floats UBI to cushion AI job losses. I weighed in Fortune. My take: we need safety nets that scale with uncertainty. But will AI's winners support redistribution once they've won? 🔗 fortune.com/2026/02/01/elon-musk-optional-work-fantasy-universal-basic-income-uk-minister-jason-stockwood
- Reposted by Lea WoodsBad Bunny, Billie Eilish... Avec le slogan « ICE out », la contestation s'invite aux Grammy Awards. Plusieurs artistes ont dénoncé les violences de la police de l’immigration américaine, transformant la cérémonie en tribune contre la politique de Trump ➡️ l.humanite.fr/Bn7
- Reposted by Lea Woods"Trump is just doing what Obama did, & no one complained back then!" Given that this is a central talking point MAGA is using to reach people outside their hardcore base, it would be useful if a proper journalistic outlet addressed this comparison in an evidence-based way. I haven't seen one yet.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsBREAKING: We're challenging the Trump administration’s sweeping suspension of immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries. This discriminatory, nationality-based ban on legal immigration strips families and working people of the process guaranteed by law.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsI was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsBad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."
- Reposted by Lea WoodsAnne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp History rhymes, it rhymes Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
- Reposted by Lea Woodsfor over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
- Reposted by Lea WoodsDHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsJust experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Lea WoodsI just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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- Reposted by Lea WoodsThe front page of tomorrow's Minnesota Star Tribune: Feb. 1, 2026
- Reposted by Lea WoodsMore than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
- Reposted by Lea WoodsThe GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/
- Reposted by Lea WoodsThis is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Lea WoodsThe Trump admin is ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, essentially firing 300,000 workers who are essential to our communities and economy. We urge President Trump to redesignate Haiti TPS and avoid destabilizing families across the country.
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