Looked at the agenda of the upcoming Labor Notes conference and couldn’t help but note that the fall elections and electoral work generally were nowhere to be found. There’s an explanation for this omission, an easy one I would think. In any case, it’s a missed opportunity.

Republicans in Washington and across the country are falling over themselves in their effort to deny trans gender young people their rights, identity, and humanity. Meanwhile, when it comes to protecting young people and children in school they stand in the way of gun control legislation and other measures that would make schools safer. This is, in my view, criminal behavior. Lets make them pay in November.

We can’t come close to imagining the feelings of horror and helplessness that those childern felt yesterday in their school in Uvalde, but we should try.