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19 companies pulling back their support for Pride For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

Lowe’s
Dyson
Nivea
Tiffany
Capital One
UPS
Disney
Door Dash
Live Nation
Anheuser-Busch
Diageo
Pepsi
Nissan
PWC
Citi
Mastercard

…all pulled their support for Pride.

If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability.
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Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

I'm just saying..

Done!

"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

I an proud to stand with our wonderful transgender friends. ♥️

Andrew Tate, who faces rape and trafficking charges in Romania, has left for the US A Romanian official says influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have left for the U.S. after a travel ban imposed on them was lifted.

Trump pressured the government of Romania to release Andrew and Tristan Tate.

This is a government by and for rapists.

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Alt text: A tweet from Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) posted at 5:00 PM on February 25, 2025. The tweet states that Tulsi Gabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify employees who participated in the NSA’s "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms. The memo also calls for terminating their employment and revoking their security clearances, with a deadline set for Friday. The tweet has 254.7K views, 397 replies, 3K retweets, 12K likes, and 335 bookmarks.

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.

This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

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MEMORANDUM TO: Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies FROM: Charles Ezell, Acting Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management DATE: January 29, 2025 RE: Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women. Pursuant to its authority under 5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s Executive Order entitled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Defending Women).

1. No later than 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, January 31, 2025 a. Send an email to all agency employees announcing that the agency will be complying with Defending Women and this guidance. b. Review all agency programs, contracts, and grants, and terminate any that promote or inculcate gender ideology. c. Review all agency position descriptions and send a notification to all employees whose position description involves inculcating or promoting gender ideology that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all initiatives, offices, and programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology. d. Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender ideology. e. Review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns.

f. Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements, and plans that inculcate or promote gender ideology. g. Cancel any trainings that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. h. Disband or cancel any employee resource groups or special emphasis programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. i. Review all agency forms that require entry of an individual’s sex and ensure that all list male or female only, and not gender identity. Remove requests for “gender” and substitute requests for “sex.” j. Ensure that all applicable agency policies and documents, including forms, use the term “sex” and not “gender. ” k. Ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) are designated by biological sex and not gender identity.

BREAKING: The Trump administration — through Chuck Ezell, acting director of OPM — tells agency and dep't heads that they must implement an anti-trans bathroom ban and "terminate" any programs that "promote or inculcate gender ideology" by 5 p.m. Friday, among other steps. chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...

Trans and nonbinary youth know themselves better than any law, politician, or president. If they say they are trans and nonbinary, they are trans and nonbinary.

*Full stop*

No executive order or White House press release can erase their identity. 🏳️‍⚧️

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BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order that attempts to restrict all schools that receive federal funds from protecting trans and nonbinary students or supporting diversity measures, while at the same time purporting to advance "patriotic education." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

🚨 BREAKING: Today, Trump issued an executive order banning well-established and often lifesaving health care for transgender youth.

Transgender youth deserve the right to receive the medical care that they need. We will NOT let this cruel ban go unchallenged. LINK: lambdalegal.org?post_type=ne...

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.

Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.

It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.

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