Natasha Levinger

Tell everyone in Wisconsin

Diversity? You tweeted an anti-trans “joke” and have done nothing to bring back gender affirming care. The AG was forced into doing that. Tweet less, do more.

Great question! This is disgusting and duplicitous

Such great news!!!

I think the quickest way we are going to see the dumb orange guy give Elon less power is to actively and frequently let 47 know that we see Musk as more of a threat than he is. That we see him as more powerful than Trump.

We need you to speak up for trans kids, we need this backlash to be felt as well!

It's raining right now here in the Bay Area--winter rain's mostly a blessing here, the end of fire season, the beginning of the greening hills, the recharging of water systems--and I see a lot of people across the country persevering. For the week after the January 27th attack on federal funding, I felt like a geyser of adrenaline and I put that energy to use writing, watching, interpreting what was going on to the best of my ability and posting about it, organizing various kinds of activity, pulling together a rapid-response team with some brilliant organizers, launching this newsletter. In the last few days, fatigue caught up with me, and yesterday I slowed down enough to feel something between sadness and horror. I suspect a lot of you feel something similar. But I'm not stopping. And I see millions of people who are not stopping either. Ordinary citizens, state attorneys general (here's a statement from 15 of them defending gender-affirming care), the fiercest of our congresspeople, organizers, activists, experts. That line about the single garment of destiny recycled a famous phrase of Martin Luther King's: "In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." I wanted to extend his beautiful metaphor --that garment of destiny, imagined as an actual textile--who wove it, who washed it, who mended it when it was damaged? I wrote it because I knew who they are--men who do not understand that everything is connected, which is a moral truth and also an ecological one and a reality of the systems of finance, international relations, and the rest that are woven together to make a world of interrelated systems and relationships and processes that cannot be severed without harm.

Newsletter, day six.

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Please also speak out against the EO against gender affirming care. Colorado’s trans kids need you to have their back!

Please, please, PLEASE pass this on. What can #trans people do to battle Trump's executive orders in the courts?

If you've been affected by this (denied care, denied proper documentation, etc.), BE A PLAINTIFF & SUE! Contact @lambdalegal.bsky.social #lgbtq

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Starting to realize that when they say “never forget” they don’t just mean that it ever happened. They mean remembering all of the steps that led to it.

Today is my birthday and yesterday I let the administration steal my joy but I recentered and then today I found out my book, “Healing Your inner child” sold out its first printing and is in its second printing now! Life is a highway? A rollercoaster? It’s some kind of ride based metaphor✨

Good script if people feel they don’t know what to say

Not to be alarmist, but this is the most radical presidential action I've ever seen. He's straight up seizing Congress' budget power. What do laws matter if the mad king's whims dictate what gets enforced and where money goes?

It's not a policy memo - it's a revolution. Don't let it be a quiet one.

I’m sorry for the things I said when it was somehow still January

The good news? I no longer think we're going to last 4 years.

He is clearly aiming to harm just about everyone. Every institution, govt research, schools, farms, hospitals.

He's his own COVID-19. A threat to everyone.

Either he will snap. Or we will snap. But this isn't sustainable for 4 years.

Reading this as an Aquarius currently feeling frozen and without joy (but only temporarily!!!!)

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Roughly 400 Books Removed From Wilson County School Libraries District removes books including ‘The Bluest Eye,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Dr. Seuss’ ‘Wacky Wednesday’ to comply with state law

Nearly 400 books removed from school libraries in one Tennessee county. Based on my skim of the list, most of them appear to be books by women, authors of color, &/or LGBTQ+ authors.

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people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙