Not surprisingly, Trump’s overall tax and tariff proposals would make the very rich much richer and working families poorer.

If you earn less than $360,000 a year, your taxes are going to go way up.

If you’re in the top 1%? Don’t worry. You’ll save big.

Trump Makes Supporting Trans People Ineligible For Public Service Loan Forgiveness Via EO The executive order could impact thousands of civil rights organizations, schools, hospitals, and more.

1. President Trump has signed an executive order making employees at organizations that support transgender youth care and DEI ineligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

This could impact thousands of schools, hospitals, and nonprofits.

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BREAKING: A judge permanently blocked Arizona's abortion ban.

This is a direct result of voters passing the state's constitutional amendment to protect abortion access in November.

To anyone that has ever been on the receiving end in a verbally (and even physically) abusive relationship (personal or professional), the mannerisms, verbiage, and patterns, of Trump and Vance are all too obvious and familiar.

Boycott today.

& then tmrw give the $ you saved to ACLU, GLAD or directly to a friend.

New learned system: $ is for helping each other thrive. Friends are our friends, not businesses. People & 🌎🐿️ are our support, not online shopping. “Communities thrive when corporations die”.

In the face of relentless attacks on trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people, these young activists are not running away — they’re organizing. 19thnews.org/2025/02/tran...

Very much so. The courts will not save us. We need to shift public opinion by spreading the word about what is really happening, and we need to push Congress members to act like this is an emergency.

Which it is.

New Jersey court blocks policies that force outing of transgender students The New Jersey Superior Court upheld an injunction preventing school districts from enforcing policies that would have outed trans students.

NJ says no to forced outing of students! 🏳️‍⚧️ #itgetsbetter #lgbtqyouth

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

Leslie Halligan, District Court Judge Fourth Judicial District Missoula County Courthouse 200 West Broadway Missoula, Montana 59802 (406) 258-4771 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY SUSAN EDWARDS; MONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY; KAEL FRY; ANNA TELLEZ; EDEN ATWOOD; SHANNON ALOIA, Plaintiffs, v. THE STATE OF MONTANA; GREG GIANFORTE, in his official capacity as GOVERNOR OF MONTANA, AUSTIN KNUDSEN, in his official capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MONTANA, Defendants. Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-23-1026 ORDER ON CROSS MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT This matter comes before the Court on opposing motions for summary judgment. Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment on Counts I, II, & III (“Motion”) seeks to declare Senate Bill 458 as facially unconstitutional. Defendants’ (collectively, the “State”) Motion for Summary Judgment seeks to dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims arguing the absence of a case or controversy. The Court has considered both motions, the parties’ supporting and opposing briefs, and the

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional.

This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on!

Huge win for trans people in MT!

@transpainter.bsky.social

Look to your privileges to know what to yell the loudest about.
Citizen? Scream loud for non-citizens.
Straight or straight passing? Scream loud for your outwardly queer sibs.
White? Scream loud for poc.

Stand up & shout. Especially if you don’t see yourself in the headlines. Be louder. 📣

We will not let ANYONE cover up history, divide us, or force our trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive community back into the closet.

Our community has always been here, will always be here, and will keep leading the fight for equality every step of the way. 🏳️‍⚧️

Federal judge blocks Trump order on health care for transgender youth A federal judge in Baltimore blocked executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that targeted transgender people and their health care, giving temporary relief to LGBTQ individuals and their fa...

Trans youth deserve access to the health care they need — and a federal judge agrees.

Rest is not “doing nothing.” Rest is literally how your body repairs itself. You wouldn’t yell at your phone for needing to be plugged in. You are allowed to recharge your existence.

15 Democratic state AGs stand by gender-affirming care "Federal funding to institutions that provide gender-affirming care continues to be available, irrespective of President Trump’s recent Executive Order," the attorneys general say.

Fifteen state attorneys general, all Democrats, have issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to protecting gender-affirming care for transgender people despite Donald Trump’s executive order.

A screenshot of a multi‐column table listing several U.S. presidential Executive Orders relating to LGBTQ+ rights and antidiscrimination policies. Each row has columns for “Origin” (POTUS), “Number/Identifier” (e.g., EO 13988), “Title” (such as Preventing and Combating Discrimination…), “Action Type” (e.g., Broad Nondiscrimination, Military Nondiscrimination), “Summary” (key points of each order), and “Date Signed.” The listed orders span from early 2021 through early 2025, covering topics like preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, banning conversion therapy, rescinding prior harmful EOs, and restricting or expanding DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.

A spreadsheet at the top shows columns tracking anti‐LGBTQ bills by status and year: total bills (334), 2025 bills (327), 2024 rollovers (7), how many passed committees (3), passed one chamber (5), passed both chambers (0), enacted (1), vetoed (0), failed (3), and carried forward (0). Below that, another header row lists different types of anti‐LGBTQ legislation (e.g., gender‐affirming care bans, pronoun bans, “Don’t Say Gay,” drag bans, bathroom bans) with the total count of each category (e.g., 55 for gender‐affirming care bans, 20 for pronoun bans, 14 for “Don’t Say Gay,” etc.). A color‐coded U.S. map spans the lower half, with states shaded from light orange to deep red according to how many anti‐LGBTQ bills they contain. Texas appears in the darkest red (46 bills), with lighter shades indicating fewer bills in other states. A note at the bottom right explains that the map shows total tracked bills per state, which does not necessarily reflect each bill’s likelihood of passage.

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation.

We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Just wait until Trump uses the same mechanism he is using to attempt a national trans ban to do the same with a national abortion ban, mifepristone ban, etc.

BREAKING NEWS: We’re SUING TRUMP! 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧵

🌞 from @aoc.bsky.social :like the wizard of oz, they rely on PERCEPTION of their power. But so much is lies. We win when we slow them down, we win when we resist and “move on the faith that we will win because we will” ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

Some key points from @aoc.bsky.social breakdown: so much of what’s happening is about 💵 2025 marks expiration of tax breaks for billionaires tht they need to pay off in order to extend (they owe 4 trillion) ie their cuts to Medicaid, ⬆️ taxes the LESS you make, PROFITS from imprisoning detained ppl

These are the same picture.

7. Those who genuinely support the transgender community must resist, not capitulate, to Trump’s executive overreach. History will remember this moment, and those in positions of influence must decide whether they will stand in opposition to tyranny or enable it through silence and compliance.

The silence from our universities has been deafening. Tell them to grow a spine and stand up for their scientists!

Top NIH funded schools:
UC - regentsoffice@ucop.edu
UW - regents@uw.edu
John Hopkins - cbjorklund@jhu.edu
Penn - ofcsec@pobox.upenn.edu, (215) 898-7005
Duke - boardchair@duke.edu

Olympia becomes Washington's first sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ people The Olympia city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to declare the state capitol a sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ community.

Olympia is officially the first sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ people in Washington state.

Art as resistance, reaction, processing, and protest. Some gems coming out of the past few weeks! Here are a few... head to our Instagram to check out the rest and give these artists a follow... #itgetsbetter #artist #queerart #transart www.instagram.com/p/DFf4l8TOYp...

Trans youth deserve joy. 🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you, Senator Alsobrooks, for holding RFK Jr. accountable for peddling dangerous & discriminatory conspiracy theories about vaccines that mislead parents and communities.

Promoting racism in medicine should immediately disqualify anyone from leading the Department of Health and Human Services.