~Erin~🥄

Women's History Month: Margaret Corbin Meet the first woman recognized as an American soldier.

Meet the first woman to be recognized as an American Soldier.

Women's History Month: Margaret Corbin open.substack.com/pub/sonsofli...

Why You Can (And Should) Opt Out Of TSA Facial Recognition Right Now Do you really want to be submitting a face scan to the current U.S. government?

Every face scan is a “unique opportunity” to assert your rights, EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffpost.com. If more people keep declining face scans, maybe TSA will think twice “about whether it’s actually effective to roll out programs like these.”

North Carolina: Join our Transgender Day of Visibility Rally on March 31 from 12-3pm at the NC Capitol Grounds, South Side

We could use some additional speakers for our rally! Interested? Email us at unity@transunitycoalition.org

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Being disabled is not a moral failing, character flaw, or result of bad “personal choices”.

We all become disabled eventually.

Clean water, safe food & a healthy environment are great. Everyone deserves access to them. But they will NOT cure disability.

Pushing rhetoric that they will is eugenics

Exactly. And when we don't have a folding chair, we build our own table.

On this day 48 years ago, James Dobson started the organization Focus on the Family as a part of a positive eugenics movement aimed at helping Christian parents discipline their children into immediate compliance with authority.

69 million women losing access to voting because they changed their last name after marriage.

That’s what the Republican SAVE Act would do.

We sent a letter demanding that the Speaker remove the bill from consideration ahead of the expected vote next week:

A horizontal bar graph titled "Men speak most in best picture winning films," showing the proportion of words spoken by male and female characters in Best Picture Oscar winners from 1991 to 2016. The graph displays the year and film title, followed by two horizontal bars for each film, representing the percentage of words spoken by women (purple) and men (dark blue). The graph visually demonstrates that male characters consistently have a higher proportion of spoken words compared to female characters across most of the films listed.

Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades

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Respect Our Roots: A Brief History Of Our Braids | Essence Experts explain the tangled history of braids in our culture and confirm that they will always be more than just a hairstyle.

In the face of oppression, enslaved women in the antebellum South wore braids as acts of resistance. Braids, often seen as maps to freedom, carried secret meanings. This subtle yet powerful symbol challenged slavery. 146 days until Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

These bills are another cruel attempt by Montana Republicans to harass trans people. These bills do not make women safe. They merely infringe on the privacy rights of trans Montanans & endanger us as we live our lives in public.

Like 2023's SB 458, I expect this bills to be deemed unconstitutional.

“What these testimonies reveal was a systematic trend of sexual violence that was being used as a weapon of genocide.”

Despite powerful testimony from Palestinian womens’ advocates, the West is silent, Fatima Bhutto writes.

🖋️ “Why are Grad Students being JAILED for writing op-ed?????” hit 100 signers!

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🖋️ “Signalgate is not resolved. Do your job. Take a lesson about unsuitable nominees” hit 2,000 signers!

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Ilhan Omar Is Drafting Impeachment Articles Over Trump Officials’ “Signalgate” Controversy — Report Three-quarters of Americans are troubled by the administration’s use of Signal to discuss military plans, polling shows.

Rep. Ilhan Omar is reportedly drafting articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz and John Ratcliffe, who discussed U.S. plans to bomb Yemen in a Signal group chat that came to light after a journalist was mistakenly added to the chat earlier this month.

President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump act like this country belongs to them — grabbing everything they can and daring anyone to stop them. On April 5, we’re taking to the streets nationwide to say loud and clear: Hands Off!

Join us: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

The SAVE Act’s Impact on Women Voters Isn’t a Coincidence. It's Voter Suppression. Women—especially Black women—are still fighting for equal rights and opportunities in the U.S. Meanwhile, members of Congress are threatening to undermine the hard-fought, fundamental right to vote fo...

“Women’s rights are always on the ballot, and the SAVE Act is a targeted effort to silence voters.”

Our Executive Director @bethlynk.bsky.social discusses how this bill would make it harder for millions of women to vote across the country with @msmagazine.com:

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Trump’s ’proof of citizenship’ exec order explained

One of the hardest things to accept when governments ramp up oppression is how many people are complicit and how many more are cowards. But a lot of cowards can be turned back from their worst selves over time through anti-authoritarian momentum and social pressure.

As seen around town tonight. #goodtrouble

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We need MARSHALS for April 5

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We have training on 3/31 and 4/3. Info on form

🇩🇰 Denmark announced that it will begin conscripting women into its military starting in 2026, accelerating its existing timeline in response to mounting tensions with both Russia and the United States. ⁠
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"It is the Republican president’s latest salvo against pillars of society" is right.

A statue of liberty replica around 10 feet high next to an American flag flying in the window and a giant sign at the base that says HOPE

Went to the Catskills this weekend and found a message for us

Oppose The SAVE Act (H.R. 22 / S.128) – A Voter Suppression Bill ⭑ 5 Calls Republicans in Congress have introduced the extreme anti-voter Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R. 22/S.128 and declared it among …

HR22 goes to House Rules Committee on Monday 3.31 at 4pm. It’ll be on the House floor for vote as early as April 1.

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YouTube video by Belle of the Ranch Let's talk about House GOP vs Senate GOP: budget edition....

"GOP Senators unwilling to pass a budget with cuts to Medicaid aren't trying to protect their constituents:
They're trying to protect their own re-election."
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President Friendless Urinal Cake is strong arming the Smithsonian over “improper ideology” and somehow that’s a normal Thursday

'Americans Are Rightfully Furious': Social Security Defenders Not Falling for Partial Trump Walk-Back | Common Dreams Defenders of the Social Security Administration welcomed the delay and rollback of some policy changes at the federal agency while also reiterating the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump and ...

"This partial victory shows that when the American people fight for our Social Security, we can win," said one advocate. "We are only going to get louder!" www.commondreams.org/news/my-soci...

"A sicker America": RFK Jr.'s HHS will lay off 10,000 staff Staff and experts fear the massive cuts will kneecap the agency's ability to fulfill its mission.

RFK Jr.'s remaking of HHS entered a new phase today when officials announced 10,000 more layoffs and the dismantling of the Administration for Community Living, which oversees vital programs for disabled and aging people.

Pikachu played an important role in the Chilean uprising of 2019.

“Tia Pikachu” became an icon of the protests in Plaza Dignidad and ultimately won a seat in the constitutional convention.

Now Pikachu can be seen in the streets of Turkey, resisting the despotic regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.