Rebecca Buitendijk

🚨 The Senate could vote on the House-passed CR at any moment before the Friday funding deadline!! ⌛️

Call your Senators ASAP

@joshtpm.bsky.social of TPM has been tracking Dem votes @ talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tally-3

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines…

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public.

If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

Social media post by Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen ) on X, featuring their logo with a stylized Statue of Liberty, with the text: 'it’s almost like government employees make the government more efficient.' Below this, a headline from the Agriculture section reads: 'Trump officials race to rehire bird flu employees as egg prices skyrocket. USDA supervisors are being asked to justify rehires and some employees still haven’t gotten their laptops back.'

Fire / Rehire / Expire

This week of the legislative session, we're tracking the "Trans Youth Erasure" and "Jail Librarians" bills, as well as two "Don't Say Gay" bills. What a mess!
Tell your representative to kill these poorly-written anti-queer bills before they leave committee. We'll show you how: altrac.works

Heads up, a place for positive action.

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

Read this. Then read it again. Never let these people tell you they care about "protecting children." They care about controlling & abusing children with impunity, while scapegoating trans and queer people to advance their neo fascist agenda. That's it. And Dems like @blumenthal.senate.gov help them

Who should I call today? About what? There’s so many awful bills in the AL legislature & so many bullshit executive orders that I don’t know where to start.

Feeling demoralized…

I feel like my representatives either already support social justice-y policies or don’t but won’t be swayed by any of the calls I’m making.

A close friend of mine is a chronically ill artist & needs help with rent. They need $500 more before tonight. Please send any amount and/or share this post.

Venmo @AngelJaeStudio

They shut them down there. Let’s follow them here. Pass it along. https://bsky.app/profile/altusaid.bsky.social

I can’t imagine the real life nightmare for non-white & non-english-speaking immigrants right now. 💔

Lately I’ve been having nightmares where ICE tries to bring my wife to a detention center but refuses to actually deport her… she’s a WHITE immigrant though, so no one’s going to actually harass her until they start coming for queer folks…

pudding

I did not know this! Handy bit of advice

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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listen nobody wishes that lady wasn’t called caitlyn more than the caitlin community, but deadnaming her and misgendering her is fucking bullshit. trans rights aren’t conditional on being a good person.

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

We made it easy here- action.everylibrary.org/emailreps

Hours after taking office, President Trump signed an executive order declaring the U.S. government will only recognize two genders, ended diversity programs, and repealed over 12 executive orders supporting racial equity and LGBTQ+ rights protections #NOH8

Hours after taking office, President Trump signed an executive order declaring the U.S. government will only recognize two genders, ended diversity programs, and repealed over 12 executive orders supporting racial equity and LGBTQ+ rights protections #NOH8

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

It's hard to read the so-called "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism..." executive order and not feel complete despair.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

bonus

This is especially true for people who were named targets in the MAGAverse.

yep…

Yeah, I’m missing the more social aspect of social media here so far.

Vaseline-Covered Trump Reverses TikTok Stance After Getting Into Skincare PALM BEACH, FL—Telling reporters about his revamped beauty routine as he lavished praise upon the social media platform he once tried to ban as president, a Vaseline-covered Donald Trump publicly reve...

Vaseline-Covered Trump Reverses TikTok Stance After Getting Into Skincare

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.