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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

"They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I'm the monster? I don't know what's scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart... or that sometimes, I just wanna let 'em."
-Nimona

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This is what it looks like when you’re scared of tough questions.

Also, since when is it a good thing to have 10k troops sitting at your boarder? Good for Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo though

Trump just signed an order for a american sovereign wealth fund. Take a look at what thay is and how it works. Notice that there is minimal to no reporting of where the funds go...

Be aware!
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USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk has been denigrating USAID, which is the world’s largest provider of food assistance.

Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.

Every day I open my phone to the most horrific post imaginable and then I'm just supposed to.. go on with my day.

I don't fucking know anymore

Not a post for anyone's sympathy. But this whole talk about merit while simultaneously kicking out hundreds of trans people from the military, has had me pissed. 🐝

His solution to ending Israels erasing of Palestinians, is to have whoever is left moved out. "Clear it out and rebuild it different [how Israel wants it]" is what he's saying.
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"Screenshot of an article by Erica L. Green, titled 'Federal workers were given 10 days to report on attempts to ‘disguise’ D.E.I. programs.' The article discusses the Trump administration's directive to federal employees to report colleagues who defy orders to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, with warnings of 'adverse consequences' for non-compliance. Employees were given a 10-day deadline to report violations via email without facing disciplinary action."

This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.

Stay strong out there. They make it sound like they can just do these things, but there's still a process. This living article has good info on what to do in the mean time. Get active

Trump’s Gender Order Won't Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed “They can still apply to renew their passport — they just have to use their God-given sex, which was decided at birth,” the White House press secretary told NOTUS.

Major news breaking from NOTUS on Trump’s trans passport ban:

It will not be retroactive.

Very glad I and others encouraged people to get their passports in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration.

Now hopefully this EO is defeated in court.

www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...

If being cisgender is so natural, why do you have to maintain its stronghold on the culture and the world? If it’s so natural, why must it constantly be enforced? Why are you so threatened?

Unless…

83 New Transfeminine Releases from the Second Half of 2024 Every book published by a transfeminine author in Q3 and Q4 of 2024. Read a book you’ve never heard of!

Here’s my comprehensive list of every transfemme book from the last release window!

My challenge to you - pick an author you’ve never heard of and try out their work! 💙📚

If you’re a transfemme author and I missed your book, please let me know and I’ll add it asap.

To those joining Bluesky following the TikTok shutdown, welcome!

Bluesky allows you to follow large groups of people at once with the Starter Pack feature.

Here is a Starter Pack featuring MeidasTouch contributors, hosts, and staff!

In Lebanon, these Palestinian refugees sew designs from a homeland they've never seen In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and also as therapy. The designs come from a homeland most have never seen.

In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and also as therapy. The designs come from a homeland most have never seen.

The image shows a tweet by James Martin, SJ, quoting scripture alongside a news headline. The tweet reads: "You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt." (Exodus 23:19). "I was a stranger and you did not welcome me" (Matthew 25:43). Below his tweet is a post from BNO News stating: "BREAKING: Trump administration planning large-scale immigration raid in Chicago, starting Tuesday morning – WSJ." The tweet highlights a biblical perspective on immigration and juxtaposes it with a report about an impending immigration raid.

Something the Bible thumpers always overlook. The Bible consistently put the safety and comfort of guests including immigrants as the most important duty of a person. The parable of Sodom and Gomorrah was actually about a city being bad hosts for their guests, not sodomy.

I think TikTok goes dark tomorrow despite President Biden saying he won’t enforce the ban. People will be angry. Then, Trump signs an Executive Order giving TikTok 90 more days & boom, it’s back. And Trump saved it! Then a right wing billionaire buys it.

A massive political blunder on our end.

Check out the People’s March in Washington D.C. today.

Definitely looks like the crowd for the protest will be BIGGER than his inauguration crowd!

Finished. Thank you for sharing the intimate details of your life, and the sacrifices you've made, all in order to lift voices of others, and especially those who've had their voice and breath taken away early. You say their names ensuring they won't be forgotten. It's obvious, your heart is big

Where has JD vance been? Missing person alert

As soon as the exchange happens, there will be nothing holding them back. No doubt they will continue with this genocide.

Listening to your book on Libby 💖 it's so good!

Why the fuck are we in another space race when we should be healing our beautiful planet. We take and take from her and give back only a few trees here and there. 💔🐝

Live updates: Trump sentenced in hush money case | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced to unconditional discharge for his hush money case conviction. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

There is a two-tiered system of justice in this country, and Donald Trump lives on the tier where he gets to walk into the White House without spending a single day in jail or being put on probation after being convicted of 34 felonies. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...