Katharine

Imagine if another country’s president was cracking down on the opposition party’s fundraising mechanism “to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure”

Authoritarianism is here. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Woman wearing a blue t shirt with the writing " your words matter" and a yellow blazer, includes a lapel pin in the shape of a safety pin that says " you are safe with me"

Happy Friday #edusky
💙A "woke" special educator

#YourWordsMatter
#YouAreSafeWithMe

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear consolidated cases challenging Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship on May 15. In these cases, the administration seeks to limit the scope of nationwide injunctions. www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship The Trump administration had asked the justices to lift a nationwide pause on the policy as lower court challenges continue.

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution through the first section of the 14th Amendment.

The relevant text states:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

🧵 time!!!! This will be long so strap in!!! The TL;DR version is simple: if you are a naturalized citizen, you need to check your status at SSA immediately and if you aren’t listed as a citizen, you need to correct that. Immediately. Ok so here’s the news article we are discussing. Let’s go. 1/?

The Fight Between Trump and Public Schools Over DEI Escalates (Gift Article) Can President Trump withhold federal money for low-income students? A brewing fight over diversity, equity and inclusion programs may force the courts to decide.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are all fundamental values in ed. These are things that we celebrate #edusky
This regime is threatening funding to our neediest students & schools in an effort to whitewash of the curriculum and eliminate the diversity that truly makes us great.
#AbolishTrumpRegime

Tyranny relies on obedience.

They want us to fear them.

They expect our silence.

But we will never bow.

Join us on 4/19.

Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time.

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

‘The most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history’: How the SAVE Act upends over a century and a half of protecting voting Read more here.

Historians and voting experts have emphasized the unprecedented nature of this attack on voting rights. The federal government has historically acted to protect and expand voting rights, rather than restrict them.

#NOtoSAVEact
#AbolishTrumpRegime

Federal Workers Are Facing a New Reality The problem for government employees isn’t just low morale. It’s the manufactured chaos.

We can see this regime's insidious form of control through manufactured chaos, demoralization, and the systematic dismantling of essential government functions is hurting our federal workers. Let's send some extra support and appreciation to the #Altgov heroes!
#AbolishTrumpRegime

The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.

I hope SCOTUS is ready to find the means to enforce this decision

Due process exists because the state is supposed to prove its allegations against you before depriving you of life and liberty.

#AbolishTrumpRegime

The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly sent to El Salvadorian Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT. SCOTUS unanimously upheld a lower court decision ordering the [regime] to release Garcia from custody.

Republicans just passed a budget that guts Medicaid, SNAP, veterans’ benefits, and free school lunches.

They swore they'd fix the economy—but this sure as hell ain’t it.

👎Military ID 🚫
👎Driver's licenses/Enhanced DLs 🚫
👎Women will be unable to register w/ their birth certificate if they changed their name even if they bring a marriage certificate 🚫
👎Trans individuals, same as women 🚫
Passports are the only fully accepted doc and more than 50% do not have one!

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote.

We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.

🧵 of those 1.1% performed after 21 weeks, 99.9+% are medically necessary to keep the pregnant person alive.

#AbortionIsHealthcare

🧵 of the 98.9% of abortions that take place prior to 21 weeks, 78.6% of abortions were performed at or before 9 weeks' gestation prior to become a fetus.

#AbortionIsHealthcare

🧵 The CDC's Abortion Surveillance Report for 2022, released in November 2024 shows that:
* 92.8% were performed ≤13 weeks' gestation.
* 6.1% were performed between 14 and 20 weeks' gestation.
* 1.1% were performed ≥21 weeks' gestation.

#AbortionIsHealthcare

YouTube video by Pixar Pixar Sparkshorts: Loop | Short Film on Disney+

At my school we are celebrating Autism Acceptance Month with a spirit week. The theme tomorrow is Communication Differences and as the building #SLP I shared this video.
It is worth every moment of the 9 min length!
We are made stronger by our diversity, provision of equity, and inclusion of all!

Elon Musk says Saturday's protesters were "paid puppets." That's not what I saw. Right wingers are trying to discount the mass mobilization the country saw on Saturday.

Nope, we are REAL people who have REAL anger about the REAL danger this regime poses to our democracy.

Keep fighting!
#ResistLOUDLY
#RebelCONFIDENTLY
#DefyFIRMLY
#DivestFULLY
#ABOLISHtrumpREGIME

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling.

People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯.

America, we have a problem!

The American Age Is Over Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

Decline is a choice. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

#AbolishTrumpRegime has been on all of my posts since January. The words we use matter.

🧵 2/2 We can attack the weaknesses of the regime with:
👍 inclusive empathy
👍 peaceful but relentless dissent
👍 using our rights to speak out, protest, protect those without privilege

#ResistLOUDLY
#RebelCONFIDENTLY
#DefyFIRMLY
#DivestFULLY
#ABOLISHtrumpREGIME
#Albany @albany50501.bsky.social