Seeing others cancel their Disney+ subscriptions help to motivate me, so I’m sharing mine! #BoycottDisney

The Court Ruled. Transgender Youth Will Suffer. On the morning of December 4, 2024, I stood outside the Supreme Court with a small crowd of bundled-up supporters.

We don’t need more studies to tell us what we already know: this care is essential, and it saves lives. What we need now is collective resolve, from institutions, from communities, from each other, to protect trans youth and their families. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccab...

No Kings Protest in Frederick, Maryland!

It's official: The White House wants to cut funding for the 988 LGBTQ+ suicide and crisis hotline for kids.

Make no mistake: this cruelty could cost young lives.

We need to keep fighting back.

They are charging a sitting congresswoman with a crime for performing her lawfully required oversight of ICE.

This is an incredibly undemocratic step that should make people painfully aware of where we are at.

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-69d

Gotta say, I am not encouraged that SCOTUS has not yet resolved the El Salvador kidnapping case.

Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.

A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement

#HandsOff

Close to $3 Billion in Relief Funds in Jeopardy as Ed Dept. Halts Payments Officials called even extensions agreed upon during Trump’s tenure ‘unreasonable’ and cited what it called examples of ‘misuse.’

Close to $3 billion in pandemic funds in jeopardy as education department abruptly halts payments. @lrj417.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/clos...

D.C.'s budget still stuck in limbo, awaiting action from Congress The U.S. House returned from recess Monday, but has yet to take up a bill to fix the billion dollar hole in D.C.'s budget. Some Republicans say they're awaiting public support from President Trump.

DC is a city where people live and work and raise families. We shouldn’t be a pawn in this messed up game. wamu.org/story/25/03/...

David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story? Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...

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The IRS is on the cusp of an agreement with ICE to assist with deportations.

The IRS would use confidential taxpayer information to verify addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants ICE is attempting to locate, @jeffstein.bsky.social & I can report.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Ways to show up for our libraries:

-Get a library card
-Regularly visit your library
-Use library services
-Donate books
-Attend library events
-Become a library “friend”
-Purchase their merch or from their book sales
-Volunteer

Indeed.

Thank you to the @neatoday.bsky.social, Colors of Change and former U.S. Department of Education officials for organizing today's rally. All of the inspiring speakers helped to remind us why we must continue to fight for public education.

Thing I didn't pull out of this letter before, but should have:

Louis DeJoy just called for Trump, DOGE and Congress to eliminate USPS's regulator -- the group that makes sure mail service is affordable and non-discriminatory.

It is a HUGE escalation.

They are sadists in the White House.

Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’

The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities.

We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication.

This is inhumane and illegal.

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.

He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.

It's so much worse than being reported.

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What are we becoming?

The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.

New York Times, Forbes, etc. are reporting on this without even MENTIONING that these messages were in an LGBTQ+ ERG chat -- and that when Tulsi Gabbard calls something "sexually explicit," she might just mean gay. Thankful for @erininthemorning.com
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The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.

1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired.

This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.

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Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.

well it didn’t take long for them to go after Maine www.hhs.gov/about/news/2...

I am pleased to announce that Whitman-Walker has returned a trans care resource, now under “primary care.”

I am told the decision was to update today and that it is a case of bad timing, but also confirmed the reason why it was removed was fear of the Trump admin.

Still. I am very happy it’s back.

As soon as Children’s National stopped offering care, I took comfort in knowing the trans and queer community had Whitman Walker, so I made donation on the spot. So disappointed by this move.