Annual reminder that if you’re Irish-American, your people were immigrants who may have — like my family — braved unimaginable conditions and came to America looking for a better like for themselves and their children. 🇮🇪☘️

From Vu Lee (nonprofit af): “the powerful do not attack the inconsequential.” You - friends, everyone who is under attack, the programs that work to ensure equality - have beautiful and powerful and marvelous consequence. Keep going.

Not an optimist or a pessimist but a secret third thing where you look up at the sky and scream a lot

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

This is fascism.

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

Erasing our history won't erase us.

Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

This is the first major victory for trans rights in the second Trump administration.

When we fight for trans rights, we win.

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

Gotta admit, I had intense fears of a second Trump administration but even I didn’t call Project 2025 UNDERSELLING his moves.

A photo of a person holding up a handmade rally sign reading "A world without trans people has never existed and never will" among a group of protesters.

Trans people have been here since the beginning.

And we're not going anywhere.

📍 The People's March
📸 Will Martinez

New politician test:

“Are trans rights human rights?”

If they answer ANYTHING other than an immediate YES, walk away while saying “I’m not voting for you.”

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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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