Jess M

Whoopsie I scrolled too much and have hit the dystopian angst level where I want to crawl under my desk and cry again!
#F🧊 #standwithminnesota #believesurvivors

HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.

www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...

A greyscale comic. A Black femme therapist sits in an armchair while her white masc patient lies on the couch with his hands in air. The caption reads “You don’t have to put your hands up for emotional roller coasters.”

Long time no post. The world is a scary place right now, but there’s plenty of ways to help through mutual aid, contacting reps, & protesting. @resist.bot is a great resource. standwithminnesota.com is another. You know what to do. 💜 #iceout

For those just waking up — we only need four CA Republicans to vote NO on Trump’s Big Ugly Bill:

📞 Call them now:
Kevin Kiley – (202) 225-2523
David Valadao – (202) 225-4695
Tom McClintock – (202) 225-2511
Ken Calvert – (202) 225-1986
Doug LaMalfa – (202) 225-3076
Young Kim – (202) 225-4111

5 ways Trump's tax bill will limit health care access With spending cuts poised to hit medical providers, Medicaid recipients and Affordable Care Act enrollees, here's how the bill will affect health care access for millions in the U.S.

“The deepest cuts to health care spending come from a proposed Medicaid work requirement, which would cut off coverage for millions of enrollees who do not meet new employment or reporting standards.”

A 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator, defying an anti-parade ordinance of Birmingham, Ala., was attacked by a police dog on May 3, 1963. On May 4, 1963, during a meeting at the White House with members of a political group, President Kennedy discussed this photo, which had appeared on the front page of that day's New York Times. The image helped turn the tide of public opinion in favor of the civil rights activists.

Our Racist-in-Chief signed an EO calling for the dismantling of the Civil Rights Act.

Congress may be passive but we are not. The showdown will be in the streets. If you haven't, sign up with a local action group or national effort like Indivisible or 50501. Tyrants must be overthrown.

Ways to accept a cup of tea

1. “Only if you're having one”
2. <check watch> “Go on then”
3. “I wouldn’t say no”
4. “Ooh yes please”
5. “I’m gasping”
6. “You read my mind”
7. Respond to “tea?” by saying “tea”
8. “I’ll make it”
9. “Best idea you’ve had all day”
10. Stating milk/sugar preference

🖋️ “SCOTUS must immediately uphold judicial authority, and protect the rule of law” hit 100 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PKZEOK to 50409

Never forget that in 1861 Charles Darwin wrote in a letter to a friend…

“But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything"

…because this is my favorite reminder that we can do great things even if we don't always have great days

How these new tariffs got me feeling

Photo of a brownish red highland cow lying down lying down in a pile of hay, outside in a beautiful pasture next to an open paddock.

Imagine lying in a bed of your favorite snack. What luxury. Just floating on a cloud of lunch.

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb

Resist. This one is especially bad.

Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. I’m not here to say I told you so

He’s such a toad. I hope he slips on a golf ball and falls into the pond and drowns.

A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on

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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

Many thousands of public servants are having their lives upended as punishment for the heinous crime or serving you. If you’re not an absolute ingrate, do the thing.

@resist.bot
@5calls.org

ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.

“I think pretty much every legislator in Olympia knows him. He’s a serious young man who really wants to fight for justice, and he knows how to express himself and he’s tireless. He is like 24/7 on immigrant rights and farmworker rights.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Illustration of a child holding an umbrella over a cat. The text reads "Mental health is shaped by more than just the mind. housing jobs inequality education"

New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services.

It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.

Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk

Always a good day to resist with @resist.bot

And this is why we need diversity and federal funding for mental health and in scientific research! BIPOC communities are horribly underserved because of structural racism in this country which is being exacerbated & perpetuated by this administration.

Trump's back-to-office order will hurt veterans, VA docs and therapists say The Department of Veterans Affairs embraced telehealth, especially for mental health care, in recent years. Now, staffers hired to give therapy and other health care remotely are ordered to do it from...

The Department of Veterans Affairs embraced telehealth, especially for mental health care, in recent years. Now, staffers hired to give therapy and other health care remotely are ordered to do it from offices lacking privacy, VA clinicians told NPR.

This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.

Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.