If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention. The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power. All on #July4th too.

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: 🚫 No gas from corporate giants 🚫 No fast food chains 🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

Trump calls transgender health care a “dangerous trend.” In fact, as historian Jules Gill-Peterson explains, he is dead wrong. The practice has a “surprisingly long-lived history” with modern medical care spanning over a century.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta tells hospitals to continue providing gender-affirming care #NOH8

Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

A physician member of the AMA—who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation—is sounding the alarm. “The current admin prohibited all communications of the CDC and other agencies with the public. Now, the public and physicians are left with no info on food recalls or disease outbreaks.“

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Video clip of hundreds of folks leaving protest at DC Children's National Hospital earlier today. This past week the hospital abruptly stopped providing gender affirming healthcare for youth under 19 years old, to preemptively comply with the Musk/Trump Administration's illegal Executive Order.

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

At this point if you don't want to listen to me that we're marching toward a genocide then I don't even know what to say. It has been ordered that Americans and individuals trying to be American will be sent off to a location known for being outside of our constitutional law. This is where it begins

EVERYONE should have the right to bodily autonomy & to make informed decisions about their own bodies & futures.

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

The Trump last name will one day carry the same stigma and disgust as Hitler. His lineage will want to mark his name off their family tree. He will be a symbol of the worst of humanity. And those who aligned with him will be too.

Just read the WPATH statement on the last EO. Disappointingly anemic. We needed a stronger message against preemptive compliance. wpath.org/resources/pu...

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

On Jan. 30, 2025, the Transgender Unity Coalition is holding rallies around the US to show the solidarity of the transgender community. Already confirmed are rallies in the state capitals of Ohio, Colorado, California, Texas, Utah, and Georgia. More to come. transunitycoalition.org/contact-us/

The mask is off with these fucking fascists. Trump is calling trans military members dishonorable liars, is shutting down gov't funded programs to try to root out trans people, and red states across the country are following suit. There's barely any pretense to their hateful policy anymore.

People who think removing DEI in universities leads to meritocracies, are too stupid to get into universities on the merits.

In a nutshell... "Biden pardoned January 6 police officers, Trump pardoned January 6 criminals." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." According to Trump's executive order you are female at the moment of CONCEPTION! Y'all what!!! Some of you need to take more than just a basic biology class.

It’s notable that the double Nazi salute is not only clear, it’s also perfectly in line with Elon Musk and Trump’s ideology of white genocide, great replacement theory, and the cult of reproduction. And Nazis are very much feeling empowered to be visible today.

Big tell in this Trump order targeting trans people: "at conception"

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

Today, we remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over the years, I have found strength in Dr. King’s leadership in our country’s darkest moments. I am especially guided by this teaching from his Letter from Birmingham Jail which feels prescient today.

Trump will sign an executive order on Monday that says it's the policy of the United States to recognize two biologically distinct sexes, one of many executive actions the incoming administration plan to take, an incoming White House official told reporters on a preview conference call.

1. Trump has announced he will sign 200 executive orders on day 1. Already, the first package targeting transgender people has been announced, and many more could be coming. Writer Mira Lazine details what you could see through Trump EOs today. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We’re forming a new Peer Consultation Group for therapists who are/who serve LGBTQ+ folks! 1st meetup this Wednesday. Led by queer & allied clinicians, we aim to give therapists who serve our folks & families a place to ask questions & receive support so you can better support your clients!

Thank you to Dr. Howard & Inspire Health! At PFLAG Fresno, one of our core beliefs is that any monies entrusted to us rightly belong to our community. It is our sacred duty, and our joy, to re-invest these funds back into the community and people whom we directly serve.

Ooh! New trans study! Surprising absolutely nobody, two years after starting HRT, trans youth saw substantial improvements in every single marker of emotional well-being!

BREAKING: Judge who wanted to ban mifepristone refuses to dismiss case. Despite SCOTUS's ruling that the original plaintiffs lacked standing, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is allowing three non-Texas states to keep the lawsuit going in his court. New, from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social —>

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Duckworth: You say that our armed services should be meritocracy...then let's not lower our standards for you.

Today, the average teacher salary in the majority of states is below the minimum living wage, and teachers are being paid 5% less than what they were a decade ago when adjusted for inflation.

I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.