KEEP THE PRESSURE ON KEEP CALLING TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES TO Vote Hell No ON THE BIG UGLY BILL (202) 224-3121

Friendly reminder that it is not too late to contact your senators and tell them to vote NO on the budget bill!! share.google/AxP3u4TLJWJR...

With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for trans children and adults continue to be dismantled at the state level. www.newyorker.com/ne... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The Senate is voting on huge Medicaid cuts today. Not all Senators have decided how they will vote. Your voice matters! Call now to stop the cuts to Medicaid!

📞 It’s more urgent than ever to take action to protect Medicaid! Your Senators and Representative need to be hearing from you nonstop about how important Medicaid is for our community. Call now with our action alert: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/05/tell...

What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Ends IRS Direct File -New powers for Trump over the courts -Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage It's a big, ugly nightmare.

This week, the Senate will vote on Trump’s Big Ugly Bill, a funding package that would hurt children who depend on Medicaid, nutritional assistance programs, and more. Watch the video below to learn more, and visit go.aft.org/BigUglyBill to stand up for families! www.facebook.com/reel/1466120...

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

We will not go silently and let the Supreme Court + our Government erode our rights to our bodies, genders, choices, and futures. ACT UP FIGHT BACK!

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Today is Juneteenth...it commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States.

You heard the Captain: NO KINGS IN AMERICA! #NoKingsDay

NO KINGS 🇺🇸

June 14, 2025: #NoKings #FlagDay #Pride2025 and so we March!

Our Democracy is being threatened daily and we all need to do our part to protect it. Find a No Kings protest for Saturday here: www.NoKings.org And if you can't make it, spread the word to others. #ResistTrump

We're proud to partner with groups across the country for a day of action against the authoritarian lawlessness tearing apart our communities. No thrones. No crowns. NO KINGS. 📍 Find a protest near you: nokings.org 📞 Can't make it? Join the fight by phone: 5calls.org See you in the streets.

Not just in the US, but around the world:

C You at the No Kings protest this Saturday

One week left to apply! Applications close June 20th!

The U.S. was founded in opposition to monarchy. On June 14th, let's protest Trump's authoritarian takeover and send a peaceful reminder that we do not bow before kings in America. Join No Kings Day protests at nokings.org.

Sylvia Rivera, LGBTQ rights pioneer and along with Marsha P. Johnson co-founder of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, one of the first organizations addressing the needs of unhoused LGBTQ youth ✨

Friends, as much fun as it is to play "Goon, fiend, or wanker? with the Trump regime, the sad reality is that this regime is actively attacking the LGBTQ+ community. Please share this LGBTQ+ friendly one-pager of mental health resources widely #PrideMonth #MentalHealth #AltComms

Harvey Milk. First openly gay elected official in California and LGBTQ rights icon. #PrideMonth #gay #lgbtq #queerhistory 🏳️‍🌈

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked President Trump's executive order prohibiting transgender people incarcerated in federal custody from receiving gender-affirming medical care.

Good news from the Internet Archive’s Open Library: Patrons with certified print disabilities can now apply for special access directly when signing up. 📖 Learn how ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2025/05/30/q... #accessibility #InternetArchive

Trump's actions are only the spear tip of a significantly larger legislative attempt to target and scapegoat transgender people, who make up just over 1% of the U.S. population, but trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people have long resisted unjust laws and oppression from those in power.

Want to help people who cannot talk on the phone due to a disability call their legislators? Become a proxy caller volunteer at proxycaller.org!

Republicans can only lose 3 Senate votes on Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and these senators are the most vulnerable in 2026: -Collins (ME) -Tillis (NC) -Sullivan (AK) -Husted (OH) -Moody (FL) -Cornyn (TX) -Ernst (IA) If they represent you, tell them to vote NO.  (202) 224-3121

What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Ends IRS Direct File -New powers for Trump over the courts -Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage It's a big, ugly nightmare.

Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy." Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏

No kings, masters, overlords or any of that bullshit. Time to take the country back.

I just called my reps to Oppose Cuts to Gender-Affirming Healthcare in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act — you should too: 5calls.org/issue/transg...

#leftist #leftsky #diversity #inclusion #activism #progressive #dei #inclusive #antiai #lgbtq+ #neurodivergent #humanrights #civilrights #contactyoursenators

The U.S. House has recently passed the "Big Beautiful Bill" Act, which will cut funds for medicaid, food benefits, and more, as well as unregulating the use of AI. Please contact your senators, and urge them to vote against it! Here is a link to their website below: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social

👋 Hi! If you, like us, are ENRAGED by the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act, remember: you have a voice—and now’s the time to use it. Congress is on recess. That means your reps are back home—and they need to hear from you. ⬇️

George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today. The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

Support community reparations for Autistic People of Color through the Autistic People of Color Fund! autismandrace.com/autistic-peo...

I wanted to share a starter pack for all those disabled and neurodivergent (myself included). All in favor of #autismacceptancemonth and many more celebrations to come. #disability #neurodivergent #diversity #accessability #starterpack #inclusivity go.bsky.app/T84jADS

I'm taking things a step further. Saturdays are now reserved for #AutisticWhileBlack participants to rest & restore in community together: Sat, May 3rd Start Fern Cohort 6 live sessions Saturdays 12:30pm to 2:30pm PT www.autastic.com/reclaim-your... #ActuallyAutistic

1/3 Hello, everyone. I know I have been silent for a while, and I do apologize. Life itself is not merciful with giving free time. Thankfully, here I am. I also want to say that I apologize if I wrongly presented myself as a professional organization or agency. Even if I didn't intend to do so.

Calling all lovers of leftist, feminist, & queer sci-fi! Short story “Crisis Actors” by @thedescenters.bsky.social + @coreyjwhite.com might be the next read for you!

People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter. www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...

These battery recycling bin services should be ubiquitous at commercial centers! You sell them, you offer a means to recycling them 🤝 #recycle #skylight

For those into or have interests in up-cycling & repurposing, I found a great Bluesky feed that is tailored for that subject! I see cool repurposing posts too. Check it out! The link is below 😊💚🌿 #recycle #upcycle #repurpose #reuse #environment #sustainability bsky.app/profile/did:...

Many of you know that I have organized a fund raiser for Marsha Fowler, who lost her home and possessions in the LA fire - gofund.me/0169573a Support Marsha by reading her book - Nursing Ethics, 1880s to the Present: An Archaeology of Lost Wisdom and Identity - www.routledge.com/Nursing-Ethi....