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technology for liberty fellow @ aclu ma data.aclum.org & julielee.net
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Having identification that accurately reflects one’s gender is essential for transgender people to live their lives safely and with dignity. The Trump administration's attacks on trans people are not only cruel — they're unlawful.

In order for New Yorkers to vote in the closed Democratic Mayoral Primary, they must be registered as Democrats (and not unaffiliated or otherwise) by TOMORROW, February 14th. You CAN do change or update online through the DMV link below with a valid ID: e-register.vote.nyc

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

Helpful look at the makeup of the US federal workforce: sherwood.news/power/trumps...

Community health centers around the country are closing due to the Trump administration's order to freeze grants and loans.

Fascinating explainer on zero based budgeting, h/t the below WIRED article

The thing about running the federal government like a software startup is that most software startups fail www.wired.com/story/the-us...

Attempting to coerce medical providers to stop offering the medical care that patients need because of who they are is an unprecedented abuse of federal power. We will not allow this dangerous, sweeping, and unconstitutional order to stand. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/04/m...

NEW: The US Treasury claimed DOGE's Marko Elez didn't have the ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending when he actually did. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

If you’d like to tell the NCAA what a bunch of fucking cowards they are, here you go

@laurenewool.bsky.social LEWIE!!!

Ignoring the whole “defying legal limits” euphemism, this is a useful quick one-stop shop

Trump's sports ban EO is now live. You can find it here. I'm going to, as I have done in previous nights, go line by line and explain it for all of you here. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

WHO SHOULD READ THIS IMPORTANT STORY: * people in IL * people outside IL READ IT *NOW* IF YOU: * are interested in crime policy * are interested in immigration policy * follow economics * listen to/read Freakanomics * vote in Cook Co * breathe air, probably chicagoreader.com/news/electro...

Thing you can do, action you can take: StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your circles that makes it very easy for them to call their US Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs Share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

He’s just making up rules now??

My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

So these dudes just pushed past security? And folks are unable to physically remove them? These dudes?

NSF employees explained to @dangaristo.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social that they've been instructed to search for specific language — such as "women" and "people of color" — in abstracts and titles of grants to flag. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: NIH grant applications will no longer be scored based on plans to recruit people in underrepresented communities -including pending applications - fundamentally changing which projects are funded. This affects Recruitment Plans to Increase Diversity (Ts, K12s, R25s) & Diversity Plans (R13/U13)

NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal health system, has issued the exact same memo to its employees. This is appalling and must be stopped. (I should have an article out soon outlining the implications.)

BREAKING: Representatives of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” have gotten into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where they have accessed key payment and contracting systems.

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order forcibly to detransition trans women inmates and transfer them to men's prisons, citing the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

25%-50% cuts to NSF www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

NEW: Parents say Mount Sinai Health System, the largest hospital network in the city, has also been canceling surgery consultations for young trans patients since as early as December, before President Donald Trump's executive order and before he was even president. hellgatenyc.com/mount-sinai-...

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

I want to be clear: gender affirming care remains available in Massachusetts for all who need it. My office and I will continue to enforce our state laws to ensure families can access it without fear of discrimination.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/04/m...

Over a dozen members of Congress have now been DENIED ENTRY to Treasury.

Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech We are talking about an actual Nazi

cool cool cool

Heartbreaking, as someone who has played on hockey teams with trans teammates. This is what happens when we throw our trans siblings under the bus and allow transphobia and disinformation to go unchecked

Trump is expected to sign an order tomorrow to try to ban trans girls and women nationwide from playing girls/womens sports. The issue has all sorts of background and details, so I'd like to add some context! 1/

well, crap

Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

Starting in an hour!

We're suing President Trump to protect gender-affirming care access for trans people nationwide. President Trump, see you in court.

An intelligence agency worker says that unidentified outside staffers arrived to sweep the office of anything they felt was related to DEI. That included a plaque, confiscated from a supervisor’s desk, that read, “Be kind to everyone.” via @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: Federal lawsuit filed challenging Trump's executive order against gender-affirming medical care for those under 19, as well as the Jan. 20 EOs funding ban. The lawsuit is backed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, Jenner & Block, and Hogan Lovells. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...

Fucking horrifying and deadly. He must be stopped on the floor.