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This week delivered a one-two punch to transgender youth: SCOTUS gave states the green light to ban puberty blockers and hormone therapy, and HHS announced it will shut down the LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services program of the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on 7/17. It's cruelty disguised as policy.

The Supreme Court I got to know when I worked in the Solicitor General’s office understood its responsibility to balance the scales of justice in favor of the powerless. Today’s SCOTUS majority doesn’t seem to have a clue. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/does-the-supreme-court-exist-to-protect

My cup runneth over neighbors protecting each other

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Just repealing rights on every group; no one is safe Leaders like Pritzger are rising to meet the moment but they shouldn’t have to do so

This should terrify and electrify us at the same time. More protests, more boycotts, more defiance towards this regime

🥹 Millions of Americans are coming together on this #NoKings Day to reject authoritarian overreach, defend democracy, and stand up for their communities.

This is my hometown. I love it dearly but the majority of views there do not mimic my own and is part of the impetus for moving away. This however makes my heart full. I’m so incredibly proud they showed up in full force.

I love seeing the massive #NoKings turnouts in major cities, but what I love even more are the hundreds and hundreds of small, rural towns that had relatively bigger turnouts compared to their populations 💙🙏

Thank you E. Jean Carroll, for speaking truth to power. You're a person of honor and courage.

If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

So weird almost like racism is bleeding down from the top

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

LA is NOT "on fire". There are protests in a few blocks of the city. They do not in any way justify National Guard or Marine presence. Don't buy the Republican propaganda. It's lies.

To quote RATM, “we’ve got to take the power back”

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Come one, come all…

RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.

This is fucking wild

He speaks the truth www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles...

The Joy Reid Show starts tonight at 7pm ET with our amazing first guest, the great @amberruffin.bsky.social !!! open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

Fuck the police

Project 2025, page 255 outlined exactly this.

"testify" by rage against the machine (1999)

Just PSA

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This another reason Trump is acting the way he is.

LAPD retreated. Federal police took their place. People are sitting peacefully.

Keep the pressure up

A video explaining the terms about federalization of the Guard, the difference between the Guard, Reserves, and Active Duty, and when the guard or active duty can engage in law enforcement. Hint: the guard as activated in Calif cannot. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/video-expl...

ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans

San Francisco protest: ICE Out of the Bay TONIGHT (Sunday) 6pm 630 Sansome Street in SF, near Montgomery BART

ICE spotted in Pasadena at 9:30am. ACE Hotel, 19 S Madison Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101

ICE rolls in, LA rises up.🔥 If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back.

This guy is live streaming the protest www.youtube.com/live/0a0EIr9...

Hey, we all do our parts. #TheAlliedForces

This is funny as fuck and super true

They are not “PRO-LIFE”, and not even “Pro-Birth”! They are “Pro-suffering”, “pro-poverty”, “Pro-control”, “pro-cruelty” and “pro-hate” 💁🏽‍♂️

This message brought to you by Harriet Tubman, an actual person who actually lived.

Eminent domain

#TechBroDaily news ☕️ Elon #Musk Used Gov Role to Aid #Tesla, #SpaceX, #xAI, Warren Report cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/mX4...

LFG!!!!