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“First, Project 2025 came for a small group of kids…”
Write a comment against the Heritage Foundation’s attack on gender-affirming care for youth. (Deadline Feb. 17)
(This video is the best! Leeja Miller was one of the first to sound the alarm about Project 2025 – she is wicked smart and absolutely ferocious!)
(https://youtu.be/KfVE4xyNrO0) – Her sources she mentions are here)
Our Dr. Oz-run Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they intended to eliminate gender-affirming health care for trans youth, hiding Project 2025’s Christian Nationalist agenda behind bad science. Their proposed rules would block Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming care for transgender youth; and punish hospitals and providers that offer this care by threatening their ability to participate in Medicare and Medicaid altogether.
Like bullies everywhere, they’ve picked the smallest and most vulnerable target to pick on first. But these kids are symbolically important to Christian Nationalists, as they challenge the narrow set of conservative values they intend to force on all of us:
Continue reading ““First, Project 2025 came for a small group of kids…””3 actions to do during lunch today!
If you get our newsletter, you’ve already had notice of #2 and #3. We were just alerted to #1 this morning.
#1 – Speak out against VCCCD trustee Joe “I-only-won-because-2-Dem-opponents-split-the-vote” Piechowski’s transphobic resolution. Deadline: TODAY – MONDAY, DEC. 1, 3:00 pm.
(This one has the earliest deadline!)
Ventura County Community College District trustee Joe Piechowski is literally the residue at the bottom of the barrel, because 64% of voters split their votes between Democratic candidates Bernardo Perez and Ruth Luevanos. But this residue isn’t wasting his chance to push regressive policies, and now we need to stand up against his resolution to pressure the 3C2A and state leaders into excluding transgender and intersex athletes from women’s sports. He’s misusing Title IX to justify discrimination as “fairness” using selective science based on questionable evidence. This resolution isn’t about protecting women’s sports. It’s about creating a gateway for anti-trans policy in our local colleges.
Urge the board to reject his discriminatory resolution and instead support policies that uphold Title IX’s actual purpose: ensuring equal access and opportunity for all student-athletes.
They meet on December 2! (agenda) Please submit a written comment by today- December 1st, 3pm. to the board here (https://form.jotform.com/253288279842168) Also, could be emailed here (boardoftrusteesclerk@vcccd.edu)
Continue reading “3 actions to do during lunch today!”Tell your legislators to vote “NO!” on the SAVE Act, a trojan horse for Christofascist voter suppression
What these patriarchal Christian Nationalist legislators want is a return to government run like it was by the signers of the Constitution – with only the richest White men being allowed to vote.
UPDATE: THE GREAT VOTER SUPPRESSION BILL has just passed through the House! Even more horrible, four Democratic-name-only legislators helped! Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii; Henry Cuellar of Texas; Jared Golden of Maine; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state.
How close can they get to their ideal before the midterms? A lot closer if they can pass the SAVE Act, a cynically named elitist bill that’s actually a form of voter suppression against women, poorer American citizens and minorities – all those whom the GOP suspects will vote for Democrats.
Continue reading “Tell your legislators to vote “NO!” on the SAVE Act, a trojan horse for Christofascist voter suppression”If legislators trust America’s service members to protect our country, they should bloody well trust them to protect their own kids!
Captain Heelspurs’ legislators are playing toxic messaging games with the health care of the children of military service members.
(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CCfPkJs7rXe7-95oceE7RnMhxhME2hFz)
Continue reading “If legislators trust America’s service members to protect our country, they should bloody well trust them to protect their own kids!”Leave nothing on the table – “President Biden, commute all federal death penalty sentences now!”
Please add your voice to that of Rev. Sharon Risher!:
Rev. Sharon Risher‘s mother, two cousins and a childhood friend were among the nine people killed by White supremacist Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death in 2017. However, after studying the racial disparities in the application of the death penalty, and the lack of evidence that it deters violent crime, she asked President Biden to commute his punishment to a life sentence without parole instead. And she wants this to happen for the 40 others on federal death row too, before sociopathic Felon/President-elect Donald Trump restarts the killing spree he began in his first administration. In his final six months in office, he executed 13 people, more than any president in the past 120 years. She hasn’t heard back from Biden yet and those 40 people are still at risk. Let’s pile on!
Action: Urge President Biden to eliminate the death penalty for those under his watch.
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Continue reading “Leave nothing on the table – “President Biden, commute all federal death penalty sentences now!””Are they sleeping? Tell our legislators to Vote “NO!” on H.R. 9495/S.4136 to protect non-profits from Trump.
H.R.9495 is a Pandora’s box of destruction for any organization that crosses Trump and his MAGA agenda!
UPDATE: This bill passed the House! WTH?! Call your senators! Script below!
Despite its defeat last Tuesday night, H.R. 9495 – which gives the incoming Trump administration unchecked power to shut down ANY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION that stands in the way of his MAGA agenda – will return for a second vote in the U.S. House of Representatives early next week, with a markup starting on Monday, November 18. This will be followed by an expected floor vote on Tuesday or Wednesday, where it will require only a SIMPLE MAJORITY to pass.
What can we do?
Continue reading “Are they sleeping? Tell our legislators to Vote “NO!” on H.R. 9495/S.4136 to protect non-profits from Trump.”Tell your senators to vote “NO!” on the GOP’s deceptively-named voter suppression legislation.
The GOP is genius at creating acronyms that imply the OPPOSITE of what their bills will actually do.
Continue reading “Tell your senators to vote “NO!” on the GOP’s deceptively-named voter suppression legislation.”GA Election is TUESDAY! Come out and fight for our future! Join a campaign for Warnock!
Whatever you imagine you would have done during slavery, the Holocaust, or the Civil Rights movement, DO IT NOW!
(Jezebel) “Former President Barack Obama campaigned in Georgia with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) on Thursday to remind people of several things: that Warnock helped Democrats pass impactful legislation, that winning a 51st Senate seat matters, and, most importantly, that Republican nominee Herschel Walker is a clown.”
At the end of Pride Month – it’s time to rinse off some of that rainbow-wash.
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay
Hey, corporations! Do you want to be considered “people?”
(theskimm) “Nine years after the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, gay rights activist Gilbert Baker created and paraded the first rainbow flag. Fast forward to June 2021: corporations (think: Walmart, CVS, AT&T) started adding rainbow colors to their logos on social media. The move is an attempt to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month. But LGBTQ+ activists say this show of solidarity by some companies is just a front since their corporate policies show a different side to their supposed activism. And are accusing them of rainbow-washing.“
Citizens United turned soulless corporations into “people” who can support things, like Pride Month and Juneteenth. Well, it’s time to remind a bunch of CEO’s that there are social rules to being “real people” – like defending and protecting their friends. Every kid knows that Pinocchio only became a “real” boy after he risked everything to save his father. Need a more grownup example? How about this – if you say you’re a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, don’t give political donations to homophobes. So easy!
(Note: If you and your family/friend circle haven’t started calling your senators on passing the Equality Act, go here.)