Trump wants to take over DC. Why this Must not Happen.

Trump first thought of a takeover of DC while cowering in the White House bunker during Black Lives Matter protests. He just brought that up again.

Trump said Wednesday that city leaders are not doing enough to reduce crime, clean up graffiti, and remove homeless encampments according to Jeff Bezos's Washington Post. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

Trump intends to extend the Whitehouse permitter to miles instead of feet. He would take over the Metropolitan Police and order them to checkpoints so only a chosen few would be allowed in or to leave. He would make a military fortress out of the White House and Congress so that he could rule unimpeded and terrorize citizens outside of the walls.

Congress would first have to repeal the Wahington DC Home Rule Act in response to an emergency.

However homeless encampments and graffiti are not cause to declare a state of emergency.

Violent protests could be. That is why protests must be kept peaceful. We can't give Trump a legitimate reason to crush democracy.

Mother of Sam Norquist Called Police Before His Murder. Police Said She didn't.

The five charged with the murder of transman Sam Norquist

The mother of Sam Nordquist says that his murder could have been prevented if police had done their job. She said that she called the Canandaigua Police Department twice after not hearing from her son and they performed wellness checks. They told her that everything appeared to be fine.

RED FLAG: No evidence of hate crime in the killing of transgender man Sam Norquist, police said, pointing out that the five charged with murder are also LGBTQI.

The Canandaigua Police Department's chief of police, Mathew Nielsen, said in a phone call with NBC that none of his roughly 30 officers spoke with the family prior to Sam's death. He suggested that the family is confused about which law enforcement agency they called to perform the wellness checks.

The phone number that the family called matched the number of CPD's office and matched the number in a screenshot of their call log shared with NBC News.

Read Transgender Veteran Elisa Rae Shupe Suicide Note. She wanted you to.

Elisa Rae Shupe / zerodoesntsleep’s Substack

Elisa Rae Shupe ended her life wrapped in her transgender flag on January 27, 2025. Passerbys reported seeing her body hanging from the top floor of the Syracuse VA parking garage.

Ms. Shupe committed suicide just seven days after Trump began signing a raft of toxic anti-trans executive orders cumulating in an EO stating that a trans service member's sexuality “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life” and is harmful to military readiness. It requires Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to issue a revised policy.

Elisa, the first person to legally identify as non-binary later detransitioned and was used as a pawn by the likes of Cathy Brennan, a TERF known for outing transgender minors, and other anti-transgender activists. In 2022, she published a statement reclaiming her trans identity and condemning the anti-trans movement due to her story being used to push conversion therapy.

Elisa emailed her suicide note to several mainstream media outlets hoping her story would be told. None of them did. As first reported on substack she wanted her note to be read.

This is the message from Elisa Rae Shupe, the first person to obtain a non-binary gender transition, to the Trump Administration:

Fuck You America!

I don’t want your hatred.

I don’t want the military decorations and medals you awarded me.

I don’t want your pension money for my distinguished military service and service-connected disabilities.

I don’t want your health care to treat the mental illnesses you caused.

I don’t want more psychiatric ward commitments to keep me alive in a nation that I despise.

I don’t want to be buried in any of your state or national cemetery’s for veterans and military retirees.

I don’t want to be buried anywhere on American soil.

I don’t want any military honors or ceremonies to mark my death.

I don’t want my ashes to be stored on American soil.

I want my ashes or remains to be spread or buried in international waters.

I don’t want your flag anywhere near my body, remains, or ashes.

I don’t want any members of my family other than my spouse to be on the vessel that disposes of my ashes or remains.

My death is not a surrender.

My death as a member of the third gender and transgender population does not mean you won.

It solely marks the end of our association.

You are not the land of the free.

You are not a country getting made great again.

Too much demonstrated hatred throughout your existence extinguishes any claim to previous greatness.

You are a cesspool of zealots that worship a god that does not and has not ever existed

Enjoy your new royal family and third world dictator.

I refuse to participate any further.

Have that Nazi piece of shit Elon Musk and his DOGE henchmen deduct the savings from my $93,000 of federal pensions from your bankrupt coffers.

The white man decimated and massacred the indigenous populations of the third gender on the lands now called America. It was only fitting that a white person restored it.

You cannot erase non-binary and transgender people because you give birth to more of us each day.

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Canadian LGBTQ+ Group won't attend UN Forum for "fear around entry to the U.S."

Egale Canada Executive Director Helen Kennedy center

Egale Canada the leading Canadian LGBTQ+ advocacy group said in a statement that it wouldn't attend the UN Women's Forum over concerns of how its Transgender and non-binary members would be treated at the US Border.

"Egale Canada was registered to attend the upcoming Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations Headquarters in New York next month. As a regular attendee of this commission, we had looked forward to engaging in important and essential conversations relevant to 2SLGBTQI inclusion on a national and global level."

"After deep consideration, we have decided not to engage in-person in this year’s Commission on the Status of Women or any other UN, OAS or global convenings, including World Pride, taking place in the United States in the foreseeable future."

"This decision is foremost based on the need to safeguard our trans and non-binary staff who would face questionable treatment at land and aviation borders to attend such convenings, and to stand in solidarity with global colleagues who are experiencing similar fear around entry to the U.S.

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Egale Canada Executive Director Helen Kennedy said she worries about anyone who identifies as non-binary, transgender or intersex and travels with a Canadian passport bearing an 'X' gender marker.

She said "the risks are too high" for people whose documents don't match how they identify or present to others.

Kemmedy's fears are justified. Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from sports that included an ambiguous directive banning trans athletes from entering the US. It's entirely feasible that this could be interpreted by overzealous US Border agents to mean any trans or non-binary person.

@alice.in.winterland #egalecanada is a queer organization in #canada that fights for equality in this country. They’ve officially pulled out of going in-person to the US due to the threat against queet people in the US. And given the uncertainty with the removal of #gendermarker changes, and the anti-#trans efforts by the administration, it’s understandable. A #travelban ♬ original sound - Alice Winterland

Hundreds Protest Stonewall National Park Service Erasure of Trans History

With just one day's notice, hundreds gathered at Christopher Park Friday to protest the Stonewall National Monument Website's erasure of Transgender and Queer history.

The Stonewall Inn, a tavern on Christopher Street, has long been considered the cradle of LGBTQI activism since a police raid there in 1969 ignited riots that helped galvanize a long-marginalized population into a force for political and social change.

Action #transrightsarehumanrights #transrights

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— Brian Meegan (@imabmee.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM

The 7.7-acre national monument — which includes the bar, Christopher Park across the street, was established under President Barack Obama in 2016, and applauded by the National Park Service Office of Communications in a press release.

Protest at the Stonewall National Monument right now 👇

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— Rua Lupa 🐾 (@rua-lupa.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM

On Wednesday, according to a version of the Park Service website saved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the introductory text on the monument’s main page said: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.”

Who is Marsha P Johnson, and why is Trump so afraid of her?

I'm here at a protest at Stonewall. A speaker let the huge crowd and press know that park service employees were not responsible for the erasure.

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— martinjosephq.bsky.social (@martinjosephq.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM

By Thursday afternoon, the word “transgender” and the letter T in the abbreviation had been removed from the page. By Thursday evening, the word “queer” and “Q+” had also been removed from the website.

#love #joy #defiance #stonewall #history #lgbTQIA #nyc #usa #protest #checkinonyourfriends #liberation

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— Sam Schultz 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@s-schultz.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM

There are no congratulatory press releases from the public affairs office celebrating the unconscionable erasure of transgender history. Thursday a park ranger on duty at the Stonewall Monument told the NY Times she just found out about it.

The Park Service’s public affairs department told the NY Times that the agency had deleted mentions of transgender and queer people on the website to satisfy an executive order signed by President Trump.

Two Judges have Blocked Trump's effort to end trans affirming health care

Two Federal Judges in separate cases have temporarily blocked Trump's Executive order that instructs the HHS to deny funds to hospitals that treat transgender youth.

On February 13 Baltimore District Court Judge Brendan Hurson issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Trump's executive order that attempts to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19.

On February 14, Judge Lauren J. King of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a temporary restraining order, saying that the president’s order “blatantly discriminated against trans youth.”

That came a day after a federal judge in Baltimore put Mr. Trump’s plan on hold in a separate lawsuit. Neither order is a final decision, but together they signal a setback for the Trump administration’s attempts to prohibit the recognition of transgender identities, the NY Times reports.

The government argued before Judge King that the lawsuit was premature because the agencies that Mr. Trump instructed to carry out his order have yet to do so.

On February 3 the Trump White House in a Press Release identified five hospitals that had curtailed or ended trans-affirming health care, crediting Trump's Executive Order as "promises kept".

Protest at Christopher Park Today! Stonewall Was a LGBTQI Riot

There will be a protest a Christopher Park today Friday 14 at noon in response to the National Park Service deleting transgender and queer history from it's website. Stonewall was a riot after police tried to intimidate LGBTQI patrons of the Stonewall INN

The NPSwebpage now describes the Stonewall riot without the T:

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."

Clicking the link does not give any more information. Trump has banned PRIDE flags from being displayed  

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CDC Restores Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons Guidance Page

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A CDC page that gives guidance for the treatment of transgender and Gender Diverse persons was restored on Wednesday after a federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. health agencies to restore websites that they abruptly took offline. The CDC removed these pages in response to an executive order by President Donald Trump telling them to scrub websites of "gender ideology extremism," Reuters reports.

The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C. came in response to a Lawsuit by the medical advocacy group Doctors for America. The complaint stated that the sudden removal of websites by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration hampered doctors' and researchers' ability to fight disease.

Bates ordered all websites specifically identified by Doctors for America in its court filings be restored by 11:59 p.m. (0459 GMT) on Tuesday. He ordered the government to consult with the group to identify any other materials that doctors rely on and restore them by February 14.

As of Wednesday morning, the CDC has restored guidance for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases of Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons but other pages related to LGBT healthcare are still down and can only be viewed by searching the CDC archives.

National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Scrubs LGBT Children From Website

The headquarters of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., in 2024.- Nathan Howard Reuters

The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has removed all mention of LGBT Children From it's Website.

The non-profit was told this week by the DOJ to comply with Trump's Exceutive Anti-transgender Orders or lose federal funding. The NCMEC was also told that they would have to deadname transgender children in order to comply.

As first reported by Marisa Kabas on Bluesky:

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM

All of Trumps Anti-Trans Excutive Orders as 2/8/2025.

NMEC plans to comply with DOJ threats. This email was sent out Wednesday night to staff, but it noticeably doesn't mention anything specifically about LGBTQIA+ kids or DOJ, just general compliance with executive orders:

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM

A check of the Wayback Machine confirms that the NCMEC has deleted reports of Missing and Exploited Transgender, Lesbian, Bisexual children from its website.

NCAA Bans Transgender Women From Sports

The NCAA is complying in advance banning transgender women from playing on women's collegiate teams in response to Trump's executive order. That order also attempts to ban transgender athletes, like myself, from entering or re-entering the United States. 

Throughout the presidential campaign, Trump offered up transgender athletes as red meat to bloodthirsty MAGAt knuckle draggers. While signing the order Trump proclaimed "The war on women's sports is over. My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes."

How many trans athletes are directly affected by this?

The president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association told a Senate panel in December he was aware of fewer than 10 transgender athletes among the 530,000 competing at 1,100 member schools.

To Trump cruelty is the point.

In a statement on February 5, 2025, NCAA President Charlie Baker, a Republican, welcomed the executive order:

"The NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that collectively enroll more than 530,000 student-athletes. We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions. To that end, President Trump's order provides a clear, national standard.

"The NCAA Board of Governors is reviewing the executive order and will take necessary steps to align NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to further guidance from the administration. The Association will continue to help foster welcoming environments on campuses for all student-athletes. We stand ready to assist schools as they look for ways to support any student-athletes affected by changes in the policy," said Baker.

The next day on February 6 2024 the NCAA issued rules banning transgender women from collegiate sports without consulting with staff medical experts first Dr. Jack Turban posted on Bluesky announcing his resignation from the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports:

“Unfortunately, your recent decision to issue a blanket ban on trans female participation in women’s sports does not align with [medical] or scientific consensus,” Turban wrote in a letter to Baker. “I cannot in good conscience participate in this kind of politicization of science and medicine at the expense of some of our most vulnerable student-athletes.”

Dr Turban told The Hill that he and other committee members were not given advance notice of the board’s vote before the public announcement.

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— Jack Turban MD (@turban.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM

Federal courts have generally ruled in favor of letting transgender girls compete, Reuters Reports. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling blocked Idaho's ban, while the 9th Circuit and the 4th Circuit have also stopped bans from being enforced against specific plaintiffs in West Virginia and Arizona. A federal district court judge in New Hampshire has blocked, the state from enforcing its ban against two plaintiffs. The fourth Circuit of Appeals blocked a law passed by the West Virgina Legislature that banned a transgender high school student from playing on the girls team.

Considering Protesting At Your State Capitol 50501? Here are The Deets

We The People will be protesting Trump's destruction of the federal government at State Capitols across the country on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

"This is what beginning of dictatorship looks like" - Ilhan Omar on Elon Musk and Trump
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Some folks hesitate to attend because of the decentralized nature of the protest and concern for their well-being. I was too until I participated at the Keep Families Together protest in my city of Arlington Texas. It changed me for life. Driving home I felt like I left my family there.

BREAKING: Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos revealed in a press release Tuesday that he is the founding force behind 50501, the National Day of Protest Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

The 50501 protest was conceived just ten days ago and has grown into a nationwide movement. It is in response to the fascist takeover of the federal government by Trump and his Project 2025 sycophant oligarchs.

To read more about it, where permits have been secured and start times, visit WE The People sub Reddit r/50501:

Demands

•  For Donald J. Trump to step down or be removed from the presidency through impeachment or other means.
• Conduct mass investigations into politicians appointed by Donald J. Trump.
• Investigate Elon Musk's role within the US government and take appropriate action if any federal or state laws are found to be violated.
•  Overturn or rescind executive orders that infringe on citizen and human rights.
• Strengthen laws on hate speech, including banning displays of Nazi propaganda or salutes.
• Reinstate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) frameworks to promote better conditions for all citizens.

If you can't make to your state capitol look for local protests like this one in Arlington Texas sponsored by the Tarrant County Democratic Party.

I was there proudly waving our transgender flag to support our immigrant community. Trump has begun imprisoning deportees in camps, and most horrifyingly, flights have begun transporting detainees to Guantánamo Bay. As a great-grandchild of refugees who fled Germany with the destruction of the Weimar Republic, I DO NOT CONSENT.

I DO NOT CONSENT to the wholesale destruction of our planet

I DO NOT CONSENT to the stripping away of our body autonomy, our body sovereignty

I DO NOT CONSENT to the targeting and dehumanization of our LGBTQ+ community

I DO NOT CONSENT to ripping apart our immigrant neighbors from their children and their homes

I DO NOT CONSENT to the systematic theft of our labor and our time

I DO NOT CONSENT to the censorship of our speech

I DO NOT CONSENT to extorting our wealth in return for our health

I DO NOT CONSENT to the destruction of the wall between church and state

I DO NOT CONSENT to making allies of our enemies and our enemies into allies

I DO NOT CONSENT to living under the boot of a Fascist regime and unelected oligarchs.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

- The Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776

Trump issues Executive Order Restricting Trans Youth Health Care

Harmeet Dhillon. (2025, January 30). Wikipedia

Donald Trump's executive orders restricting gender affirmative care come as dystopian changes have been made to the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.

Trump's nominee to lead the assault against trans-affirming care is attorney Harmeet Dhillon, 56, who has spoken out against state laws that protect doctors who provide gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Harmeet Dhillon believes that "Title IX was passed by Congress to protect women's rights—not the rights of men pretending to be women."

"Title IX was passed by Congress to protect women's rights—not the rights of men pretending to be women." @pnjaban breaks down the latest lawsuits against President Biden's new Title IX rules👇 pic.twitter.com/gfC9GjeyPF

— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) April 30, 2024

Erin Reed as promised weighed in on Donald Trump's Executive Order banning Trans Youth Care.

The Conversation U.S. interviewed Elana Redfield, federal policy director at the Williams Institute, an independent research center at the UCLA School of Law dedicated to studying sexual orientation and gender identity law. She describes the aims of the executive order, how much weight it carries, and how it should be understood in the broader context of legal battles over access to gender-affirming care.

Some key takeaways

The scope of the Executive Order

• Twenty-six states have already restricted gender-affirming care for minors or banned it outright. So the order seeks to extend restrictions to the rest of the country using the weight of the executive branch. However, it’s not a national ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Instead, it’s directing federal agencies to regulate and restrict this form of care.

Does the executive branch have the authority to unilaterally ban federal funding of certain medical treatments?

• The answer is a little mixed. A president might be able to suspend or put a temporary pause on funding a particular type of treatment or service. But the actual parameters of a program – and how agencies should implement them – are determined by Congress and, to some extent, by the courts.

Do private health insurers fall outside the scope of this executive order?

• On the surface, yes. But it’s easy to see how directives from the executive branch can touch broader components of the country’s health care system, including private hospitals and private health insurance.
• For example, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act is a nondiscrimination provision. It says there can be no sex discrimination when it comes to approving health care treatments. This has been interpreted to mean that health insurance plans receiving federal funding cannot deny a policyholder gender-affirming care. However, this interpretation has been blocked by a federal court.

The Conversation has a coveted "Least Biased" rating from Media Bias Fact Check.

Trump’s executive orders can make change – but are limited and can be undone by the courts. First and foremost is U.S. v. Skrmetti presently being decided by the Supreme Court.

The question in this case is whether Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution. Tennessee’s ban, like every other passed by politicians in recent years, specifically permits these same hormone medications when they are provided in a way that Tennessee considers “consistent” with a person’s sex designated at birth. This means, for example, a doctor could prescribe estrogen to a cisgender teenage girl for any clinical diagnosis but could not do the same for a transgender girl diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

The ACLU argues that Tennessee’s ban is a clear example of discrimination on the basis of sex and transgender status making it a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. We made a similar argument in 2020 when, alongside other legal advocates, we successfully argued in front of the Supreme Court on behalf of LGBTQ clients fired because of their sexual orientation and gender identity, including a transgender woman fired from her job at a Michigan funeral home.

Draft Dodging Trump Issues Directive calling Trans Military Members Dishonorable

Mr. Trump, center, during his senior year at the New York Military Academy. He would receive a medical exemption from the draft a few years later. Credit...Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times

Trump issued an executive order Monday calling for the dismissal of 15,000 honorably serving transgender military members.

In his order, AP Reports, Trump claimed that service by troops who identify as a gender other than their biological one “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life” and is harmful to military readiness, requiring a revised policy to address the matter.

Trump instructed his newly confirmed, morally indefensible, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to write the policy. This of course is bullshit as the policy is already written as it is a component of Project 2015.

Is Trump a draft-dodging coward?

Trump didn't didn't serve during the Vietnam era because of Four Draft Deferments for College and One for Bad Feet (gift article). According to the New York Times his father Fred Trump, a NYC real estate mogul. paid for his schools and arranged his medical deferment through a podiatrist who rented an office in one of his buildings.

Trump's excuses for not serving were fluid. At times he said he wasn't selected because he had a high draft number. A quick internet search indicates that a service draft number of 580 would very likely indicate Trump would have been eligible to be drafted during the Vietnam War. Trump did appear for his intake physical but was medically disqualified and eventually classified as 4-f unfit for duty.

Trump used every means at his disposal to avoid serving our country during the Vietnam War. As a vet who servered honerably that is in my opnion cowardly.

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AP Reports that two groups, Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign, which represented transgender troops the first time, vowed to fight again. “We have been here before and seven years ago were able to successfully block the earlier administration’s effort,” Lambda Legal attorney Sasha Buchert said. “Not only is such a move cruel, it compromises the safety and security of our country and is particularly dangerous and wrong. As we promised then, so do we now: we will sue.”

Respectfully, Sasha Buchert, I disagree. We haven't been here before. Expect a polished legally defensible argument from the legal minds at Project 2025.

Dissecting Trump's Shock And Awe Campaign Against his "Enemy Within"

When asked about Joe Biden's comment on the possibility of election day 'chaos', Trump dismissed them, saying the real threat comes from within the country, specifically from radical leftists. 'The enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries,' said Trump. / Image Guardian US

Trump's Shock and Awe war on his "enemy within" began before his first day in office when he signed 26 executive orders. Most of those executive orders don't carry the weight of law and one has already been ruled "blatantly unconstitutional", but they had the desired effect.

If you felt overwhelmed and defeated by the enormity of Trump's executive orders, know that was the desired effect. All of us did, even those of us warning about Project 2025. The hate being channeled towards the Democrats and freedom in general was like nothing I have ever experienced.

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Specifically, I would like to address the executive order attacking transgender rights.

The war began when the GOP ran the horrific anti-trans ads during the Superbowl playoffs.

I have lived in the same place in Texas for 13 years and as a runner have traversed the same routes countless times past a high school. This is where I became aware of the insidious phase one of Trump's war on trans people when high school football players misgendered me and tried to block the sidewalk in front of their school. They were obviously unaware that I am a retired Army Supply Seargent and after using my command voice they scattered to the four winds.

The second phase began when Trump signed his "executive orders".

I have been targeted by grown adults several times since then who have mocked me, one even threatened me with his SUV at the neighborhood gas station. Again, every one of those "adults" was shocked when I stood up to them. I realized that these seemingly unrelated occuances are a preplanned concerted attack on transgender people's well-being. These MAGATs thought that through sheer intimidation and threats of violence, they would drive the rest of us underground. They have no idea what we have been through to obtain our basic rights, so no MAGAts, I'll see you in hell.

The last phase of the war on trans people would be to use the military against us. That is why we must regroup, prioritize our actions, and fight these fascists with everything at our disposal.

Jennifer Walter posted on Threads:

As a sociologist, I need to tell you: Your overwhelm is the goal 🧵
 1/ The flood of 200+ executive orders in Trump's first days exemplifies Naomi Klein's "shock doctrine" - using chaos and crisis to push through radical changes while people are too disoriented to effectively resist. This isn't just politics as usual - it's a strategic exploitation of cognitive limits.

2/ Media theorist McLuhan predicted this: When humans face information overload, they become passive and disengaged. The rapid-fire executive orders create a cognitive bottleneck, making it nearly impossible for citizens and media to thoroughly analyze any single policy

3/ Agenda-setting theory explains the strategy: When multiple major policies compete for attention simultaneously, it fragments public discourse. Traditional media can't keep up with the pace, leading to superficial coverage. The result? Weakened democratic oversight and reduced public engagement.

What now?

1/ Set boundaries: Pick 2-3 key issues you deeply care about and focus your attention there. You can't track everything - that's by design. Impact comes from sustained focus, not scattered awareness.

2/ Use aggregators & experts: Find trusted analysts who do the heavy lifting of synthesis. Look for those explaining patterns, not just events.

3/ Remember: Feeling overwhelmed is the point. When you recognize this, you regain some power. Take breaks. Process. This is a marathon.

4/ Practice going slow: Wait 48hrs before reacting to new policies. The urgent clouds the important. Initial reporting often misses context

5/ Build community: Share the cognitive load. Different people track different issues. Network intelligence beats individual overload.

Remember: They want you scattered. Your focus is resistance.

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Episcopal Bishop Budde Homily Enrages Trump and makes Family Squirm

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt blasted Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde who prayed that Trump shows 'mercy' to LGBTQI people and foreigners during a televised service last Sunday. Leavitt accused Bishop Budde of spewing 'lies' and 'weaponizing' the pulpit.

A few hours after the sermon, Trump revoked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) guidance against arresting undocumented immigrants in churches. But as with LGBTQ rights, the president’s virulently anti-immigrant actions are deeply unpopular among American Christians, including Catholics and evangelicals.

Episcopal New Service: Presiding officers uphold Biblical call to ‘welcome the stranger’ after Trump’s anti-immigration orders

Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "It was supposed to be a unifying and bipartisan church service ... everybody there was shocked and mortified by the disturbing comments from this bishop who chose to weaponize the pulpit ... she spewed lies ... she should apologize to… pic.twitter.com/zjKwyB6vYW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2025

"It was supposed to be a unifying and bipartisan church service", said Leavitt. Unifying means Trump is losing support from Christians. Bishop Budde was expected to make him appear divinely driven, but as a follower of Christ she couldn't.

What does the bible say about transgender people who during biblical times were known as eunuchs? And what does the bible say about foreigners who during biblical times was anyone different from yourself?

Jesus said to his followers in Mathew 19:

“Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.

Isaiah 56

"Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off."