Grace ☕️☀️🐢

Boxes of menstrual products and baby formula

Cases of enfamil baby formula stacked under a coffee table

As Medicaid and SNAP cuts loom, I wanna ask that yall consider a donation to my nonprofit thurmanperryfoundation.org as we aim to revive our Mother’s Day 365 program, which provides clothing, housing relief, and baby formula to formerly incarcerated moms nationwide

tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org

Where local forecast offices no longer monitor weather around the clock For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer possible in parts of the country.

For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer possible in parts of the country.

Image says: TRANS FAMILY FACING POTENTIAL HOMELESSNESS I’m a trans woman and mother of two still struggling to find a job and have been “indefinately denied” unemployment. Our landlord has declined to renew our lease, and we are now facing potential homelessness. Screenshot of email says: Ms. Muhm, This email serves as the required two-month advance notice that your lease will not be renewed beyond the existing lease extension period, which ends on June 30, 2025. Thank you for your tenancy. CashApp & Venmo: AmberTrance

TRANS FAMILY FACING POTENTIAL HOMELESSNESS

I’m a trans woman and mother of two still struggling to find a job and have been “indefinately denied” unemployment.
Our landlord has declined to renew our lease, and we are now facing potential homelessness.

1/2

Kinda feels like they’re preparing to not send Social Security checks to some people…

Oh nvm that’s in the article,,,, wtf

An additional wild thing is that the website they cite in their policy just announced it is shutting down

Yes, but also, an acknowledgement that government income could actually be increased substantially through returning to a tax structure at least a tiny bit closer to the post-war era would be nice, too.

Incredible news! More hospitals have returned to offering gender affirming care after Trump's executive order was blocked.

Moments after publishing our story on hospitals returning, Childrens National DC announced a return to care.

And JUST now, Colorado Children's is back to giving care!

AMAZING

I’m striking out so far this year. If you are a Hennepin County Library user, maybe you could also suggest these titles? Seems like they are quite pertinent.

(And a coda to the last one: they eventually did buy Marx for Cats, presumably due to popular demand.)

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Great news.

A transgender woman will NOT be transferred to a men's prison facility and forcibly detransitioned, at least for now.

Trump administration has been enjoined from doing so by a judge.

First win in court, as the case continues.

As this administration continues to use executive actions as a messaging platform - today around education - we also have the opportunity to speak up.

Let’s make sure our public schools are funded and supported to be places where our students can all learn and thrive.

Trump-Education-EO

BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order that attempts to restrict all schools that receive federal funds from protecting trans and nonbinary students or supporting diversity measures, while at the same time purporting to advance "patriotic education." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Here's what I've learned so far (I'll keep sharing updates in a thread below):

I spoke to my county, school district and reached out to my cities. The phrase being used is "five alarm fire".

Federal workforce funds through DEED have been turned off, homeless housing providers can't draw on HUD $$

Last week it got down to -35° in International Falls. Yet Donald Trump appears to have just halted the bipartisan program that keeps folks’ heat on through the winter.

LIHEAP isn’t the *woke agenda.* It’s life or death for many Minnesotans.

Minnesota AG joins 21 other states in legal action to block Trump order ending birthright citizenship Keith Ellison, other plaintiffs say Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

Very grateful to MN AG, Keith Ellison.
(this is going to be a popular sentiment in the coming years.)

From June 20, 2019, all 11 Republican state senators for Oregon refused to show up for work at the Oregon State Capitol, instead going into hiding, some even fleeing the state. Their aim was to prevent a vote on HB 2020. The Senate holds 30 seats, but 1 was vacant due to the death of Republican Jackie Winters. Without the Republican senators, the remaining 18 Democratic state senators could not reach a quorum of 20 to hold a vote. The legislative session was slated to end by June 30, 2019.

On June 28, 2019, Republican Denyc Boles relinquished her position as an Oregon state representative and was sworn in as a state senator to replace Republican state senator Jackie Winters, who died before the walkout. This filled the 12th Republican seat in the state senate. On June 29, 2019, Republican state senators returned to the Senate chamber, with the attendance of 9 Republican state senators. In a 17–10 vote, the cap-and-trade bill was sent back to committee. 3 Republican state senators were missing - Brian Boquist was asked not to return because other state senators felt unsafe, while it was stated that Fred Girod and Dennis Linthicum would not return for the month's legislative session.

Want to know what’s wild? Denial of quorum is like, a normal legislative thing to do. What’s NEVER happened is the party without quorum just…play acting and going ahead like they have it. For example: Oregon state senate, 2019

Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama

Sign Our Open Letter in Support of Inclusion for Transgender Athletes Together, we stand for inclusion, equality, and a future where all athletes belong.

Are you, or do you know, an athlete, a coach, a parent of a soccer-playing kid?

Gender Justice is now circulating an open letter in support of inclusion for trans athletes — you don’t have to be an athlete or coach or parent; everyone who opposes discrimination should add their name.