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LGBT
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 days ago

What's Really at Stake When Funders Abandon Transgender Communities? | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Anti-trans messaging has become a core political strategy with $215 million spent on ads targeting 1% of the population, representing coordinated scapegoating and rollback of civil rights through legislation, executive orders, and judicial decisions.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

What Trump's War Against Wokeness Is Really About

The most notable, and perhaps most effective, ad of the 2024 presidential campaign featured footage of the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, voicing her support for gender-affirming treatment for inmates in federal prisons. "Kamala is for they/ them. President Trump is for you," the narrator concluded. The spot was a crisp, 30-second encapsulation of one of the key Republican talking points of the cycle: that "wokeness" was sweeping the nation and upending established ways of life, and that Donald Trump would fight against it.
US politics
US politics
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

Federal Whistleblowers Sound an Alarm Over Civil Rights at HUD

Federal civil-rights enforcement is being rapidly dismantled through Project 2025 policies, executive actions, staffing changes, and retaliation against HUD whistleblowers.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

The US government is facing a crisis of legitimacy | Daniel Mendiola

The Trump administration's actions have dismantled the social contract and constitutional legitimacy through rule-breaking, rights reversals, and complicity in extrajudicial abuses.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
5 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Bisa Butler: Hold Me Close @ Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles

Quilted portraits demand empathy, reckon with historical and present injustices, and call for tenderness and solidarity amid escalating threats to civil rights and human dignity.
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