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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Fighting Trump2’s Wave of Extremist Actions
msmagazine.com/2025/01/29/femi
msmagazine.com/author/carrieba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_N

* feminists mobilizing to counter Trump2 extremism
* legal challenges at state-level
* resist/defend democracy/women’s rights





Ms. Magazine · Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 1: Fighting the New Trump Administration’s Wave of Extremist ActionsA fierce feminist resistance is ready to defend women’s rights at the federal level—and creatively expand equality protections in the states. This is the first in a four-part series on the steps activists are taking to fight for our rights amid Trump’s attacks on democracy. Part 1 covers the organization Democracy Forward and its new initiative Democracy 2025, which is working to counter the Trump administration’s antidemocratic acts with swift legal challenges and other strategic responses. Part 2 (coming Thursday, Jan. 30) will discuss the Democratic governors and attorney generals who are working to “Trump-proof” their state’s existing laws and
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

/1 Carrie N. Baker, PhD
msmagazine.com/author/carrieba
carriebakerphd.com

Pubs incl. telemedicine
smith.edu/people/carrie-n-baker

Relevance:

Stopping Flow of Abortion Pills: Texas Takes on Telehealth Abortion Shield Laws
msmagazine.com/2025/01/29/texa

* Ken Paxton’s lawsuit against N.Y. doctor
* new front in fight against telehealth abortion shield laws, cross-state medication abortion access


Ms. MagazineCarrie N. Baker, Author at Ms. Magazine
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

New Guide Helps Cities Put Nature on Balance Sheet as ‘Essential Infrastructure’
theenergymix.com/new-guide-hel

* ~150 Canadian municipalities looking to integrate natural assets into financial reporting
* new guidebook offers metrics to evaluate nature as essential infrastructure that delivers valuable services to community

Getting Nature into Financial Reporting: Natural Asset Disclosures for Local Governments
intactcentreclimateadaptation.
centreintactadaptationclimat.c

The Energy Mix · New Guide Helps Cities Put Nature on the Balance Sheet as ‘Essential Infrastructure’By Mitchell Beer
#nature#CostPlanning#infrastructure
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Resisting Trump2: Enlisting Blue State Governments
msmagazine.com/2025/01/30/femi

* Democratic governors/attorneys general moving to “Trump-proof” their states
* fighting to protect abortion rights/LGBTQ+ protections/workplace equity

mastodon.social/@persagen/1138





Ms. Magazine · Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 2: Enlisting Blue State GovernmentA fierce feminist resistance is ready to defend women’s rights at the federal level—and creatively expand equality protections in the states. This is the second in a four-part series on the steps activists are taking to fight for our rights amid Trump’s attacks on democracy. Part 1 covered the organization Democracy Forward and its new initiative Democracy 2025, which is working to counter the Trump administration’s antidemocratic acts with swift legal challenges and other strategic responses. This follow-up discusses the Democratic governors and attorney generals who are working to “Trump-proof” their state’s existing laws and fight for legal protections for their residents.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump’s Weakness Is Left’s Opportunity
jacobin.com/2025/01/trump-weak

* Many assumed Trump2 would be governing w.o. guardrails
* guardrails in fact still there
* Understanding these constraints key to defeating him

"Liberals have been cowed by Trump’s shock-and-awe tactics. But
he is vulnerable to policy backlashes just as every president has been"





jacobin.comTrump’s Weakness Is the Left’s OpportunityMany assumed Donald Trump would be governing in a second term with no guardrails. But guardrails are in fact still there. Understanding these constraints is key to defeating him.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

We Aren’t Powerless in the Face of Trump’s Outrageous, Anti-Trans Edicts
truthout.org/articles/we-arent

* we can diminish Trump2 harms/impacts if we organize

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

Latin American Leaders Putting Up Resistance to Trump
jacobin.com/2025/01/latin-amer

* Trump’s belligerence to Latin American leaders raises prospect of a more concerted regional resistance
* popular left bloc well positioned to lead


A group of trans rights activists face Trump supporters near the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025.
Truthout · We Aren’t Powerless in the Face of Trump’s Outrageous, Anti-Trans EdictsWe can’t prevent all of this administration’s harms, but we can greatly diminish their impacts if we organize.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

How to support trans persons
lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/its-ti

6 ways to boost trans ally-ship

Don’t assume transgender people are those people over there
Rethink your gender aesthetics
Offer to join me in the women’s room
Share your pronouns
Believe trans kids
Stop believing the New York Times <-- Comment: conservative, gender binary (presumed Mr/Ms.), hist. transphobic

persagen.org/docs/sources.html



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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trans Children Are God’s Gifts
texasobserver.org/trans-childr
@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social
@texasobserver@threads.net
@texastribune

* w/o support of our Christian church, Houston suburbs, my daughter might not be w. us

Comments:
* 1st-person account f. transphobia ground zero: Texas (Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, ... R-TX)
* Texas Observer: progressive, balanced reporting ... (ditto: ProPublica partner Texas Tribune) 🙏



The Texas Observer · Trans Children Are God’s GiftsWithout the support of our Christian church in the Houston suburbs, my daughter might not be with us today.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Fighting Trump w. State Constitutions
msmagazine.com/2025/02/05/figh
series, 3/4

* TitleIX not only tool
* state-level law/advocacy
* activist lawmakers can use state constitutions to protect/expand women’s rights
* states' dept. of education, laws prohibiting sex harassment/discrim.
* local gov. can also act
* Democratic AGs pledge to advance state policies protecting women’s rights



Ms. Magazine · Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 3: Fighting Trump with State ConstitutionsA fierce feminist resistance is ready to defend women’s rights at the federal level—and creatively expand equality protections in the states. This is the third in a four-part series on the steps activists are taking to fight for our rights amid Trump’s attacks on democracy.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

ProPublica Updates SCOTUS Connections Database
propublica.org/article/propubl

* U.S. Supreme Court justices’ finances
* new 1990s Clarence Thomas filings
* Sam Alito's latest disclosure

Comment: social justice advocates - this is superb - Nonprofit Explorer
projects.propublica.org/nonpro
* incl. U.S. IRS Form 990 tax filings ... super important resource




ProPublicaProPublica Updates Supreme Connections Database With Previously Missing Disclosures
More from ProPublica
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

‘We Will Not Surrender’: How to Stand Up to Trump Administration Attacks on LGBTQ+ Health Research
msmagazine.com/2025/02/14/we-w

* Trump2 administration’s unprecedented war on LGBTQ+ health research
* erasing data, censoring science, threatening live
* demands urgent resistance f. medical/research communities

Ms. Magazine · 'We Will Not Surrender': How to Stand Up to Trump Administration Attacks on LGBTQ+ Health ResearchThe Trump administration is waging an aggressive campaign to censor and dismantle LGBTQ+ health research, erasing critical data, banning key terms and suppressing scientific inquiry. These unprecedented attacks threaten not only academic freedom but also the health and lives of LGBTQ+ people. In response, researchers, medical organizations, and advocates must take bold action—filing lawsuits, protecting data and refusing to be silenced. The fight for scientific integrity and LGBTQ+ health equity has never been more urgent.
#Trump#fascism#LGBT
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

/1 Pedro Pascal slams anti-trans movement as “pathetic” & “vile”
lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/pedro-

Pascal has long spoken out for trans rights.

“I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.”


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