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Laura Ilardi Pearson
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In spite of everything, I still believe in the rule of law.
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This article GROSSLY mischaracterizes what happened at that school board meeting last night. What I saw was an enormous outpouring of support for our trans kids.

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April 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Thrilled about the turnout at the town hall held by my congressional representative, Brittany Pettersen, on this International Women’s Day. It felt great to be in a room with so many likeminded neighbors!
March 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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I’ve decided to give up anger for lent. This is going to be a hard one. I’m rereading The Dandelion Insurrection by @riverasun.bsky.social for inspiration. 🌼❤️
March 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Please fold this into stories about Trump’s little performance yesterday.
March 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The US should stand with democratic governments and condemn attacks by authoritarian regimes. Today’s display was sickening. 🇺🇦
March 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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A worthy 45 second read.
February 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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So just to be clear, the same people who were excited that the Supreme Court threw out Chevron deference last year are now mad that a judge is stopping an illegal and illegitimate “executive branch department” from taking certain actions? Cool. Cool.
February 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.
February 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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A lot of Americans are just now learning what most lawyers have always known - laws only work if someone is willing to enforce them.
February 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Anyone else fighting off a panic attack this morning?
February 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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It IS time to organize and mobilize. You might be feeling powerless right now. You are NOT. Get active on a grassroots level, write to your U.S. representatives, plan a demonstration. Or simply engage in some mutual aid. Clean up trash in your neighborhood. Donate to a charity. These things matter.
February 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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BREAKING — I'm told OPM just sent out this memo with guidance for implementing Trump's "Defending Women" anti-trans executive order.

"Take down all outward facing media that inculcate or promote gender ideology. Review email systems and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns."
Pursuant to its authority under 5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s Executive Order entitled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Defending Women). Steps to End Federal Funding of Gender Ideology: In light of Defending Women, each agency should take prompt actions to end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflect gender ideology as defined in Section 2(f) of Defending Women. Specifically, agency heads should take the following steps: 1. No later than 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, January 31, 2025 a. Send an email to all agency employees announcing that the agency will be complying with Defending Women and this guidance. b. Review all agency programs, contracts, and grants, and terminate any that promote or inculcate gender ideology. c. Review all agency position descriptions and send a notification to all employees whose position description involves inculcating or promoting gender ideology that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all initiatives, offices, and programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology. d. Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender ideology. e. Review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns. f. Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements, and plans that inculcate or promote gender ideology. g. Cancel any trainings that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. h. Disband or cancel any employee resource groups or special emphasis programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. i. Review all agency forms that require entry of an individual’s sex and ensure that all list male or female only, and not gender identity. Remove requests for “gender” and substitute requests for “sex.” j. Ensure that all applicable agency policies and documents, including forms, use the term “sex” and not “gender.” k. Ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) are designated by biological sex and not gender identity. 2. No later than 12:00 p.m. EST on Friday, February 7, 2025, report to OPM on all steps taken to implement this guidance, including: a. a complete list of actions taken in response to this guidance and Defending Women; and b. any agency plans to fully comply with this guidance and Defending Women. Please contact OPM at defendingwomen@opm.gov if you have any questions regarding this guidance. Please send any reports requested by this guidance to defendingwomen@opm.gov. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, Human Resources Directors,
January 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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“Abortion is still legal. Abortion is still accessible in many, many parts of the country.”
What Do Trump’s New Directives Mean for Reproductive Rights?
“Abortion is still legal. Abortion is still accessible in many, many parts of the country.”…
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January 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I truly believe one of the most important things we can do right now is build community. We’re going to need each other more than ever in the coming months.
January 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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While we may face repercussions for this, the truth lies in the metadata. Memos to federal employees are being authored by individuals with ties to Project 2025. You can verify this yourself.
January 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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For example, download the memo titled “Guidance on Presidential Memorandum: Return to In-Person Work” sent by Charles Ezell, Acting Director at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, dated January 24. Website: www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome (BBC Television Theatre, London - June 5, 1965)
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January 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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To create as much justice and safety as possible, we have to defy authority and disobey, writes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Trump Needs Public Cooperation to Enact a Fascist Vision. Here’s How We Refuse.
Our resistance to fascistic policies must be grounded in our sense of justice, rather than arguments about what’s legal.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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They’re trying to overwhelm us. Don’t let them. This flood of executive orders - many of them blatantly unconstitutional - and terrible bills making their way through Congress are all a tactic to make us give up. (1/3)
January 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM