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Welcome to all of our new readers! So glad you found us. The purpose of this newsletter is to present news as it should be - highlighting the people and organizations challenging Trump and his minions - and not as the media currently presents it.

Democratic Party leaders in Congress started to get their sea legs this week, which means that a strategy may be forming. The presence of elected leaders in this fight has brought some needed media attention, which is good. More people know they are not alone than did before. Same goes for all the protests: people are meeting, organizing, planning. I hope The Pushback helps you find opportunities to make your own good trouble. Putting this newsletter together buoys my soul; we will win, or at least fight to a draw.

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Action Items

This week, I canceled my Amazon Prime account. I encourage you to do the same. We need to stop feeding the billionaires. Jeff Bezos is getting a pass this week because he isn't destroying the government (as far as we know). Don't feed him.

Also, don't use Tubi to watch TV. Tubi is owned by Fox/Rupert Murdoch and its ad sales support Fox News.

Education

Sacramento high school students protest Trump policies

Student groups sue DOGE over US Department of Education data access

UC students sue feds over Elon Musk’s access to student loan data

Foreign Affairs

Ireland among 79 states united in condemning Trump sanctions on International Criminal Court

Gov. Pritzker jokes he's renaming Lake Michigan, annexing Green Bay

Government

Former GOP Director Of FBI, CIA Urges Chuck Grassley To Stop Kash Patel’s Nomination

Trump tries to fire chair of Federal Election Commission. Why she's refusing to leave.

“Authoritarian Rampage”: Trump/Musk Sued to Block DOGE Access to Confidential Info of Millions

CREW requests records on DOGE

A fourth federal agency locks its doors to Democratic lawmakers

Labor groups sue to halt Trump admin’s dismantling of USAID as workforce is expected to be slashed to under 300

"Resist, Obstruct, Protect Our People": Maxwell Frost Has a Plan for Taking on Trump

Health and Medicine

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine

Immigration

US border czar blames leaks for hindering immigration raids in Colorado suburb spotlighted by Trump

Episcopal Church leader says migrants, trans individuals at 'center of the Gospel story'

San Francisco is suing Trump administration for targeting sanctuary cities

Justice

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/07/amy-berman-jackson-michael-fanones-heroism-will-never-be-moot/

LGBTQ+

A Howell Mother’s Post-Election Outrage Sparked a Global LGBTQ+ Art Movement. Then 185 Artists Joined Her.

Washington AG leads lawsuit against Trump order on gender-affirming care for trans minors

Transgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in Court