Pushback Day 3

Pushback Day 3
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Welcome to all our new friends. A quick orientation to what this is: it's a list of news items and (hopefully soon) calls to action about efforts taken to oppose the Trump administration's policies. The topics are in alphabetical order. This is a crowd-sourced effort, so if you come across a news item or call to action that you think we should include, please complete this form. Some links will require subscriptions.

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Action Items

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

Foreign Affairs

Tens of thousands protest Germany's far right as Musk endorses AfD

Government

Anti-Trump protests sweep the globe on inauguration day – in pictures

Democrat calls firing of FBI officials ‘deeply alarming’ as some federal websites appear to go dark – live

Senior USAID official ousted after fighting back against removal of career leadership

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocks Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs after Trump pardons

NY Dems consider calendar change that could keep Stefanik seat empty

Protest emerges at (WI) State Capitol in response to Trump's executive orders

Sully reacts to Trump:

Health/Medicine

Samoa’s prime minister criticises RFK Jr’s vaccine views after deadly measles outbreak

Immigration

How Chicago’s Immigrant Rights Groups Plan to Hold the Line on Sanctuary Policies

California schools could warn students, parents if ICE agents show up, new bill proposes

‘I’m not scared’: Nearly 200 in Berkeley protest Trump’s immigration crackdown

Hundreds protest outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, push back against the president’s immigration policies

Protestors rally in downtown Phoenix to speak against Trump's immigration policies

LGBTQ+

US judge blocks Trump administration from transferring transgender inmate

Court blocked trans woman's prison transfer, as second lawsuit filed for other trans women

Amid Trump order, CA education department stands firm on LGBTQ curriculum

Political Notes: LGBTQ elders nonprofit fights Trump over funding freeze

Media/Free Press

CNN’s Jim Acosta, an irritant to Trump, says he’s quitting rather than take a late-night time slot

Opinion

Trump Is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound.

Oppose, Oppose, Oppose — and Do It Loudly