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on trump's removal of trans people from websites like NPS

a world without trans people has never existed, and we must ensure that it stays like that.

trans communities have been victim of attack and ridicule for years, and that has only grown (especially under new republicanism). with the removal of the word "trans" off the national parks service website, especially under the stonewall section, i cannot help but wonder what else can be erased from our history.

it's no question that transgender people were among the most influential in terms of gaining rights for the lgbtq+ community, but we continue to see erasure of that (as evidently seen by the recent removals). this, truthfully, is the first step of the agenda against LGBTQ+ people.

if one part of the community can be erased, what is stopping the trump administration from erasing more? first, it's the trans community- what's next? we must fight against erasure in order to ensure that the LGBTQ+ community does not continue to be silenced and erased from our history.

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Ever get the feeling we're reliving society's dumbest reruns? From 'Reefer Madness' to the Satanic Panic, it's déjà vu. Now it's a new moral panic—a hate-fueled assault on trans rights. Let's dissect the absurdity.

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Proud to be a part of this for Pride Month.

Hey guys!

Could we get you to share this one far and wide? We're trying to build an inclusive, progressive community behind our podcast and your likes and shares help a LOT.

Thankies, -The Critical Defiance Team

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Romanticizing a factory-based economy in 2025 is like trying to revive the horse-and-buggy industry. The world has moved on—tech, automation, and global trade changed the game. America clinging to nostalgia won’t bring prosperity, just missed opportunities.

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From the May 21, 2025 opinion piece by Jamelle Bouie:

It’s fitting that a political movement whose slogan is the backward-looking “Make America Great Again” — and whose tribune, Donald Trump, appears to live in an eternal 1990 of his own mind — is waging war on the American future. This war has four theaters of conflict. In the first, Trump is waging war on constitutional government, with a full-spectrum attack on the idea of the United States as a nation of laws and not men.... In the second theater of conflict, the MAGA movement is waging war on the nation’s economic future, rejecting two generations of integration and interdependency with the rest of the world in favor of American autarky, of effectively closing our borders to goods and people from around the world... In the same way that Trump and his allies have rejected the obligation to pass the nation’s tradition of self-governance on to the next generation, they have also rejected the obligation to pass a living planet on to those who will inherit the earth. Theirs, instead, is an agenda of unlimited resource extraction, with little regard for the consequences.... The fourth and final theater of the MAGA movement’s war on the future is adjacent to the third one: an assault on the nation’s capacity to produce scientific, technological and medical breakthroughs. ... This is the future that the MAGA movement has in mind, as revealed by its actions in power so far. It is a future in which the United States abandons its Enlightenment heritage and liberal aspirations in favor of a closed society made up of supposedly native people — recall JD Vance’s paean to the soil of eastern Kentucky in his speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination last year — and rooted in notions of dominance and zero-sum competition. We have, in this country, a powerful movement eager to summon an authoritarian future. What we need is a movement dedicated to an egalitarian one, to a future in which all Americans can live the lives they choose to make for themselves — a country that rejects walls and rigid hierarchies in favor of the democratic virtues and universalist ideals of this country’s best traditions.

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DEI and Memorial Day can't really be separated. Check out our latest episode on the diversity of our military.

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What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? RIGHT???

RIGHT, MFs?!?

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‘Our superpower’: Trump confronted by diverse, robust pushback on 'a million’ different fronts

Rachel Maddow considers how the history of the Trump era will be written and how the defense of democracy and resistance to Trump authoritarianism will be seen as having a wide range of motivations, reflecting the breadth of Trump’s catastrophe but also the consistency of America’s defenders across demographics and interests.

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TREASON! LEAKING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION!

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Let’s not forget he is a felon and a rapist...😏👇🏾

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