Resource: Wired’s digital security guide for protesters covers phone encryption, avoiding facial recognition, and protecting online privacy as Trump administration deploys surveillance tools against demonstrators.
Anti-Trump organizers hold strategy call THURSDAY for Saturday protests as No Kings movement prepares mass mobilization. All participants invited!
ProPublica adds 23 names to DOGE tracker revealing 109 officials including 38 from Musk companies, with backgrounds showing young men from finance and tech cutting agencies that regulated their former employers.
Smithsonian board asserts independence after Trump claimed he fired National Portrait Gallery director, stating Secretary Bunch makes all personnel decisions with board oversight.
World Pride 2025 concludes in Washington with defiant protest march toward the White House as LGBTQ+ activists prepare for renewed fight against Trump’s second-term policies.
Newsom threatens to cut off California’s $80 billion federal tax surplus after Trump threatens university funding cuts.
Democrats block Trump Justice nominee citing “Vance precedent” after current VP spent months obstructing Biden prosecutors as senator.
Activists organize 1,000 No Kings protests across US on June 14 to counter Trump’s Flag Day parade with nationwide day of defiance against authoritarianism. Click for map.
National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet defies Trump’s firing order and continues working as Smithsonian Board of Regents prepares to meet Monday to address presidential overreach.
RESOURCE: Free social media toolkit to amplify Trump administration’s pattern of disappearing people from American communities through detention, deportation and government retaliation.
Major corporations abandon law firms that signed deals with Trump administration, preferring lawyers “who don’t run from a fight” as business rewards firms not capitulating to White House.
FIGHTING BACK RESOURCE: Dr. Paul Shattuck published this viral list of 80 small moves to help you resist authoritarianism while staying human.
Veterans organize D-Day rally to protest Trump administration plans to cut 83,000 VA jobs and eliminate hundreds of community service contracts.
Saturday protests target Avelo Airlines at over 50 airports nationwide demanding cancellation of $150 million ICE deportation contract, with activists calling flights “illegal abduction and human trafficking.”
House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin demands guest list from Trump’s private dinner for major cryptocurrency investors over foreign influence concerns.
Georgia pastor Jamal Bryant expands his corporate DEI boycott from Target to Dollar General, targeting the retailer for rolling back diversity programs under Trump administration pressure.
Visibility Brigade publishes 66-page free toolkit for overpass protests aimed at mobilizing 11 million Americans against Trump.
Environmental groups sue to block Trump’s order opening Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing.
Reminder: Join Indivisible virtual training Tuesday, May 27, and learn tactics to mobilize friends, family, neighbors.
Seattle police make 16 arrests at counterprotest to conservative Christian group “Mayday USA” event in Capitol Hill after protesters threw bottles and clashed with officers in riot gear.
Fired Copyright Office chief Shira Perlmutter sues Trump administration arguing only Librarian of Congress can remove her, challenging White House authority over legislative branch agency.
Bruce Springsteen releases EP calling Trump administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” as Trump shares meme showing himself hitting Springsteen with golf ball.
New social media toolkit provides ready-made content for supporters to amplify Rep. McIver’s immigration facility confrontation story online.
RFK family foundation awards Maine Gov. Mills human rights prize for defying transgender policies of administration where RFK Jr. serves as HHS Secretary.
Local Democratic officials join thousands in making a 30-mile human chain across Chicago suburbs to protest Trump administration policies.
Thousands of California teachers rally outside SpaceX headquarters to protest Trump-Musk education budget cuts threatening special education and meal programs.
FOIA request reveals zero EPA employees responded to Trump administration’s call to report colleagues working on DEI programs.
Indian Ph.D. student granted injunction against deportation after DHS tried to revoke her visa over minor traffic violation from four years ago.
Last day for (anonymous) public comment as SpaceX seeks to more than double its Cape Canaveral launches, raising concerns for pilots, fishers and wildlife.
Federal regulators and Austin officials demand Tesla prove its robotaxi plans can handle weather and emergencies before June deployment.
Episcopal Church quits federal refugee program as presiding bishop condemns Trump for giving white South Africans preferential treatment over millions blocked and still waiting in camps.
Hundreds protest in Worcester for third straight day after ICE separates Brazilian mother from child during immigration arrest.
Quakers march 300 miles from New York to Washington to protest Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants supporting faith tradition of activism.
In rare public criticism, Justice Sotomayor urges lawyers to “stand up” against Trump administration’s attacks on legal profession.
Haverford College president grilled by GOP reps over refusal to share student discipline details, with some threatening her job and federal funding.
New York Catholic bishops criticize Trump and White House for AI image showing him as pope days after Francis’s death
In historic rebuke, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson calls Trump’s attacks on judges an intimidating threat to democracy and urges courts to show ‘raw courage.’
“Your Local Epidemiologist” Katelyn Jetelina offers webinar on influencing health policy this Friday.
More than 1,000 May Day Strong events will erupt nationwide on Thursday. Show up and stand up for workers’ rights, immigrant justice, and real economic power. Here’s the list.
Jeffries and Booker stage 12-hour Capitol sit-in protesting GOP budget plan advancing Trump’s agenda.
NYT/Siena poll shows majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance and call second term chaotic.
May Day coalition plans nationwide protests against Trump-Musk cuts, defending wages, unions, and public services.
Transportation Dept attorneys accidentally file internal memo admitting Trump admin’s congestion pricing lawsuit is a losing battle, are immediately replaced.
