Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 13/06/2025My statement on Senate Rs' attempt to eliminate courts' ability to promptly address lawless behavior by the federal government: If this stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law. 130
Reposted by Emily MartinJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Here's Emily Martin of the National Women’s Law Center on what's going on here. "If this measure stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law,” she said in a statement. 16835
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Giving new tax breaks for billionaires is bad enough. Paying for these tax breaks by robbing all of us of our health care, child care, and student loan assistance is even worse. Tell Congress: families over billionaires. on.nwlc.org/nocuts 010
Reposted by Emily MartinChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/04/2025As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵 593024933
Reposted by Emily MartinNational Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 14/03/2025URGENT: The Senate is voting on a funding bill today that would facilitate Trump and Musk’s power grab—accelerating our government’s decline toward an authoritarian oligarchy and hurting all of us. 32521
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Thinking back to the early 90s when so-called Travelgate—the firing of seven executive office employees and the allegation that there might be some conflict on interest at play—was a national scandal that went on for years and years. Anyway, here we are. 010
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Hmmm. Refusing to recruit highly qualified individuals specifically because they are Black and preferring less qualified white applicants for the same role. If only there were laws about this sort of thing. 050
Reposted by Emily MartinNational Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 07/02/2025This morning, at each Congressional office on Capitol Hill, their copy of the Washington Post was delivered with our message — and more than 5,000 of your signatures — front and center: Don't back down. We're demanding REAL action, because our freedoms depend on it. 910738
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Proud to speak at the Department of Labor today against Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s misogynistic attempts to roll back core civil rights protections so billionaires can run free. We see what you are trying to steal from us. 071
Reposted by Emily MartinGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025Elon Musk is a terrible president. 16085240214990
Reposted by Emily MartinBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Guys I’m beginning to think all of this isn’t about fairness in women’s high school sports 374542552
Reposted by Emily MartinNational Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 29/01/2025ICYMI: We were joined by over 175 organizations to condemn Trump's executive order discriminating against transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, falsely claiming to be “defending women against gender ideology.” This order is cruel & lawless. Period. usatoday.comTrump order recognizes only two sexes. Advocates call it 'cruel,' 'lawless.'Trump's Inauguration Day executive order declared there are just two sexes. Now, 170 groups say that endangers transgender, others. 28525
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Hegseth is unacceptable. Your senators should hear it from you. act.nwlc.org/a/hegseth-se...act.nwlc.orgTell your Senators: Trump’s extreme Department of Defense nominee is an insult to service membersPete Hegseth is unfit to lead our military. 010
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I have heard rumors that Republican senators "don't like the guy but just need one more thing." It's difficult to credit when there is truly an avalanche of evidence of unfitness, especially if we stipulate that gross misogyny is relevant. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...nbcnews.comSenators receive affidavit containing new allegations against Pete Hegseth, who denies the claimsThe former sister-in-law of Trump’s defense secretary pick said that Hegseth made his second wife fear for her safety. Hegseth’s second wife said, “There was no physical abuse in my marriage.” 020
Reposted by Emily MartinNational Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 21/01/2025They can say what they want, but they can never change the truth: Trans people always have and always will be here. This first slew of executive orders is meant to cause confusion and chaos, but we don't know the full impact yet. 24414
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Seems like the more wealth and power people/institutions have, the more grotesque cowardice they are showing in meeting this moment. 191
Reposted by Emily MartinJustin Brookman @justinbrookman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Punchbowl's @benbrodydc.bsky.social got a copy of FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson's pitch to be chair under Trump: 44345126
Reposted by Emily MartinCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024My debut column for MSNBC. Opinion | There are many reasons to disqualify Pete Hegseth. His opinions on women are enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...msnbc.comOpinion | There are many reasons to disqualify Pete Hegseth. His opinions on women are enough.Trump's pick for defense secretary told America exactly who he was weeks before his scandals broke. 2661796
Reposted by Emily MartinJaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Oh look, it's me and @sorayachemaly.bsky.social and @jessmcintosh.bsky.social and @sharkfu.bsky.social and @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social and a whole host of other brilliant organizers and thinkers getting you (and each other) ready to fight for sex ed in 2025. You def want to join us. 0137
Reposted by Emily MartinLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I keep seeing this reference to public bathrooms as women's "private spaces" and I just do not understand it. Strangers are strangers even when they're women! We're not communing in there for hours at a time, talking about perimenopause and who's getting divorced and shaving our legs. 812165281889
Reposted by Emily MartinNicole Jorwic @nicolejorwic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024“You couldn’t come up with a better distillation of the real Trump agenda than paying for tax breaks for the rich by gutting Medicaid and increasing child hunger.” www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne...finance.senate.govWyden Statement on Republican Tax Plans and Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance | The United States Senate Committee on FinanceWyden Statement on Republican Tax Plans and Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance 042
Reposted by Emily MartinNational Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 21/11/2024one down, who's next??? 5468
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This right here. Gender policing targets trans women and girls for the most severe harm, but also invites harassment and violence against ANY woman or girl who departs from the narrowest gender stereotypes. We all have a personal stake in this fight. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...thehill.comOcasio-Cortez: Mace, Johnson ‘endangering all women and girls’ with bathroom banRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday denounced efforts by House Republicans to bar transgender people from restrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity, calling policies… 030
Reposted by Emily MartinAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/11/2024Mediaite obtained the police report of the Pete Hegseth alleged sexual assault incident. The details are horrific and should be disqualifying.mediaite.comNEW: Mediaite Obtains Full Police Report on Pete Hegseth Sexual Assault AllegationDays after the revelation of a sexual assault allegation against Trump secretary of defense pick Pete Hegseth, Mediaite obtained a extensive police report on the 2017 encounter. 600145224899
Reposted by Emily MartinJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024they will sanction violence by those who reinforce the gender hierarchy while enacting violence against those who challenge it. what’s being protected is not women but the right to dominate women. 027069
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The humiliation with impunity is the point. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comWhat Happens to Sexual Assault Survivors if Matt Gaetz Runs the DOJIf you’re experiencing alarming levels of déjà vu this week with the debate over Matt Gaetz’s fitness to run the DOJ, it’s not just you. 000
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It is a qualification for the job because it is how they understand and act out power. How would you know you were powerful if you weren’t forcing someone to do something they didn’t want to do? 19thnews.org/2024/11/sexu...19thnews.orgThe growing list of sexual misconduct allegations against Trump’s picksAt least four of the president-elect’s top picks to lead his government have been accused of sexual assault, harassment or child sex trafficking. 020
Reposted by Emily MartinNational Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 18/11/2024ACTION NEEDED: There are 45 judicial vacancies. There are 47 days until the new Congress takes office. We can get these seats filled, and throw a wrench in Project 2025 from the get go. It’s time to put the pressure on our senators: Tell them to fill these vacancies with fair, unbiased judges. 167
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 16/11/2024www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...nbcnews.comPete Hegseth’s remarks about women in combat are met with disgust and dissentHundreds of women have proven their competence and were awarded for their heroism during the nation’s longest war in Iraq and Afghanistan, advocates said. 040
Emily Martin @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The National Women’s Law Center is gearing up for more assaults on reproductive rights, said Emily Martin. . . . “We’re all coming having learned lessons from the first time around, but one of the lessons we have learned is the seriousness of what’s before us.” 19thnews.org/2024/11/peop...19thnews.orgThe 2017 Trump resistance playbook is out. Community organizing is in.The Women’s March is now the People’s March, and groups working to oppose Trump’s agenda are highlighting specific actions volunteers can take. 0104
