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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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May Day Strong: We are the Many · May Day Strong
Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...
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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Evicted Amid Federal Cuts
Observatory leaders have assured local emergency officials their public service will continue, but questions linger about how and where that work will happen.
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Fire prevention project halted in Waikōloa Village by Trump Administration | Big Island Now
Hawaiian Electric received notice from the Department of Energy to stop incurring all costs associated with its 11 Community Benefits Program projects that would've have been funded with a federal gra...
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Kona coffee industry hit by funding freeze and USDA layoffs at 'existential moment'
Invasive species and introduced diseases have transformed farming in the famed Kona coffee region. Now the Trump administration is pulling federal support for research into solutions. HPR's Savannah H...
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Help wanted: Governor signs order implementing Operation Hire Hawaiʻi | Big Island Now
As upheaval and job cuts continue throughout the federal government, this targeted outreach initiative expedites the state hiring process, fast-tracking qualified candidates into job opportunities thr...
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Five staff members at Hakalau Forest Refuge on Big Island fired by Trump Administration | Big Island Now
According to Friends of the Hakalau Forest, this large cut in staff will have immediate impacts on ongoing vital projects that help secure the future of endangered endemic birds and plants.
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Kailua-Kona, HI
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 22/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Hawaii SB1150 📑Title: Relating To Health Care. 🏷️Bill Type: Safe State Bill 🏛Status: The committee(s) on JDC/WAM will hold a public decision making on 02-26-25 10:05AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 19/02/2025
Demand the National Park Service restore our history: hrc.im/stonewall
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Take action: No STONEWALL without trans and queer people.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19/02/2025
Watch the entire recording.
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ACLU Town Hall: Defending Freedom in a Trump Presidency
YouTube video by ACLU
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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FDT @queenwitha.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I tell you where not give your money but this is where we make a conscious choice #boycott opposite
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 15/02/2025
🌈NEW GOOD BILL 🏳️‍ ------------------------ 📜Bill: Oregon HR3 📑Title: Recognizing and honoring the history of Black drag in Oregon. 🏷️Bill Type: Holiday/Recognition 🏛Status: Public Hearing and Work Session scheduled. 🔗Bill Text: legiscan.com/OR/bill/HR3/2025
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 12/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Hawaii SB116 📑Title: Relating To Discrimination. 🏷️Bill Type: Broad Nondiscrimination 🏛Status: The committee(s) on JDC deferred the measure until 02-12-25 9:50AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 12/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Hawaii SB1150 📑Title: Relating To Health Care. 🏷️Bill Type: Safe State Bill 🏛Status: The committee(s) on HHS/CPN deferred the measure until 02-12-25 9:34AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference. 🔗Bill Text: legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB1150/2025
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 12/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Hawaii SB1660 📑Title: Relating To Employment. 🏷️Bill Type: Broad Nondiscrimination 🏛Status: Reported from LBT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 355) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 12/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Oregon HB2959 📑Title: Relating to infertility; declaring an emergency. 🏷️Bill Type: Commissions, Task Forces, and Studies / Healthcare Nondiscrimination 🏛Status: Public Hearing held. 🔗Bill Text: legiscan.com/OR/bill/HB2959/2025
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CNN @cnn.com · 12/02/2025
Two transgender girls who attend high school in New Hampshire challenged the Trump administration’s recent executive order banning transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ sports, according to a court filing.
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Two transgender girls sue to challenge Trump’s executive order banning them from girls’ school sports | CNN
Two transgender girls who attend high school in New Hampshire challenged the Trump administration’s recent executive order banning transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ sports, acco...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/02/2025
📢 Calling all high school students 📢 Join us for a week-long learning experience this summer in Washington, DC, where you'll hear from social justice activists and build your advocacy skills. Apply today at aclu.org/institute.
A graphic featuring a photo of high school students wearing yellow shirts and their fists in the air with ACLU rally signs in front of the Capitol building. Overlaid white text reads "Apply for the 2025 National Advocacy Institute"
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 12/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Hawaii SB1284 📑Title: Proposing An Amendment To Article 1, Section 5, Of The Hawaii Constitution Relating To Due Process And Equal Protection. 🏷️Bill Type: Broad Nondiscrimination
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 12/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Hawaii SB1660 📑Title: Relating To Employment. 🏷️Bill Type: Broad Nondiscrimination 🏛Status: Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. 🔗Bill Text: legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB1660/2025
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 13/02/2025
🏛Status: The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, Richards; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) McKelvey.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 11/02/2025
Google's online calendar will no longer track Pride Month, Black History Month, or Women’s History month shortly after the company also abandoned its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Read more: www.advocate.com/news/google-...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/02/2025
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
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A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/02/2025
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore certain public health webpages and datasets that federal health agencies had wiped from the internet in recent days.
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Health information wiped from internet by Trump administration must be restored online, judge rules | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore certain public health webpages and datasets that federal health agencies had wiped from the internet in recent days.
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LesMiz1234 @dancecarolina.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Let’s go!! ✊🇺🇸
Red, white, and blue creative graphics reads, “Presidents Day National Protest - Mon, Feb 17, 2025 — Demanding our freedoms as enshrined in the Constitution with liberty and justice for ALL.” Graphic features circles, stars, and interesting fonts.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 08/02/2025
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Trans Congresswoman Wants LGBTQ+ Youth to Know That ‘Millions’ Are Fighting for Them: ‘Hang in There’ (Exclusive)
Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride — who made history recently as the first transgender person elected to Congress — shared a message for young LGBTQ+ people at the HRC Greater New York Dinner on Feb. 1, tel...
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Fight for Progress @fightforprogress.org · 06/02/2025
Trump announced sweeping, unilateral cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, housing assistance, and clean energy programs—gutting support for millions. These cuts are wildly unpopular, but he’s doing it anyway. We need leaders who fight for working families, not against them. @npr.org
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/02/2025
My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/02/2025
We'll say it as many times as it takes: Gender-affirming care is life-saving care. We will not back down.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 05/02/2025
🌈Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Hawaii SB116 📑Title: Relating To Discrimination. 🏷️Bill Type: Broad Nondiscrimination 🏛Status: Reported from PSM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 36) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/02/2025
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block its executive order attempting to restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 19 nationwide.
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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karenboston2025.bsky.social @karenboston2025.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/01/2025
Trans kids have a right to exist as who they are, not who the Trump administration wants them to be.
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Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist
Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/01/2025
President Trump's executive order going after gender-affirming care threatens to override the love of families for their transgender youth by putting politics between them, their doctor, and their family's future. We will never stop defending our freedom to be ourselves.
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Trump order aims to end federal support for gender transitions for those under 19
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at cutting federal support for gender transitions for people under age 19.
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