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Defending Higher Ed: The Fight Back

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · 4d

Housing, Not Handcuffs: An interview with housing advocate Maria Foscarinis about Trump’s criminalization of the homeless.

Sally O'Driscoll talks to Maria Foscarinis of the National Homelessness Law Center.
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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our latest substack is up!

Defending Higher Ed: The Fight Back
An interview with Rutgers professors David Salas de la Cruz and Paul Boxer on campus resistance. By Sally O’Driscoll.
#StopProject2025
#ResistProject2025

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An interview with Rutgers professors David Salas de la Cruz and Paul Boxer on campus resistance. By Sally O’Driscoll.

Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our new Substack series on deaths in ICE custody begins today.
#AbolishICE
#ResustProject2025

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At the 180-Day mark, Project 2025 keeps unfolding with a new cash infusion of the Big Beautiful Bill and terrible SCOTUS decisions, despite widespread public disapproval of Trump’s shredding policies.

Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jul 22

6 months of Trump also ends the 180 Day Master Plan laid out in Heritage Fdn's Project 2025 to wreak Christian nationalist, white supremacist, neo-fascist havoc across the USA. Here, we examine just how much of that 180-Day authoritarian agenda has been achieved.
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While the media and public gossip are distracted by the resurfacing Epstein scandal tearing MAGA apart, Project 2025’s architects with the Trump team stay the course to advance their autocracy agenda.

What fresh hell is this? A spotlight on Haiti, deportation, violence, and failing US policy

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jul 13

What fresh hell is this? A spotlight on Haiti, deportation, violence, and failing US policy

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As allied gangs expand their control of Haiti’s countryside, Trump officials push ICE deportation, imported mercenaries, and a failing US foreign policy – while Haitian asylees seek safety.

Happy Pride: it's a democracy thing.

Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jul 7

Congress just approved Trump’s awful Big Beautiful Bill to gut Medicaid, SNAP, and affordable health insurance for millions. We talk with Susan Walter to put a human face on this historic GOP attack.
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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Pride: it's a democracy thing.

Taking a moment to celebrate and champion the Hungarian LGBTQ+ activists and allies who defied Viktor Orbán's autocratic ban on Pride, sending a global message of united resistance.

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Taking a moment to celebrate and champion the Hungarian LGBTQ+ activists and allies who defied Viktor Orbán's autocratic ban on Pride, sending a global message of united resistance.

Days of Terror and Rapture: Who Is Pushing Trump to Attack Iran?

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jun 20

As Trump weighs helping Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, evangelical Christian Zionists behind Project 2025 are motivated by faith and an end-times prophecy of rapture.

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As Trump weighs helping Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, evangelical Christian Zionists behind Project 2025 are motivated by faith and an end-times prophecy of rapture.

Resistance Progress: A spotlight on nationwide and NYC activism, including the June 14 NO KINGS DAY protest: an interview with Jay W. Walker. By Sally O’Driscoll

Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

Veteran NYC LGBTQ+ and anti-racist activist Jay W. Walker reflects on grassroots direct action and resistance, Rise and Resist's actions, and its impact on Trump’s agenda -- and what's next.

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Veteran NYC LGBTQ+ and anti-racist activist Jay W. Walker reflects on grassroots direct action and resistance, Rise and Resist's actions, and its impact on Trump’s agenda -- and what's next.

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

Resistance Progress: A spotlight on nationwide and NYC activism, including the June 14 NO KINGS DAY protest: an interview with Jay W. Walker. By Sally O’Driscoll

Veteran NYC LGBTQ+ and anti-racist activist Jay W. Walker reflects on grassroots direct action and resistance, Rise and Resist's actions, and its impact on Trump’s agenda -- and what's next.

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Jun 3

Taking Stock: Project 2025’s Impact to Date on Federal Employees

Trump has gutted the professional federal workforce, fired Biden officials, and put a loyalist corps in place -- triggering many lawsuits and politicizing workers overnight. Sally O'Driscoll reports.

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · May 19

How far along are they with implementing Project 2025?
Brace yourselves: Our yardstick of Key Proposals shows 80% are completed. Plus, AI is a magic bullet of acceleration. But legal and popular resistance could change the calculus.

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Mar 27

The Deportables: A list of who’s being hunted, detained, deported, and denied entry by Trump 2.0.

Trump’s team has stiffened travel rules and surveillance, claimed wartime powers, detained green card holders, and ended visas for another 50,000 immigrants, causing fear among US travelers, too.

Who's Who in the DOGE Shadow Cabinet and their rollout of Project 2025’s secret 180-Day Playbook

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 25

Our latest substack is up!
Who's Who in the DOGE Cabinet.
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And what are the big-picture questions we need to answer in order to more effectively resist the AI-driven coup-within-a-coup? Here's a deep, deep dive....

Stop Erasing Trans and Queer History!

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Jay W. Walker @jaywwalker.bsky.social · Feb 25

Please sign this petition to demand that Trans and Queer identities and history be restored to the Stonewall National Monument website. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

The Stonewall Inn is where queer people fought back against police harassment in 1969, sparking the modern LGBTQ+ movement. At the forefront of the fight were trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson an...

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 25

Can we talk about the dereliction of responsibility of 3 POLITICAL reporters who don't know who TF Leonard Leo is.

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 25

Our latest substack is up!
Who's Who in the DOGE Cabinet.
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Who's Who in the DOGE Shadow Cabinet and their rollout of Project 2025’s secret 180-Day Playbook

And what are the big-picture questions we need to answer in order to more effectively resist the AI-driven coup-within-a-coup? Here's a deep, deep dive....

to speak out, to call out, to march, and risk arrest to stop the coup.... Taking stock at Day 24 of the progress, victories, limits, and flowering of resistance to Trump 2.0.

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 16

Great staryer pack that includes us!
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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thank you!!

Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 16

New Substack is up!
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People Have The Power

Quick Takeaway Lessons from Florida: ‘Don’t Say Hate’ – but do organize!

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 11

Help us track the rise of Project 2025's Christian Nationalist Authoritarianism in real time!
#ResistProject2025

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 6

The amazing @nadinesmith.bsky.social shares intersectional strategies from @equalityflorida.bsky.social from resisting the racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic DeSantis administration.
#ResistProject2025
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Some key takeaway messages from Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida, whose statewide coalition successfully fought DeSantis attacks on 'wokeness' -- a model for fighting Trump 2.0.

Takeaway Lessons from Youth Activists in Florida: Make It Personal!

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Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our latest substack is up:
What we can learn from how the Florida youth activist Maxx Fenning about how PRISM resisted white supremacist, misogynist, anti-LGBTQIA bigot Ron DeSantis and apply it to resisting white supremacist, misogynist, anti-LGBTQIA #Trump2.0.

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As Trump 2.0 escalates its attacks on transgender rights, DEI, and moves to eliminate the Dept. of Education, Florida youth activists show they've learned how to fight back. A spotlight on PRISM.