May 2, 2025 - An Injury to One Is An Injury to All

Following up on May Day, new day of action against Trump's anti-immigrant orders, "DOGE Person" gets confirmation vote to lead Social Security, and more

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• By phone: (202) 224-3121

• By email: Congress.gov

• By US mail: Representatives / Senators

• By Resistbot: Resist.bot

If you have questions, comments, and especially submissions for actions, please email us at roganslisttips@gmail.com!

Spotted during May Day protests in Boston. Send us protest signs and photos, we will try to run some next week! As always, we’re at roganslisttips@gmail.com.

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 MAY DAY STRONG AND GETTING STRONGER – NEXT STEPS MEETING NEXT WEEK 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿

An inspiring day in the streets yesterday! Even with it being a week day, hundreds of thousands of people stood with us, and we organized protests in countless places for the first time during Trump 2.0. And this push isn’t even done yet – we have almost 250 more rallies, demonstrations and visibilities scheduled for today and tomorrow!

As always, now we start building on what we achieved. Aside from joining another May Day protest near us this weekend if there’s one nearby, we can sign up for a virtual mass meeting on Thursday at 8PM Eastern to debrief and talk about what the May Day Strong coalition will do next here.

And again, please send favorite protest signs and pictures from the streets to roganslisttips@gmail.com! We’d love to hear dispatches from the field!

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ACTING IN DEFENSE OF SANCTUARY CITIES – PLANNING CALL TODAY

Trump has signed a new round of executive orders targeting sanctuary cities, militarizing law enforcement and attempting to force new discriminatory policies on the trucking industry. As always, it’s important to remember an executive order is not a law and his strikes against sanctuary cities in particular are going to face a significant legal battle. But it’s still an escalation for the deportation machine, and it demands a response. Immigrant rights and civil rights groups are calling for a day of action on Friday, May 23rd – five days before the deadline for the Homeland Security Department to identify those refusing to comply with his immigration crackdown. They’re hosting a virtual planning call for these actions TODAY at 4:00 PM Eastern. Let’s register here to join this meeting and learn more about how we can support this next day of action for our immigrant friends and neighbors.

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SENATE CLOSES IN ON NEW “DOGE PERSON” SOCIAL SECURITY COMMISSIONER

We saw a number of significant developments while we were out in the streets yesterday, including a Trump-appointed districted judge blocking the White House from abusing the Alien Enemies Act, central #Signalgate figure National Security Adviser Mike Waltz being pushed out and towards the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation’s office, and House Republicans quietly admitting they're struggling with the markups on the reconciliation bill in the committees charged with gutting Medicaid and rolling back the Inflation Reduction Act’s green energy tax cuts. But the one that requires our most immediate attention is that the Senate voted for cloture on Trump’s nominee to take over leadership of the Social Security Administration.

Frank Bisignano, a self-described “DOGE person” who was caught lying to the Senate Finance Committee about talking to Musk’s henchmen about Social Security cuts, advanced 50-45 (all 45 nays were Democrats, all 50 yays Republicans), and per CSPAN should receive a final confirmation vote Tuesday. He will be a key figure in the Trump-Musk attack on our earned benefits, and we need to keep ringing the alarm bell about him. Let’s reach out to our U.S. senators and tell them to vote no on Bisignano. We can use scripts and language here. (UPDATE: We can now also send this message to our senators via Resistbot by texting SIGN PIQNEL to 50409.)

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🧪 ATTENTION NIH-FUNDED RESEARCHERS: TRACKING KILLED GRANTS 🧪

The Trump Administration’s assault on American science and research is having devastating effects, with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants touching every corner of the country. To push back, we are going to need to know exactly where they’ve seized funds. Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are building a crowd-sourced database to track cancelled NIH grants - hoping to increase transparency, organize affected principal investigators, and facilitate a response, including litigation. If we’re NIH-funded researchers, we can use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. And we can all spread the word about the submission form to any researchers in our networks and about the tracker to anyone we think would be interested.

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🤜 30 LONELY BUT BEAUTIFUL ACTIONS – HOLDING OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE #1 (H/T The White Pages) 🤛

We’re continuing to highlight a series of actions from Barnraisers Project founder Garrett Bucks on small ways to stay grounded and serve others – helping everyone find something to fit our comfort level. Next on the list, some ways to hold ourselves accountable for continuing to act:

• We can text a few friends to ask them: “can we hold each other accountable to keep calling our reps? I keep forgetting to do it every day.” Make a text chain. Be kind to each other. Laugh a bunch. Celebrate the hell out each day’s Sisyphean-feeling calls. Ask how everybody’s doing, every single day.

• A few days later, go back to the text chain. Ask, “has there been any movement from those elected officials we’ve been texting? Should we escalate? Should we consider sitting in at their local office? What would we need to know to do so?” Start planning.

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KEEPING AN EYE ON…

• Tesla Takedowns this weekend and every weekend, join the divestment movement here and here

• Stand Up for Science summer sendoff protests on campus roll on

• Day Without Child Care May 12th

• National Rent Control Day of Action May 20th

• Save the date for mass mobilizations June 14th

• Not one cent for mass deportation

• Oppose the weaponization of the Justice Department against ActBlue

• Write a note of thanks and solidarity to Judge Hannah Dugan

• Find protests near us daily via the Big List of Protests and

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  We The People Dissent

• Join the federal workers #SaveOurServices rapid response network here