May 27, 2025 - Press the Media on the Murder Budget
Plus Trump wants even more tariffs, higher education under attack, know your rights in the workplace, and more!
🪧 We’re just 18 days from taking the streets to say #NoKings… find a demonstration near you! 🪧
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By phone: (202) 224-3121
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If you have questions, comments, and especially submissions for actions, please email us at roganslisttips@gmail.com!
📰 LOCAL MEDIA CAN HELP US STOP MEDICAID, SNAP CUTS 📺
The battle to stop the MAGA Murder Budget now moves to the Senate. Their goal is to put something on Trump’s desk by July 4th, but multiple senators want significant changes, including even deeper cuts to our health care and other programs working families count on. These would need to be negotiated, passed, and then approved by the House. In the meantime, we now have specifics of how much damage they’re trying to do the GOP can’t pretend away. Our mission is to make sure more people understand just how bad it’s going to be for their lives.
The National Campaign for Justice has set up a tool to help us contact the news rooms of our state’s largest paper and NPR affiliates to push them to cover the real-life impact of the big billionaire bailout on people in our communities. Let’s be sure to put it to use, and use the language as a base to make a similar ask to our regional and local papers, our local TV news affiliates and other media outlets we know folks in our area rely on.
We can also find more ways to help on the Rogan’s List budget action page here - both the SEIU and Grassroots Dems HQ are phonebanking today!
☎️ WITH TARIFFS BATTERING OUR ECONOMY, TRUMP THREATENS MORE TARIFFS ☎️
Retailers like Walmart, shoe companies like Adidas and carmakers like Ford and Subaru are raising their prices to account for the Trump tariffs, and the “deals” Trump promised are proving light on real change and would leave import taxes at the highest level since the Great Depression. Now he’s added to the mix a threatened 50% tariff hike on imports from the European Union starting July 9th, along with a 25% tariff on smartphones. The economic certainty, supply chain problems, and cost increases aren’t going anywhere as long as tariff power remains in Trump’s hands.
Let’s reach out to our members of Congress in the wake of Trump’s new trade war saber-rattling and demand they act to stop the economic devastation. We can find scripts and language to use here.
🎓 WE NEED MUTUAL DEFENSE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AS HARVARD IS ATTACKED 🎓
Trump is once again ramping up his attempts to seize control of college campuses, targeting Harvard to send a message to all. He has again threatened their funding and their tax-exempt status and moved to end their ability to enroll international students. Harvard has fought back and secured a temporary restraining order protecting their 6,800 international students. But they can’t and should not stand alone. This is part of a broad MAGA campaign to undermine higher education, private and public schools alike, and the consequences for American science, innovation and prosperity could be dire.
A number of schools are banding together against these attacks. Let's contact our state's universities—look on their websites for public relations phone numbers and email addresses—and encourage them to work with other academic institutions in standing up to Trump. If we are directly connected to a college as alums, employees or otherwise we can also contact those schools as well. Our alma maters can be reached through their alumni relations webpages.
⚖️ KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING FOR THE WORKPLACE THURSDAY ⚖️
Trump’s deportation forces are focusing on finding the easiest folks to catch, rather than those who represent a real threat to public safety. Part of that has meant targeting duly employed members of our community at their jobs. Workplace raids spread fear and tear apart working families, and we need to be prepared to challenge them where we can – making sure we know our rights and responsibilities. The Workers Over Billionaires team is holding a free virtual training for immigrant workers, their employers, concerned coworkers and allies on THURSDAY at 8PM ET. Let’s sign up to join them here.
We can also find more information about becoming a Fourth Amendment Workplace from the Defend and Recruit Network here.
💵 SUPPORTING THE HUMANITIES 💵
The Modern Languages Association has 20,000 members internationally and does a huge amount of work in support of language and literature education at the postsecondary level. They are among the professional academic associations negatively affect by the cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities. They have put out a call to support some of the work that is most likely to be impacted by the cuts. If we are able, we can donate here.
KEEPING AN EYE ON…
UPDATE: Comment period against Schedule F and politicization of the civil service extended to June 7th, toolkit to submit here
UPDATE: Kent County prosecutor announces no retrial for Patrick Lyoya’s killer
Demanding action on tyrannical effort to jail LaMonica McIver
Tesla Takedowns this weekend and every weekend, join the divestment movement here and here
Resistance Lab organizing training with Rep. Pramila Jayapal Sunday
Find protests near us daily via
’s We The People DissentJoin the federal workers #SaveOurServices rapid response network here
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Lesson learned last week. Never question the veracity of these truths shared. I apologize.
Running around BlueSky (and probably other social media) is a video from 2022 that is of 31 right wing fanatics in Idaho. I say this because sometimes my perspective is helpful.
Likely happened because of fear mongering post 100 similarly dressed hate filled lunatics in Kansas City this past Saturday. Kansas City governmental and police leaders roundly condemned this act.