This Week in Trumplandia

Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your community, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just awareness of the truth.

45’s executive order aiming to punish sanctuary cities was blocked by a federal judge.

The racist and transphobic “Gays for Trump” is a thing because the powers in the LGBTQ movement have always centered things on cis, white gays. (Relevant bonus link: homonormativity).

Ivanka is trying to rebrand her clothing line under a different name because it’s not doing so well.

45-tied Texas group petitions EPA to reconsider whether greenhouse gases are a problem.

I admittedly don’t understand all of this, but this is a clear picture of what Paul Ryan and 45 want to do:

This threat reminds us to stay supporting Planned Parenthood, not just when it’s popular and PP photo filters are all the rage:

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Buffy Flores is an Aries/Taurus cusp, Latinx, vegan, femme, and founder and editor of the Billions Unheard. Now writing for LIVEKINDLY and editing for The Rumpus. Follow them on Twitter @livekindlybuffy.

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