The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision in January that the White House’s ban on transgender people serving in the military could move forward (Trump’s two confirmed Supreme Court nominees supported this ruling). The ban (which currently offers an exemption for transgender personnel currently serving, but would force new recruits to identify with their biological sex), came into effect Wednesday. Transgender Americans serve in the military disproportionately relative to their share of the total population, and transgender veterans disproportionately face the likelihood of homelessness.
T̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶P̶r̶a̶y̶e̶r̶s̶ Policy and Change
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There are mass shootings practically every day in the United States. In 2018, gun deaths reached their highest level in 40 years. It wasn’t always this way, and it doesn’t need to be this way. Today, your civic workout is to mobilize against gun violence.
A Green New Deal
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The Green New Deal is a Congressional resolution directing the federal government to tackle climate change and income inequality together through a 10-year mobilization that “achieve[s] net-zero greenhouse gas emissions...create[s] millions of good, high-wage jobs…[and] invest[s] in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenge of the 21st century.” In short, it says what and why, but not how. “How” will be hashed out in conversations, proposed legislation, and presidential campaigns over the next couple of years—if we hold our representatives accountable for doing so. Let’s get to work.