Truth Brigade Update: Safety, Not Scapegoats!

This month’s Truth Brigade campaign theme — Safety, Not Scapegoats! — takes aim at those manufactured lies and helps us tell a different story — one grounded in truth, empathy, and community well-being. Across the country, our Truth Brigade network is uniting to expose how these tactics of fear are being weaponized to divide us, and to uplift messages that remind people what real safety looks like: trust, accountability, and care for one another.

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Why We Need Trans Representation in Children’s Shows

Thanks to Elon Musk, transgender representation is in the spotlight again. In an era of both accelerating acceptance of and unprecedented legislative attacks on trans people, it is vital that the public sees accurate portrayals of trans people—and how to behave around them—and for transgender youth and adults to see hopeful role models in the media.

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Trump Slices up USAID and the Media Stays Silent

As Trump’s slash-and-burn brand of government blunders its way toward the abyss, one of his early catastrophes has faded from memory. Dismantling the US Agency for  International Development (USAID) happened so fast it had a blink-and-you’d-miss-it unreality. Staff fired, lifesaving programs halted mid-stream and lettering pulled off the headquarters building in Washington. Elon Musk and his juvenile band of DOGE thugs spearheaded the mutilation, calling the agency “a criminal organization” and “beyond repair.”

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