BOYCOTTS
“Organize or participate in boycotts of companies that are enabling the Trump regime, starting with Elon Musk’s X and Tesla and any companies that advertise on X or Fox News.” (Source: Robert Reich)
The Latino Freeze movement is calling for Latinos to stop shopping at big stores and restaurants like Target, Walmart, McDonald's and other places that recently rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. (Source: Latino Freeze)
Social media accounts are urging a 24-hour “economic blackout” on February 28, at least in part to protest companies that have rolled back their DEI programs. (Source: The People’s Union)
My favorite:
In Lawsuit News
Keeping track of all the lawsuits against the Trump agenda is nearly impossible at this point, but Just Security is giving it a shot, and last I checked they list 58 of them(!).
Keeping track of the actions that have been temporarily blocked by court order is a bit easier. I believe that currently totals nine:
Ban on birthright citizenship
Freeze on federal grants and loans
Resignation offer for federal workers
Dismantling USAID
Transfer of transgender prisoners
Cuts to NIH research payments
Musk team access to Treasury data
Firing the head of the Office of Special Counsel
Removal of web pages at CDC and FDA
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick interviewed former Judge Nancy Gertner, who told her:
When you go roaring into court and you say, “This is illegal!” and a judge responds, “Yes, it is,” you begin to create a narrative so people have a sense of what the metes and bounds of our democracy are.
So far there have not been losses that I know about, but even if there were, it is critical to challenge these behaviors—not just to stop them, but to let people know that there are challenges to these behaviors. The public has to know about the constitutional and other challenges to these acts. The judges have to know about it as well. These are the boundaries of our democracy.
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