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Rainbow Roundup [1]

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Date: 2025-06-18

Welcome to the Rainbow Roundup for this Wednesday, June 18th. As usual, this week felt like a thousand years, LGBTQIA Democrats are pushing against everything this terrible and horrific regime are doing to the country and the world. Feel free to start the dialogue below and add any LGBTQIA political news that was missed here. Have a great day everyone!

x ✨GOOD NEWS✨ A federal judge just temporarily blocked the Trump Admin's policy of issuing passports with incorrect gender markers to trans, nonbinary, and intersex Americans as the case against it proceeds. More details at the story in our bio. — Congressional Equality Caucus (@equality.house.gov) 2025-06-17T23:39:46.333Z

x 5yrs ago, SCOTUS confirmed in #Bostock that LGBTQ+ workers cannot be discriminated against. Now, the EEOC is refusing to enforce the law & protect trans Americans—that’s why we recently demanded Acting EEOC Chair to do her job & address their discrimination complaints. — Congressional Equality Caucus (@equality.house.gov) 2025-06-15T15:31:36.071Z

x The United States should not be in the business of funding torture. CECOT is a mega-prison with a well-documented record of human rights abuses. Yet the Trump Admin made a deal to send millions of taxpayer dollars to fund it. That is unacceptable. www.notus.org/immigration/... — Rep. Mark Takano (@repmarktakano.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T15:21:47.490Z

x We will not bow down to a king. — Robert Garcia (@robertgarcia.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T15:30:03.116Z

x This news is horrifying. My heart breaks for the Hortman and Hoffman families, their staff, and the communities they serve. 1/2 — Rep. Emily Randall (@repemilyrandall.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T21:06:53.940Z

x Families need some relief, but Republicans’ budget bill does just the opposite — taking food assistance away from millions of Americans and jacking up the cost at the grocery store for millions more. www.npr.org/sections/sho... — Senator Tammy Baldwin (@baldwin.senate.gov) 2025-06-17T15:35:19.319Z

x Entire MN Congressional Delegation Joint Statement on Politically-Motivated Shooting: — Rep. Angie Craig (@repangiecraig.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T20:36:33.117Z

x The Comptroller's arrest by ICE agents at an immigration courthouse while he was merely accompanying someone out of a hearing is a grotesque perversion of justice. This is not law enforcement; it’s political intimidation and an attempt at silencing dissent. — Rep. Ritchie Torres (@repritchie.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T21:48:15.021Z

x Burlington, over 16,000 of you mobilized and showed up to the beautiful waterfront to protest Trump and any authoritarianism in this country. We're turning anger and anxiety into action. Trump cannot look away. This democracy is OURS. — Representative Becca Balint (@balint.house.gov) 2025-06-16T19:32:36.907Z

x REMINDER: The Big Beautiful Bill (for Billionaires) is a plan to steal from the poor to give to the rich. — Rep. Mark Pocan (@pocan.house.gov) 2025-06-17T20:02:12.283Z

x Medicaid is a lifeline. But don’t just take it from me—take it from the single mother in Newark who wrote to me: if her daughter loses Medicaid, which pays for her medicine, she will die. If Americans lose their lifesaving care, my colleagues across the aisle will be to blame. — Congresswoman Sarah McBride (@mcbride.house.gov) 2025-05-21T01:50:12.356Z

x He promised to lower costs on Day 1. But the policies from the GOP aren’t working. I’m working to cap prescription drug costs, lower energy bills, and grow wages with good-paying jobs. And I will work with anybody to keep bringing down costs. — Eric Sorensen (@ericsorensen.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T22:13:14.152Z

x LGBTQ Americans are needed on the ballot because the laws that target us shouldn’t be written without us. If you’re LGBTQ+ and thinking about running—do it. We need your voice in the fight. 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth — Julie Johnson (@juliejohnsontx.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T18:29:19.108Z

x Vance Boelter allegedly included Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan in notebooks about his targets. — The Advocate (@advocate.com) 2025-06-17T22:23:37Z

x Horrifying news out of Minnesota this morning as political violence takes the lives of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. @Chasten and I are holding their loved ones in our hearts and praying for State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette as they recover. — Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T15:19:07.585Z

x 17 statewide anti-domestic and sexual violence coalitions are suing the Trump admin over new requirements in grant applications that they don't promote "gender ideology" or run DEI programs or prioritize people in the country illegally. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T00:35:32.282Z

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