Join #HousingSavesLives Week of Action Aug 31–Sept 4 to Stop HUD’s Anti-Transgender Rule - mailchi.mp/nlihc.org/hud_…

Nearly 1/3 of transgender & gender non-binary people experience homelessness at some point in their lives. Yet the administration wants to roll back protections for trans youth in federal housing programs. We can stop them. Go to housingsaveslives.org. #HousingSavesLives

We have less than 30 days to tell President Trump and Department of Housing and Urban Development that their plans to cut protections for our unhoused trans neighbors won't stand. Submit your comment now and tell them #HousingSavesLives at housingsaveslives.org

I could predict the coercive sterilization of detained women (and kidnapping of their children) by government agents because, as I taught my students, the U.S. has a long history of inflicting these violences as political weapons against Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people.

Join the The Final 5 Campaign this Thursday, September 17 at 3PM CST to explore the state of youth incarceration and how we want to transform the juvenile justice system in Illinois. #CloseThemAll #YouthJustice Register here: bit.ly/34Qzxhm

Show support of your organization for older youth in foster care by endorsing the Supporting Foster Youth and Families through the Pandemic Act (H.R. 7947). Sign on to this letter and support an increase of Chafee funds & a moratorium on youth aging out. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"The child welfare system shouldn’t be a harbinger of family separation," writes Bryan Samuels, executive director of Chapin Hall, in an The Imprint opinion piece. imprintnews.org/opinion/addres… #ChildWelfare #SystemicRacism

BREAKING: In a HUGE loss for Republican Senators Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Lindsay Graham, and Josh Hawley, officials from the American Bar Association testify at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing that ALL of their accusations against her are false.

A British journalist asked a visibly upset Sen. Ted Cruz why mass shootings like Uvalde only happen in the United States. Cruz accused the reporter of having a “political agenda” — then walked away without answering the question.

I will explain this to you slowly: exercising our right to protest is not obstruction of Congress nor an attempt to overturn democracy. If one were a heinous enough person to do that, they’d likely seek a pardon for it too. But only one of us here has done that. And it ain’t me