This is not an isolated case.
There have been multiple reports in the US of trans people and people advocating for trans rights encountering issues with their passport, visa, and voter registration status.

This is an attack on trans people and trans rights' advocates' freedoms.
By targeting voter registration status, this fascistic government is preventing opposition through regular channels.
By targeting passport access or visas, it puts trans immigrants and trans US citizens into precarious and potentially life-threatening situations (facing deportation, being unable to travel, not having any valid ID).

The US government does not only aim to repress and silence trans people and activists. By framing them as terrorists, as shown in the memorandum issued by the US attorney general (source) when mentioning "radical gender ideology", Trump's government points them as an enemy of the state.

Keep in mind that if left unaddressed, these assaults on people's rights will keep escalating.

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Start setting clear goals, friends. Things are only gonna get worse for a while, know what your demands are when the time comes to protest.

Here's something that might surprise some of you: I allow my students to use ai (with limits on what it can be used for) in my classes.

I'm sure you all are wondering why someone so seemingly anti-AI might do this. Well, it's quite simple, actually. I firmly believe that teaching people *how* these tools work and *why* they're prone to inadequate results is the best way to get them to second-guess whether they should be using them at all.

Plenty of folks are perfectly content to say "don't use that, it's bad," but all of that is an abstraction to most people. It's only going to stop them from using them for the run of your class. Now, if you give a lesson on how AI operates and then do in-class activities that demonstrate it's typically only *somewhat* competent at most of the work they might think to apply it to, they'll actually change their behavior.

The number of students I actually have using it in my class after this is typically at or below 10%.

An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff member…

I don't love sharing footage of these sorta of things, but sometimes you have to see the rise of fascism in the states first hand to recognize how bad it is. They're literally assaulting teenagers at high schools now.

They've killed innocents before. Make no mistake, they'll continue to do so until this is righted.