While Trump Golfed, We Fought Back
Between record-breaking heatwaves, fascist executive orders, and FEMA ghosting half the country, you’d think hope would’ve melted faster than an ice cap. But no—resisters showed up, linked arms, raised hell, and scored real wins this week. Here’s your hit list of resistance victories for Week 24. Sharp claws. Big hearts. No surrender.
⚖️ 1. Federal Court Blocks Loyalty Oaths in Energy Sector
A federal judge in Colorado issued an emergency injunction against Trump’s EO 14090 (the Energy Workforce Patriot Act), ruling that requiring loyalty oaths for federal energy workers violates the First Amendment. For now, no one’s getting fired for refusing to chant “Drill, baby, drill.”
🌊 2. California Bans Palantir from State Disaster Contracts
After widespread outrage over FEMA’s privatization and Palantir’s involvement, California passed emergency legislation banning state agencies from contracting with surveillance firms for disaster response. It’s a major blow to EO 14088’s “Resilience Tier” pipeline of privatized disaster relief.
📢 3. National #WhereIsFEMA Protests Erupt Across 17 Cities
From Tallahassee to Tucson, activists rallied outside shuttered FEMA offices and MAGA governor mansions, demanding emergency aid and exposing Trump’s climate betrayal. Multiple governors issued public statements begging D.C. to release frozen funds. Even Fox had to cover it.
🧯 4. Mutual Aid Networks Expand to 3 New States
Grassroots disaster response groups launched operations in Mississippi, Utah, and Kansas, providing water, medical supplies, cooling centers, and transportation during heat emergencies. FEMA may be broken—but mutual aid is thriving.
📡 5. Whistleblower Leaks FEMA “Loyalty Tier” Map
An internal FEMA document categorizing states by political alignment and aid priority was leaked to Documented.net. The fallout has been explosive, with lawmakers in 12 states demanding congressional hearings and accountability for disaster discrimination.
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🐱 FINAL WORD FROM RESISTANCE KITTY
Trump keeps throwing matches at a burning country, but you? You keep showing up with buckets. These wins weren’t handed to us—they were clawed from the chaos. Every protest, court battle, and act of mutual aid reminds them: this country doesn’t belong to billionaires and bootlickers. It belongs to the people who refuse to give up.
Keep fighting, keep organizing, and keep making fascists furious.
—Resistance Kitty
SOURCE LIST
https://www.documented.net
https://democracydocket.com
https://calmatters.org
https://sunrisemovement.org
https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org
https://grist.org