The Most #Remarkable Part of the #Video of a #Bishop #Confronting the #Trump #Family.

Noting how he had told the #nation during his #swearingin that he had “felt the providential hand of a loving #God,” by virtue of his #surviving two #assassination #attempts, Budde invoked the #compassion and #mercy of God as she called on Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are #scared now.”

https://slate.com/life/2025/01/donald-trump-melania-jd-usha-vance-prayer-video.html

#Trump calls #bishop who bravely asked him to #showmercy to #LGBTQ+ #children and #immigrants ‘#nasty’

#Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde fearlessly #callsout #Trump and #ShadyVance to their faces. This is #heroic.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde/

#Livid #DonaldTrump #demands #apology over #bishop's 'nasty' #NationalPrayerService #sermon.

He called Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde’s sermon “#nasty in #tone," said she wasn’t good at her #job, and #claimed that “she and her #church owe the #public an #apology.”

https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-demands-apology-bishop-sermon

[Video] #Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde #breakssilence after #challenging #DonaldTrump during #prayer #service.

She pleaded with #DonaldTrump to show #Christian #mercy to #immigrants and members of the #LGBT+ #community.

https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/trump-bishop-mariann-budde-cnn-interview-b2684116.html

#WhiteSupremacist #President #DonaldTrump #Revokes #Workplace #Discrimination #Rules Enacted By #LBJ In #1965

#ExecutiveOrder11246, #forbade #federal #contractors from #discriminating on the basis of #race, #color, #religion, #nationalorigin, #sex, #sexualorientation or #genderidentity.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revokes-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613947.html

Trump’s dismantling of #EEOC and #CivilRightsAct #enforcement will have #chillingeffects for #Black #workers.

"These are all things meant to put #Black people and other #peopleofcolor back into a #racial #castesystem where #discrimination against them was #legal," Dr. #AlvinTillery tells #theGrio.

https://thegrio.com/2025/01/22/trumps-dismantling-of-eeoc-and-civil-rights-act-enforcement-will-have-chilling-effect-for-black-workers/

Multiple #government #websites #purged of #LGBTQ+ #content following #Trump’s #inauguration

#GLAAD reported that mentions of words such as “#lesbian”, “#bisexual”, “#gay”, “#transgender” and “#sexualorientation” are no longer accessible on the official #WhiteHouse #website, while “#LGBTQ+” brings up zero results.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/donald-trump-white-house-resources-lgbtq-hiv/

The #WhiteHouse removes #Spanish #language #page from its #website and adds ‘#gohome’ #button

The new president has started off his presidency by taking aim at #immigration and the #LGBTQ+ #community after he signed a raft of #executiveorders, one of which proclaimed there are “only two #sexes”.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/the-white-house-website-removes-spanish-page/

@Susan_Larson_TN Just of the last two days:

"Trump puts all US government diversity staff on paid leave, effective 'immediately'"

"Trump administration halts NIH grant-making process, sending shockwaves into scientific research"

"Federal workers warned to report efforts to "disguise" DEI"

(all by cnn.com)