How to Help Minnesota

• Stand with Minnesota

• MPLS St Paul Magazine: Ways to Support Minnesota’s Immigrant Communities as ICE Activity Escalates

• How to Help: Twin Cities Residents

• How to Help if you are Outside of Minnesota

How communities have responded to ICE

• Chicago - Rapid Response Model

• Twin Cities - Rapid Response Model

• Twin Cities - Hotel Noise Model

Scientific

• National Academies, Resources for Researchers and Scholars under Threat in the United States

• Open Science Grid (Compute Resources)

• Public Environmental Data Project

• Impacts of Federal Science Funding (Form by APS)

• Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Mental Health

• The Trevor Project (LGBTQ Crisis Line and Resources)

• NAMI Minnesota Resources for LGBTQ+ Community

• Stay with Us (Essays by Trans Authors on Living)

• Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist

Digital Safety

• Digital Safety Overall

  • The Verge Guide to Locking it Down (Digital Safety)

• Alternatives to US-Based Tech

  • Non-U.S. Alternatives List (GitHub)

  • European Alternatives

• Communications

  • How to share sensitive leaks with the Press

  • The Verge Guide to Securing your Phone before Attending a Protest

  • Wired: How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border

  • Freedom of the Press Foundation Guide to Locking down Signal

  • A Pocket Guide for Scientists: Safeguarding Online Communications

  • WaPo: Federal workers: Here’s how to lock down your communications

Safety

• Demographic- or Politics-Based

  • Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map

  • United States Disappeared Tracker

  • How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid

• Natural Disasters

  • Extreme Weather Risk Tool

  • How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump’s America | WIRED 

• Disaster Preparedness

  • Ready.Gov Disaster Planning

  • Ready.Gov 2024 Archive + Offline Web Browser

  • Prepping isn’t just for preppers anymore—it’s time to get a go-bag

Advocacy

• How to Win a Fight | WIRED

  • • How to Out-Troll the Trolls, as Told by the Internet’s Foremost Posters | WIRED 

    • How to Fight Like a ‘Ballerina’ | WIRED 

    • Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back | WIRED 

    • How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community | WIRED 

    • Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here | WIRED 

Education

• Courses - Crash Course 

Medical Information

• Regular Updates

  • American Medical Association YouTube Channel (putting out the kind of updates we would normally have gotten from the government)

• Resources

  • Erin's Informed Consent HRT Map: How To Obtain Transgender Hormone Therapy Easily

  • CDC HIV/AIDS Information (Captured 2025)

  • CDC STI Information (Captured 2025)

  • CDC Mpox Information (Captured 2025)

  • CDC Offline Archive (Captured 2024, Requires Offline Browser like Kiwix)

  • Restored CDC

  • Sex Ed - Crash Course 

• Vaccination

  • CDC Vaccination Schedules (Captured 2024) (US)

  • Ontario's routine immunization schedule | ontario.ca (Canada)

  • See Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts | Scientific American (US)

  • NHS vaccinations and when to have them - NHS (UK)

  • The complete routine immunisation schedule from Jan 2025 (UK)

  • Primary Childhood Immunisation Schedule - HSE.ie (Ireland)

  • Adult Vaccines - HSE.ie (Ireland)

• Data

  • CDC Datasets captured by Internet Archive

Useful or Interesting Articles

• Do You Take the Oath (article for reflection)

• The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

• Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the United States Government

• ACLU recommended reading on the dangers and impact of gang databases

• We Must Establish the Run Against Authoritarianism

Finding and Accessing Information

• Internet Archive and Way Back Machine

• Kiwix Offline Browser and Offline Website Library

• Radio Garden (find and listen to radio stations across the world)

Whistleblowing and Reporting Experiences

• Whistleblower Complaints Form by Senate Democrats

• Were you fired by President Trump? (Form by Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff)

• Impacts of Federal Science Funding (Form by APS)

• Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Federal Government Impact

• The Impact Map

• SCIMaP: Impact of Federal Health Research Cuts

• 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties | WIRED 

• The Anti-Corruption Tracker

Foreign News Media

I would recommend adding some foreign news media to your news sources to diversify perspectives.

• BBC (UK)

• Sky News (UK)

• The Guardian (UK)

• CBC (Canada)

• The Globe and Mail (Canada)

• DW (Germany)

• Le Monde (France)

• Al Jazeera (Qatar)

• The Irish Times (Ireland)

• RTÉ (Ireland)

• The Copenhagen Post (Denmark)

Older Items

Items that I had under a different heading before but are a bit more outdated now.

• Yale Budget Lab - Jan 31, 2025 - Predicted Trump Tariff Effects

• Apollo Global Management - April 2025 - How are US consumers and firms responding to tariffs?