Extra! Extra! 7/9 🎈

Hi, all, and happy Sunday!

Time to rouse yourself from your Sunday snooze—I’ve got a new list of wins for you! As always, we’ve been notching a lot!

Times are tough. Take time to soak up the victories. Remember: what we focus on grows. Also, celebration and gratitude are restorative. We need this in order to stay strong.

Sending so much love. Each of you is a hero. Never, ever forget it.

Jess

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Love this article about the backlash against extreme school board members in a city in SoCal.

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Members of the far-right organization the Proud Boys have been ordered to pay more than $1 million damages for their role in destroying property at a predominantly Black church in 2020.

Bangladesh has recorded the highest number of olive ridley turtle eggs laid on the country’s beaches this nesting season, thanks to extensive conservation actions.

A federal judge has given Enbridge three years to shut down parts of an oil pipeline that crosses reservation land and ordered the energy company to pay a Native American tribe more than $5 million for trespassing.

Thousands more people in prison will be eligible for free college under President Biden’s Pell Grant program expansion. About 30,000 more students will be able to receive $130 million in financial aid per year, helping them earn degrees, diplomas, and certificates while behind bars.

In a complaint filed on Monday, a legal activist group demanded that the federal government put an end to legacy admissions, arguing that fairness was even more imperative after the Supreme Court last week severely limited race-conscious admissions.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has vetoed a ban on gender-affirming care for a majority of minors in the state. The notably centrist Democratic governor also penned a poignant veto letter condemning the bill’s infringement on fundamental rights in favor of baseless culture wars. 

A federal judge on Monday blocked a new Florida election law pushed by Republicans that puts restrictions on voter registration groups, calling it “Florida’s latest assault on the right to vote.”

The risk of dying from breast cancer has fallen dramatically since the 1990s, according to a new study, which found that most women diagnosed early with breast cancer now go on to survive the disease long-term.

Adam Schiff raised over $8.1 million in the year’s second quarter—a record-breaking haul—much of it due to the Republicans’ efforts to censure him. All but 2 percent of his contributions came from grassroots supporters giving $200 or less, the campaign said. The average contribution was $34. Schiff is not accepting corporate PAC money.

All of Detroit’s municipal buildings are going to be powered by neighborhood solar as part of the city’s efforts to combat climate change.

The Biden administration gave a green light Wednesday to the largest-ever offshore wind project the U.S. has yet approved, paving the way for dozens of turbines that could eventually power hundreds of thousands of New Jersey homes.

Two protesters in their 60s stormed a Wimbledon court to demand the UK government halts all new licenses for oil, gas and coal.

Lin Wood has just retired to avoid disbarment.

Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers used his partial veto powers to increase public school funding for the next 400 years by tweaking a budget bill’s wording. He also gutted a GOP-authored tax cut.

Pro-abortion advocates in Ohio submitted nearly double the signatures needed to get a statewide measure protecting abortion rights on the ballot in November.

Wimbledon relaxed its strict all-white dress code to allow women to wear dark-colored undershorts, addressing concerns about playing while menstruating.

The Media and Democracy Project announced its filing of a petition to deny the broadcast license renewal application for Fox Corp-owned television station FOX 29  Philadelphia. MAD filed their objection before the FCC, alleging that senior management of Fox manipulated its audience by knowingly broadcasting false news about the 2020 election.

Rhode Island became the latest state to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses.

The UFW has unionized 500 workers at five farms in New York state.

Toyota says it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to halve the weight, size and cost of batteries, in what could herald a major advance for electric vehicles.

Wind and solar power are booming in China and may help limit global carbon emissions far faster than expected, according to a new study.

Leaders of the world's rich economies have agreed to provide $100 billion in climate finance to developing countries.

12 African countries will receive 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine. The vaccine has now been administered to 1 million children in a major pilot, reducing malaria cases by roughly half and saving one life for every 200 children vaccinated. The 18 million doses are just a start: Global demand is estimated at 40 to 60 million doses a year.

Lamborghini said it has sold its last-ever petrol-only supercar. All future orders from the high-end carmaker will be either plug-in hybrid or fully electric, according to CEO Stephan Winkelmann. 

A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 50 years.

Starting this week Arizona women will be able to buy birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives from pharmacies without prescriptions. And so will women in Utah!

The U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in June.

Nearly 15 years after voters approved building it, Honolulu opened an 11-mile section of its long-awaited rail project on Friday, the first passenger train service on Oahu since the 1940s. 

Connecticut joined Maine and Colorado in banning utility companies from using money collected from customers to fund lobbying and political efforts.

Fines for oil spills and other pipeline accidents are surging under the Biden administration.

After decades of intensive lobbying and the deaths of countless miners, federal regulators have finally taken a major step toward tighter restrictions on exposure to silica dust, a change that could save thousands of lives. 

President Biden on Friday rolled out a new set of initiatives to reduce health care costs: a crackdown on scam insurance plans, new guidance to prevent surprise medical bills and an effort to reduce medical debt tied to credit cards.

Negotiators from nearly every country reached a provisional agreement on Thursday to effectively eliminate the shipping industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by as close to 2050 as possible.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave full approval of Leqembi — a drug that’s been shown to modestly slow the cognitive decline caused by Alzheimer’s. 

A bar disciplinary committee recommended that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred in Washington, D.C. for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Companies are increasingly facing legal action over their false or misleading climate communications, according to a new report examining trends in global climate litigation.

Child-care providers in California reached a tentative agreement with the state to raise wages by 20% and change the way California calculates subsidies for low-income families.

A recent working paper shows that in the last two years Biden’s policies have wiped out a quarter of the inequality built in the previous forty.

The FDA has approved the first blood test for predicting the risk of preeclampsia, a severe blood-pressure disease, in pregnant people.

Certain endangered species can be reintroduced to areas outside of their traditional habitats under new conservation rules from the Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs granted state Attorney General Kris Mayes the authority to prosecute abortion cases, taking that ability away from district attorneys. 

The Anacostia River in D.C. was declared clean enough to open for legal swimming for the first time in 51 years.

The New School announced this week that they will begin providing free medication abortion care + related counseling services “to any student who needs it.”

Maine has passed LD 1619, which will remove Maine’s current ban on abortion later in pregnancy, remove criminal penalties attached to abortion care, and update the state’s antiquated data collection laws for abortion providers and patients. Yay!

The suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet has moved to Threads.

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I love Jess Piper. I hope those of you not on TikTok can watch this.

@jesspipermoI mean, she tweeted out the names not me😂 #momsforliberty

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