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Because YES! Good things are still happening! 🍒
Hi, all, and happy Sunday.
It’s been a tumultuous week, but in the midst of the tumult we saw a clear through-line: Americans are growing more disgusted with Trump by the day—and they’re showing it! We’re seeing massive protests in the streets of DC and Chicago, huge victories in the courts, federal employees speaking out loudly, Epstein’s victims refusing to back down, and more regular citizens finding creative ways to hit back against Trump’s fascist regime.
It has, in short, been a lousy week for MAGA. Good!
But that’s not all. We saw good news on all sorts of other fronts, too! So while things continue to be excruciating, progress is being made!
Take a few moments, then, to celebrate and bask in it. We can’t keep working this hard, after all, without occasionally stopping to contemplate the fruits of our labour.
And wow—it’s a lot of fruit! Enjoy!
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Go courts! THE ANTI-TRUMP STRATEGY THAT’S ACTUALLY WORKING—Lawsuits, Lawsuits, and More Lawsuits. By Michael Scherer.
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PA State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta walked 105 miles to bring attention to the Republicans’ brutal slashing of public transit funding.
Denver's public school system said Tuesday that it would defy demands from the Trump administration to discriminate against transgender students even if it means losing federal funds.
An appeals court has upheld the preliminary injunction on Marco Rubio’s transgender passport ban. Trans and nonbinary folks continue to have safe, legal access to accurate passport documents. This is a MAJOR win!
India’s clean electricity generation rose 20% in the first half of 2025, hitting a new peak.
Democracy Forward secured a court order requiring the State Department to preserve and account for Signal messages of senior national security officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people's smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions.
Harvard University secured a win in their fight with Trump over federal research funding.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the law when it mobilized 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in June.
The New Mexico Department of Health has issued a public health order to help ensure all New Mexicans can access the COVID-19 vaccine.
A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced she will not seek reelection, creating an open race for a seat on the court that’s controlled 4-3 by liberals.
Federal LGBTQ and reproductive health web pages taken down by the Trump administration will be restored online following a litigation settlement between the HHS and several public health organizations.
Portland is expanding its first responder team dedicated solely to serving those having mental health crises.
According to a new report, grid connections in the U.S. increased by 33% last year—and 75% of the new additions were solar and energy storage projects!
Maryland’s Charles County Public Schools is expanding participation in the free school breakfasts program to 32 schools for the 2025–2026 school year.
in Newbern, Alabama Patrick Braxton won a first-in-sixty-years Mayoral election with 2/3 of the vote! He’s been Mayor of Newbern for 5 years, but the white minority never accepted it so the town held an election. Read more here. [H/T Ariella Elm]
A new study published in Science finds that bringing bison back to their ancient stomping grounds in Yellowstone Park is breathing new life into grassland ecosystems, with benefits cascading across the food web.
Missouri State University is launching a pilot program this year to tackle food insecurity on campus.
Belgium will recognize Palestinian statehood.
A federal judge struck down a GOP-backed South Dakota law that would have made it harder for citizens to put issues on the ballot, ruling the law was unconstitutional and a violation of free speech.
In Colorado, students successfully lobbied the State Board of Education to incorporate more education about climate change into the state’s science standards for K-12 public school students.
Governors Gavin Newsom, Tina Kotek, and Bob Ferguson announced the formation of the West Coast Health Alliance, citing distrust in the CDC.
Five Republicans joined House Democrats to table Rep. Clay Higgins’ (R-La.) motion to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) and remove her from the Homeland Security Committee.
The Conservation Fund purchased North America’s largest blackwater swamp, saving it from a mining company. Spanning from southern Georgia into northern Florida, the Fund’s purchase is critical to protect the entire Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, including more than 350,000 acres of designated wilderness.
Solar power is growing in Pakistan at an “unprecedented” rate.
A new joint effort by California and Nevada is protecting Lake Tahoe from a record amount of polluted runoff.
Oregon state Rep. Cyrus Javadi switched parties, registering as a Democrat.
A new CBS News poll finds 74% of Americans think the federal government should make vaccines more available, while only 4% say they should be made less available.
MrBeast, Mark Rober, and other YouTubers raised over $40 million to fund clean water projects.
Flock, the automatic license plate reader company, paused all ongoing pilots with federal government agencies after it came to light that CBP had access to all 80,000 cameras nationwide.
In Utah, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is reclaiming the Bear River Massacre site by restoring the land’s natural ecosystem.
Just months after being arrested, detained and nearly deported by the Trump administration for his activism, Mohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old Palestinian student and US permanent resident, returned to Columbia University and vowed to continue speaking out.
A federal appeals court ruled against Trump’s use of an 18th-century wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to rapidly deport Venezuelan migrants, finding there is “no invasion or predatory incursion” of migrants.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) announced her state will require health insurers operating in the state to cover vaccines recommended by the state’s department of public health.
NJ Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law two bills that ban captive audience meetings and ensure students learn about unions’ critical role in building the middle class.
A federal appeals court has reinstated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Biden appointee to the FTC, despite President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her.
Chicago’s mayor ordered city salt trucks, driven by Teamsters, to create mobile roadblocks to obstruct ICE operations.
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work.
Massive crowds gathered in DC and Chicago to protest Trump, ICE, and the National Guard in their cities this weekend. BRAVO!
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY-12) announced that he will retire and “pass the torch to a new generation.
As the U.S. Forest Service makes cuts that threaten to hobble federal firefighting capabilities, California is entering into a pact with other western states and parts of Canada to beef up regional firefighting forces.
RaShon Young and LaVon Bracy Davis won their elections for Florida's House of Representatives and Senate, respectively. The proportion of the vote they both received was way more than what Kamala Harris won in those seats.
C-SPAN will soon be available on YouTube TV and Hulu.
Michigan just became the 48th state to enact a law addressing deepfakes, imposing jail time and penalties up to the felony level for people who make AI-generated nonconsensual abuse imagery of a real person.
A new CBS News poll finds 58% of Americans are opposed to President Trump deploying the National Guard to major cities to fight crime.
Ordinary people serving on grand juries have repeatedly refused in recent days to indict their fellow residents on charges brought by the Trump administration.
Incredible Texas Democrat James Talarico is announcing a bid for U.S. Senate! This is amazing news!
More than 1,000 current and former federal health workers called for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s resignation, warning he "continues to endanger the nation's health."
RFK also got quite the bi-partisan work-over in a Senate hearing.
D.C. sued the Trump administration over what the complaint said is a “military occupation” that violates the Home Rule Act.
California lawmakers passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses.
Attorneys General Peter Neronha (RI) and William Tong (CT) filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the U.S. DOI for a stop-work order that halted an offshore wind farm that was already 80% complete.
A state court stopped South Carolina from immediately handing over its entire voter database — including Social Security numbers and driver’s license information — to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A federal judge denied the Houston County, Georgia Board of Elections’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Black voters challenging the county’s at-large method of electing commissioners under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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I joined thousands of people at the Free DC rally yesterday. It was a wonderful upbeat event!@
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Watching and listening to rump getting booed never gets old.