Extra! Extra! March 2

Too much good to fit in one email!

One of the many great protest signs at Sugarbush on Saturday. (More below)

Hey, all, and happy Sunday.

I know it’s terrifying out there, but I have to tell you—it’s also really inspiring. I literally ran out of space for all the good news I wanted to post. Tens of thousands of Americans are making their voices heard this weekend—at Tesla showrooms around the country, at National Parks, at ski slopes, and in more fiery Town Halls. It’s fantastic.

So take a little break from doomscrolling and bask in just some of the positive developments we saw this week. Again, there were so many more I couldn’t cover! If you notice I’ve missed something please drop it in the comments!

Finally, please share this post widely. We can’t keep fighting if we can’t find hope—and this list is the best source of hope I know of right now.

Thanks again for everything you’re doing, folks. You, with your simple, brave actions, are changing the course of history. It’s an honor to be in this fight with you.

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Some of you have already read We Were Made For These Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. If you haven’t, do. Medicinal.

Celebrate This! 🎉

A Minnesota court ruled that AG Keith Ellison’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch industries, and the American Petroleum Institute can continue.

Missouri Congressman Mark Alford (R) got “the exact warm reception he deserved” at his coffee chat on Monday morning.

A federal judge blocked Trump’s ICE policy green-lighting immigration arrests at churches.

Activists targeted London bus stops with parody Tesla ads, including one that said “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds!”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Kyiv and pledged 25 light armored vehicles to Ukraine. He also says Canada will provide $5 billion in seized Russian assets.

A judge blocked the Education Department and OPM from sharing personal info with DOGE.

Someone hacked into all the government TVs on Monday morning and posted an AI video of Trump licking Musk’s toes. Seriously.

A bipartisan coalition of mayors, lawmakers, and law enforcement in Alabama endorsed a public safety package last week that would ban devices used to convert semiautomatic weapons into machine guns.

The Presbyterian Church of the USA, one of the largest mainstream Protestant denominations, is speaking out forcefully against Trump's agenda.

Apple’s shareholders voted, and the company’s DEI policies will continue.

The Go Fund Me for Dr. Borrenpohl—the woman dragged out of the Idaho Town Hall—has surpassed $325,000. Also, the city of Coeur d’Alene has revoked the business license of the security company whose unidentified thugs dragged her out of said Town Hall last weekend.

The Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose long-running appeal has attracted support from a broad coalition after independent investigations revealed prosecutorial misconduct.

A Roanoke College poll finds Virginia’s gubernatorial race has taken a dramatic twist as Abigail Spanberger (D) surged to a healthy lead over Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R), 39% to 24%. The two were tied at 39% in the same survey in September. Ahem. Something’s happening.

Rudolph Giuliani has "fully satisfied" the $148 million judgment won by two Georgia election workers who said he defamed them by falsely claiming they helped steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

More than 20 civil service employees resigned from DOGE, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

Veolia, the world’s largest private water corporation, has announced a $53 million settlement with Flint residents and the state of Michigan in lawsuits related to its role in the ongoing Flint water crisis.

A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Trump's effort to halt the nation's refugee admissions system.

Two members of a nonpartisan board that oversees the executive branch’s counterterrorism policies and protects civil liberties filed a lawsuit against Trump for moving to illegally fire them without cause.

John Deere investors voted overwhelmingly against a resolution aimed at its DEI efforts.

Wisconsin just became the final state to introduce a “right to repair” bill. All 50 U.S. states have now introduced some form of right to repair legislation.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans’ health services.

Liberals are now leading in Canadian election polls, something no one saw coming before Trump started taunting our neighbors to the north.

Even with Trump in office, the U.S. is “barreling toward an energy transition as renewables — especially solar — become ever-cheaper sources of energy.”

Tesla’s sales plunged 45% last month across Europe.

The Office of Special Counsel found that six federal civil servants from six separate agencies had been unlawfully terminated from their positions. Now the Merit Systems Protection Board has granted the request to halt those terminations.

In a victory for voters, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that blocked provisions of two Arizona laws seeking documentary proof of citizenship to vote in presidential elections. The Court called the challenged provisions “unlawful measures of voter suppression.”

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said that the more than $2 billion in federal funding for his state has been unfrozen after he filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Apple announced plans to hire 20,000 workers and invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years.

A group of wonderful wonderful organizers and volunteers, including the stellar Rebecca Solnit, have launched the Resist List, a list of all the forms of resistance planned and going on across the country.

Backlash to President Donald Trump’s early actions and statements is starting to erupt in a surprising place— on the phone lines of right-wing talk radio shows.

The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring some of Tesla's biggest shareholders and asset managers calling on them to review Tesla’s current valuation.

More than a dozen Republican state legislators in Minnesota publicly warned U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer and other Minnesota party members in Congress against making deep Medicaid cuts, writing in a pointed letter that “this is contrary to how we Republicans respect the aged and the vulnerable.”

Robert Caro told an interviewer he has 951 pages done on his fifth LBJ book! (He says the book will be significantly longer in the end, so we’re not getting it this year or next. Still, progress!)

More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since Jeff Bezos announced on Wednesday that he would radically overhaul the paper's opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing points of view. WOW.

The Supreme Court turned away a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights.

New Hampshire legislators on Feb. 20 voted to adopt a loan program that will create new ways to finance clean energy while clearing the way for new residential developments in a state facing an acute housing shortage. ¹

Internal Revenue Service leaders rejected a request from immigration enforcement officials to divulge the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally.

A clandestine network of employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies have created the #AltGov movement to resist DOGE from within. They have developed a public-facing presence through Bluesky accounts, most of which bear the names or initials of federal agencies, aimed at getting information out to the public – and correcting disinformation – about the chaos being unleashed by the Trump administration.

Hundreds of protestors gathered in the Iowa State Capital building in Des Moines to protest a bill that would remove gender identity protections based on for the state’s Civil Rights Act.

Democrat Sean Faircloth won his election in the Maine House. This win further solidifies the Maine Democrats’ majority in the state House.

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has officially severed ties with Elon Musk’s Starlink. This will cause Musk to lose an estimated $7 billion.

JD Vance and his family attempted to go to Sugarbush in Vermont to go skiing. First, the person who writes the daily snow report there published an impassioned post urging readers to resist the Trump/Vance administration, then so many protestors showed up at the slopes that the Vance family had to leave. They also had to change plans from staying at The Pitcher Inn to a private residence. WELL DONE! Look at these pics!

Over 200 people turned out for the first meeting of Indivisible Chicago Northwest!

Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger in his challenge to Donald Trump’s effort to fire him as head of the Office of Special Counsel.

A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of DOGE to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Saturday in the heart of New York City at Times Square to express support for Ukraine and protest against the U.S. administration's policies regarding Russia's war.

Protesters at national parks around the country held demonstrations against the Trump administration’s extensive federal staffing cuts. Other activists found a way to get their messages to a broader audience by placing signs in front of parks’ live webcams. And of course, others hung upside down flags from mountainsides.

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God bless SNL.

1. This and the two above from @the Lever