Bansky-inspired protest art featuring the ‘Subway Sandwich Guy” has popped up all over DC (image from Courier News)
Hi, all, and happy Sunday!
Another week, another deluge of awfulness. And yet, like green shoots in a burn zone, good news is poking out everywhere if only we stop and look for it. The human spirit, it turns out, really is irrepressible. So while Trump does his best to take away our hope, others work overtime to make sure hope stays alive.
Here’s your chance to celebrate that!
Remember, in order to maintain our strength for fighting fascism we must occasionally rejuvenate. Now is such a moment.
Enjoy, and thanks once again to all of you who join me in this work, support me in it, or both!
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Thanks to the reader who sent this post my way. What a great and hopeful piece!
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A plan to reshape California’s congressional districts to counter Texas’s new maps will appear before voters this November after passing in the CA legislature by wide margins this week.
California and Denmark inked a new partnership advancing climate collaboration, technology and innovation.
The Department of Justice says it will begin turning over documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation to the House Oversight Committee.
A group of between 30 and 50 critically ill and injured Palestinian children will be evacuated from Gaza to the U.K. for medical treatment in the coming weeks.
A federal judge ruled that the Education Department cannot terminate funds for two congressionally mandated programs that conduct research to close educational achievement gaps.
Texas lawmaker Nicole Collier spent more than 24 hours on the state house floor in protest after she refused an order from the House speaker to be placed under 24/7 surveillance by state law enforcement until a vote on the state’s mid-decade redistricting plan.
After more than 42 days since the last new confirmed case, health officials in Texas have officially declared the state’s measles outbreak over.
A tri-national nature reserve is being created by Mexico, Guatamala and Belize to protect the Mayan jungle.
A judge declared that former Trump lawyer, Alina Habba, has been unlawfully serving as US attorney in New Jersey.
Flight attendants won boarding pay and a new 4-year deal, ending the Air Canada strike.
A judge ruled that the State of Florida must immediately halt all new construction on Alligator Alcatraz and dismantle fencing and other infrastructure in 60 days.
Massachusetts residents no longer have to subsidize new gas hookups.
Seattle voters renewed the city’s democracy vouchers program, which provides each adult Seattle resident with four $25 vouchers they can donate to local candidates of their choice.
America’s largest landlord has pledged to cease its use of RealPage’s algorithmic rent-setting software thanks to a new settlement with the Justice Department.
City councilors in Portland, Maine, paused the development of a new Live Nation concert venue amid concerns that the entertainment monopoly’s efforts could damage the local music scene.
Homophobic attitudes have declined dramatically in the U.S. and Western Europe.
A million protesters in Israel participated in a nationwide strike to demand a deal that would result in a ceasefire with Hamas and the release of hostages who remain in Gaza.
Google is investing an undisclosed sum in Energy Dome, a startup developer of long-duration battery technology that pairs with solar, wind and other intermittent renewable sources to provide clean power around the clock.
Insurance giant Humana lost a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging the firm fraudulently used algorithms to deny Medicare beneficiaries’ claims.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was booed and picketed during a district event, with protesters calling her “a Nazi” and “a bully.” GOOD!
A University of Colorado Boulder alumna donated a 476-acre wildlife reserve and endowment to the university. Her donation was valued at $10.4 million.
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax $67 million.
Gavin Newsom raised 6.2 million THIS WEEK ALONE!
New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham beat Trump at his own game by calling up her National Guard preemptively, making them unavailable for his abuse.
U.S. developers are reporting that, if all keeps going according to plan, at least half of new electric generating capacity in 2025 will come from solar. Wow!
The 1st Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s request to enforce the “defund” Planned Parenthood provision in the reconciliation law while its appeal of the preliminary injunction proceeds.
Four more Virginia schools have defied Trump’s Department of Education and will continue to allow trans youth to use the bathroom of their gender.
Nike’s founder Phil Knight and his wife gave $2 billion to Oregon Health and Science University for cancer research and treatment.
The California Supreme Court rejected a GOP effort to halt Newsom’s redistricting push.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery issued a temporary ruling blocking Texas from enforcing its new law that mandates the Ten Commandments be posted in every classroom within public schools in Houston, Austin, and several other areas.
The Miss Universe pageant will welcome Palestine for the first time in the pageant’s history.
The city of Gatlinburg, TN decided to keep adding fluoride to its water supply after receiving public input opposing its movement to eliminate it.
JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Stephen Miller were loudly booed inside DC’s Union Station.
Cleveland residents greeted Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno at the City Club with a sign that said “Moreno protects pedophiles.”
South Park shared a clip from the latest episode mocking, once again, a certain physical trait of Trump’s—don’t watch if you dislike vulgarity.
A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don’t have their voting power diluted.
Pope Leo will welcome a pro-LGBTQ+ Catholic group to the Vatican for the first time in history.
Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) was ruthlessly booed at a town hall as she doubled down on backing Trump.
A new program in Missouri will make it much easier for sexual assault survivors to get a forensic exam no matter what hospital they go to.
A state judge has temporarily blocked Ken Paxton from pursuing a case against Beto O’Rourke, after Paxton accused his group Powered By People of improperly funding a Democratic quorum break in the Texas House.
Philanthropist Elizabeth Simons gave $250,000 to a super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani.
Trump’s attempt to open up swaths of protected waters off of Hawai’i to commercial fishing has been blocked by a federal district court in Honolulu.
A new hybrid ferry called the Harbor Charger is up and running to Governor’s Island in New York City. It was built to be fully battery powered, and it will be, once a dockside charger is installed.
South Carolina Republican. Rep. Nancy Mace had to cancel a speech in her home state after only 8 people showed up to hear her.
DC musicians and activists came together Thursday night for a “Defend the District” Go-Go concert and rally in response to Trump’s military takeover.
Zohran Mamdani and his team held a scavenger hunt in NYC today. They also trolled Eric Adams’s corrupt staffer spectacularly in the video promoting it.
In a reversal of recent trends, hedge funds are now betting against oil and for clean energy.
Oil tanker spills have nearly vanished since the 1970s.
A federal judge in Montana ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the law when it denied critical protections for gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains.
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Diaper Diplomacy does it again.
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