Good news! A Trump policy requiring schools to eliminate DEI programs or risk losing billions in funding was defeated in court. There are no appeals; the ruling is final. The case was brought by @aft.org , the @asanews.bsky.social and Eugene, OR’s 4-J School District. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! Oregon Health Plan members can now get birth control and emergency contraception at pharmacies for free without a prescription. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! In a landslide, Miami voters just elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, making her the first Democrat to win the office in 30 years. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! In the past 24 hrs, a judge extended a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking National Guard deployment to Portland for another 14 days; a federal appeals court upheld a similar TRO in Chicago; and a judge ordered ICE officers to wear body cameras in Chicago. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! A Trump-appointed federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
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Good news! Under pressure from advertisers that heard an earful from their customers, Sinclair and Nexstar announced they are ending their preemptions of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! A federal grand jury declined to indict the man accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! Jefferson Griffin (R) finally conceded the NC Supreme Court race to Justice Allison Riggs (D) after trying for 6 months to get over 65,000 legal votes thrown out. Yesterday a federal judge ordered the elections board to certify the race for Riggs.
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Good news! Judges in two states ruled Trump can’t withhold funds from public schools that refuse to adopt anti-DEI directives. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! A judge blocked a Trump policy requiring federal voter registration agencies to “assess” citizenship before providing voter registration forms to people who receive public assistance. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! Levi Strauss & Co. shareholders rejected a proposal to cease DEI policies by a vote of 99% to 1%. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
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Six men in plain clothes who dragged a woman out of a Town Hall in Idaho in February have been charged with battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation and security agent duties violation.
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Good news! In a ruling issued overnight, the Supreme Court blocked the deportation of any more Venezuelan migrants under a rarely used wartime law, amid indications that flights were to resume as soon as today. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! Last week, voters in Champaign, IL, flipped the Township Board from red to blue with the election of four Democrats. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! Yesterday, voters in Rolla, Mo., ousted three far right City Councilors who pushed book bans and anti-LGTB
policies, replacing them with candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
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Good news! The National Park Service is now authorized to reinstate all ~1,000 probationary staff who were terminated on Feb. 14. All will receive back pay. Previously, just 400 were rehired, with the rest reinstated but immediately put on administrative leave. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
Good news! A federal judge ordered the White House to retract the mass firing of government workers, calling the action “illegal.” The ruling said OPM “does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe” to fire other agencies’ staff. #BabyAnimalsHaveGoodNews
