Below is more of the good news that is unfolding even as Trump, Musk, and their thugs are trying to destroy American democracy. Much of this list was compiled by Zann Zsuzsannika and Robert Reich.

• The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will NOT allow the Trump admin to end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants.

• The U.S. District Court of DC issues a temporary restraining order halting the current administration’s attempt to put 2,200 USAID workers on leave.

• OpenAI’s board has unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s takeover offer.

• Detroit is on pace to record the fewest criminal homicides since 1965, while carjackings have plummeted to the lowest level since the Detroit Police Department began tracking the crime in the 1990s.

• Sheryl Crow sold her Tesla, and donated funds to NPR, which is under attack by the new Republican regime.

• New Yorkers protested outside of the Tesla showroom in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to rage against Elon Musk and his meddling in the U.S. government. Similar protests happened all across the country

• Bernie Sanders launched a “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” tour, beginning in Omaha and Iowa City.

• Leonard Peltier is home.

• The Proud Boys, a hate group, loses control of their trademarked name to the Black church the group vandalized in 2020.





• Abortions are set to resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution

• Dozens of major news organizations, including CNN, The Washington Post and Fox News, wrote to the White House this week urging the Trump administration to immediately lift its ban on The Associated Press.

• Singer-songwriter Victoria Canal played the Kennedy center and, at the end of her set, donned an “Anti-Trump AF” shirt. She got huge applause, and her set broke the record for highest viewership of any Kennedy Center livestream. She also gave 100% of her fee to a trans rights org.
 
• MA Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell leads a statement from 15 state AGs in support of gender-affirming care, in opposition to a harmful order from the president.
 
• After the plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway, and 100% of people survived, every person who has ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” changed their minds.

• A federal court orders that Hampton Dillinger be reinstated to his position as leader of the Office of Special Counsel—which protects the federal workforce from politically motivated retaliation—while a lawsuit proceeds against the president for illegally firing him.
 
• The sun won’t set before 5 PM again until October!

• Inspectors general fired by President Trump in late January filed a lawsuit against the administration alleging their termination violated the law.





• A federal judge blocked parts of two executive orders issued by President Trump that collectively seek to restrict gender-affirming care.

• Organizations and companies that contract with USAID announced a legal challenge to the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency.

• As an alternative to calling the police, Inclusive Therapists offers a “warm line” list of organizations that responds to crises in marginalized communities.

• A man got swallowed by a humpback whale and then spat back out! And yes, they got it on camera.

• A judge temporarily blocked Musk and Trump from firing top officials at the CFPB.

• The National Treasury Employees Union sues the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for halting much of the CFPB’s work protecting American consumers, and for allowing rogue actors access to secure CFPB systems.
 
• The House introduces the Taxpayer Data Protection Act, which would protect users of the U.S.’s payment system from unlawful interference by a presidential administration.

• A judge ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must restore online access to websites with data and guidance on HIV monitoring, health risks for youths and assisted reproductive technologies.

• Quaker groups file suit over the revocation of a policy that restricts ICE from arresting people in houses of worship.

• Thousands of Coloradans protested in solidarity with their aspiring American neighbors in response to a series of raids by ICE.

• Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration protects aspiring American residents by refusing to participate in federal immigration enforcement.

• Federal judges have temporarily blocked several of Trump’s sweeping executive orders and stalled Musk’s pillaging of some federal agencies, pending further judicial consideration.





The president has been stopped from unilaterally ending birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment; freezing up to $3 trillion in domestic spending that was authorized by Congress, to which the Constitution gives the power of the purse; purging the U.S. Agency for International Development and immediately putting its 2,200 employees on leave; imposing an impossibly tight deadline for a questionable “deferred resignation” offer to most civilian federal workers; and enacting other radical measures.

• A private company has saved purged government data on health, climate vulnerability, chronic illness etc. and is making it accessible.

• Female protagonist in top grossing films rose to a historic high in 2024, reaching parity with men.

• There is a rare super pod of more than 1500 dolphins frolicking in Monterey Bay.

• Amazon has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle charges that they subsidized their labor costs by taking tips their delivery drivers received from customers.

• Shopify has officially taken down Kanye West’s website for violating its terms and selling t-shirts with a swastika on them.

• Stock and bond markets are trembling. Trump has not lowered prices; in fact, inflation is rising under his control.

Trump’s wild talk of 25 percent tariffs is spooking the market. Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which measures the performance of 30 large-cap U.S. stocks, dropped by more than 1.40 percent.





• The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast.

• Independent and alternative media are growing. Subscriptions have surged at Democracy Now, The American Prospect, Americans for Tax Fairness, Economic Policy Institute, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, The Guardian, ProPublica, Labor Notes, The Lever, Popular Information, Heather Cox Richardson, and Robert Reich.

• Boycotts are taking hold. Americans are changing shopping habits in a backlash against corporations that have shifted their public policies to align with Trump.

For example, Target's shareholders lost $15 billion of net worth in their holdings of Target common stock when Target announced they were dropping DEI initiatives

• The NAACP has published a spending guide for Black consumers showing companies that have rolled back their DEI initiatives and others that have maintained their commitment. tinyurl.com/CompaniesRejectingDEI

• Phone calls to congressional phone lines in the U.S. have increased by 4,500%

• The federal courts are hitting back. So far, at least 74 lawsuits have been filed by state attorneys general, nonprofits, and unions against the Trump regime. And at least 17 judges — including several appointed by Republicans — already have issued orders blocking or temporarily halting actions by the Trump regime.

The blocking orders include Trump initiatives to restrict birthright citizenship, suspend or cut off domestic and foreign U.S. spending, shrink the federal workforce, oust independent agency heads, and roll back legal protections and medical care for transgender adults and youths.





• An international resistance has formed to counter Trump and his dark vision for America and the world. Canada leads the way, as Canadians of all political parties (with minor exceptions) have united in solidarity against Trump.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is also standing up to Trump and ignoring his idiotic antics. She has defended Mexico and the sovereignty of Latin American countries that Trump has threatened and insulted.

European democracies stood together after JD Vance’s humiliating and offensive speech at the Munich Conference. European nations made it clear they will support Ukraine at all costs and never capitulate to Putin, as Trump recently did.

• Trump is overreaching — pretending to be “king” and abandoning Ukraine for Putin. Trump’s threats of annexation, conquest, and “unleashing hell” have been exposed as farcical bluffs — and his displays of being “king” and siding with Putin have unleashed a new level of public ridicule.

• Trump’s and Musk’s approval ratings continue to decline.

• Kendrick Lamar’s visionary Super Bowl performance became the most watched halftime show in history. The show brought in a whopping 133.5 million viewers. It featured an all-Black cast of dancers and was a celebration of Black culture and a commentary on the history of Black Americans in the United States.

• A coalition of U.S. cities and counties filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order seeking to force so-called sanctuary jurisdictions to cooperate with his immigration crackdown and mass deportations.

• Following public backlash, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield backed down on a plan to cap insurance coverage of anesthesia during lengthy procedures.

• Thousands of New Yorkers rallied in support of transgender, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender nonconforming youth, and to protest the denial of gender-affirming care by healthcare organizations.





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