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• The DNC is placing billboards calling out Trump’s betrayal of rural hospitals. They are being placed nationwide outside hospitals that have had to close or reduce services, attributing these issues to Trump's policies and budget cuts.

• A federal judge on Monday ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding.

• Despite the national extension shutting down, Illinois is keeping its dedicated 988 lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth.

• Hundreds of people joined the Florida Immigrant Coalition to protest outside Alligator Alcatraz, demanding health screenings and humane treatment of prisoners while calling attention to the camp’s brutal conditions. Read coverage from WUSF/NPR here.

• A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration can not take Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly removed from the U.S. earlier this year, into custody should he be released from pretrial incarceration on immigrant smuggling charges.

• Liberal group Protect Our Care is launching a $525,000 radio ad campaign attacking Republicans for threatening Medicaid coverage for rural Americans. The ads are running in Arizona, Florida, California, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington.

• ‘South Park’ excoriated Paramount and humiliated Trump in the premiere episode of the show’s 27th season. It drew nearly 6 million viewers, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

• Roy Cooper, the popular Democratic former governor of North Carolina, is running for US Senate, making that seat very winnable.

• Trump’s approval rating dropped to its lowest level of his second term—37%!—a shift fueled by a huge decline in support among independents.

• A Scottish newspaper went viral as Donald Trump prepared to visit by using its front page to declare a “convicted felon” was “to arrive in Scotland.”

• More than fifty federal immigration judges who were fired by the Trump regime are taking legal action to challenge their unlawful terminations.

• Judges have found ways to block Trump’s nationwide policies in at least nine instances since the Supreme Court tried to curb their power.

• A federal judge ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding.

• On April 30, several thousand activists sent a Resistbot urging their U.S. Representatives to sign a bipartisan letter supporting robust fiscal year 2026 funding for global Maternal and Child Health, GAVI (the vaccine alliance), and global nutrition. On July 23, the House Appropriations Committee rejected Trump’s proposed cuts and upheld FY 2025 levels AND increased Nutrition funding to $172.5 million. 

• A sculpture popped up in Midtown Manhattan of an all-red Trump, with half of his body emerging from a sewer. It had a manhole cover next to it with a rat underneath. Artist James Colomina was behind the artwork.

• A group of Christian denominations — Baptist, Lutheran, and Quaker — is suing the Trump administration to stop immigration enforcement arrests in their churches.

• 80% of Americans report being extremely or very motivated to vote in next year’s election for Congress

• Democracy Forward and American Oversight filed a lawsuit on behalf of a dozen individual members of the U.S. House of Representatives challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful obstruction of congressional oversight at federal immigration detention facilities.

• Trump tried to talk to reporters in Scotland and was drowned out by bagpipes.

• Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: stabilizing the grid.

• Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed two bills seeking to target crime and strengthen safety around guns. 

• The Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal forecasters—just days before it was set to end.

• A coalition of 21 states and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the federal agency told states to turn over the detailed, personal information of food assistance applicants and their household members.

• Democratic U.S. Reps. Jason Crow and Joe Neguse filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after ICE blocked multiple members of Congress from entering detention centers.

• Oregon recently approved an ambitious framework for ’microgrids.’ Microgrids are essentially local “islands” of energy generation and storage systems that connect to a utility but can operate independently when needed. Many are designed to serve community facilities such as hospitals and schools during emergencies.

• Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott denied a request from the U.S. Department of Defense to activate Vermont Army National Guard soldiers in support of federal immigration enforcement activities.

• A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration and extended Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.

• Sixteen states are suing the Trump administration to defend transgender youth healthcare access.

• A judge ordered Trump officials to restore funding for Radio Free Europe.

• Taking a huge leap toward zero-emissions buildings, New York’s Fire Prevention and Building Code Council approved an all-electric building standard, making it the first U.S. state to prohibit gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings.

• The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling to maintain the temporary restraining order, granted by a federal judge, over how the federal government conducts immigration enforcement operations in Southern California.

• Solar and batteries make up the vast majority of new power plant installations in the U.S. — and will continue to through 2030. Trump can apparently slow this momentum, but not stop it.

• A federal appeals court agreed with a Seattle judge’s decision to universally block Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

• The U.S. government will uphold and defend previous decisions to block the Pebble Mine.

• A judge ruled that Trump’s order on the International Criminal Court likely violates the First Amendment.

• Singer Amy Grant called her Congressmember on stage in front of a live audience to protest cuts to PEPFAR funding.

• And lots more HERE!