7/28/2025

 1. Avelo Airlines seems to be in trouble, and several SFVI volunteers exercised good trouble protesting them for their deportation flights and contract with ICE. The faltering airline announced that it will be leaving its Burbank Airport hub and soon will be shutting down its entire West Coast operation.

2. The Marines are leaving L.A. Ditto half the 4,000 National Guard troops. “This is another win for Los Angeles,” said L.A. Mayor, Karen Bass. “The way to best support our troops is to have them do what they enlisted to do, not to protect two office buildings.”

3. The Los Angeles Unified School District reports that testing scores have reached an all-time high. “The coolest thing,” said Supt. Alberto Carvalho, “is that the district has now reached the highest-ever performance at all levels in English language arts and math…We exceeded pre-pandemic levels of performance.” While still falling below state levels of proficiency, this is an encouraging step in the right direction.

4. Under bipartisan pressure from lawmakers, the White House released $5.5 billion in education funding to states, money that had been frozen. The money will help train and recruit teachers, support children learning English and fund arts and music education.

5.  Mexico and the U.S. signed an agreement to end the flow of raw sewage into the Tijuana River, a practice that has closed beaches and caused illnesses in both countries.

 1. According to the Point in Time census from the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, homelessness in Los Angeles County has declined for the second year in a row, with unsheltered homelessness dropping 14% over two years, and 18% in the City of Los Angeles.

2. Since just November, 69 of the 110 DOJ lawyers tasked with defending Trump’s horrendous policies, have resigned. Probably because what Trump’s doing is indefensible.

3. And Trump’s numbers keep hitting new lows, with a new CNN/SSRS poll showing his disapproval rating at 58%. Still not high enough to match reality.

4. Dem Sen. Dick Durbin sounded the alarm on how more than 1,000 FBI employees were assigned to “flag” any Epstein documents mentioning Trump. The question is, why? Durbin’s office received this information from an FBI whistleblower.

5. In California, an art project called Vjaybomb projected images onto a Los Angeles building, depicting Trump eating the “client list” from the Epstein files. Brilliant.

6. New York AG Letitia James is leading a coalition of states demanding Congress pass laws that would require federal agents to show their faces, and to wear IDs or badges.

7. The Trump regime is quietly withdrawing around 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles this week. A great start—now do the other 2,000 

1. Breaking with its tendency to side with the current administration, the Supreme Court refused to revive an aggressive Florida immigration law that would let state officials prosecute unauthorized migrants who enter the state.
2. Despite a recent Supreme Court ruling that limited the ability of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, New Hampshire U.S. District Court judge, Joseph N. Laplante, blocked the administration from enforcing an executive order ending birthright citizenship. By certifying a lawsuit brought by the ACLU as a Class Action, he was able to freeze the implementation of the policy, which he found unlawful. He stayed his order for seven days, allowing time for appeal.
3. In a 4-3 ruling, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld pro-choice rights by striking down an outdated abortion ban that dates back to 1849. The decision vividly demonstrates that elections matter: it was just this past April that, despite Elon Musk’s cheesy headwear and millions of dollars supporting the Republican candidate, Dane County Judge Susan Crawford won the seat and thereby maintained the court’s liberal majority.
4. Thanks to a nationwide boycott, Amazon Prime Day sales fell 41% on the first day, compared to a year ago.
5. A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration on Friday from making indiscriminate immigration arrests in the Los Angeles area and from denying detainees the right to consult with a lawyer. The two temporary restraining orders will remain in place for up to 10 days as the immigrant advocacy groups who filed the lawsuit await a fuller hearing expected in the next few weeks, that could result in a more durable order. Mayor Karen Bass said that the judge’s ruling represented “American values and decency.”

 1.  America’s Amazon: Nearly 8,000 acres of forest in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta, one of the most biodiverse places in North America, is now protected after the land was at risk of becoming the site of a wood pellet mill.

2.  Gavi has secured $9 billion to immunize 500 million children, despiteby the United States, dropping support for vaccines reports Reuters.

3.  China just surpassed 1 TW of solar capacity - almost as much as the rest of the world combined.

4.  Need to Solve a Problem? You might want to sleep on it - for about 20 minutes. New research suggests that taking a quick, deep nap may help lead to a “eureka” moment.