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. 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.