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- The Yurok Tribe lays 11,500 pounds of native plant seeds along the Klamath River.
- A federal court rules that the president overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing most spending on U.S. humanitarian work abroad that Congress appropriated for this purpose.
- Transgender service members stay on active duty as a federal court blocks implementation of the president’s ban on trans service members while litigation proceeds.
- The House reintroduces the bipartisan CROWN Act, which would ban discrimination against people based on their hairstyle or hair texture due to their race.
- Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), new senator and ex-CIA, critiques the anti-democratic actions of the current president.
- AZ: A circuit court strikes down two state laws intended to suppress voters.
- CT: The governor’s work group on Ranked Choice Voting is working collaboratively across party lines.
- NJ expands early voting opportunities for primary elections.
- NY: Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D) holds Know Your Rights forums to provide accurate immigration-related information to New Yorkers of diverse national origin.
- San Francisco celebrates Women’s History Month in diverse and creative ways.
- Rural organizers and grassroots leaders in the U.S. form the Rural Defenders Union to support under-resourced anti-authoritarian actions.
- Across the U.S. and the world, scientists, researchers, and those who support science protest the current administration’s research-funding cuts, federal layoffs, and obfuscation of facts.
- Principled artists–including Rhiannon Giddens, Renée Fleming, Ben Folds, and Shonda Rhimes–resign from the Kennedy Center and cancel appearances in protest of the president’s takeover of the board.
- Pope Francis rebukes the U.S. president’s harsh immigration policies and refutes a close-minded interpretation of Catholic theology by the vice president.
- In honor of Reading Month, 60 volunteers show up to a Michigan elementary school to read with third-graders.
- Park City, UT will use ranked choice voting for the first time in the 2025 municipal election.
- Redondo Beach, CA voters understand and support the city’s new ranked choice voting system.
- Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall orders rainbow flags and lights to be displayed at the City & County Building despite a state ban on Pride flags at government-owned property.
- The digital media company theSkimm republishes the contents of reproductiverights.gov after it disappeared off the web on the president’s second day in office.
- Dacia Petrie, a user interface and web designer, creates an app allowing shoppers to find and buy from Black-owned businesses.
- Mission of Mary Cooperative in Dayton, OH uses church vacant land to produce 65,000 pounds of produce for the community.
- Two Maine organizations, Mainers for Working Families (MFWF) and Undue Medical Debt, collaborate to cancel the medical debt of 150 peope, totalling $1.9 M.
- A former authoritarian president of the Philippines is in custody in The Hague, facing a trial for crimes against humanity.
- A TikTok-er Tayor makes a sympathetic post about a lonely author’s book signing event, and both Jonathan Stanley and his book go viral.
- Two-Spirit couple Adrian Matthias Stevens (Northern Ute, Shoshone-Bannock, and San Carlos Apache) and Sean Quern Snyder (Navajo and Southern Ute) commemorate Indigenous LGBTQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day by sharing reflections on Instagram.
- Loyal customer Christina Cavanaugh can continue to rent movies from David Kraning after he relocates his out-of-service video rental store DVDs to a new location.
- High school English teacher Kristina Ulmer gifts her students $20 each to contribute toward a kind act of their choice.
- A new national forest is created in Western England by planting 20 million trees.
- The eastern monarch butterfly population nearly doubles in 2025.
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