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• HRCD is looking for a member or two to take meeting notes twice a month.

• Meetings are one hour long, on Thursday evenings, and are hybrid, so you can do this from home.

• Invite a friend to "job-share" it and you've got a back-up system for travel, kiddo's soccer game, etc.!

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Bring on the Good News!

• Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones won Saturday’s mayoral runoff in San Antonio, despite Republicans going all in to ensure their candidate's victory. This is a big win for Texans in one of the largest cities in the country.

• Polls for Trump continue to worsen. A new Quinnipiac University poll released last week found Trump’s approval down at 38%, with 54% disapproving. Bluesky

• The American Bar Association (ABA) dropped a massive federal lawsuit last week against the White House, naming the Office of the President, and each and every high level government department along with every cabinet official. The list of named defendants alone goes on for eight pages. The complaint is for declaratory and injunctive relief in order to protect firms that haven’t yet been targeted but remain afraid of taking any action that could put them on the wrong side of the regime. Why name so many defendants? "If you name every department and every cabinet official, any injunctions or orders that the courts issue will apply to each and every part of the government." [Status Kuo, 6/18/2025]

• The full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied the president’s appeal challenging the civil verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll. Bluesky

• A federal judge halted provisions in President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order issued earlier this year in a lawsuit filed by 19 Democratic-led states.

• Our US Senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, published data showing the threat to rural hospitals, including service reductions and closures, from Trump’s big budget-busting bill.

• Amidst Trump’s insults to and service reductions for veterans, Rep. Maxine Dexter has introduced the  Every Veteran Housed Act, to expand access to life-saving resources for homeless veterans.

• Senior voters are turning out in force to protest Trump—and could be Democrats' secret weapon.

• A federal judge halted Trump order tying state transportation grants to immigration actions.

• Trump’s mad about TACOs! Asked About ‘TACO’ and Tariffs, Trump Lashes Out at Reporter.

• Judge blocks Trump from barring international students at Harvard.

• Michael Luttig, influential former federal appeals court judge, gave his own view of the Trump presidency: the most destructive president in history, who “has intentionally and deliberately set out to destroy literallyevery institution in America, up to and including American democracy and the rule of law.”

• OUTED: White House Health Report Included Fake Citations.

• A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of ejected officials after ruling that the Trump administration’s takeover and gutting of the U.S. Institute of Peace were unlawful and a “gross usurpation of power.”

• Rebuffing Trump, New York Refuses to Rescind Native American Mascot Ban.

• Federal judges side with Oregon in striking down tariffs imposed by President Trump.

• More lawyers leave after their firms cut a deal with Trump.

• Oregon to receive $66 million from Sackler family in national opioid settlement.

• Judge blocks Trump order to dismantle Education Department, and directs reinstatement of thousands of fired employees.

• And lots more HERE!