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🎾 Billie Jean King just made history (again) by becoming the first woman athlete to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Sports Entertainment category.
🚂 In response to news reports and backlash, the National Park Service reversed edits andrestored original content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
🗞️ A judge ordered the White House to restore the Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, ruling it could not retaliate against the outlet’s decision not to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
Food & Education
Photo: Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah expanded its free school meal program to include 40,000 more students
Utah’s governor approved a bill to eliminate the state’s reduced-cost lunch program — instead, families will get those meals for free.
Starting July 1, the state is expanding the free school meals program to an additional 40,000 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Next school year, even more students will be eligible.
The new legislation also prevents schools from “stigmatizing students who cannot afford meals” by eliminating practices like using different colored lunch trays for those on the free meals program.
Why is this good news? A reduced-price school meal in Utah costs 40 cents, but many families still struggle to afford meals, and schools in the state still have around $2.8 million in lunch debt.
Lunch debt is a huge burden for families all across the country — and this is important progress toward ensuring all kids can learn on a full stomach.
Fossil fuels made up less than half of the U.S. electricity mix in March for the first month on record
In March 2025, fossil fuels accounted for 49.2% of electricity generated in the U.S. — beating the previous monthly record low of 51% set last year in April.
This also means that renewable sources reached all-time highs — accounting for 50.8% of U.S. electricity for the first month on record. Nearly half of that came from wind and solar alone, which have been seeing (and will continue to see) exponential growth.
Just a decade ago, fossil fuels provided 65% of U.S. electricity generation, while wind and solar just 5.7% — that share has since more than quadrupled.
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What’s good?
That chart showing the gradual decline of fossil fuels is *textbook* good progress. Is it where we want it to be? No! Is it so much better than where we were? Hell yeah! Let’s keep it going!
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