Three Wins Today: June 2, 2025

I’m starting this early cause I can. For some reason I always start Three Wins after Daily Dems, but there’s no good reason for that. Sorry you probably don’t care about the inner workings of my schedule. Anyway, here are today’s wins, well, three of them.

1. Today - SCOTUS has declined to hear two separate cases considering Maryland and Rhode Island’s gun laws. Now this isn’t a permanent win, the cases will of course come back, but it is a win for now, and a huge one at that.

   Jen Carter, a lawyer at EveryTown said in a statement:

   Courts of appeals across the country have consistently and correctly upheld laws like these — with countless communities safer as a result

2. Fri May 30 - New Mexico is expanding Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Now every single child is eligible. If you didn’t know already, the program allows children to recieve free monthly books delivered to their home. And Dolly’s message to the New Mexico kids is EVERYTHING!

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3. Today - CNN has received word that the hiring freeze has been lifted for the National Weather Service. According to their source:

   After losing more than 560 employees to layoffs and early retirement incentives earlier this year, the National Weather Service has received permission to hire about 125 new meteorologists and specialists for its forecast offices around the country, as an active hurricane season looms.

   I don’t know if this has more to do with our outcry or that of mother nature herself. Probably a combination of both. I hope this isn’t a one time thing and they are fully staffed again soon so we are all safer and more aware of impending weather.

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So those are the wins I have for you. I hope you’re looking for wins on your own. There are more than three every single day, I promise.

Also, I’m thinking of naming this Substack, cause seeing “Ariella Elm is a reader-supported publication” just feels weird.

I was thinking “The Daily Elm,” thoughts?

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