Three Wins Today: May 30, 2025
Tomorrow is my weekly day off, so start looking for wins, cause I’m not looking for them, it’s your turn.
But today is not my day off, so here are today’s three wins.
The Oregon House unanimously passed a bill that eliminates the statute of limitations to file a sexual assault lawsuit. It’s a good day when anything passes unanimously, especially in Oregon. I don’t know if you were around two years ago, but the Oregon House Republicans did a weeks-long walkout, and it wasn’t their first, but it did result in most of them not being allowed to run for reelection. So a whole bunch of things that should have easily passed couldn’t cause they didn’t have a quorum.
All that to say, it’s really great to see them agreeing on something so important. Dem Rep Annessa Hartman said:
It doesn’t undo the past, but it fixes what we can. It says that from here forward, no one will be denied justice just because their healing took time.
Yay Oregon!
The California Senate is starting hearings into Paramount’s quid pro quo with DT. The chair of the Energy Utilities and Communications Committee, Josh Becker, and the Judiciary Committee, Thomas Umberg, wrote a letter to Bill Owens, who resigned from 60 Minutes, and Wendy McMahon who resigned as CEO of CBS news and stations asking them to testify.
Your recent resignations from CBS’s leadership, amid public reports of internal concern about the editorial and ethical implications of the proposed settlement, suggest that you may possess important, first-hand knowledge relevant to our legislative oversight responsibilities.
There’s been so much crappy news coming out of California thanks to our embarrassment of a governor, so it’s nice to see some accountability happening in spite of him.
PBS and Minnesota’s Lakeland PBS are following NPR and suing the administration for DT‘s executive order unilaterally cutting funding for these organizations. The lawsuit begins:
This action challenges an unprecedented presidential directive attacking PBS and its member stations (“PBS Member Stations”) in a manner that will upend public television. Consistent with Congress’s mandate and funding, PBS has provided trusted and award-winning educational, cultural, scientific, and public affairs programming—like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Sesame Street, NOVA, Frontline, and numerous Ken Burns films (e.g., The Civil War, Baseball, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, and Country Music)—to millions of viewers of all ages and communities across the United States for more than half a century. Yet in an Executive Order issued on May 1, 2025, the President declared that government funding of private sources of non-commercial media is “corrosive,” and singled out PBS (alongside National Public Radio) as failing to provide “fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news.”
We love institutions that stand up and fight back as opposed to sitting down and giving in.
And those are some of today’s wins! I can’t wait to see what you come up with tomorrow!
Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!
Why does everybody hate our governor Newsom? What am I missing