“All that is gold does not glitter,” so we have to look hard for the good stuff each week. I found some!

• Donald Trump has decided to delay his state visit to Britain because he doesn’t want to encounter large-scale protests. Our efforts are working!
• The U.S. District Court judge who will hear the lawsuits challenging Texas’s new sanctuary cities law ruled this week that a Mexican citizen’s due process rights were violated when he was held on an immigration detainer after his criminal charges were dismissed.
• Providence, R.I., adopted comprehensive police reform, prohibiting racial profiling and strengthening protections for immigrants, people of color, youth, and transgender people.
• The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down 28 North Carolina House and Senate districts as illegal racial gerrymanders violating the rights of black voters.
• Special counsel Robert Mueller hired Andrew Weissmann, an expert on fraud and foreign bribery who knows how to follow the money, for his prosecution team. He also recruited Deputy solicitor general Michael Dreeben, the Justice Department’s top criminal law expert to help with his investigation of ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian officials.
• A coalition of Democratic and Republican legislators voted overwhelmingly to override a veto from Gov. Sam Brownback and increase taxes, putting an end to Kansas’ disastrous experiment in trickle-down economics.
• In the United Kingdom, Theresa May lost her gamble to ease the Brexit negotiations, thanks to Jeremy Corbyn’s inspiring campaign, which held to Labour Party principles and galvanized young voters.
• France’s new president Emmanuel Macron announced 4-year resident grants available to American climate scientists to do research there.
• Standing Rock Sioux was awarded a $1M renewable energy grant and the $250,000 Wallace prize.
• That was fast. Hawaii is the first state since Trump withdrew from the Paris accord to pass laws supporting the agreement. “Climate change is real, regardless of what others may say,” Hawaii Gov. David Ige said at a bill-signing ceremony Tuesday.
• A report released this week by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice documents dramatic reductions in crime as California’s population went from 67 percent white in 1980 to 62 percent people of color in 2017 . The population of people under the age of 25 went from 60 percent white to 71 percent people of color, a change that’s largely driven by immigration, and violent crime rates for youth dropped by 72 percent between 1980 and 2015.
• Illinois banned “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses in court. It’s the second state to do so.
• Both houses of the Nevada legislature passed a bill opening up Medicaid to all residents.
• The state of South Australia now gets 57% of its energy from wind and solar, already surpassing its goal of 50% renewables by 2025.
• A federal judge denied the Trump administration’s appeal of the judge’s decision to hear a climate change lawsuit, paving the way for the unprecedented suit, which pits a group of youth climate plaintiffs against the federal government and the fossil fuel industry, to go to trial.
• President Trump cast his withdrawal from the Paris accord as “Pittsburgh, not Paris.” The mayors of the 2 cities collaborated on an op-ed for the New York Times on Monday, concluding that “the only way to do right by Pittsburghers and Parisians is to abide by the principles of the Paris Agreement.”
• Scientists in Switzerland have developed the first low-cost system for splitting carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen, a promising way to turn renewables into fuel without increasing the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
• China and California have signed an agreement to work together on reducing emissions.
• Thousands of protestors took to the streets in Rabat, Morroco to protest against rampant government corruption.
• India, the world’s second most populous nation, has committed to selling only electric cars by 2030.
• The number of advertisers on Breitbart.com has dropped 90 percent in recent months, from 242 in March to 26 in May.
• Top lawyers from at least four major law firms turned down overtures to represent President Trump in the Russia investigations, in part over concerns that the president would be unwilling to listen to their advice.
• Deering High School in Portland, Maine, is providing students with sport hijabs with the goal of making Muslim girls comfortable and boosting their participation in sports.
• Citing human rights abuses, New York City’s pension funds have decided to sell their investments in private prison companies, the first such pension divestment in the U.S.
• Chile sentenced 106 former intelligence agents for their roles in the kidnappings and disappearances of leftists during the Pinochet dictatorship.
• The New York State Assembly unanimously passed a bill banning child marriage that will offer the strongest protections against child marriage in the country.
• The acting US ambassador to China quit over Trump’s decision to leave the Paris agreement.
• The ACLU has said they will use Trump’s travel ban tweets to build their argument in the Supreme Court case about the ban.
• In the wake of President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, 285 Climate Mayors — up from the initial 61 — have now pledged to adopt, honor, and uphold the Paris Agreement goals in their cities.
• 12 states plus Puerto Rico have joined the Climate Alliance, started by just 3 states last week. The group is committed to reducing emissions 26%-28% from 2005 levels so as to meet or exceed the targets of the Clean Power Plan Trump promised to undo.
• More than 1,000 governors, mayors, businesses, and colleges and universities co-signed “We Are Still In,” an open letter declaring their commitment to reaching the Paris agreement’s goals.

This week’s list was compiled and written by the amazing Mary Wasmuth.