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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down "Expensive, Unnecessary" Abortion Restrictions in Texas: The laws, which required abortion clinics to have the similar standards to hospital surgical centers and for doctors to have admitting privileges in nearby hospitals, had caused about half of the state's 41 abortion clinics to close, the New York Times reports.

The Supreme Court said the Texas laws placed an “undue burden” on states cannot impose medically unnecessary rules that put an “undue burden” on women seeking an abortion. The Texas law, upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, had proved difficult and expensive for clinics, and nearly 20 have closed since the admitting-privileges requirement was allowed to go into effect. The ambulatory surgery standard could have caused 10 more clinics to close, leaving only about 10 open.

The case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, could also change abortion standards across the country. NYT has a great infographic here.

Speaking of Which, Shout Your Abortion: Is having a kinda super-secret event tonight related to the Texas HB2 abortion ruling. Organizers will unveil "a nationwide series of actions." Find out all the deets here.

Sunday's Pride Parade: Nearly a half-million people showed up.

One Couple Even Got Married on Stage: They won Seattle Pride's wedding contest. Congrats to Angie George and Cheryl Cerney!

In Not So Happy News: Four attacks were reported over pride weekend. One happened just outside of Poco Wine + Spirits on East Pike Street and 14th Avenue, KING 5 reports. Despite this, Seattle Police officers said that there were 50 percent fewer attacks than in previous years. Department officials said that the reduction in hate-based attacks has been partly due to their Safe Places Program, which installs "Safe Place" signs in businesses' windows and trains workers to respond to victims of hate-based attacks. "Police say more than 2,000 businesses participate in the Safe Place program and since the attack in Orlando, 100 more have reached out wanting to join in. There are plans to expand it beyond Seattle," KING 5 reports.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Boeing Are Still Processing Brexit: According to KUOW, although Amazon announced a UK expansion before the vote, which eventually supported the nation leaving the European Union, was taken. Before the referendum passed, Microsoft officials said "Brexit would endanger its future investments in the UK" and that they supported Britain staying in the EU. Boeing, which promised to build its European headquarters in the UK, said that they would roll with the Brexit vote. "As a global business we constantly manage changes in political circumstances and we will continue to do so now with the evolving situation in the UK and Europe," they told KUOW.

Washington Car News: Gas taxes are going up, enhanced IDs are tripling in price, and vehicle registration fees—especially for electric cars—are becoming more expensive, KPLU reports. The final 4.9 cents of Connecting Washington's 12 cent gas tax increase will go into effect July 1 and will fund highway, bike paths, and walkways projects, among others, over the next 15 years.

Every Row A Path Film Documents the Challenges of Migrant Farmworkers' Children: According to the Seattle Globalist, there are about 20,000 migrant students in Washington state. Nearly 670 of them go to school in the Skagit Valley. According to reporter Sarah Stuteville, migrant students have "one of the lowest graduation rates of any student population in the state.

From Ana Mendoza, 19, who was featured in the documentary and worked on the film with director Jill Freidberg:

“I managed to work a full-time job and keep going to school,” says Mendoza, who started helping her parents in the fields at age 8 and started picking at 14. “And I’m a teen mom. So I had to balance out spending time with my baby and working full-time, and trying to get my homework in on time.”

Actor Jesse Williams Remembers Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Darrien Hunt, Rekia Boyd, and More in Powerful Speech at the BET Awards: If you do nothing else today, listen to this.

The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job. ...

We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo. And we’re done watching, and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us. Burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil — black gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them. Gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, though, the thing is, that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real.

Full transcript here.

Seven People Were Stabbed at a California neo-Nazi Rally: According to the Los Angeles Times, fighting between anti-fascist organization Antifa Sacramento protesters and the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group, broke out almost immediately. One person was stabbed "within minutes."

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