SHERO on Sunday

A lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for March 3rd - 9th, 2025.

Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with a minimal time commitment, and make sure you did not miss anything. There are also several links within each snippet to give you more detail from credible and free sources if you want to dive deeper on any issue.

With the pace at which the Trump administration is attempting to rollback civil liberties and defund crucial federal programs, you will want to check in here, just to make sure you did not miss anything important.

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Gun Violence This Week

At SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. There were six separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where five people were killed and 31 were injured.

1. Sunday, March 2, 2025: Biloxi, Mississippi

2. Sunday, March 2, 2025: Houston, Texas

3. Sunday, March 2, 2025: Franklinton, Louisiana

4. Sunday, March 2, 2025: Portsmouth, Virginia

5. Tuesday, March 4, 2025: Severn, Maryland

6. Tuesday, March 4, 2025: Mamou, Louisiana

The speed at which the Trump administration has worked to roll back civil rights protections and fire the federal employees that serve the American people has been lightening-fast, providing cover on the attention front where lingering legal reproductive protections are still at risk. For more on this issue, read:

• This week, several arts organizations sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) over its new requirements following Donald Trump’s executive order barring the use of federal funds for the promotion of “gender ideology.”

• Tens of thousands of US federal employees will lose their jobs after the Trump administration moves to reduce the size of the federal workforce dramatically. (Here are more details about who those people are and where they work.)

• Newly appointed Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, issued her first official statement for the agency on Monday, calling their next major downsizing the "final mission" for the Department of Education. Read her full statement here.