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Today we’ll introduce you to North End residents exploring and commemorating their neighborhood’s history. But first: You probably saw that the U.S. Senate passed the budget and policy bill — colloquially (but no longer officially) known as the Big, Beautiful Bill — in a 51-50 vote, with all Democrats and three Republicans voting against it, and Vice President J.D. Vance casting a tie-breaking vote. The bill is now going back to the U.S. House, which will have to approve changes senators made to their version.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss of Newton said he believes the bill will pass.

“It’s going to kick 10 million Americans off of health insurance and raise health insurance premiums for tens of millions more. And it’s doing both those things in service to tax cuts for people who don’t need tax cuts,” Auchincloss told GBH’s Adam Reilly.

One thing no longer in the bill: a 10-year moratorium on state legislation limiting AI. That means Massachusetts, and legislatures in the rest of the country, are still allowed to pass legislation regulating the technology.

Four Things to Know

1. About 450 sanitation workers went on strike yesterday saying their employer, Republic Services, has stalled contract negotiations. That means Republic Services is bringing in outside workers to collect people’s trash, and people in cities and towns that rely on Republic Services for garbage pickup might see some delays.

“This is absolutely outrageous what we’re going through right now,” said worker John Marcella, picketing in Revere. “We all work very hard, right? And the company’s being very, very greedy.” Affected communities are: Beverly, Canton, Danvers, Gloucester, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, North Reading, Peabody, Swampscott, Wakefield and Watertown.

2. Labor organizers, most with local SEIU chapters, spent yesterday at the South Bay Home Depot in Dorchester handing out flyers in English and Spanish informing people of their legal rights if they come across immigration agents. Home Depot is “a place where ICE is targeting folks knowing that a lot of folks in that community frequent a place like this, never thinking that it’s going to actually be a place where they might actually be detained, or deported in the worst case situation,” Al Vega of the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health told GBH’s Esteban Bustillos.

Among the tips: people have the right to remain silent and can say they will remain silent until they speak with an attorney. Citizens of other countries have the right to talk to their home nation’s consulate staff. The organizers advised people who witness immigration agents detaining someone to observe without interfering, and said they have the right to film what they see.

3. For the last two years, people in Massachusetts prisons could apply for Pell grants to get an education while incarcerated, with hopes of leaving prison with a college degree (or at least part of one). But now, with major cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, the fate of that money is uncertain, GBH’s Marilyn Schairer reports.

“The changes at the Department of Education do concern us in that it impacts our ability to expand educational access,” said Mneesha Gellman, founder of the Emerson Prison Initiative, which lets people at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) at Concord seek degrees in media, literature and culture from Emerson College.

4. July is now officially Cabo Verdean Heritage Month in New Bedford. Massachusetts is home to the largest Cape Verdean population in America, with about 70,000 people with ancestry from the archipelago off the coast of West Africa.

Saturday marks 50 years since Cape Verde declared independence from Portugal, and New Bedford is celebrating: there are art exhibits, a poetry festival tomorrow, and a Cape Verdean Independence Day bike ride on Friday — all leading up to a big Kultura Fest on Saturday. You can find a full events calendar here, and a conversation with singer and educator Candida Rose Baptista, who led the effort to officially recognize Cabo Verdean Heritage Month in New Bedford.

In Boston’s North End, new efforts emerge to retell local history

North End residents are digging into their neighborhood’s history and unearthing tales about the people who called the neighborhood home since the Colonial period: Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans, waves of Irish and Jewish immigrants, and Boston’s largest Black population in the early 19th Century.

“There’s probably quite a bit about this place that nobody knows until they start looking deeply,” said Ann Moritz, a North End resident who works as a social justice consultant and is leading the North End Black Heritage Trail project.

Stops on that trail will include the former home of Zipporah Potter Atkins, who back in 1670 was the first African American woman to buy land in Boston. The land her home sat on is now part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The trail also stops at an Underground Railroad location called the Ann Street Boarding House.

Meanwhile the North End Historical Society is planning to turn an apartment at 3 Prince St. into a museum telling the neighborhood’s story.

“There’s a lot of love that goes into this neighborhood,” said Frank DePasquale, who owns a dozen businesses in the neighborhood and donated the condo for the museum. He said he was inspired by seeing the neighborhood’s historical society tell stories of Italian immigrants like him.

Read the full story from Izzy Rodriguez and Kate Brodkin.