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🗞️ Good News: Middle schooler supports teen moms
Friday, June 13, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🛳️ The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is bringing back over 450 CDC employees, including some who work in divisions that handle cruise ship safety, sexually transmitted infection prevention, and global health. 🚗 A convoy made up of at least 1,500 people arrived in Libya after driving from Algeria through Tunisia on its way to Gaza to try to break Israel’s ongoing...
🗞️ Good News: A major move to decriminalize homelessness
Thursday, June 12, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🇺🇸 There are more than 1,800 “No Kings” protests planned across the U.S. this Saturday, June 14. A “nationwide day of defiance” of President Trump’s militarized parade, some events are doubling as food drives. 🌊 Bringing it closer to becoming binding international law, 18 more countries ratified the High Seas Treaty during the U.N. Ocean Conference in France this week — only 11...
🗞️ Good News: The world's largest marine protected area is established
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 👏 A federal judge said the Trump administration cannot force recipients to stop programs that promote DEI or acknowledge the existence of transgender people as a requirement to receive grant funding. 🪧 As immigration raids continue across the country, so have protests, with at least 25 others organized in cities like New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta to rebuke the...
🗞️ Good News: We can take action to help immigrant communities
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🚨 The city of Glendale, California announced it was ending its agreement with the federal government to house people detained by ICE, saying the “local decision reflects our core values: public safety, transparency, and community trust.” ⚖️ Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose deportation was declared illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court, is back in the U.S. in federal custody....
🗞️ An HIV cure breakthrough “overwhelmed” researchers
Monday, June 9, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. good to go... 🪧 President Trump deployed 2,000 California National Guard members to Los Angeles over the weekend amidst protests against the federal government’s immigration raids in the city — the first time since 1965 a state’s National Guard was activated without a request from its governor. The state is planning to sue the administration over its “unlawful” actions. 🇺🇸 On Friday, veterans gathered in...
🗞️ A new Palestinian art museum fights dehumanization
Friday, June 6, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Fighting deportations... ✏️ High school students in Massachusetts walked out of class to protest the arrest and detainment of their classmate by federal immigration officials “on his way to volleyball practice,” despite having no criminal record. 👏 For the first time, the Trump administration responded to a judge’s order and returned a Guatemalan man who was wrongly deported to Mexico. Art & Culture...
🗞️ TB kills way fewer people (but only in rich countries)
Thursday, June 5, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🏳️⚧️ Blocking President Trump’s executive order, a federal judge said the U.S. Bureau of Prisons must keep providing gender-affirming care to transgender people who are incarcerated. 🧇 After more than a month in jail, a waitress in a small Missouri town who immigrated from Hong Kong 20 years ago was released by ICE. Carol’s arrest rattled her conservative community, which came...
🗞️ Trans and cis athletes say “ruck you” to rugby ban
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Pride wins! 🏳️🌈 In a 9-2 vote, the Missoula City Council approved the Pride flag as an official city flag in opposition to Montana’s new state law prohibiting the flag from being flown on state property. Salt Lake City did the same to protest Utah’s ban. 📞 Celebrities like Ariana Grande and Pedro Pascal signed an open letter in support of protecting federal funds for an LGBTQ+ crisis helpline, which...
🗞️ Nationwide railway reaches net-zero five years early
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 💔 Twelve people were injured in Colorado by a man, now officially charged with a hate crime, who threw Molotov cocktails into a group of demostrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Thankfully, there were no fatalities. ⚓️ A ship is on its way to Gaza carrying aid and 11 activists including Greta Thunberg, who said it was important to try to help this way,...
🏳️🌈 Advocates create ‘petty’ Pride merch to protest flag ban
Monday, June 2, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. 🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 This Pride Month finds us in a both celebratory and heartbreaking time for the queer community. Amidst hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ pieces of legislation in the U.S., there is also so much joy, resilience, and, well, pride. This first official Goodnewsletter of Pride Month is filled with those stories — the ones of hope and progress for (and because of!) the LGBTQ+ community. It...
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