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🗞️ U.S. state reaches huge conservation goal 6 years early

Friday, April 25, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. first up... 📚 Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day! Essential community hubs, local, independent bookstores are inclusive, welcome spaces for all people — and offer so much more than books. They deserve to be celebrated and supported tomorrow and every day — more below! 🏳️🌈 A leaked budget report shows the Trump administration is proposing to end funding for a suicide lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth that’s...

🗞️ Teachers bike across Vermont to advocate for migrant students

Thursday, April 24, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. First up... 📂 The nation’s largest federation of unions formed a pro bono legal network to support federal workers who have been fired or whose jobs are at risk under the Trump administration. (Gifted link) 📚 A certain online retailer launched its annual book sale yesterday ... just three days before Independent Bookstore Day, a major revenue driver for small, independent bookstores. Rude. So, we’re...
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🗞️ Good News: Florida ordered to protect manatee habitat

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🖊️ Following Harvard’s lead, more than 150 presidents of U.S. colleges and universities — large and small — have signed a letter denouncing the White House’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with higher education. ✝️ The body of the late Pope Francis will be moved to lie in state at St. Peter’s Basilica today, allowing people to pay their respects —...
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🌎 Good Earth Day News: Protecting 300-year-old trees

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Love your mother... 🌎 Today is Earth Day! This day is our opportunity to celebrate the beauty of Mother Earth and advocate for change around the issues most impacting the planet. 🙏 As people around the world continue to mourn and celebrate the life and legacy of Pope Francis — today we especially remember his climate justice advocacy, calling environmental degradation both a social and ethical issue....
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🗞️ Sea turtle populations are recovering globally

Monday, April 21, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Up first... ✝️ Pope Francis passed away on Monday morning in Rome. Perhaps more than anything, the Catholic church’s first Latin American pope will be remembered for challenging tradition to make the church more inclusive, from championing the poor and most vulnerable to calling on the world to decriminalize homosexuality. 🏳️⚧️ Last week, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal...
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🗞️ Good News: National Park Week starts tomorrow!

Friday, April 18, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. First... 💔 Heartbreakingly, there was a shooting on the Florida State University campus yesterday. Two people were killed, six people were injured, and law enforcement has the suspect in custody. ❤️🩹 These tragedies are preventable, and today is a great day to let your elected officials know you want to see them enact common-sense gun safety laws (you can use our script). ✅ Maryland Senator Chris Van...
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🗞️ Good News: ‘Land bank’ protects Altadena from developers

Thursday, April 17, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Retraction: On March 6, 2025, the Goodnewsletter included a story about Travis Kelce purchasing a $3.3 million mansion to transform into transitional housing for homeless foster youth. That story was originally published based on what we now know to be false information. Good Good Good prioritizes accuracy and integrity in our reporting and transparency with our readers. When we do make a mistake, we...
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🗞️ Sierra Leone massively reduced maternal mortality

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. good trouble... 🎓 The first university to do so, Harvard rejected policy changes requested by the Trump administration, like overhauling hiring and reporting rule-breaking international students, which it said were illegal. (Gifted link) ⚓️ The U.S. Naval Academy removed hundreds of books from its shelves, including Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” — local alumni, residents, and...
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🗞️ Good News: Colorado passes a historic gun safety law

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. First Up... 🚀 Yesterday, Blue Origin sent six women into space, making it the first all-women crewed flight since a solo mission in 1963 — but women have been making history in space for a *very* long time! 🪨 Thankfully, no deaths, injuries, or major damages were reported after a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California yesterday morning. 🏀 As expected, UConn star (and newly minted national...
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🗞️ North America gets its first National Park City

Monday, April 14, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. A few things... 🐧 Remember when the Trump administration tarriffed an island of penguins? While the internet freaked out, the penguins saw an opportunity — you can now buy a Heard Island pebble to support wildlife conservation! 🔥 Over the weekend, emergency crews quickly evacuated Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his family from the governor’s mansion after an alleged arsonist, now in custody,...

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