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🗞️ Good News: California returns land to Indigenous tribes

Friday, June 10, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🤖 The planning board of Jersey City, New Jersey banned the development of standalone data centers and “cyber hotels.” 🏛️ A U.S. appeals court struck down part of Florida’s “Stop Woke Act,” ruling that it unconstitutionally barred professors from teaching about race and gender. 🏆 The final season of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” received nine Emmy nominations, the most in the...
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🗞️ Good News: A breakthrough for MS treatment

Thursday, July 9, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🇻🇪 Bad Bunny’s earthquake aid effort delivered 42,000 pounds of essential supplies to Venezuela. 📰 Utah revoked the license of a teen treatment center that had been criticized by Paris Hilton. 🍌 A new law in California aims to reduce food waste in grocery stores by eliminating “sell by” labels in favor of ones that read “use by” and “best if used by.” Health & Science New...
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🗞️ Good News: NYC’s first city-funded pet food pantry

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🏙️ Mass evacuations took place in Manhattan after a high-rise was found to be unstable. No injuries have been reported, and the mayor praised “first responders for quickly arriving at the site and ... New Yorkers for reacting calmly and with urgency.” 🇸🇾 Explosions rocked Syria’s capital during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit. “Nothing can smother the aspiration of Syrian...
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🗞️ Good News: Antarctic creatures could treat melanoma

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🌍 Hamas dissolved its government in Gaza and transferred power to a U.N.-backed committee, per a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. 🏛️ The Supreme Court allowed Texas to require apps to verify the age of users and obtain parental consent for minors. 🏥 Medicaid resumed funding for Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers after being cut off for most of this year....
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🗞️ Good News: US murder rates approach record low

Monday, July 6, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🏥 The World Health Organization declared that the hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ⁠ship is over, with its last patient finishing quarantine. 📹 Citing digital privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled that police can’t tap into giant tech-firm databases to see who was near the scene of a crime without stronger constitutional protections. 💒 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kicked off...
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🇺🇸 Good news: Reasons to feel actually patriotic today

Saturday, July 4, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Today is Independence Day. The United States is deeply flawed, and especially right now, patriotism can feel ... nuanced. This week’s Goodnewsletter is filled with genuinely good reasons to *actually* feel a sense of pride and patriotism on America’s 250th birthday, which all double as reasons to continue the fight for progress in the next 250. 🇺🇸 Reasons to feel patriotic about the USA George Bush...
President George H.W. Bush signing the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 on the White House South Lawn

🇺🇸 Good news: There are a lot of (good) reasons to feel patriotic

Friday, July 3, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. The Good Good Good offices are closed today in commemoration of Independence Day. The United States is deeply flawed, and so many of you have told us that patriotism feels ... nuanced right now. In place of your usual Goodnewsletter, today’s is filled with genuinely good reasons to *actually* feel a sense of pride and patriotism on America’s 250th birthday (plus a few good tidbits at the end) — and...
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🗞️ Good News: Italy’s forests eclipse its farmland

Thursday, July 2, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ☀️ A massive heat dome is projected to stretch from the Midwest to the East Coast over the Fourth of July weekend. Here are some tips to keep safe as record high temperatures that could last several days. 🏛️ The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, ruling that President Donald Trump’s executive order conflicted with the 14th Amendment. 🚀 NASA launched a rocket on a rescue...
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🗞️ Good News: Volunteers read to shelter pets during fireworks

Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ♿ Today is the start of Disability Pride Month — here is our resource guide on how to celebrate. 🏭 A federal appeals court rejected Trump-backed EPA bid to abandon tough standards for deadly soot pollution. 💉 The Pentagon restored mandatory flu shots for all recruits after a boot camp outbreak left nearly 300 sick. People Doing Good Bradshaw Animal Shelter/Facebook Every Fourth of...
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🗞️ Good News: Running nun raises $2.6M

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🇻🇪 Search-and-rescue teams from around the world have been arriving in Venezuela to help save people trapped in rubble, two days after back-to-back earthquakes flattened hundreds of buildings and killed at least 920 people. (Gifted link) ❤️ A father and his son were pulled out alive from the rubble of a collapsed building four days after the earthquakes struck Venezuela, giving hope...

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