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🗞️ Good News: Portland’s free grocery store feeds 100,000
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ⚽ The state of New Jersey donated 770 World Cup tickets to youth soccer players, sick children, first responders, and healthcare workers. 🏞️ A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore all signs that were changed or removed at national parks across the country. 🏆 90-year-old Floyd Norman, Disney’s first Black animator, will receive an honorary “lifetime achievement”...
🗞️ Good News: France’s newest nature reserve is the size of LA
Monday, June 15, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 📰 Workers began removing President Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy Center over the weekend after a court-ordered deadline. 🏀 The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 to win the 2026 NBA Finals for the first time since 1973. 💕 Rachel Accurso, a.k.a. Ms. Rachel, made her first visit to Washington, D.C. with letters from children in ICE custody to urge...
🗞️ Good News: A new cancer drug doubled survival rates
Friday, June 12, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ⚽ After a FIFA World Cup official was denied entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, despite having all the necessary paperwork, Canadian leaders invited the Somali referee to officiate their World Cup matches. 🧑⚖️ Judges in Amsterdam agreed to hear Greenpeace’s lawsuit against a US fossil fuel pipeline company in relation to Dakota Access oil pipeline protests. 👓 Meta deleted a...
🗞️ Good News: Mangrove forests are rebounding globally
Thursday, June 11, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ⚽️ The FIFA World Cup starts today, with Mexico kicking off the world’s biggest soccer event against South Africa in Mexico City for the first match. 🤖 Seattle just passed a year-long moratorium on new data center construction, becoming the largest U.S. city to do so as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. ☀️ A federal judge struck down a Trump...
🗞️ Good News: Athletes raise funds to save soccer fields
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🍎 New York City’s major crime rates hit a record low again, with the fewest murders and shootings in recorded history in the first five months of the year. ⚠️ Vermont became the first state to ban the use of the highly toxic herbicide paraquat, which is widely used to control weeds in major crops across the country and is linked to Parkinson’s disease. 🧊 New Jersey’s governor...
🗞️ Good News: Endangered bee gets new protections
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ⚽️ Following widespread backlash, FIFA reversed its World Cup water bottle ban and will allow fans to bring refillable water bottles into stadiums. 💼 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. payrolls rose by 172,000 in May, which was much higher than expected. ⛪ Pope Leo XIV received a seven-minute standing ovation after he demanded respect for migrants in the first-ever...
🗞️ Good News: Budapest Pride parade approved, reversing ban
Monday, June 8, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🌊 Today is World Oceans Day! This is our annual opportunity to celebrate the beauty of nature, encourage conservation, and take action to restore and protect our oceans. 🏆 Qween Jean became the first openly trans woman to ever win a Tony Award, winning the award for costume design for her work on “Cats: The Jellicle Ball.” 🏔️ A missing Sherpa guide was found alive after surviving...
🗞️ Good News: Voters pass historic data center ban
Friday, June 5, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🧡 Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, which kicks off Wear Orange Weekend, and people will be gathering at events nationwide to both honor those impacted by gun violence and take action to end gun violence. 🏛️ A bipartisan majority in the House voted to end hostilities with Iran, with four Republicans joining Democrats in support. 🩺 Melinda French Gates donated $215 million...
🗞️ Good News: Homelessness decreases across the U.S.
Thursday, June 4, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🤝 After pressure from both political parties, President Trump abandoned his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, which was intended to compensate people who claimed to have been targeted by the “weaponization” of President Joe Biden’s government. 🇫🇷 Two hundred years after France abolished slavery, the French Parliamnet official repealed an archaic “Black Code” that had quietly...
🗞️ Good News: Europe completes largest 3D-printed apartments
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🏳️🌈 Two months after the Supreme Court struck down its previous law, Colorado’s governor signed new, updated legislation to protect LGBTQ+ kids from conversion therapy. ⚡️ A new law in Tennessee requires data centers with peak demands of at least 50 megawatts to pay for their own electricity infrastructure. 🇧🇷 Brazil is set to join other Latin American countries working shorter...
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