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🗞️ Good News: NYC builds 50K affordable homes

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🤖 To help reduce low-quality, AI-generated content on the platform, LinkedIn added a new button for users to report “AI slop.” 📦 Food delivery workers in New York City earned an additional $104 million in tips after the city started enforcing a law to crack down on “deceptive” tipping practices from delivery apps. 🚀 More than 100 ex-NASA astronauts have launched a new “Astronauts...
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🗞️ Good News: China plants 66 billion trees

Monday, August 3, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 😷 Uganda’s health minister declared the country Ebola-free following its latest outbreak that infected 20 people and killed two of them. ⚽️ A ball used in the 2026 World Cup final and a shirt worn by Jimin of BTS during the halftime show sold for $110,000 each in an auction benefiting the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund. 🎓 After Howard University unenrolled hundreds of students...
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🗞️ Good News: EU sets solar energy record

Friday, July 31, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🎸 Legendary Irish musician Glen Hansard died this week at 56 years old, and beyond his talent, he’s being remembered for his tireless advocacy for people experiencing homelessness. 🌳 Activists are defending a century-old tree in Lochiel, Arizona that is slated for removal for the Trump administration’s planned border wall route. 🐳 The first six beluga whales were relocated from a...
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🗞️ Good News: 108 tattoos for 108 sharks

Thursday, July 30, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🇬🇷 UNESCO announced that Mount Olympus, Greece’s highest mountain, will now be protected as a world heritage site. 📈 Minnesota Governor Tim Walz banned state workers from betting with private government info on prediction markets. 🏆 “Back to the Future” star Michael J. Fox is set to receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards in September. Fox is also...
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🗞️ Good News: ‘Middle-Earth’ adds 5 marine reserves

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🩺 So far in 2026, seven states have restricted the use of AI in health insurance companies’ medical authorization decisions. 💊 After more than 21 years without local access, a Planned Parenthood clinic in southwest Missouri began providing abortion care, along with expanding pain management for IUD placements and biopsies. 🦆 Bill Oddie, legendary BBC wildlife presenter and...
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🗞️ Good News: Japan supercharges battery recycling

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🔥 The European Union has dispatched planes and firefighters to help fight wildfires raging in France and Spain, which have triggered one of the largest evacuation operations in Europe, displacing more than 300,000 people. 🛒 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the pricing structure at the new city-owned grocery stores, which includes cutting prices by 30% on a core basket of...
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🗞️ Good News: Citizen scientists achieve major milestone

Monday, July 27, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 💵 A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had acted illegally last summer when it cut millions in federal grant money, saying it couldn’t cancel grants to achieve priorities that were announced after the grants had been awarded. ⛪️ A Texas nun who was taken into immigration custody while walking to Mass spoke out for the first time about her arrest. 🏳️⚧️ The judge in the...
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🗞️ Good News: Heat wave underscores solar potential

Friday, July 24, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 💵 Cook County, Illinois teamed up with the state to erase more than $2 billion for over a million people, thanks to a nonprofit that buys debt for pennies on the dollar. 💧 Sierra County, New Mexico passed its first moratorium on data centers, citing concerns over potential water and environmental impacts. 👏 For the first time since 1970, the city of Seattle went the entire month of...
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🗞️ Good News: A ‘Mad Max’-style trash pickup race

Thursday, July 23, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🇫🇷 France became the first European Union country to ban children under 15 from accessing social media accounts, with plans to implement it before school starts in the fall. 🎷 Jazz legend Plas Johnson, known for his saxophone solo on “The Pink Panther Theme,” passed away at age 94. Environment Courtesy of Rowan Sharman An annual summer trash pick-up race for off-roaders has cleared...
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🗞️ Good News: Viral raccoon helps fill a food pantry

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🏥 Sen. Andy Kim unveiled the MediKids Act to expand Medicaid to all U.S. children, automatically enrolling every child at birth until the age of 26. (Gifted link) 🍿 Despite racist and transphobic claims that two of its cast members would hurt the film’s success, The Odyssey had a massive opening weekend. 📰 California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new initiative aimed at bolstering...

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