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🗞️ Good News: Billionaire slashes rent for vital workers

Friday, December 19, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Good headlines... 🗽 Pope Leo appointed a new, pro-migrant archbishop of New York, bishop Ronald Hicks, who has first-hand experience of countries from where millions have emigrated to the United States. 🇪🇺 The European Parliament approved a non-binding resolution asking to establish a fund to help women access safe and legal abortion care, no matter which country they live in. Housing Courtesy of...
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🗞️ Good News: A massive wildlife overpass is now open

Thursday, December 18, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🇦🇺 Within 48 hours of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, Australian officials met, agreed on, and proposed new, stronger gun laws, including limits on the number of guns a person can own and on the types of guns and modifications that are legal. 🪧 Led by local high school students, an estimated 1,600 young people across Hillsboro, Oregon walked out of their classes to march and...
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🗞️ Good News: COVID shots massively lowered ER visits

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. more from Australia... 🇦🇺 Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left 15 people dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. 🇦🇺 A dashcam video shows another couple in Australia bravely confronting and attempting to stop one of the alleged shooters from the Bondi Beach attack. They were, tragically, both killed. Racial Justice Saul...
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🗞️ Good News: Millions raised for Bondi Beach hero

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ❤️ Heartbreakingly, beloved actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead in their home on Sunday. Beyond his iconic films, Reiner will be remembered for his advocacy on issues he cared about, like same-sex marriage rights and early childhood education. 🩸 More than 20,000 people — the most in a decade — across Australia made an appointment and showed up to wait for...
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🗞️ Good News: Teacher 3D prints hand for student

Monday, December 15, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🇪🇺 The European Union indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine. 🇦🇺 Leaders called Ahmed al Ahmed a “real-life hero” who saved many lives after he tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen who shot and killed at least 15 people in what authorities declared a terrorist attack...
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🗞️ Good News: New fossils reveal longtime ocean protectors

Friday, December 12, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🏥 Constituents are continuing to pressure U.S. senators to protect access to affordable health care by extending Affordable Care Act health care subsidies before the new year. 📰 Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a new law that both restricts immigration enforcement outside state courthouses and makes it easier to sue immigration agents if residents believe their rights have...
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🗞️ Good News: One person donated $7.1 billion in 2025

Thursday, December 11, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🌴 Eileen Higgins was elected mayor of Miami, becoming the first woman mayor in the city’s history. Higgins had been a county commissioner since 2018, and her mayoral campaign focused on affordability and making government work better and faster. 📰 Twelve former FBI agents fired in September for kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest filed a lawsuit to get their jobs...
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🗞️ Good News: A state’s innovative approach to clean energy

Wednesday, December 12, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ✝️ After the Archdiocese asked them to remove it, a Boston-area church elected to keep its nativity display protest featuring an “ICE was here” sign where Jesus, Mary, and Joseph would normally sit. 🚫 In a world-first, Australia’s youth social media ban is now in effect, deactivating more than 1 million social media accounts held by users under 16 years old. It says it will be...
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🗞️ Good News: Measles deaths have declined thanks to vaccines

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🌼 Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit transforms vacant lots in Chicago into flower farms that employ at-risk young people to grow, arrange, and sell the flowers, was named CNN’s 2025 Hero of the Year. 👏 Under new guidelines from the American Cancer Society, cervical cancer screening can now include “self-swab” HPV tests, a move that experts hope will encourage more people to...
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🗞️ Good News: A school bus driver’s gift for every student

Monday, December 8, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🦍 Jane Goodall was named PETA’s “Person of the Year” for 2025. The world-renowned primatologist and chimpanzee expert died of natural causes on October 1 this year. 🥾 Drag queen Pattie Gonia raised $1 million in one week for charity — while hiking 100 miles dressed in full drag. 🪧 Protesters disrupted a New Orleans City Council meeting to speak out against the federal government’s...

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