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🗞️ Good News: High Seas Treaty wins big recognition
Friday, November 7, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🍎 New York City mayor-elect Zohram Mamdani announced his all-women transition team, including former city and federal officials, nonprofit executives, and veterans of City Hall, who will help him prepare to take office and immediately get to work on January 1. ⚖️ A federal judge in Chicago will issue an extensive injunction restricting federal agents’ use of force, saying that a...
🗞️ Good News: Political coalition wants ‘election losers’ only
Thursday, November 6, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. The votes are in... Voters elected Detroit’s first woman mayor, Mary Sheffield in what was reportedly the largest margin of victory in the city’s history. Sheffield is currently the city council president and has developed a reputation as a fighter for the city’s poor and working class. Voters in Maine rejected a ballot measure that would have eliminated two early voting days, add voter ID...
🗞️ Good News: Miami man cleared 35k pounds of trash
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. The votes are in... 🗳️ Following a campaign focused on affordability and issues like housing and child care, Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, making history as the city’s first-ever Muslim mayor. The election also saw historic turnout, with more than 2 million New Yorkers participating for the first time since 1969. 🗳️ In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger was elected governor, making...
🗞️ Good News: Chicagoans help feed their neighbors
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🗳️ Today is Election Day in the U.S., with highly-watched elections, like the races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, the mayoral race in New York City, and Proposition 50 in California. 💵 The Trump administration told a federal court it would use a contingency fund to pay partial SNAP benefits to recipients in November. However, it also noted that the payments could be...
🗞️ Good News: Another decade of declining deforestation
Monday, November 3, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Thank you for supporting good news! The 2025 Good News Pledge-a-Thon is a wrap! While we ended up just shy of our goal, *hundreds* of people joined in the fight to fill the headlines with more good news — and that’s huge. Every day, mainstream news would lead us to believe that things are all bad — but that’s not the whole story. As a paid subscriber, your financial support makes it possible to fill...
🗞️ Good News: Halloween decor raises $1M for cancer research
Friday, October 31, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... ☕️ Another update on the Portland coffee shop offering free “Snap Breakfast” to anyone in need — people have now donated over $280K in five days to support the effort. 🥪 Illinois is directing $20 million to food banks in the state to help bridge the gap as SNAP funding is set to stop tomorrow. 🌀 If you’re looking to help victims of Hurricane Melissa for the long haul, here’s where...
🗞️ Good News: Church declines $1M, urges SNAP donations
Thursday, October 30, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. In the headlines... 🥪 Senate Democrats and a Republican senator have introduced two different bills to save SNAP funding for the month of November. The Democrats’ would also protect WIC funding, and Hawley’s bill has been backed by 10 Republican Senators, and has support from the president. 🌀 People are coming together to support victims of Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica on...
🗞️ Good News: Fishermen are helping save sea turtles
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Good headlines... ☕️ Yesterday, we told you about a coffee shop in Portland that was offering free “Snap Breakfast” to anyone in need, “until everyone’s benefits are reinstated, or we go broke doing it.” People responded by raising $75,000 in two days to support the effort. 🥪 Meanwhile, 26 U.S. states are suing the Trump administration over its refusal to fund food stamps amid the government...
🗞️ Good News: Combustion engine vehicles are in the rear-view
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. First, the helpers... 💕 Glamour announced its 2025 Women of the Year, and one of the honorees is Ms. Rachel, who “redefined children’s media — and built her empire — by centering empathy,” which also influenced her advocacy around things like LGBTQ+ rights and children in Gaza. 🌀 For days, volunteers in Florida have been preparing food and other essential supplies to send to aid post-storm relief...
🗞️ Good News: A Texas church’s rainbow-painted protest
Monday, October 27, 2025 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Good headlines... ✏️ Michigan lawmakers passed a historic education budget that includes a record $10,050 investment per student, universal school meals, universal pre-K for 4-year-olds, community college access for all, expanded literacy programs, and more. 🥘 People are helping in the midst of the government shutdown: Sharon McMahon’s “Governerds” community raised over $640,000 over the weekend for...
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