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🚀 Yesterday, Blue Origin sent six women into space, making it the first all-women crewed flight since a solo mission in 1963 — but women have been making history in space for a *very* long time!
Colorado just passed one of the most restrictive gun safety laws in the country
Colorado just made it illegal to buy, sell, and manufacture most semi-automatic firearms without background checks and training, and puts limits on who qualifies for that training — it’s one of the most restrictive gun safety laws in state history, and in the country.
It also outlaws rapid-fire conversion devices, like bump stocks, that allow semi-automatic guns to operate like automatic weapons.
The bill’s sponsor, Colorado state Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son was murdered in the Aurora theatre shooting, wanted the bill to go further with a complete assault weapons ban, but acknowledged this version of the bill will make communities safer and save lives.
Why is this good news? We know that one critical, proven, data-backed way to reduce gun violence and prevent mass shootings is by requiring background checks on all gun sales. This new law ensures a person looking to purchase this specific kind of firearm goes through two of them: one to get a permit for training, and another through the firearm dealer itself.
Women athletes will be in the majority in the Olympics for the first time in history at the 2028 Los Angeles Games
The Paris 2024 Olympics were the first in history to achieve gender parity — as demonstrated in the (now outdated) image above. That progress is continuing at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, where women competitors will be in the majority at the Olympics for the first time in history.
The shift is driven by the Olympic women’s soccer tournament, which will have 16 teams represented for the women, and just 12 for the men — the reverse was true in Paris last year. It’s also a far cry from women’s soccer’s debut in 1996, when just eight teams participated — half of the men’s 16 teams at the time.
In Los Angeles in 2028, the core quota of athletes will be pushed to 50.7% women, and 49.3% men — though of course, that’s not accounting for each individual athlete’s gender identity.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful, honest responses yesterday — I’m overwhelmed in the best way possible, and share so many of your sentiments. I’m already on the hunt for stories of progress.
In the meantime ... which good news story were you most excited to read today?
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