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Why Trump can't make the Epstein scandal go away, Paul Waldman, Public Notice, November 17, 2025.
“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
― Jodi Picoult
We can be heroes in our own ways. #GoodNewsRoundup
7/7
For time change, celebrate the dark with Team Lab’s new night exhibit in Osaka. 6/7
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Dominican nuns are helping save a Mexican salamander. #GoodNewsRoundup
5/7
Meet the “death ball sponge” and other deep sea discoveries. I mean, how can you not celebrate this awesomeness? #GoodNewsRoundup
4/7
American chestnuts are back, baby. This is the conservation story we all need to read right now.
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3/7
South Korea is requiring solar on all parking lots with over 80 spots. Yes, even existing ones. #GoodNewsRoundup
2/7
It's #GoodNewsRoundup time. I've been under the weather, which is a weird-ass phrase I'll deconstruct another time, so this is a short list, but . . .
Here's to the campaign volunteers and GOTV folks. Here's to the folks working food banks and SNAP legal cases.
Here's to caregivers everywhere. 1/7
I'm running low on platitudes.
But every day, on this site and in my life, there are beautiful brave people being kind, generous, hopeful, funny.
There are scientists figuring new things out,
engineers solving problems,
artists creating new worlds.
And that's all so good.
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14/14
China has made a Marshall Plan’s worth of green investment in other countries
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13/14
Everyone’s favorite animal portraitist, Tim Flach, has a new book out: Felines.
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12/14
Happy new Bumpy Snailfish everybody!
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11/14
Australia has approved the first chlamydia vaccine for koalas. The disease is responsible for up to half of wild koala deaths.
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10/14
Puerto Rican rapper Resident led a crowd of 180,000 in support of Palestine in Mexico City.
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9/14
Nepal’s young people had enough of corruption. They organized, they took to the street, and they took down the government and burned the presidential palace to the ground in 48 hours. Social media, music, and movies inspired them.
Art matters.
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8/14
New Mexico will make free childcare available universally. If they can do it . . . who else can?
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7/14
TIME’s kid of the year developed a program to help protect her grandfather and other seniors from cybercrime.
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6/14
I know there’s a lot of attempted backwards momentum around clean energy in the US, but global solar installations are up 64% so far this year.
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5/14
October 18th is the next No Kings march. In Tbilisi they are getting close to 300 straight days of nightly protests against their government. We can do a Saturday or two. #GoodNewsRoundup
4/14
September 27th is National Good Neighbors Day. Just set up a little picnic table in your front yard and see what happens. #GoodNewsRoundup
3/14
September 21st is #SunDay, a Day of Action for solar power conceived to be a little like Earth Day. Find your nearest event. #GoodNewsRoundup
2/14
It's #GoodNewsRoundup time
The good news is there is good news.
Here on BlueSky there are people who share their art, photos, and nerdiness.
In our neighborhoods there are great teachers, excellent dogs, regal and not-always regal cats, birds, flowers, clouds.
Breathe deep and love on.
1/14
"what we do know is that the thing that comes next, the better America, can rest only on the labor that we perform now, on the good that we do now." Timothy Snyder
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17/17
There’s a new children’s book of the Civil Rights anthem ‘A Change is Gonna Come.’ Thanks to @mymodernmet.bsky.social for the coverage.
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16/17
The good news is @gwenckatz.bsky.social has been selling out of some shirts and sizes! The other good news is that making more is possible!
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15/17
Ghost sharks grow special teeth on their heads for mating.
Wait, what?
I think it's good news for sharks, so I threw it on the list. It's also a reminder that the planet is excellently experimental.
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14/17
The honest government ad geniuses are back, with an honest ad from Norway. And it’s a doozy. Truth is good news, right? Even if there's a really heavy sigh involved?
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13/17
Scientists have discovered how to create a plastic that turns into a material that captures carbon.
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12/17
Congratulations to us all: a three nation protected area covering more than 14 million acres has been created.
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11/17
After the Amy Sherald exhibit was thrown out of the national museums because, you know, because. Baltimore has given it a home.
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10/17