Sigh...Finally Some Good News
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shadowkat[Hopefully to drag me out of my apathy, if not the brain fog.]
The Good News Report....and as always, good news is often in the eye of the beholder.
1.Appeals Court blocks Louisiana law forcing Ten Commandments displays in classrooms. Separation of church and state is the law of the land. Shoving Christianity in kids' faces through their public schools is still, for now, illegal.
NBC News
Honestly, it's not as if the idiotic Republicans are following the commandments anyhow, why are they insisting on wasting money fighting for them to be taught in public schools?
2. A fundraiser organized to protest Colorado’s 568-day backlog for processing sexual assault forensic exams resulted in a $6,000 award to the state this week to urge faster action.
Denver Post
3. Washington D.C. residents honor Juneteenth with a Jubilee and Freedom Walk on the very path where enslaved people once escaped to freedom.
Washington Post
4.Barrington, Rhode Island : Members of the Town Council vote unanimously to adopt a resolution declaring it a sanctuary town for transgender people and all members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
East Bay Rhode Island
5.New York, NY: More than 75% of the city’s municipal vehicles—about 21,500—are now green (hybrid, electric, or running on renewable biofuel).
https://gothamist.com/news/some-positive-climate-news-for-once-nycs-vehicle-fleet-is-75-green
6.Communities in Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Charlotte, San Diego, Boston, Houston, San Antonio, Minneapolis, Worcester, MA, and other cities show up publicly in support of their neighbors facing unjust ICE raids, detainment, and deportation.
7.Four top lawyers leave the Paul Weiss law firm to start their own firm in protest of its leader’s deals to dodge an executive order that would have limited its business.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/more-partners-leave-paul-weiss-join-new-law-firm-2025-06-09/
8.Dementia prevalence among older adults was significantly lower among individuals born more recently (1944-1948) compared to those born earlier (1919-1923), with a more pronounced decline in women, a new study conducted in the US, Europe, and England showed. - SOURCE: This study was led by Xiaoxue Dou, Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834750#google_vignette
9.Dan Mancina, a blind skateboarder, creates the world’s first adaptive skatepark in Detroit, Michigan.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/adaptive-skatepark-dan-mancina
10.The EU will provide emergency funds to pro-democracy media outlet Radio Free Europe after the U.S. president cut its grants.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/20/eu-to-provide-55mln-in-emergency-funds-to-help-keep-radio-free-europe-afloat
11. Three teens design a brain-controlled bionic leg for a friend, winning $50K in the Gordon E. Moore Award at the International Science and Engineering Fair.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/teens-invent-brain-controlled-prosthetic
12.About 500 NYC students walked out in solidarity after ICE detains a 20-year-old Venezuelan student attending high school in the Bronx.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/ice-detains-20-year-old-venezuelan-migrant-attending-nyc-high-school/
13.New England’s electricity grid reaches a record low for power demand for the fourth year in a row.
https://isonewswire.com/2025/04/22/new-england-grid-sees-new-record-low-for-system-demand/
14. EarthJustice wins its lawsuit against the USDA for deleting information about climate change from the government website. The USDA has been ordered to restore all previous pages.
https://earthjustice.org/brief/2025/were-suing-to-stop-the-trump-admins-climate-censorship-that-threatens-farmers-and-our-food-supply
15.Denka chemical plant will close in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” after years of advocacy from residents.
https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2025-05-15/cancer-alley-residents-feel-relief-and-disappointment-as-denka-plant-halts-production
16.Ten national unions and scores of local chapters representing more than 3 million members issue a joint statement demanding an end to the assault on the Constitutional right to organize and protest.
https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/ten-national-unions-say-stop-this-campaign-of-terror/
https://form.jotform.com/250850668516059
17.The UK is apparently Decriminalizing Abortion.
18.Eight organizations are supporting transparency by making this information publicly available online in response to the administration’s scrubbing of data and records.
https://time.com/7288311/trump-transparency-white-house-transcripts-public-records-independent-databases-archives/
In the void of official archives, a number of independent record-keepers have taken matters into their own hands, offering the public a cache of data and documentation to sift and search through without fear of sudden removal. Still, these mostly collect only previously-made public records, and transparency advocates remain concerned about those that the public may never see.
President Doofus? Welcome to the Information and Internet Age. We're not in the 1950s any more.
19. Immigrant rights groups sue to overturn the president’s deal to send ICE detainees to a Salvadoran prison, arguing it violates the U.S. Constitution and due process protections.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/05/immigrant-rights-groups-sue-to-invalidate-trump-administration-s-el-salvador-prison-deal/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5335357-democracy-groups-lawsuit-migrants/
20.Five press-freedom groups offer journalists legal, immigration, and safety training and resources.
https://cpj.org/2025/05/us-press-freedom-groups-launch-journalist-assistance-network-to-address-growing-need-for-legal-safety-immigration-resources/
21.The adaptive design lab MakeGood NOLA invents a first-of-its-kind 3D-printed wheelchair for kids and offers free model downloads for anyone to print on their home 3D printer.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJSNeHTxzRt/
22.For the safety of immigrant communities, Project South shares their fact sheet clarifying the difference between an official judicial warrant and an ICE administrative document that holds no legal authority.
https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Warrant-Fact-Sheet.pdf
23.New leukemia treatment hailed as “milestone” in cancer management. A trial found that two targeted drugs halted disease progression better than standard chemo, offering hope for a more tolerable treatment.
https://news.sky.com/story/new-leukaemia-treatment-hailed-as-milestone-in-cancer-management-13383995
24.High school graduate paints portraits of classmates as graduation gift. One outgoing senior spent two months making her “crazy idea” a reality: secretly painting portraits of all 110 of her classmates.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/high-school-graduate-paints-portraits-classmates-graduation-gift/story?id=122921584
25. Vatican City becomes the latest nation to run entirely on renewable energy, a dream of the late Pope Francis.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/29/vatican-city-is-now-powered-by-solar/#google_vignette
26.New research shows that penguin guano is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation of low clouds, cooling the climate by reflecting some incoming sunlight back to space.
Penguin Poop May Preserve Antarctic Climate
27.Per a recent study, music therapy is as effective as traditional cognitive behavioral therapy at managing cancer-related anxieties.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5414500/music-therapy-cancer-patient-survivor
28. MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time since the British intelligence agency was founded in 1909 [I feel like I've posted this before?]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxyx04dv1wo?xtor=&ck_subscriber_id=2454664808
29.On June 11, Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich made history when they opened Rikki's, San Francisco's first and only bar dedicated to women's sports. But Rikki's is more than just a bar. It's about community: a place to watch the game, have a bite to eat, and gather with friends—a place where everyone feels like they belong. Women's sports are for everyone, and so is Rikki's.
https://www.rikkisbarsf.com/
30.Mahmoud Khalil, the first pro-Palestinian campus protester detained by the Trump administration for over 100 days, was finally released on bail, because Judge ordered he be released.
31. The LA Dodgers committed $1 Million for assistance to immigrant families. This was in addition to The Los Angeles Dodgers blocking ICE agents from entering their stadium, “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.”
32.Artist Michele Pred projected the words STOP THE CUTS TO NATIONAL PARKS on a mountain face in Yellowstone Park, part of her ongoing series of guerrilla public art actions—shining light (literally) on urgent issues.
[Nice to know I wasn't the only upset about that. I donated to the National Parks Conservation Foundation and sent letters to the Supreme Court and White House - but that works too.]
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKVtqfTsUXU/?img_index=1
33.The NJ turnpike authority is switching away from Tesla charging stations at all rest stops. They will immediately transition to Universal Open Access EV chargers.
https://6abc.com/post/new-jersey-turnpike-switching-ev-charging-stations-dropping-tesla/16631306/?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=683daed595b7de0001c4ee5f
34. A Quaker group marches 300 miles to protest against the administration’s unjust treatment of people who immigrated to the U.S.
[I knew about this - the UUA invited me, I chose not to do it. Neither have the time, the ability - physical or otherwise, to march for five weeks down to DC. They marched from Downtown Brooklyn to DC. That's at least a five hour drive and a three hour train ride. Most people fly it.]
https://apnews.com/article/quakers-protest-march-trump-immigration-crackdown-af1ae4a3a608e59f97c96c8b7cf660a2
"PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
The march extends a long tradition of Quaker activism. Historically, Quakers have been involved in peaceful protests to end wars and slavery, and support women’s voting rights in line with their commitment to justice and peace. Far more recently, Quakers sued the federal government earlier this year over immigration agents’ ability to make arrests at houses of worship."
35.Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray is honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association.
36.In March, low-carbon energy sources generated more electricity in the U.S. than fossil fuels for the first time ever.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-passes-momentous-energy-milestone-103007358.html
37. Antarctica unexpectedly gained hundreds of billions of tons of ice over the past few years, which is expected to offset about 25% of the total rise in seawater levels from recent years.
https://scitechdaily.com/antarcticas-astonishing-rebound-ice-sheet-grows-for-the-first-time-in-decades/
38.Researchers prove that polymer extracts from okra and fenugreek bind with microplastics in water, making for an efficient removal method.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.4c07476
39.Following a lawsuit brought by farmers and environmental groups, the USDA will restore to its official website information about climate change that was removed when the current president took office.
Farmers sued, so they agree to return the data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/climate/trump-deleted-climate-website-farmers-lawsuit.html
40.Most Americans, 58%, now say that the government should do more to solve the country’s problems – a record high in more than 30 years of CNN’s polling. [That's because it's doing nothing at the moment - outside of incarcerating innocent people, terrorizing folks, and firing on Iraq, also playing havoc with the economic system. People were taking for granted a government that had their backs, they miss it, they want it back. ]
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-democrats?Date=20250601&Profile=cnn
41. Because of two bills recently passed Illinois will be the first state in the Midwest to protect consumers and businesses transacting in cryptocurrency and other digital assets. [I asked my financial group - who manages my funds, and they told me they'd be the last to invest in crypto or digital - they go conservative, thank god. I'm leery of anything that is protected by only a password and can be grabbed once someone gets said password or I forget the password. Not helped by the fact that the Doofus and his family are running a Ponzie scheme off of their own brand of cryptocurrency, and Cuomo is doing the same thing.]
https://www.threads.com/@govpritzker/post/DKXKb2fx1wc?xmt=AQF0JFlSMVHwAoyvN98OQZEeCwvJIkEEh9Ubac-xtkLkeg
42. The non-profit We Fortify works to create low-income housing for teachers in a Colorado Springs school district.
https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/land-secured-will-bring-in-second-low-income-housing-community-for-teachers
43.The neurodiversity advocacy nonprofit KultureCity rolls out a crowd-sourced map of neurodivergent-accessible spaces throughout Manhattan. [Hmm, I didn't know that existed.]
https://www.kulturecity.org/neu-york/
44.A teacher cleverly gets around Utah’s ban on LGBTQ+ displays in classrooms to ensure his students feel welcomed and supported.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/how-one-teacher-cleverly-got-around-utahs-ban-on-lgbtq-displays-in-classrooms/
45. New Mexico’s recreational marijuana tax is funding a basic income program for vulnerable families. The program provides $750 monthly payments to 80 families in two districts where students struggle with low academic performance, as well as financial counseling to the families.
https://www.businessinsider.com/albuquerque-new-mexico-basic-income-marijuana-tax-2025-5
46.A European Union court ruled that Marine Protected Areas must be safeguarded from harmful fishing practices such as bottom trawling.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/eu-court-marine-protected-areas-must-be-shielded-from-trawling/
47.The rate of young children in Texas who receive measles vaccines has increased significantly since 2019.
https://www.truveta.com/blog/research/research-insights/2025-early-measles-vaccinations-in-texas/
48. Air Canada honors Pride Month with an all LGBTQ+ flight crew, delighting passengers and workers alike.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/airline-honors-pride-month-with-all-lgbtq-flight-crew-its-somewhat-of-a-thrill/
49.Punk bands used their music to drown out anti-LGBTQ+ speakers on a college campus.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/punk-bands-drown-out-anti-lgbtq-speakers-on-college-campus/
Good night and Good Luck, and in case you didn't find anything good enough to make you smile above?
Here's a picture of some flowers on my walk today to the grocery store.
The Good News Report....and as always, good news is often in the eye of the beholder.
1.Appeals Court blocks Louisiana law forcing Ten Commandments displays in classrooms. Separation of church and state is the law of the land. Shoving Christianity in kids' faces through their public schools is still, for now, illegal.
NBC News
Honestly, it's not as if the idiotic Republicans are following the commandments anyhow, why are they insisting on wasting money fighting for them to be taught in public schools?
2. A fundraiser organized to protest Colorado’s 568-day backlog for processing sexual assault forensic exams resulted in a $6,000 award to the state this week to urge faster action.
Denver Post
3. Washington D.C. residents honor Juneteenth with a Jubilee and Freedom Walk on the very path where enslaved people once escaped to freedom.
Washington Post
4.Barrington, Rhode Island : Members of the Town Council vote unanimously to adopt a resolution declaring it a sanctuary town for transgender people and all members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
East Bay Rhode Island
5.New York, NY: More than 75% of the city’s municipal vehicles—about 21,500—are now green (hybrid, electric, or running on renewable biofuel).
https://gothamist.com/news/some-positive-climate-news-for-once-nycs-vehicle-fleet-is-75-green
6.Communities in Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Charlotte, San Diego, Boston, Houston, San Antonio, Minneapolis, Worcester, MA, and other cities show up publicly in support of their neighbors facing unjust ICE raids, detainment, and deportation.
7.Four top lawyers leave the Paul Weiss law firm to start their own firm in protest of its leader’s deals to dodge an executive order that would have limited its business.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/more-partners-leave-paul-weiss-join-new-law-firm-2025-06-09/
8.Dementia prevalence among older adults was significantly lower among individuals born more recently (1944-1948) compared to those born earlier (1919-1923), with a more pronounced decline in women, a new study conducted in the US, Europe, and England showed. - SOURCE: This study was led by Xiaoxue Dou, Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834750#google_vignette
9.Dan Mancina, a blind skateboarder, creates the world’s first adaptive skatepark in Detroit, Michigan.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/adaptive-skatepark-dan-mancina
10.The EU will provide emergency funds to pro-democracy media outlet Radio Free Europe after the U.S. president cut its grants.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/20/eu-to-provide-55mln-in-emergency-funds-to-help-keep-radio-free-europe-afloat
11. Three teens design a brain-controlled bionic leg for a friend, winning $50K in the Gordon E. Moore Award at the International Science and Engineering Fair.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/teens-invent-brain-controlled-prosthetic
12.About 500 NYC students walked out in solidarity after ICE detains a 20-year-old Venezuelan student attending high school in the Bronx.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/ice-detains-20-year-old-venezuelan-migrant-attending-nyc-high-school/
13.New England’s electricity grid reaches a record low for power demand for the fourth year in a row.
https://isonewswire.com/2025/04/22/new-england-grid-sees-new-record-low-for-system-demand/
14. EarthJustice wins its lawsuit against the USDA for deleting information about climate change from the government website. The USDA has been ordered to restore all previous pages.
https://earthjustice.org/brief/2025/were-suing-to-stop-the-trump-admins-climate-censorship-that-threatens-farmers-and-our-food-supply
15.Denka chemical plant will close in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” after years of advocacy from residents.
https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2025-05-15/cancer-alley-residents-feel-relief-and-disappointment-as-denka-plant-halts-production
16.Ten national unions and scores of local chapters representing more than 3 million members issue a joint statement demanding an end to the assault on the Constitutional right to organize and protest.
https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/ten-national-unions-say-stop-this-campaign-of-terror/
https://form.jotform.com/250850668516059
17.The UK is apparently Decriminalizing Abortion.
18.Eight organizations are supporting transparency by making this information publicly available online in response to the administration’s scrubbing of data and records.
https://time.com/7288311/trump-transparency-white-house-transcripts-public-records-independent-databases-archives/
In the void of official archives, a number of independent record-keepers have taken matters into their own hands, offering the public a cache of data and documentation to sift and search through without fear of sudden removal. Still, these mostly collect only previously-made public records, and transparency advocates remain concerned about those that the public may never see.
President Doofus? Welcome to the Information and Internet Age. We're not in the 1950s any more.
19. Immigrant rights groups sue to overturn the president’s deal to send ICE detainees to a Salvadoran prison, arguing it violates the U.S. Constitution and due process protections.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/05/immigrant-rights-groups-sue-to-invalidate-trump-administration-s-el-salvador-prison-deal/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5335357-democracy-groups-lawsuit-migrants/
20.Five press-freedom groups offer journalists legal, immigration, and safety training and resources.
https://cpj.org/2025/05/us-press-freedom-groups-launch-journalist-assistance-network-to-address-growing-need-for-legal-safety-immigration-resources/
21.The adaptive design lab MakeGood NOLA invents a first-of-its-kind 3D-printed wheelchair for kids and offers free model downloads for anyone to print on their home 3D printer.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJSNeHTxzRt/
22.For the safety of immigrant communities, Project South shares their fact sheet clarifying the difference between an official judicial warrant and an ICE administrative document that holds no legal authority.
https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Warrant-Fact-Sheet.pdf
23.New leukemia treatment hailed as “milestone” in cancer management. A trial found that two targeted drugs halted disease progression better than standard chemo, offering hope for a more tolerable treatment.
https://news.sky.com/story/new-leukaemia-treatment-hailed-as-milestone-in-cancer-management-13383995
24.High school graduate paints portraits of classmates as graduation gift. One outgoing senior spent two months making her “crazy idea” a reality: secretly painting portraits of all 110 of her classmates.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/high-school-graduate-paints-portraits-classmates-graduation-gift/story?id=122921584
25. Vatican City becomes the latest nation to run entirely on renewable energy, a dream of the late Pope Francis.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/29/vatican-city-is-now-powered-by-solar/#google_vignette
26.New research shows that penguin guano is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation of low clouds, cooling the climate by reflecting some incoming sunlight back to space.
Penguin Poop May Preserve Antarctic Climate
27.Per a recent study, music therapy is as effective as traditional cognitive behavioral therapy at managing cancer-related anxieties.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5414500/music-therapy-cancer-patient-survivor
28. MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time since the British intelligence agency was founded in 1909 [I feel like I've posted this before?]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxyx04dv1wo?xtor=&ck_subscriber_id=2454664808
29.On June 11, Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich made history when they opened Rikki's, San Francisco's first and only bar dedicated to women's sports. But Rikki's is more than just a bar. It's about community: a place to watch the game, have a bite to eat, and gather with friends—a place where everyone feels like they belong. Women's sports are for everyone, and so is Rikki's.
https://www.rikkisbarsf.com/
30.Mahmoud Khalil, the first pro-Palestinian campus protester detained by the Trump administration for over 100 days, was finally released on bail, because Judge ordered he be released.
31. The LA Dodgers committed $1 Million for assistance to immigrant families. This was in addition to The Los Angeles Dodgers blocking ICE agents from entering their stadium, “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.”
32.Artist Michele Pred projected the words STOP THE CUTS TO NATIONAL PARKS on a mountain face in Yellowstone Park, part of her ongoing series of guerrilla public art actions—shining light (literally) on urgent issues.
[Nice to know I wasn't the only upset about that. I donated to the National Parks Conservation Foundation and sent letters to the Supreme Court and White House - but that works too.]
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKVtqfTsUXU/?img_index=1
33.The NJ turnpike authority is switching away from Tesla charging stations at all rest stops. They will immediately transition to Universal Open Access EV chargers.
https://6abc.com/post/new-jersey-turnpike-switching-ev-charging-stations-dropping-tesla/16631306/?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=683daed595b7de0001c4ee5f
34. A Quaker group marches 300 miles to protest against the administration’s unjust treatment of people who immigrated to the U.S.
[I knew about this - the UUA invited me, I chose not to do it. Neither have the time, the ability - physical or otherwise, to march for five weeks down to DC. They marched from Downtown Brooklyn to DC. That's at least a five hour drive and a three hour train ride. Most people fly it.]
https://apnews.com/article/quakers-protest-march-trump-immigration-crackdown-af1ae4a3a608e59f97c96c8b7cf660a2
"PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
The march extends a long tradition of Quaker activism. Historically, Quakers have been involved in peaceful protests to end wars and slavery, and support women’s voting rights in line with their commitment to justice and peace. Far more recently, Quakers sued the federal government earlier this year over immigration agents’ ability to make arrests at houses of worship."
35.Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray is honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association.
36.In March, low-carbon energy sources generated more electricity in the U.S. than fossil fuels for the first time ever.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-passes-momentous-energy-milestone-103007358.html
37. Antarctica unexpectedly gained hundreds of billions of tons of ice over the past few years, which is expected to offset about 25% of the total rise in seawater levels from recent years.
https://scitechdaily.com/antarcticas-astonishing-rebound-ice-sheet-grows-for-the-first-time-in-decades/
38.Researchers prove that polymer extracts from okra and fenugreek bind with microplastics in water, making for an efficient removal method.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.4c07476
39.Following a lawsuit brought by farmers and environmental groups, the USDA will restore to its official website information about climate change that was removed when the current president took office.
Farmers sued, so they agree to return the data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/climate/trump-deleted-climate-website-farmers-lawsuit.html
40.Most Americans, 58%, now say that the government should do more to solve the country’s problems – a record high in more than 30 years of CNN’s polling. [That's because it's doing nothing at the moment - outside of incarcerating innocent people, terrorizing folks, and firing on Iraq, also playing havoc with the economic system. People were taking for granted a government that had their backs, they miss it, they want it back. ]
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-democrats?Date=20250601&Profile=cnn
41. Because of two bills recently passed Illinois will be the first state in the Midwest to protect consumers and businesses transacting in cryptocurrency and other digital assets. [I asked my financial group - who manages my funds, and they told me they'd be the last to invest in crypto or digital - they go conservative, thank god. I'm leery of anything that is protected by only a password and can be grabbed once someone gets said password or I forget the password. Not helped by the fact that the Doofus and his family are running a Ponzie scheme off of their own brand of cryptocurrency, and Cuomo is doing the same thing.]
https://www.threads.com/@govpritzker/post/DKXKb2fx1wc?xmt=AQF0JFlSMVHwAoyvN98OQZEeCwvJIkEEh9Ubac-xtkLkeg
42. The non-profit We Fortify works to create low-income housing for teachers in a Colorado Springs school district.
https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/land-secured-will-bring-in-second-low-income-housing-community-for-teachers
43.The neurodiversity advocacy nonprofit KultureCity rolls out a crowd-sourced map of neurodivergent-accessible spaces throughout Manhattan. [Hmm, I didn't know that existed.]
https://www.kulturecity.org/neu-york/
44.A teacher cleverly gets around Utah’s ban on LGBTQ+ displays in classrooms to ensure his students feel welcomed and supported.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/how-one-teacher-cleverly-got-around-utahs-ban-on-lgbtq-displays-in-classrooms/
45. New Mexico’s recreational marijuana tax is funding a basic income program for vulnerable families. The program provides $750 monthly payments to 80 families in two districts where students struggle with low academic performance, as well as financial counseling to the families.
https://www.businessinsider.com/albuquerque-new-mexico-basic-income-marijuana-tax-2025-5
46.A European Union court ruled that Marine Protected Areas must be safeguarded from harmful fishing practices such as bottom trawling.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/eu-court-marine-protected-areas-must-be-shielded-from-trawling/
47.The rate of young children in Texas who receive measles vaccines has increased significantly since 2019.
https://www.truveta.com/blog/research/research-insights/2025-early-measles-vaccinations-in-texas/
48. Air Canada honors Pride Month with an all LGBTQ+ flight crew, delighting passengers and workers alike.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/airline-honors-pride-month-with-all-lgbtq-flight-crew-its-somewhat-of-a-thrill/
49.Punk bands used their music to drown out anti-LGBTQ+ speakers on a college campus.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/punk-bands-drown-out-anti-lgbtq-speakers-on-college-campus/
Good night and Good Luck, and in case you didn't find anything good enough to make you smile above?
Here's a picture of some flowers on my walk today to the grocery store.