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Good news roundup: All sorts of stuff to be hopeful and joyful about!

19 minutes ago
by Vu Le
Written by Vu Le

Hi everyone, this is the last blog post before I take my summer break. I’ll be back on September 1st with a tan and a new post.

The last few months have been a whirlwind of depressing news. However, there are tons of amazing, inspiring, courageous things happening all over the US and the world. We often don’t hear about them because fascists want to keep us fearful.

So here are a few of them I’ve gathered from people on the internet, in no particular order. Grab your favorite beverage and click on some of these links; your nervous system will thank you. Add in the comment section any other good news you come across. And share this widely!

. The Supreme Court just ruled against Trump’s quest to end birthright citizenship!

·       DOGE fired a bunch of climate scientists. They banded together and launched climate.us, to keep us all informed.

·       After 100,000 Albanians protested for 18 days over Jared-Kushner-backed plans to build a fancy resort on Albanian land, the European Parliament voted to support stronger measures to protect the land against development.

·       New York passed a law that fines companies for using AI-generated people in ads and without letting people know. Hopefully it’ll inspire more transparency laws like this.

·       Progressive candidate Janeese Lewis George, often compared to Zohran Mamdani, defeats centrist opponent in the primary and will likely become DC’s next mayor in November, proving once again that progressive candidates can and do win.

·       France grants honorary citizenship to Palestinian civilians and journalists.

·       In Scotland, after bottom trawling was banned, life on the seabed has tripled!

·       Wolves, bears, horses, and other wildlife have returned to Chernobyl, including species that have not been there for a hundred years!

·       A study in Ecuador finds that 90% of rainforest biodiversity recovers if left alone for 30 years after the land has been used by humans.

·       There’s a breakthrough new treatment for ovarian cancer, one that targets cancerous tissues instead of treating the whole body, greatly reducing side effects and allowing patients to have much better quality of life.  

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Vu Le

Vu Le (“voo lay”) is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the former Executive Director of RVC, a nonprofit in Seattle that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities.

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. There’s tons of humor in the nonprofit world, and someone needs to document it. He is going to do that, with the hope that one day, a TV producer will see how cool and interesting our field is and make a show about nonprofit work, featuring attractive actors attending strategic planning meetings and filing 990 tax forms.

Known for his no-BS approach, irreverent sense of humor, and love of unicorns, Vu has been featured in dozens, if not hundreds, of his own blog posts at NonprofitAF.com.

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