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🇺🇸 Joining fans outraged by President Trump’s phone call with the U.S. men’s team, Flavor Flav invited the U.S. women’s hockey team to have “a real celebration” for their gold medal win in Las Vegas.

📰 Two U.S. senators introduced a bill that would bar the Department of Homeland Security from opening new immigration detention centers without state and local officials’ consent. (Gifted link)

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After Florida’s rainbow crosswalk ban, St. Pete lit up its sky with rainbow lasers for Winter Pride

In response to an order removing about 400 “non-standard” previously approved pieces of street art — mostly rainbow, Pride-themed crosswalks and murals — across the state, cities have been finding ways to resist.

In December, the city of St. Petersburg debuted a row of Pride-colored bike racks. And the city just continued its creative acts of resistance, with a 60-mile rainbow laser installation during its Winter Pride St. Pete event.

Called “Global Rainbow,” it was designed by laser artist Yvette Mattern, who first debuted the light show in New York in 2009. Bringing it to St. Pete, she worked with certified technicians and received FAA clearance to broadcast the colorful beams towards the city’s beaches.

Why is this good news? While public, Pride-themed art might seem trivial, those displays can send a powerful message that a community is inclusive, welcoming, and united in support of a community that’s too often the target of hate and discrimination. This latest installation is St. Pete’s brightest message yet.

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​The “Official Dad of the Olympics” invited the U.S. women’s hockey team to celebrate at his house in Ohio. After sharing updates from Italy with his content creator child, Richard Kiley — an avid women’s hockey fan — went viral for his wholesome videos, even working as an official correspondent for a women-led sports media brand at the Games.

​England is banning vaping in cars carrying children, amid rising evidence that secondhand vapor poses health risks. The move is included in the tobacco and vapes bill, which will also outlaw smoking, vaping, and using heated tobacco in playgrounds and outside schools and hospitals.

​Finland is now using hot sand to produce “fossil-free” steam. The new form of renewable energy generation solves a blind spot in industrial heat production — one of the largest sources of carbon emissions.

​The Bermuda snail, once feared extinct, is thriving again thanks to a decade of conservation efforts. After raising them in captivity, British scientists introduced more than 100,000 of the button-sized snails back to Bermuda.

​TED is giving $1B to 10 nonprofits working to solve “humanity's biggest problems.” From cleaning up ocean plastic to preventing homelessness, TED just announced its new cohort of fellows that will receive the funding necessary to execute their world-changing work.

health

8 ways to make friends in 2026 — without using social media

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good progress

Indonesia’s shift to cleaner cooking fuels has dramatically improved air quality and health

In 2000, fewer than 10 % of people in Indonesia had access to clean cooking fuels. That number has now risen to over 90% — largely thanks to a national program in 2007 that replaced kerosene with cleaner options like liquefied petroleum gas.

In low-income households around the world, indoor air pollution is a leading cause of death. Clean cooking fuels emit much lower levels of harmful air pollutants, and their widespread adoption has sharply reduced indoor air pollution — and deaths associated with it.

Indonesia’s upward trend in clean cooking fuel access is on par with improvements throughout all of Asia.

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More Good bits

🎤 Billie Eilish has *been* putting her money where her mouth is.

🐒 Punch the monkey is making real-life friends. (Reels)

🏠 Empty offices are becoming tiny homes.

📚 Now we know one more thing about Leonardo DiCaprio.

🔧 One more reason why we need women in the trades.

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