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🏠 A landmark bipartisan housing bill became law over the weekend, despite President Donald Trump's refusal to sign it.

🤖 Patreon announced a partnership with Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators’ work to train AI models.

🧠 Billionaire MacKenzie Scott donated $20 million to support America’s youth mental health, as a fifth of teens struggle with suicidal thoughts.

Food

A food mobile in Ohio provides free meals to hundreds of kids who would otherwise go without over the summer

Children’s Hunger Alliance has four weekly mobile routes and about 145 meal sites throughout the state of Ohio where it distributes ready-to-eat meals for families to take home to their children.

The shelf-stable meals include five days' worth of breakfasts, dinners, milk, and snacks. The mobile routes also offer fruit bags with apples and oranges this summer.

Why is this good news? More than 505,000, or 1 in 5, Ohio children struggle with hunger, and summer is typically the hungriest time of the year for students who would typically receive free or reduced meals at school.

This mobile food service makes sure these children continue to receive essential nutrition even when school is out.

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More Good News

​Three women saved the country’s climate data after the Trump administration took it offline. After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister, and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a critical climate change information website.

​After Idaho banned trans people from bathrooms, a nonprofit made a statewide map of where they can go instead. Trans Affirm crowdsources an online map of inclusive bathrooms across Idaho that are safe for people who are trans or gender diverse to use.

​England’s largest-ever investment in its wildlife is expected to benefit more than 350 threatened species. The swallowtail butterfly and white-clawed crayfish are just two of the species set to benefit from the $80 million initiative.

​Shakira and FIFA are donating $500k for Venezuela earthquake relief efforts. Back in May, Shakira announced that she’d be donating 100% of profits from ‘Dai Dai’, the World Cup’s official anthem, to the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund.

​New York City public school kindergartners will automatically receive $1,000 for college expenses, up from $100. The budget also restores a handful of education programs that were at risk of cuts, including a mental health initiative that operates clinics in schools.

​For 34 years, a team of doctors, dentists, and nurses has provided free surgery to people born with cleft lips or palates. The volunteer mission in Vietnam began in 1993, when Vietnam had few specialists in cleft treatment and relied heavily on foreign technical support.

Health

California is intentionally releasing 500,000 mosquitoes — and that’s actually a good thing

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good progress

New York installed 8 gigawatts of solar energy statewide, putting it ahead of schedule to reach 10 gigawatts by 2030

The state of New York installed a record 1.28 gigawatts of solar energy in 2025, and has now installed a total of 8 gigawatts statewide, putting it ahead of schedule to reach its 10-gigawatt goal by 2030.

With over 276,000 projects in operation statewide, including both community solar programs and the NY-Sun Program, the total installed capacity can power more than 1.3 million homes and businesses.

Solar power helped save New Yorkers an estimated $90 million during the summer last year, and in June, the state set a record when solar generated around 29% of statewide electricity midday.

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More Good bits

💊 Both red and blue states are protecting access to contraception.

🐑 Oh, that? That’s a geep.

🦒 Meet your new math tutor.

🥳 For the sake of your mental health, try some type 2 fun.

❤️ SZA shared her autism diagnosis; it’s a familiar story for Black women.

🇨🇻 Cabo Verde made history at the World Cup, and received the warmest welcome back home. (Video)

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