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⚾️ New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco will make history as the first cities to host the first four teams in the new Women’s Professional Baseball League.

✈️ The Orlando airport held a food and gift card donation drive for federal workers amid the ongoing government shutdown as those workers who are deemed essential for government operations, including TSA officers, approach their first full pay period without a paycheck.

Sports

The Savannah Bananas partnered with the Negro League Museum to bring back the legendary Indianapolis Clowns

The Savannah Bananas’ Banana Ball Championship League features six teams playing 60 games apiece in 2026. One of those teams is the Negro Leagues’ Indianapolis Clowns, “the greatest barnstorming baseball team for over 50 years.”

The Clowns have been called “the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball,” and their approach to playing baseball is what originally inspired Bananas’ founder and owner Jesse Cole.

Cole said partnering “to bring the Clowns to millions of fans all over the country and preserve their legacy is a dream come true,” and Negro Leagues president Bob Kendrick said it was a “tremendous opportunity to not only entertain, but educate fans about the rich history of the Negro Leagues.”

Good history: Before he became Major League Baseball’s home run king, Hank Aaron got his professional start with the Clowns. He only played there for a few months before he was picked up by the then-Milwaukee Braves, but he always credits the Clowns for giving him the platform to showcase his incredible talent.

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A national study found public Montessori programs strengthen early learning outcomes at sharply lower costs. The first national randomized trial of public Montessori preschool students showed stronger long-term outcomes by kindergarten, including elevated reading, memory, and executive function as compared to non-Montessori preschoolers.

A new California law strengthens statewide fire safety standards for grid battery installations. The new law comes in response to a fire that hit the coastal California town of Moss Landing, which had an older type of design, which became the most destructive battery fire in U.S. history.

Seychelles President-elect said he will halt construction on a tourist development on environmentally sensitive land. A resort is under construction on Assumption Island, which is the gateway to the Aldabra atoll, which has one of the most pristine and fragile ecosystems in the world and is home to 400 species found nowhere else on the planet.

Billionaire philanthropists in Houston are donating 95% of their $11 billion fortune to local charities. Nancy and Rich Kinder want to help the city that made them who they are, prioritizing projects like education, arts, and parks, including an $18.5 million expansion of Emancipation Park in Houston’s Third Ward that’s already underway.

Scientists discovered that a “dual feeding” strategy is helping Mediterranean coral thrive in rising sea temperatures. When the Mediterranean’s sea temperatures climb past 29°C, the expels algae from its host cells, losing its brown-orange color, a bleaching event that would be fatal for other corals, but this one survives long enough to regain algae in its host cells during the cooler autumn waters.

Businesses doing good

After 4-day workweek success, this company is letting employees work whenever and wherever they want

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good Data

Most people around the world are optimistic that life will improve

Despite data showing that most people believe the world is getting worse, most people are much more optimistic that their own lives will improve.

When asked to rate their lives on a scale from 0 (the worst possible) to 10 (the best) as they are now and where they think they’ll be in five years, most people said their life would be better — and that trend held across a wide range of countries.

In general, humans are a lot more hopeful about our own situations improving than we are about the world.

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P.S. Setting the record straight ... even though people perceive the world to be getting worse, the opposite is true in ways you might not expect!

More Good bits

🏠 What if you could just, say, lift your home up to avoid flooding?

👚 Europe is using taxes to slow down fast fashion.

❤️ One man has made an incredible impact on Parkinson’s research and visibility. (Reel)

☀️ Illinois invested in a clean energy workforce, and it’s paying off.

👏 More Black women in STEM, please and thank you! (TikTok)

What’s good?

I am so hoping that the expanded team roster will make it easier to score Banana Ball tickets!

Have you ever seen the Bananas in person? Or just on social media (like me)?

Reply and make me jealous!

— Megan