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🎂 Tomorrow is John Lewis’ birthday. Throughout his life, the civil rights icon shared many insights on the importance of perseverance, hope, and the need for continued activism in the face of adversity — and those words still ring true today.
🇺🇸 The U.S. women’s hockey team won Olympic gold over Canada, with captain Hilary Knight scoring the game-tying goal to send the game into overtime, and in doing so set the record for most Olympic goals and points in U.S. women’s hockey history.
🎶 U2 released a new EP featuring songs that push for peace and unity, beginning with a tribute to Renee Good.
Governments doing good
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After hundreds protested, the New Brunswick City Council killed plans to build a data center in the New Jersey city
Hundreds of people showed up to protest a data center scheduled to be built in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While it was a relatively small data center, about 400% smaller than the average data center in the state, residents were concerned about the impact on utility bills.
And their voices were heard, and the city council announced that it would not approve the construction of the data center, which was welcomed with cheers by those in attendance.
Instead, the city plans to redevelop the site to include 600 new apartments, 10% allocated as affordable housing, small warehouses for small businesses and start-ups, and now, a public park, too.
Why is this good news? In addition to other environmental impacts, data centers suck up a lot of electricity and have been found responsible for rising electric and water bills, due to the large amounts of water required to keep the servers cool, too. There have been protests and pushback in cities across the country as the impacts of the data centers become increasingly clear.
Plus, people should have a say in how their communities grow and expand.
The world is one step closer to eradicating human Guinea worm cases, with just 10 last year
According to the Carter Center, there were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections — confined to three countries — in 2025, a historic low.
It’s been just over a year since President Jimmy Carter passed, and his legacy lives on in the fight to eradicate the guinea worm. Since the Carter Center launched eradication efforts in 1986, the incidence of Guinea worm has fallen by more than 99.99%.
In the last 40 years, the center estimates that it has helped avert more than 100 million cases of the disease.
“The only reason unjust systems exist is that the masses of people silently give their consent and believe these systems are necessary — whether for their security or survival.”
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