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🎤 The Obama Presidential Centerofficially opened its doors to the public on ​Juneteenth​. At the opening ceremony held the day before, Obama said the center was designed to be “a vibrant, living celebration of community.”

🌊 The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash. (Gifted link)

🍑 Republicans in Georgia dropped their congressional redistricting effort, citing a rushed timeline and public input.

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A new Etsy anti-Amazon campaign encourages shoppers to support ‘non-billionaire Jeffs’

Ahead of Amazon’s Prime Days this week, a new campaign from Etsy is spotlighting thousands of Jeffs — who aren’t the billionaire founder of Amazon — who sell things online, encouraging customers to shop from them instead.

From Jeff Brown, who makes pottery in North Carolina, to Jeff Risinger, co-founder of a Michigan-based lighting shop, Etsy says it has more than 5,000 sellers named Jeff.

The company’s campaign uses language like, “One Jeff should not rule commerce,” and “Shop non-billionaire Jeffs.” It also released a collection of items made by its sellers that say “Shop Other Jeffs.”

Why is this good news? More and more Americans, including about half of 18- to 29-year-olds, think billionaires are “a bad thing” for the country. And people are increasingly pushing back against the not just the overconsumption Amazon seems to encourage, but its impact on the environment and lives of its workers.

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More Good News

Three referees made history as the first all-American, all-women officiating crew at the men’s World Cup. (Gifted link) Referees Tori Penso, Brooke Mayo and Kathryn Nesbitt officiated the group-stage match between Czech Republic and South Africa.

A new species of “walking shark” was discovered in Papua New Guinea. Researchers from the University of Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia confirmed the species after 70 survey dives.

The Netherlands is banning conversion therapy for young people and vulnerable adults. The parties who spearheaded the bill, which passed 75 to 57, said that “years of commitment to freedom, equality, and human dignity have been rewarded.”

At a co-ed Mennonite house in New York City, rent is less than $900 a month — and surprisingly LGBTQ+ inclusive. In Manhattan, the average cost of rent is approximately 154% higher than the national average.

Conservationists were ecstatic after trail cameras captured footage of one of the world’s rarest mammals — with a baby in its pouch. The marsupial is one of only 450 northern hairy-nosed wombats left in the wild.

The last outstanding proposal for a new coal mining project in the UK has been rejected. A council refused a coal company’s plans to dig for 85,000 tonnes of coal, citing impacts on the local environment — the second time the company’s plans have been rejected since the mine closed in 2019.

Animals

Arizona is building its 27th wildlife crossing. Altogether, they’ve reduced collisions by 90%

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good progress

Young women now have a ‘close to zero’ risk of cervical cancer death thanks to the HPV vaccine

In a landmark, first-of-its-kind study, researchers found that children vaccinated at age 12 to 13 against human papillomavirus, or HPV, have close to a zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before age 30.

The study showed that deaths have dramatically declined since school-age girls started being offered the vaccine in 2008, with around 200 lives being saved in England so far.

Between 2000 and 2024, for the first time ever over a five-year period, there were no recorded cervical cancer deaths among women between the ages of 20 and 24. Without vaccination, there would have been an estimated 23 deaths.

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More Good bits

🫏 These donkeys are getting their degrees in veterinary care.

🐴 A Croatian apartment building just welcomed its latest tenant.

🧸 Toy Story 5 completely changes the animation game.

🐟 A transparent fish could be the future of brain science.

🤖 AI helps wildlife officials “think how traffickers think.”

🦍 Rising gorilla tourism? It's The Attenborough Effect.

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