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🎥 “Sinners” director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history at the Oscars, becoming the first woman ever to win for cinematography. She was also the first Black person to win the category.

🎶 “KPop Demon Hunters” finished its award-season sweep by taking home the Oscar for Best Original Song for its hit song “Golden,” and became the first KPop song to win an Oscar.

🏠 The largest housing affordability bill in a generation was passed in the Senate by a bipartisan group of senators and contains roughly 40 provisions intended to increase housing supply and lower costs.

Housing & Homelessness

Minneapolis opened a warehouse of 100 indoor tiny homes to keep the homeless out of the cold

In December 2020, housing advocates in Minneapolis opened Avivo Village, an indoor community of 100 secure, private tiny houses for people who are otherwise at risk of sleeping on the streets.

Inside the village, which is located in a warehouse, 100 individual units give people their own place to call home — and the freedom to come and go as they please.

Since opening, the shelter has supported over 800 people through temporary housing, placed 340 people in permanent housing, and has even reversed nearly 250 overdoses.

Why is this good news? Minnesota experiences some of the coldest temperatures in the United States every winter. People can suffer from hypothermia in any temperature below 35 degrees, so this harsh weather can be a death sentence for Minnesotans experiencing homelessness.

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More Good News

​California’s first graduating class of incarcerated women earned bachelor’s degrees from Cal State. The 20 women represent a major milestone in a decade-long partnership between the state’s Department of Corrections and California State University.

​A recent assessment found that next-generation flu vaccines could save millions of lives. The vaccines provide broader and longer-lasting protection than existing seasonal vaccines and could play a vital role in reducing the global burden of influenza.

​For the first time in a decade, Death Valley is in the midst of a superbloom event. After a winter of record rainfall, the famously arid desert is covered in a blanket of vibrant pink, purple, and yellow flowers.

​A long-planned project to revive Detroit’s Chinatown is moving toward construction. The design plan calls for public art and cultural elements, public space for markets and events, native landscaping, lantern-inspired light fixtures, and improved walkability and accessibility.

​A guide dog school dropout found a new purpose — comforting cancer patients as a therapy dog. Marcus, a black Lab, now pays daily visits to an oncology clinic in Australia to comfort people in treatment.

People doing good

Olivia Rodrigo’s new music video was filmed by children in Gaza and Ukraine — and funds aid for kids affected by war

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good progress

Electrifying Caltrain — the commuter rail line linking San Francisco to Silicon Valley — has made trains faster and cleaner

Caltrain completed a $2.4 billion project in 2024 to electrify 51 miles of track between San Francisco and San Jose, replacing diesel trains with electric ones that accelerate faster and cut travel times by as much as 23 minutes.

The upgrade added more trains — and stops — to the rail line as well, causing weekday station service to rise by 20%.

Cleaner technology is another major benefit: electric trains reduced riders’ exposure to carcinogenic black carbon by about 89 percent and could cut roughly 250,000 metric tons of carbon emissions each year.

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More Good bits

Here’s how to feel a little less pain at the gas pump right now.

The Oscar nominees put climate change on the big screen.

And ^that^ is mostly thanks to women.

Even without funding, tribes aren’t giving up on clean energy.

Crime is actually way, way down.

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