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When the headlines usually focus on division, tension, and what’s not working, it’s easy to forget there’s more to the story! Every two weeks, Americans of Conscience highlights the full picture: people solving problems, groups protecting our rights, and communities showing up for each other. Because no matter what’s happening at the top, this is who We the People are.
Do you want to learn how Americans are making a better future together? Check out this week’s Just Good News list!
- TX: After sending a patient home without treating her ectopic pregnancy, a federal inquiry finds that a hospital violated the law.
- UT: Inter-tribal coalition and partners successfully defend the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument against ongoing calls for rolling back established protections.
- VA: Hanover County Board of Supervisors denies a proposed data center development.
- Monterey Park, CA residents vote to permanently ban data centers due to concern for the environment.
- New York City opens long-unused early childhood education centers to add hundreds of
- seats for young children.
- New York City enacts a tax on luxury second homes that is projected to generate an additional $500M in annual revenue to protect public services for working New Yorkers.
- Jersey City, NJ divests from Citizens Bank over their continued funding of ICE detention centers.
- Seattle enacts a one-year citywide moratorium on data center development.
- Watertown, WI community rallies to support a high school band playing Mother of a Revolution, honoring queer activist, Marsha P. Johnson.
- AILA releases a policy framework for a fairer, more accountable immigration system.
- Legal and civil rights organizations sue ICE over inhumane conditions inflicted on people held at an El Paso detention camp.
- Student leaders at the Florida State University College of Medicine host a training workshop for students to learn more about abortion care.
- The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund shares resources for people with disabilities seeking abortion and reproductive health care.
- The disability advocacy group Disability Belongs announces the recipients of its annual Disability Impact Awards.
- Rainbow Robotics offers a welcoming environment for LGBTQ+ kids to engage in STEM.
- A new treatment extends the lives of patients with pancreatic cancer in a clinical trial, providing hope in the face of an often deadly disease.
- A global group of physicians and scientists more accurately renames polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS, formerly PCOS) to enable better care.
- The European Parliament votes to support a ban on conversion therapy throughout the entire European Union.
- The United Nations passes a resolution acknowledging “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.”
- Following a court order demanding his release, Mohammad Abushanab leaves immigration detention after 20 months in ICE custody.
- Courts rule against the administration’s immigration policies in 90% of more than 10,000 cases.
- Spain sets a welcoming example, offering immigrants without legal status a one-year, renewable residence permit if they have spent five months living in the country and have a clean criminal record.
- US solar power supplies 12.8% of U.S. electricity in May, surpassing coal for an entire month for the first time
- Operation TRAP’s “trash traps” capture litter before it can wash into streams, rivers, and oceans.
- The National Park Service shares an ongoing livestream of sled dog puppies in training.