The Positive News Thread

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Just Before Leaving White House, Obama Made a Final Climate Hail Mary

By sending $500 million to the Green Climate Fund, Obama helped to ensure international climate progress during Trump's denialist reign.

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Obama Grants 330 Commutations as Final Act as President

President Obama granted another 330 commutations Thursday as his final major act as president. The majority of the sentences commuted Thursday were for nonviolent drug offenses. Throughout his presidency, Obama has granted 1,715 commutations—more than any other president in U.S. history.

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5 Best Art World Protests Against Trump

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Obama Administration Released $221 Million To Palestinians In Final Hours

Trump moves to pull US out of TPP trade deal

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I'd prefer something more pro positive change than against Trump, but then, it's just a couple of first ideas, and maybe necessary self-defense (and defense of others).

After the March: How to Take Action in Trump's First 100 Days

Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work

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What if we gave universal income to people in biodiversity hotpots?

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California isn’t backing down from the most ambitious climate goal in the country

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Wellbeing Gardening – Gardening for the Body, Mind and Spirit

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Experts: China unlikely to join TPP

Ireland broaden rape to include assaults on disabled, drink impaired

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A new label stimulates US farmers to convert to organic agriculture

France issues record $7.5 billion in 'green bonds'

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Scientists embark on their own Trump resistance

“Alternative facts” don’t really work for scientists.

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BP sees demand for oil slowing with electric car revolution

California utilities plan $1 billion expansion of electric car charging stations

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National Parks Service 'Goes Rogue' in Response to Trump Twitter Ban

National Park Service climate change Twitter campaign spreads to other parks

Facing Information Crackdown, Federal Agencies Go 'Rogue' on Twitter

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In Humanitarian Effort, Israel Agrees To Take In 100 Syrian Refugee Children

The Netherlands to Counter Trump's "Global Gag Rule" With International Abortion Fund

Greenpeace Activists Deploy “Resist” Banner Above the White House

People’s Climate Movement Organizes for Mass Mobilization in DC on April 29: “People’s Climate March”

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Trump brings out the best in so many people...

'We Do Not Stand Down': Sanctuary Cities Vow to Fight Trump's Order

NYC: Thousands Protest Trump Plan to Impose Ban on Refugees, Block Visas from 7 Muslim Nations

He seems to strangely match the character of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust (though he probably doesn't really will evil...):

I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

(German original: "Ich bin ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.”)

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9 Things You Can Do About Climate Change

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Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight

Alan Watts on life priorities and living in the moment in a Volvo commercial:

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For whomever feels the need...

How to Protect Yourself Digitally In the Trump Era

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Trying to Save the World Should Be Fun

Sanctuary Campaign Is Rising to Defy Trump's Nightmare White Supremacist, Xenophobic Agenda

Movements are demanding material safety and well-being for all people under attack.

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Al Gore Revives CDC's Health and Climate Conference

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Ireland Takes Step to Divest From Fossil Fuels

How Do I Know Good Can Overcome Ignorance, Spite and Hate? Because I’ve Seen it.

How Trump Can Unite the Left

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to close for good in May

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The ‘Impossible’ Veggie Burger: A Tech Industry Answer to the Big Mac (with video)

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Speech from the Philadelphia Women’s March on January 21, 2017

I am a black woman, a mother of two beautiful black boys, and I live in Northeast Philadelphia.

I have lived in poverty, in Philadelphia, my whole life.

Philadelphia has the highest poverty rate of any large American city. The face of that poverty is most likely a black mother, like me.

For me, being a woman has always meant being strong and never showing weakness.
I have always had to be superwoman, and the women around me have had to be the same.
As a single mother of two boys, I have to play both roles and every day, I do what I have to in order to take care of my boys the best way I know how.

I, too, am a woman.

I am the woman you don’t see when you walk down the street sipping your Starbucks coffee.
I am the woman you don’t see standing in line at the local food pantry.
I am the woman who remains invisible in spaces and at events like the Women’s March.

But I am here.

You must see me.
You must acknowledge me.
You must include me.

Because I am the woman who fights every day.
I am the woman who understands inequality.
I am the woman who advocates for the rights of women and children living in poverty.
I am the woman who wants a better life.

The new administration scares me, but I know I have to continue to fight.
Not just for me, but for the others who come after me.
For our children.
For our future.

We can’t accept what we are given.
We must continue the fight—and that means all of us.
Let’s hold each other accountable and unite.

Sonia Sanchez said, “in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love.”
I do what I do out of love.
We will win because of love.

But first you need to see me.

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ACLU Wins Stay On Refugee Ban

Protesters Rally for Refugees Detained at JFK After Trump's Anti-Muslim Executive Order

In Photos: Immigrant Ban Protests at Airports Across America

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Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98