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🚸The childcare win buried in the Big Beautiful Bill. 🎧Listen to the full story on our weekly podcast What Could Go Right? with hosts TPN founder @zacharykarabell and TPN exec. director @heyemmavarv. link.chtbl.com/yfPKNqlr?sid=t… What Could Go Right? is sponsored by BetterHelp.

🥳Congratulations to Alabama and Missouri on joining the club! ✏️Note: Some states have no sales tax at all, so Alaska, Delaware, Montana, Oregon, and New Hampshire were not in the running.

"...a recently published study from psychologists Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler at UC Santa Barbara demonstrates that we can boost our curiosity levels through deliberate practice," writes @clayroutledge. flourishingfriday.blog/p/you-can-trai…

🏄You may have seen people riding hydrofoils in the summer, their boards appearing to levitate above the water. 🔋Recently, hydrofoil technology, combined with an electric battery, has begun to be tested as a climate-friendly public transport option. ⛴️Cities from Stockholm…

🇦🇺Australia is launching climate visas! 🎧Listen to the full story on our weekly podcast What Could Go Right? with hosts TPN founder @zacharykarabell and TPN exec. director @heyemmavarv. link.chtbl.com/yfPKNqlr?sid=t… What Could Go Right? is sponsored by BetterHelp.

🌊A biologically dead river in Germany, fouled by human excrement and factory waste, has returned to life after a 5.5 billion euro investment in its cleanup. 🤢The project, critically, was backed by local residents, “who were desperate to get rid of the summer stink.” 🦫Now…

"The early feedback I got on my public speaking did not include the phrase incredible charisma. The first notes were more like 'paces like a caged animal' and 'terrifying amount of eye contact,'" writes TPN member @arthurbrooks. "With time, I did get better at…

😇3 Things That Went Right This Week😇 🦮Pet owners in the US now have a long-lasting option to prevent their dogs from getting ticks or fleas. 🌊 A biologically dead river in Germany has returned to life. 🐬 Mexico has banned dolphin and other marine mammal shows nationwide.…

"You know, to me the story of America is the story of a country that generation after generation gets better," says historian @vermontgmg. "And that does not mean it is linear. That does not mean that progress is steady." Listen to the entire conversation on What Could Go…

Wimbledon is working on eliminating its climate footprint. 👣

"Yet, for all the roiling and the handwringing, the European Union remains one of the signature achievements of humanity: a multi-ethnic, multi-national political and economic condominium that has helped bring extraordinary stability and prosperity to more than 5% of the earth’s…

🫨This week in the What Could Go Right? newsletter, we are talking about how one of the world's largest earthquake simulators is shaking up disaster preparedness. theprogressnetwork.org/earthquake-pre…

🤔Why is @vermontgmg hopeful about the state of gun violence in America? 🎧Listen to the entire conversation on What Could Go Right? with hosts TPN founder @zacharykarabell and TPN exec. director @heyemmavarv. link.chtbl.com/maDXYEDq?sid=t… What Could Go Right? is sponsored by…

👏Six countries have recently banned child marriage!