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Celebrate this, as of Sunday 3.1.26

Jess Craven says:

"So please, take a break from doomscrolling and check out all the things that went RIGHT this week. There are a lot.

Treat this like medicine, folks. Dose yourselves with it thoroughly, maybe do it a second time, and then share this list with everyone else you know who’s not feeling so great.

We can get through this. We will get through it. Because of people just like you and through wins just like this.

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 Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, revealed that in 2025 it lost $712 million and brought in just $3.7 million in revenue.​

​Brandi Carlile raised $600K for immigrant legal aid in Minnesota with a livestream concert fundraiser. The singer’s “Be Human: A Concert for Minnesota” event benefited The Advocates For Human Rights, a nonprofit in Minneapolis that provides legal aid to people detained by ICE.​

Officials in Denver announced a moratorium on the construction of new data centers.

The Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team declined the President’s invitation to attend his State of the Union address.

London police arrested former U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the country’s second recent arrest for ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A planned protest outside National Development headquarters in Newton, MA was canceled after a meeting with the CEO resulted in banning ICE agents from parking their vehicles in National Development lots. [Submitted by subscriber Denise Y.]

After a failed grand jury indictment, Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders.

A proposal to rename a portion of a highway in Texas after Charlie Kirk was dropped after local residents pushed back.

Thanks to a crackdown on illegal land clearing, Brazil has seen a record drop in deforestation this year in the Amazon.

CA Attorney General Rob Bonta promised to conduct a “vigorous” review of Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and warned the companies not to get ahead of the regulatory process in their celebrations.

A federal judge in Boston ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to countries where they are not citizens is unconstitutional.

House Democrats, who hope to regain the majority in the November midterms, are already charting an aggressive strategy of investigating the Trump administration next year.

UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted. Roberts said at a Faculty Council meeting that he decided to reconsider the policy after it “created a lot of disquiet.” I’ll say!

Ukrainian forces have regained control of eight settlements and liberated 154 square miles of territory from Russian occupation since the end of January 2026.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune declared publicly for the first time that there’s no way for Senate Republicans to maintain the procedural unity required in order to pass the SAVE America Act via a “talking filibuster.”

A new Reuters-Ipsos poll finds 61% of Americans agreed that President Trump has “become erratic with age.” Just 45% say Trump is “mentally sharp and able to deal with challenges.”

TED is giving $1B to 10 nonprofits working to solve “humanity's biggest problems.”

North Carolina’s water infrastructure authority approved more than $472 million in funding for 145 water infrastructure projects across the state.

In a “hugely significant milestone,” 158 captive-bred juvenile giant tortoises were released on the Galápagos island of Floreana, making their return after over 180 years of absence.

St. Pete, FL lit up its sky with rainbow lasers for Winter Pride.​

The U.S. Forest Service is no longer issuing firefighters gear that contains PFAS. This happened after reporting by ProPublica exposed the danger. What a great news organization!

For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing with players.

Anthropic is rejecting the Pentagon’s latest offer to change their contract, saying the changes do not satisfy the company’s concerns that AI could be used for mass surveillance or in fully autonomous weapons. If you’re using Chat GPT now’s the time to switch to Claude!

Joining fans outraged by Trump’s phone call with the U.S. men’s team, Flavor Flav invited the U.S. women’s hockey team to have “a real celebration” for their gold medal win in Las Vegas. He then expanded his invitation for the U.S. women’s hockey team to all American female medalists, both Olympians and Paralympians.

Zohran Mamdani secured the release of a Columbia University student detained by ICE.

Democrats in four states are seeking to bar ICE employees from future civil service jobs.

Paramount Skydance saws its 4th quarter losses widen amid its effort to acquire Warner.

Over 1000 activists, students, teachers, and community members braved the intense cold to pack the city hall in Romulus, Michigan to protest the proposed construction of an ICE detention center. They won! The project has been rejected.

Team USA won its most gold medals in a single Winter Olympics this year, with 12 total golds — and 8 of them were won by women.

New polling confirms that voters in Trump-carried states, including Trump’s own voters, widely support solar energy.

The proposed detention center in Merrimack NH has been canceled. Once again, the outcry of the people made the difference!

The voter enthusiasm gap is now a record 14 points in Democrats’ favor, the largest gap since the 2006 wave election.

One in five Americans who voted for Trump in 2024 now say they regret their vote (20%), a 6-point increase from earlier this month (and throughout Navigator’s tracking of Trump’s second term).

Ana Tiburcio of Alleghany County and Jennifer Mazzocco of Lehigh County were elected as Pennsylvania state representatives on Tuesday, securing a Democratic majority in the state legislature.

And in Maine, Scott Harriman defeated Republican Janet Beaudoin and further cemented Democrats’ hold on the state House.

FedEx sued the U.S. government, seeking a “full refund” of the money the shipping giant paid for Trump’s illegal tariffs.

The sheriff’s office in Alameda county, CA, home to Oakland and Berkeley, announced that it will no longer participate in a federal program that pays local law enforcement to share sensitive data on people they detain, exposing them to immigration authorities.

Borge Brende, the CEO of the World Economic Forum, quit his position after his Epstein ties were revealed.

The longevity influencer Peter Attia has resigned from his position as a contributor to CBS News, about three weeks after the revelation of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Someone is paying for Leaving MAGA billboards to go up in red districts in Pennsylvania. No one is quite sure who.

In Utah, a federal appeals court rejected a Republican plea to block a new court-imposed congressional map that is likely to shift a seat toward Democrats.

Larry Summers announced his resignation from Harvard later this year due to his Epstein ties.

The Department of Homeland Security reversed course after saying that it would suspend TSA PreCheck because of the partial government shutdown.

One of New York’s largest health insurers is set to pay a multimillion-dollar fine for failing to fix a series of errors that made it harder for its customers to get mental health care.

Portland’s administrative branch published a temporary rule allowing the city to fine the owner of the South Portland ICE building at least $5,000 each time ICE officers shoot chemical munitions, like tear gas, from the property.

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration can’t force states to supply food stamp data in exchange for SNAP funding.

One year after masked federal agents grabbed her off the street, Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk earned her PhD, and said she is still “hopeful that our world can become a gentler and more peaceful place.”

Stanley Tucci treated the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team to one of his favorite restaurants in Milan. (The men’s team got cold Big Macs at the White House.)

After a historically huge snowfall, Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers $30/hr to shovel snow with $45/hr overtime. The sidewalks were clear in hours.

A brand new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds only 27% of Americans approve of the military attacks in Iran. 43% disapprove.

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land.

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