Morning everybody - we are halfway through a hellish year so as tradition here are some good / amazing shit that happened in 2020;

My state of Mass just reported 0 new Coronavirus dea... - first time since March 20th

Chinese family reunited after 32 years when their son was kidnapped in 1988

Finland doubled its paternity leave to equal that of maternity leave

Mississippi finally gets rid of the rebel state flag

People donated over 100,000 dollars to a Starbucks barista after a woman tried to shame him for refusing to serve her without a mask. The article says 22,000 but if you check the GoFundMe page it's up since then. The kid wants to be a dancer and also is donating some of it back to his community.

Pakistan uses the people who lost their jobs due to coronavirus to plant trees

LeBron James forms group to protect black American voting rights

Spain to close half its coal-fired power stations

don't say we're halfway through that'll just make the second half worse

knock on some wood or something pls

Cranes make a comeback in Britain's wetlands

/o/ I went crane watching a few years ago they're the best

Suffolk pig farmers feed over a million bees in wildlife project

NASA's DC headquarters renamed for Mary W. Jackson, the first black female engineer to work there

bees!!!

'Huge Win': Court Orders DeVos to Cancel Loans for Mass. Students Defrauded by Corinthian Colleges

Speaking of bees, US honeybees are doing better after a bad year

Extinct harlequin toad rediscovered

'She still lives!' - Famed Yellowstone bear emerges from winter – with cubs

Hawks OK'd to turn arena into huge voting station

A volunteer 'sewing squad' distributed more than 55,000 masks to vulnerable communities in 3 months. They're not slowing down

Hawaii Group Sets Record For Largest Haul of Plastic Removed From The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Dolly Parton, drag star Nina West launch charity collection benefitting LGBTQ+ youth

CSIRO scientists discover how to grow coloured cotton, removing need for harmful chemical dyes

A New Church in Tennessee Exists Purely to Help Residents Vote Early

Hospitals sued to keep prices secret and lost