What's some good news you've heard recently?

The news is filled with horrific things happening all the time but I would love to hear about the good things that go on instead of just the bad. Tell us about uplifting things you have seen or heard about.

 

We may be ascending?

 

LOL, you don't seem too sure about that.

 

Kinda hard to tell sometimes, & thanks 4 replying.

 

Nuclear waste being turned into glass, non-radioactive glass.

A public-private partnership will soon see one of the world’s largest nuclear waste treatment facilities begin operations, as liquid and solid waste is turned into large bricks of non-radioactive glass.

The Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Washington state, commissioned by the Department of Energy and built by Bechtel National, takes nuclear waste and mixes it with traditional glass-forming materials at high temperatures to make solid glass that can be safely stored underground.

 

Trump may be off the ballot in Colorado.
Rudy just declared bankruptcy and owes $148 million to the women he defamed.
We're still alive after Covid.

 

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice has occurred and the hours of daylight will increase.

 

It is almost Christmas and New Years...........party,that is always good news.



Best wishes to everybody, on here and the planet

Mzzls

 

Found Hip forums today.

 

Welcomehome

 

Welcome!!

 

US Army leave Afghanistan, and take end war which lasted 20 years.

 

My local community center pool is reopening this morning. They had to repair something with the drain. Water aerobics class will be a fun reunion. I can't wait to be one of the first people in the fresh new water!

 

Wow I can barely believe that this thread is not popping with good news.

We are having an amazing smooth fall after a crazy busy summer. I do believe the kids need that more structured environment that goes with school sessions. I see them functioning at a much higher level.

 

Recently, a 79-year-old woman hiking alone on a mountain in Washington State to the place where she'd scattered her mother's ashes years earlier fell and broke her leg. A pair of hikers in their 20s happened upon her and dialed 911 with her location and information about her injury. The 911 dispatcher told them that rescuers would be there in about 5 hours. Five hours. That wouldn't do.

One of the pair, a 20-year-old Air Force Airman, hoisted her onto his back and carried her 3/4 of the way down the mountain, where his companion took over carrying her the rest of the way. Along the way, they encountered other hikers who were an occupational therapist and a physical therapist by profession. The OT helped the injured woman by leading her in breathing exercises to control the pain, and the PT splinted her leg.

On arrival at the trailhead, one of the original pair who'd come to her aid drove her to the nearest hospital. It was a very bad injury - fractures to her tibia, fibula, and heel bone, ultimately requiring surgical implantation of a titanium plate and 11 screws. However, the help she needed found her, both on the mountain and in the hospital.

 

"Bubbles up!"

 

Just heard from the last of my immediate family (they were trapped by washed out/landslide roads); everyone made it through TS Helene unscathed; homes and businesses intact.

 

A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling that the ban is unconstitutional and blocking it from being enforced.

In a 26-page opinion, the Fulton county superior judge Robert McBurney ruled that the state’s abortion laws must revert to what they were before the six-week ban – known as the Life Act – was passed in 2019. The ban was blocked as long as Roe v Wade was the law of the land, but went into effect after the US supreme court overturned Roe in 2022.


Abortions are now legal in Georgia up until about 22 weeks of pregnancy.

Many women, McBurney wrote, do not even know they are pregnant at six weeks.

“For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability,” McBurney wrote. “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.”

In a footnote, McBurney added: “There is an uncomfortable and usually unspoken subtext of involuntary servitude swirling about this debate, symbolically illustrated by the composition of the legal teams in this case. It is generally men who promote and defend laws like the Life Act, the effect of which is to require only women – and, given the socio-economic and demographic evidence presented at trial, primarily poor women, which means in Georgia primarily black and brown women – to engage in compulsory labor, ie, the carrying of a pregnancy to term at the government’s behest.”

McBurney’s ruling arrives weeks after two Georgia women died after being unable to access legal abortions in the months after Roe was overturned.


Georgia judge strikes down state’s abortion ban, allowing care to resume