🇪🇹Ethiopia is going all in on EVs.

"The truth, whether it’s comfort or caution, is that in our relatively brief 250 years as a nation, we have always faced challenging bursts of tumult, controversy, corruption, war, and division," writes TPN member Isaac Saul for @tanglenews.bsky.social .

✏️A teeny tiny chip the size of a pencil point placed into the eye has helped a few dozen blind adults see again. 👀The prosthetic retinal implant is the first of its kind to improve vision in people with a common form of blindness in older adults, afflicting roughly a million people in the US.

💀📉The Daily Dose via @cnn.com 💀📉 In 2025, the US overall death rate fell to its lowest level on record.

🙅‍♂️Minnesota is the first state in the US to say no to "nudification" apps.

"...embracing a more realistic—and ultimately more hopeful—understanding of who we are, well, that at least is a good place to start as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell about his chat with historian @alexiscoe.bsky.social.

😮Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine-era city. 👀What kind of stuff did they find? 🛖The fourth-century city had residential and religious structures, including a basilica-style church. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

☀️📈The Daily Dose via @ember-energy.org ☀️📈 Solar energy supply grew by 30% from 2024 to 2025, according to @ember-energy.org and the Energy Institute's Statistical Review of World Energy.

🥳Nepal won Pride Month!

"I think that what plagues us about our nation is the same thing that plagues us about ourselves, which is an inability to see ourselves from a different perspective," says historian @alexiscoe.bsky.social.

😎In 2025, US overall death rate fell to its lowest point on record! 🤔For everyone? 👏Yep, the death rate declined across every age group and nearly every demographic group tracked in the provisional report by the CDC. www.wsj.com/health/u-s-d...

🇳🇵🏳️‍🌈The Daily Dose via @yahoonews.com 🇳🇵🏳️‍🌈 In June, Nepal became the 40th country in the world to recognize same-sex marriage.

🇬🇧If you were born after 2008 in the UK, you will never be able to buy tobacco.

🤔Does the U.S. Constitution need a refresh? 😮Thomas Jefferson would think so, says our guest historian @alexiscoe.bsky.social

🇺🇸Approaching the 250th anniversary of the United States brings up a familiar tension. 🎙️Presidential historian @alexiscoe.bsky.social joins TPN founder Zachary Karabell to unpack why we struggle so deeply to accept the complexity of the nation's origins.

🇵🇫🐠The Daily Dose via @mongabay.com 🐠🇵🇫 The government of French Polynesia announced that 30% of their waters will be protected.

"...human beings find it easier to worry about what may be lost than to imagine what could be created, he said," writes @annielowrey.bsky.social about her conversation with TPN member @erikbryn.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com .

🧠This week on the Progress Report, TPN exec. director, Emma Varvaloucas, brings us the incredible story of a paralyzed man who can continue to work and communicate thanks to a groundbreaking brain implant. 🎧Listen to the full episode right here: play.megaphone.fm/rvqxqx2cqfu4...

🇳🇵Nepal has become the 40th country to legalize same-sex marriage! ⚖️On June 18, the Supreme Court ordered the country's government to ensure equal marriage rights for LGBTQ+ people. www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/22/n...

🇮🇳📉The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 🇮🇳📉 Tobacco use among adults in India has been cut in half since 2000.

"...I think we should be cautious in the face of end-times vibes and headlines regarding 'the economy,'" writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell "...Our behavior tells the more subtle, and more honest, story." edgyoptimist.substack.com/p/its-a-put-...

🦑In this week's Progress Report, TPN exec. director, Emma Varvaloucas, explores the current golden age of species discovery. play.megaphone.fm/rvqxqx2cqfu4...

🌾📈The Daily Dose via Phys.org 🌾📈 A new study has found that global increase in rice production between the 1960s and 2010s has nearly doubled, despite climate change.

🤠3 Things That Went Right This Week🤠 ⚖️ Hungary is poised to become the first EU member since the 1980s to introduce a wealth tax. 🍚Global increase in rice production between the 1960s and 2010s has nearly doubled, despite climate change.

☀️🇺🇸The Daily Dose via @ember-energy.org ☀️🇺🇸 For the first time, solar generated more electricity than coal in the US in May 2026. Solar supplied a record 12.8% of US electricity, while coal fell to 12.2%.

Affordable eye care for people who need it most? You go, Martin Aufmuth!

🧠A brain implant has allowed a paralyzed patient to text, email, and retain his job in climate advocacy for two years—“the longest-running speech communication of anyone” with such a device. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🐠In this week's What Could Go Right? newsletter, we are marveling at the digital tools and other technological advances, that are allowing us to learn more about life on our planet more quickly than ever before. 🐨That knowledge may prove to be the key to saving it.

🇨🇦📉The Daily Dose via CBC 🇨🇦📉 Opioid deaths in Canada fell by 23% in 2025 compared with 2024.

😮We didn't see this coming either.

"Let's just do the Manhattan Project, but for figuring out how to tax ultra-millionaires and billionaires," says our guest this week @planetmoney.bsky.social contributer Alex Mayyasi.

🤔Why does the financial forecast always sound like a pending apocalypse, even when the data tells a remarkably stable story? 🎧Longtime @planetmoney.bsky.social contributor Alex Mayyasi joins TPN founder Zachary Karabell to offer a badly needed dose of fresh air. play.megaphone.fm/11fjdpxzscyy...

🇬🇧💉The Daily Dose via BBC News🇬🇧💉 For the first time ever, there were no cervical cancer deaths in English women between the ages of 20-24 between 2020-2024, thanks to the HPV vaccine.

Update: Solar generated more electricity than coal in the US for the first time ever in May 2026.

🤖Scientists have developed a rehabilitation system that virtually connects therapists and stroke survivors through robotic exoskeletons. 🦵The real-time connection allows therapists to respond to a patient’s movements, continuously adapting support & assistance as the patient’s performance evolves.

🤰 A new blood test can detect thousands of genetic conditions during pregnancy, potentially limiting the need for invasive screening.

📉💩The Daily Dose via @umn-idim.bsky.social 💩📉 Across 204 countries and territories, deaths from infections that cause diarrhea and other intestinal illnesses fell by 2.42 million between 1990 and 2023.

☀️ Solar generated more electricity than coal in the US for the first time ever in May. 👏The milestone follows another in March, when renewables overtook gas for the first time. ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

🧐A study covering 22 countries over almost three decades has some surprising news about democracy. 🎧TPN exec. director, Emma Varvaloucas, explains the results on this week's episode of the Progress Report. play.megaphone.fm/kdkdfyj_sm-e...

🏠☀️The Daily Dose via @canarymedia.com ☀️🏠 Seven US states have adopted balcony solar and dozens more are considering it.

🤓This week in the What Could Go Right? newsletter, we're looking at a new study in @jodemocracy.bsky.social . 🧐Political scientists Javier Corrales and Susan Stokes found that across 22 countries going back to 1999 that were experiencing an erosion of democracy...

🇺🇸📈The Daily Dose via @pewresearch.org 🇺🇸📈 In 2019, only Texas recognized Juneteenth as a legal holiday. Today 33 states (and Washington D.C.) do.

🙅‍♂️Minnesota has become the first state to ban prediction markets.

🤔What grade would you give the USA if you were teaching a class about supporting freedom of expression? 😳"I would give it an F," says author Dinaw Mengestu.

😬We hear often that freedom of speech is under threat. 🤔And it’s easy to feel like things have never been worse in that regard. But is that really true?

🇯🇵👩‍🍼The Daily Dose via @cnn.com 🇯🇵👩‍🍼 Japan’s youngest elected female mayor is the first person to take time off to become a first-time mom in office.

"There’s an old Wall Street adage called Stein’s Law: If something can’t go on, it will stop," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell. "The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is one of those somethings." edgyoptimist.substack.com/p/lessons-of...

🇬🇧The UK has announced that they are banning social media accounts for children under 16 beginning next year. “Every parent can see it with their own eyes. Social media is making children unhappy,” said Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has two teenage children.

🇨🇳📉The Daily Dose via @nature.com 🇨🇳📉 The rise in people driving electric vehicles in China has led to the prevention of an estimated 260,000 pollution-related premature deaths.

Researchers are increasingly digitizing plant specimens and using A.I. to analyze them, work that is transforming conservation science, according to a new report.