r/UpliftingNews • • 5d ago

Quick 2nd Update Here!

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Two slight edits from the earlier post back in May, but the premise remains:

As a reminder, this is r/UpliftingNews. This community is meant for positive, feel-good news stories (from a place of authenticity) that show people doing nice things for one another without much personal gain... at least that's the underlying intent.

Recently, 5 months ago, there have been were multiple disturbing breaches and hacks/possibly nefarious persuasions of former moderators that used to do great work here. These unapproved and uncharacteristic moderator actions included adding 'flairs' and 'verified user' designations to inauthentic accounts, along with various content approvals and flairs and other promotional tools that have NEVER been used here. This all came suddenly within a week after over a year of limited, if not zero moderation from these accounts.

The stakes are high right now, along with the incentives. There are big dollars and organized influence operations at play, both from inside the United States and the upcoming mid-term election, but also from outside the United States. Rest assured, none of that mess flies here, and we will continue to do our best to wipe away anything that doesn't match the intent of this community, which will remain an armistice zone on the internet where positivity and humanity still come first.

We are committed to keeping that spirit alive, and if you are interested in helping us maintain and grow this mindset after June 5th, November 3rd, please send us a note. If not, hang in there, take care of each other and look for the helpers if you ever get discouraged. At the end of the day, we are all on this rotating orb together, and life is too short so make the most of it!


r/UpliftingNews • • Aug 07 '16

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library celebrates 80 million books given to needy children

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r/UpliftingNews • • 7h ago

Houston high school students have opened a public auto shop where they service local residents’ cars under instructor supervision. Oil changes, tire rotations and inspections cost just $20 to $35 giving students real world experience while funding more opportunities for their training.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 12h ago

A leaderless revolution has swept Serbia. The world should be watching

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r/UpliftingNews • • 4h ago

Grand jury declines to indict Trump critic Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony

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TLDR: there is specifically no justice, or puni.....tion(?) metered out to anyone... This is a celebration of a wonderful young woman, put in a unimaginably difficult scenario, who responded in a way that everyone should aspire to. The story is nothing more than celebrating the fact that she was not unduly punished for any of this. I am terrible at Reddit tho, so if this is too "Justice themed" er whatever... enough to merit it's removal then, by God, you guys go ahead and celebrate the punishment of ME, in the removal of this post that I've poured my SOUL into! All in an effort to give away or share, rather, even some small portion of the joy that this story gave me.... anyone who might , perhaps, find themselves open to reading some strange guys waaay too maaany wooords. Oh crap what do you do if you're TLDR becomes too long?! I fear there may simply be no place for me in this world...🥺

Actual post below: "If I were yeh, I'd feckoff while'ah still had th'legs t'carry'yeh!"

Never posted here but snagged a peak at the rules and think this is aight. I simply saw this headline in my feed a few minutes ago and, times being what they are, my brain instantly misinterpreted the headline and blurted, "...oh, FFS!!!! of COURSE they would try to indict her too...dear GOD in heaven, could even POSSIBLY be a level of hell, low enough, to---" and, at THAT moment, at last, my constantly over-taxed PPU (.....m'brain, gett'it? derp) finally managed to close enough tabs I had running in the background to as properly submit it's FORMAL interpretation of the title. Y'know... So that I would know what it said in REALITY land. Good 'lil helper, that brain!

And all at once, my mood was yanked out of that place you can sometimes go.... well, I go, at any rate... where..I find that, just entirely too many stupids are suddenly bursting into the ether of my personal bubble at such a fast pace, and with little to no break or pause between, with which to calm myself. Anyone get what I'm trying to describe here? I'm too fucking long winded, my GOD.

ANYWAY, that shit had been happening for a couple days and my background anxiety was very perceptively leaking into the foreground of the conscious part of me... I'm almost HEARING myself slip into this state at this point, it happens so often...

The infuriating helplessness created by my having to, on some level, simply KNOW of the existence and reality of so. many. stupid. fucking. things. People do to themselves, or in spite of themselves, to others, etc. ad infinitum.

There is a low low level decibel tone, I swear, that accompanies the only mantra I can hear sometimes... That basic, primal, unspoken but gut-felt, "but.....wwhhyyy???!!" of it all, that you just carry silently as an added weight, knowing, full-well, you will never be met with a good answer.

Oh shit, that's right! The news article! Goddamit I need betterhelp.com or something. Sorry.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So all this personal coping was where I was at. Misread the article heading, sank down lower.... Because I don't know if anybody other than me listened, at length, to her testimony during the January 6th trials but I DID.

And everything about her so clearly gave the impression that this girl is such a good, properly & lovingly raised, well adjusted person, whose prior, lifelong held beliefs had been so violently rocked by the reality unfolding all around her, but EVEN IN THE CENTER OF ALL THAT and as young as she was at the time, she did what time has now revealed almost NO ONE else was been able to do. (With a few exceptions... And even among THOSE, many just immediately backslid right back into the shit)

But the character of this Cassidy Hutchinson right here, floored me. She must have been terrified to go up on the stand with all that she knew. At this point, god knows how many big men and corporations had already crumbled, and at far less.

But she was honest enough to herself and to fucking PUBLICLY RECOGNIZED COMMON MORALITY TO IDENTIFY WHEN WHATS WRONG IS FUCKING WRONG and she did what is basically, LITERALLY, unthinkable for everyone else who still represents that bullshit.

She NOPED the fuck out of there and didn't look back .

....well, except for the testimony part, obviously... HAH!

IS IT NOT UPLIFTING that this behemoth of good example setting will not be totally unnecessarily punished for being TOO strong in character and TOO much of an actual lover of her country to let what she witnessed in the Whitehouse just slide.

I submit to ye, NAY!!! er, wait... yay?? fuck, whatever one means that her not being punished is good.

If you read this personal cope of mine to this point, I don't know what to say. Sorry. Didn't mean for all this. Too much man, its too much. Get a hobby.


r/UpliftingNews • • 13h ago

A world first basic income trial gave 211 Indigenous people in Peru’s Amazon about £2 a day for two years. Households unable to afford nutritious food fell from 73% to 26%, while 87% took part in rainforest protection, including tree planting and restoring water sources.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 15h ago

In 1980, a photographer took pictures of young punks, mods and other free spirits without asking their names. Now, 46 years later, he tracked them down, reuniting old friends and bringing long-lost friendships back to life.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 14h ago

‘My social life completely plummeted’: gen Z is fighting back against big tech | From apps that block distractions to stripped-down phones, young people are finding ways to unplug from platforms they say profit from their attention

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r/UpliftingNews • • 16h ago

When an invasive fish is also tasty, Maryland schoolkids can help 'eat the problem'

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r/UpliftingNews • • 9h ago

Spain is testing its first open sea solar farm, with two 220 ton steel catamarans carrying 1,200 panels off Valencia. The 1 MW project is expected to generate enough electricity for around 500 homes annually

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r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

Paid parental leave is now required for eligible workers in Allegheny County, the first US county to mandate 12 weeks after a campaign led by nurses.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 10h ago

After spending more than 20 years in prison, Genesis Asiatic is helping others rebuild their lives after release. He entered prison at 23 unable to read, earned his GED, became a tutor and now helps people coming home find jobs and support.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 16h ago

Hotel staff in Sicily find girl’s missing teddy and give it VIP treatment before returning it with a heartfelt note written from the stuffed animal’s perspective

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r/UpliftingNews • • 12h ago

Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, is one of the most lethal infections in the world. UC San Diego researchers discovered a marine-derived molecule that kills the parasite faster and more selectively than current treatments.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 20h ago

Child labor in Brazil falls 9.2% from 2024 to 2025

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r/UpliftingNews • • 15h ago

Woman in Banana Costume Slips into Action After Stumbling Upon Car Crash While Driving Home from Halloween Party

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r/UpliftingNews • • 15h ago

More than 31,000 children with serious brain conditions have received surgery at Uganda’s CURE Children’s Hospital since 2001. Its 10th annual charity run is raising funds toward a 1 billion shilling goal to keep care free for families who cannot afford it.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

At an Ontario grocery checkout, a mom staying in a shelter with her toddler discovered her gift cards for another store wouldn’t work. Cashier Ada Everingham paid their $150 bill, and they’ve since secured a transitional townhouse where the little girl has her own bed.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 11h ago

For nearly 20 years, this Prince Edward Island haunted barn has been scaring visitors for a good cause -- Abegweit First Nation Chief Junior Gould started 'the Chief’s Haunted Barn' in his backyard nearly two decades ago.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 21h ago

Video of man helping homeless couple should inspire compassion and change, building manager says | CBC News

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r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

Morocco is turning Atlantic wind into fresh water for its arid south: a 60 MW wind farm near Dakhla is set to power a desalination plant producing 100 million litres a day for drinking water and irrigation across 5,000 hectares of farmland.

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r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

US EV sales are rising again. 🚙 The sector is on the mend as drivers face sky-high gasoline prices, making it considerably cheaper to drive an EV than a gas-powered car, even if you only charge up at pricey public stations. 💰 Automakers are rolling out more and better all-electric options. ⚡

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r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

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r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

We found a Mindo Harlequin Toad (declared extinct in 1989)

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G’day guys my name is Jay and I’m a wildlife photographer and conservation story teller.

I wanted to share our exciting story of the rediscovery of the Mindo Harlequin Toad.

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, in a tiny section of the Mindo cloud forest we found survivors of a species thought to be wiped out by Chyrtridiomycosis in 1989.

We also found tadpoles of this species and for the first time in history we were able to photograph and document this stage of their life cycle. We transferred 6 of the tadpoles to a breeding facility to breed an ex-situ colony safely!

This finding was used as evidence to apply for emergency grants to purchase and protect this area of fragile biodiversity from destruction and deforestation.


r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

More than 50 volunteers spent a week repairing homes across Georgetown County, South Carolina, fixing roofs, adding accessibility ramps and helping turn a former domestic abuse shelter into a second transitional home for homeless veterans, as part of 12 community projects.

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