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- Virginia's new Democratic-controlled legislature, including 1st female/1st Jewish Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, and 1st female/1st black House majority leader Charniele Herring
- The #MeToo movement, as one of Harvey Weinstein's trials gets underway and Trump sexual assault victim E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against Trump is allowed go forward in New York
- The Australian and international firefighters battling the historic bushfires, and the army of professionals and volunteers helping rescue people and animals from the blazes
- The thousands of New Yorkers who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to an anti-hate rally in support of the Jewish community in the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks
- The growing number of cancer survivors---including Ruth Bader Ginsburg---as mortality rates drop sharply, especially among those with lung cancer and melanoma
- The Defense Department, for taking a crap on President Trump's threat to target Iranian cultural sites for destruction, which would constitute war crimes
- Cleaner air and water, as U.S. coal consumption drops a record 18% in 2019 (lowest level since 1975) causing a 2.1% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
- The House Democrats and Republicans who patriotically approved a war powers resolution warning Cadet Bone Spurs to keep Congress in the loop when it comes to military actions against Iran
- Kansas Governor Laura Kelly (D), for successfully negotiating the expansion of Medicaid (the 37th state to do so), which will get another 150,000 residents covered
- Hillary Clinton, as the DOJ wraps up its investigation into Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation on the orders of Trump and officially admits: "This was a hoax and a witch hunt---she's totally innocent."
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