- The Pulitzer Prize winners, including the NYT and WSJ for their Trump crime syndicate coverage, AP for its coverage of the atrocities in Yemen, and the Florida Sun Sentinel for its Parkland shooting coverage
- Cellist Yo Yo Ma, for playing Bach (Ahh...Bach!) at the Mexican border as part of an event celebrating cultural commonalities on both sides, saying "we build bridges, not walls."
- The Paris firefighters who contained the blaze at the iconic Notre Dame cathedral, saved its structural integrity and treasures, and ignored Trump's advice to waterbomb it
- Researchers at Tel Aviv University, for creating a heart---complete with blood vessels, ventricles and chambers---out of biological materials using a 3D printer
- Democrats in Washington State's legislature, for passing a public option in their state health insurance exchange
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- The builders and flight crew of the "Stratolaunch," the largest plane ever made (385ft wingspan), for completing its maiden flight. It'll be used to launch various spacecraft from 35,000 feet
- The thousands of small-dollar donors who blew past the $1.8 million goal for rebuilding the three black churches torched by a right-wing arsonist
- Team Mueller, for producing a report that, even with redactions, proves beyond doubt that the president of the United States is a crook, guilty of, at minimum, obstruction of justice
- N.Y. Judge Lawrence Knipel, for telling 5 anonymous anti-vaxxers challenging New York City’s measles vaccination mandate in court to go pound sand
- The 31,000 United Food and Commercial Workers Union members and Stop 'n Shop employees in New England who are striking to protest sweeping wage and benefit cuts
Spoiler Alert … Top Results of Bill’s poll —
- Team Mueller 48%
- Paris firefighters 18%
- GoFundMe donors for passing the $1.8 million goal for rebuilding the three black churches torched by a right-wing arsonist 9%
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