Have you seen the news cycle? Can you actually manage to keep up with everything that’s happening? Yeah, neither can we. Plus, we hardly ever get good news! Which is why every Friday, we look for the wins that show people turning concern into action, even when they don’t always make headlines.

This is what we found this week.

Bad Bunny just sent 42,000 pounds of supplies to Venezuela

After speaking out at a concert in London about the magnitude 7.5 and 7.2 earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, Bad Bunny followed his words with action. According to El Nuevo Día, thousands of pallets of essential supplies, totaling approximately 42,000 pounds, arrived in the country, as documented in a video posted by Puerto Rican journalist Rafael Lenin López. The earthquakes have killed more than 3,500 people and displaced nearly 18,000 others.

However, he was not alone. Daddy Yankee organized donation drives; Nicky Jam traveled to Venezuela on a private plane loaded with medicine and baby supplies; and influencers Isander Pérez and Michael Flores contributed an additional 10,000 pounds of supplies.

The electronic music community organized too. A benefit compilation for Venezuela earthquake relief is now available on Bandcamp

Released this week, “PULSO I (An Electronic Music Benefit Compilation for Venezuela Earthquake Relief)” features 36 tracks from artists including DJ Babatr, Rainmaker, Bclip, Pablo Mayorga, and more, according to DJ Mag. One hundred percent of net proceeds go directly to Fundación Proyecto Maniapure, which currently has a medical team deployed in La Guaira, near Caracas, providing emergency care and distributing medical supplies.

“The music gathered in this compilation is not intended to function as a promotional showcase, but as a fundraising tool,” the organizing team wrote in their Bandcamp description. Two additional volumes are planned, with nearly 100 contributing artists in total. The compilation is available now on Bandcamp, and a direct PayPal donation link to Fundación Proyecto Maniapure has also been shared publicly.

Cate Blanchett just launched a free website that lets anyone protect their identity from AI

On Tuesday, the actress presented the Human Consent Registry at an event hosted at the European Parliament in Brussels, according to Euronews. The registry, created through her nonprofit RSL Media, allows users to specify whether and under what conditions AI systems may use their name, image, voice, likeness, and movement. The tool is free and available to individuals as well as to third parties such as agents and managers.

“Your identity is your IP in the age of AI, and every person deserves the right to decide how AI can or cannot use it,” Blanchett said, according to Euronews.

The launch builds on years of advocacy. In March 2025, Blanchett joined Paul McCartney, Ben Stiller, and more than 400 artists in signing an open letter to President Trump urging his administration not to roll back copyright protections for AI training. The registry is what that fight looks like in practice.

Former NOAA scientists just rebuilt the climate data website that the Trump administration shut down

When the Trump administration eliminated the staff at Climate.gov as part of the DOGE cutbacks last year, nearly one million monthly visitors lost access to one of the most trusted sources of public climate data in the country. This week, former NOAA program director Rebecca Lindsey and her team launched Climate.us, a new independent site that re-creates the original, according to NPR.

Lindsey and two former colleagues began rebuilding the site in August 2025. They crowdsourced approximately $280,000 to cover the technical work, recruited about 80 scientists to serve on a volunteer science panel, and secured an anonymous one-time grant that will keep the project running until at least February 2027, according to NPR.

“This information is too important. It should remain in a protected place,” Lindsey told NPR.

Climate.us features the original site’s climate dashboard, 15 years of climate news and stories, expert blogs, maps, data pathways, and classroom materials. The data itself remained technically public after Climate.gov went dark, but as Lindsey put it, NOAA “renovated a store, and they had the front door open into a closet.” Climate.us put the door back where it belongs.

Also this week: Dua Lipa opened a permanent library of 100 banned books inside one of the most beautiful bookshops in the world

The Manifesto Library lives inside Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, and houses books that have been banned, censored, or removed from school shelves around the world. It opened on June 27 as part of BABELL, a new international book festival, and it is permanent. According to PEN America, as reported by Inc. and Time Out, there were 6,870 instances of book bans across 87 public school districts in the United States during the 2024-2025 school year. A number of those exact titles are now on the shelves in Porto indefinitely.

“Sometimes the most subversive thing you can do is read a book and then talk about it,” Lipa wrote on Instagram.

We have the full story, including the complete list of all 100 titles, right here on FIERCE.

Finally, New York City just funded the country’s first city-sponsored pet food pantry

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed the city’s fiscal year 2027 budget on July 1, which includes $1.5 million for two new pet welfare programs, according to USA Today. A $750,000 investment will expand free and low-cost spay-and-neuter services through mobile clinics and a voucher program. The other $750,000 will launch New York City’s first-ever pet food pantry pilot, operating through existing community food networks and neighborhood hubs for low-income pet owners.

“This budget recognizes that keeping families and pets together, preventing animals from ending up on the streets or in shelters, and supporting the rescuers who care for our city’s most vulnerable animals are all part of NYC’s affordability agenda,” the City Council’s animal welfare caucus wrote, according to USA Today.

City Council Member Lynn Schulman said: “These investments will save lives, reduce harm, and build a stronger, healthier city for everyone,” he said.

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