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From the GNR Newsroom, its the Monday Good News Roundup [1]
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Date: 2023-01-02
Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup. Where me, Killer300 and Bhu bring you the good news to start your week off the right way.
Its a new year! 2022 was a much better year than we have been having, it feels like the world is getting back on its feet; the Pandemic is slowly passing, the far right suffered heavy losses, and it feels like we can have hope for the future again.
So lets get right to the good news without any more delay.
An Arizona court has ruled that abortion doctors cannot be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions yet was barred from being enforced for decades.
Once again the anti abortion far right suffers another defeat. They picked a bad hill to die on.
Rep.-elect George Santos seems to realize that he’s facing a serious problem. The New York Republican lied about much of his biography, got caught, and is struggling to deal with the fallout. After letting the fire rage for several days, the incoming congressman’s new plan is to grudgingly concede that he deceived the public, though he’s using words like “embellishments” instead of “lies.” For Santos’ many Democratic critics, his newfound willingness to acknowledge reality — or at least some of it — clearly isn’t enough. But what about his ostensible GOP allies, some of whom reportedly knew about his fraudulent claims before Election Day? At this point, House Republican leaders, who desperately need Santos’ vote, are choosing to say effectively nothing. But as of yesterday afternoon, his wall of partisan support was starting to show significant cracks. Roll Call reported:
Once again the GOP backs an embarrassing failure, and has to deal with the consequences.
Being gay remains a crime for a quarter of the world's population and LGBTQ people face violence and repression across the globe. But in 2022 there were still dozens of important rights breakthroughs.
The wheels of progress turn slow, but they are always moving. We will make a better world for our children and their children’s children.
An Italian motor company has unveiled a supercar that will run on garbage. Italian supercars tend towards the polluting side of the spectrum of manufacturing, with massive 12 cylinder engines that care little for miles per gallon. Bertone are known for iconic designs such as the sharply angled “Italian Wedge” shape of the Lamborghini Countach, but their new GB110 is the first high performance car that will be supplied with fuel made out of plastic waste. The limited edition run of 33 vehicles has been launched to mark Bertone’s 110th anniversary. Bertone has not released a price tag for the car, but says it will be “akin to a piece of art,” and allow potential owners to choose a series of modifications to suit “unique tastes and identity.”
Once again, I love living in the future.
Japanese oncologists have used artificial DNA in a whole new way to naturally kill cancer cells by helping the immune system identify them. The whole reason cancer is as lethal as it is is because the immune system doesn’t act upon cancer cells and tumors, disguised as they are to look like normal cells. By creating a hairpin-shaped pair of DNA molecules called oHPs, the researchers found a way to expose the cancer to the immune system’s targeting procedure, and thus stop and even reverse human cervical cancer and breast cancer-derived cells, and malignant melanoma in mice. Nucleic-acid treatments for cancer are inherently risky due to the potential for the host immune system to attack healthy cells carrying the same genes or signals as the cancerous ones.
This is really cool. I think we might finally eradicate Cancer within our lifetime.
“Workers are reaching out to our union in unprecedented numbers,” says Alan Hanson, organizing director for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 in the Washington, D.C., area. “And they’re coming to us in a way I’ve never seen. “The checklist that staff organizers have — get a list, identify leaders, make sure the organizing committee is diverse and represents all departments and classifications — these workers are coming to us and they have already done all of that. I haven’t had four successful worker-generated organizing campaigns in my entire career and we just had four in four months.” At one of those shops, Union Kitchen, a D.C.-based grocery store, workers went on a three-day strike before their union was even certified, a level of militancy that seemed all but extinct but has now begun reappearing in nascent organizing campaigns. After the strike and before the election, four Union Kitchen activists were fired, Hanson says — a scorched earth union-busting tactic that is usually the death knell for a certification vote — but workers voted overwhelmingly for their union anyway. “People getting fired during a union organizing campaign isn’t having the same impact it had in the past,” Hanson says. “Most of these workers are moving from one shitty job to another anyway, so they figure that they might as well organize to make them better while they are there.”
Capitalism has finally created a situation where people have literally nothing left to lose, and those type of people can’t be controlled. This is a whole new era of workers rights on the horizon.
After helping Occupy Wall Street activists buy debt for a few years, Antico and Ashton launched RIP Medical Debt in 2014. They started raising money from donors to buy up debt on secondary markets — where hospitals sell debt for pennies on the dollar to companies that profit when they collect on that debt. RIP buys the debts just like any other collection company would — except instead of trying to profit, it sends out notices to consumers saying their debt has been cleared. To date, RIP has purchased $6.7 billion in unpaid debt and relieved 3.6 million people of debt. The group says retiring $100 in debt costs an average of $1. RIP bestows its blessings randomly. Sesso said it just depends on which hospitals’ debts are available for purchase. “So nobody can come to us, raise their hand, and say, ‘I’d like you to relieve my debt,’” she said.
There are some good people right here. I wish them nothing but happiness for the kindness they are showing others.
Former President Donald Trump invited journalists to a surprise slot of "media availability" at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on New Year's Eve. But in a likely blow to Trump's ego, not a single cable news network covered it, according to Raw Story. Notably, the media outlet said that even Fox News and Newsmax, which have historically offered sympathetic coverage of the former president, skipped on covering his remarks.
And of course we have king asshole himself here. The biggest and least funny clown in the GOP circus, and it seems like the world has finally had enough of his antics. I hope he goes away sooner rather than later.
That does it for this week, now if you’ll excuse me, I’m rather sleepy and its time for bed. Have a good morning and an even better week. And happy New Year.
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