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From the GNR Newsroom: Its the Monday Good News Roundup [1]
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Date: 2025-03-03
Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup, the time of the week when the GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the GNR discord) bring you all the good news to start your week off right.
I am posting the Sunflowers this week to show solidarity for Ukraine. I wish them all the luck and victory, and apologies that our country is “run” (in the loosest sense of the word) by a complete idiot at the moment. On that note, lets get on with the good news, first with a musical interlude: Dream on by Aerosmith
Now onto good news.
Bad day for JD Vance. Of course every day is a bad day for Vance these days, he’s not even second banana in the current setup, he’s like the third banana.
For the first time since 2021, Ipsos polling now shows the federal Liberal party with a slight lead over the Conservatives. The poll, conducted exclusively for Global News by Ipsos Public Affairs, shows if a federal election were to take place tomorrow, the Liberals would get 38 per cent of decided voter support compared to the Conservatives’ 36 per cent, overturning what was a 26-point lead for the Tories just six weeks ago.
Trump and Elon’s shittiness is having a knock on effect of knocking down conservatives across the globe. Hopefully this trend will continue.
Following Trump’s first month in office, many right-wing talk radio hosts are having to face callers who, regardless of their personal politics, are voicing their frustrations with the Trump administration’s impact on their own lives.
The MSM (who I may remind you are all owned by billionaires who are in Trumps corner) can try and keep a lid on the growing resistance and pretend it doesn’t exist, but the anger and frustration are real, growing, and the lid is about to blow off that pot big time.
Feb. 25—Democrat Sean Faircloth will represent House District 24 following his victory in a special election Tuesday, the Maine Department of the Secretary of State announced.
Congratulations, we made Maine a little bit bluer.
Hey, all, and happy Sunday. I know it’s terrifying out there, but I have to tell you—it’s also really inspiring. I literally ran out of space for all the good news I wanted to post. Tens of thousands of Americans are making their voices heard this weekend—at Tesla showrooms around the country, at National Parks, at ski slopes, and in more fiery Town Halls. It’s fantastic. So take a little break from doomscrolling and bask in just some of the positive developments we saw this week. Again, there were so many more I couldn’t cover! If you notice I’ve missed something please drop it in the comments!
There’s a lot of good news out there if you know where to look, and we’re not the only ones covering it, so big thanks to Chop Wood Carry Water.
But just last week we saw the first glimmer of what mass noncooperation can look like — and it created some new cracks in the Trump-Musk administrative coup. Over the weekend, unelected billionaire Elon Musk and his rogue crew told the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, to send an email to federal workers demanding they answer the question “What did you do last week?” in five bullet points. On social media, Musk wrote, “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” Interestingly, Musk had wanted the threat of termination to appear in the email OPM sent, but it somehow got cut or never made it in. Why wasn’t it included? It’s not because Musk didn’t want it in there. He made the threat in his tweet very clear (and later doubled-down). It’s not because Musk knows it’s illegal. He’s broken plenty of laws and regulations. It’s not because Musk is having a change of heart. He’s a billionaire bully. It’s undoubtedly a sign of internal pushback beginning to take place. And that’s only because of the lawsuits, the pressure, and your calls and protests!
There are numerous forces aligning to fight Trump, both within and without, that’s why we’re gonna win.
You may have heard that midterm elections often but not always go poorly for the party in control of the White House, and that past results are no guarantee of future performance. Or, perhaps you have thought that while Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did a good job of getting themselves elected to the White House, they were not good for the fortunes of the party as a whole because Democrats fared so poorly in the 1994, 2010, and 2014 elections during their presidencies. Or, perhaps you have never thought either of those things, but are just interested in learning about surprising long-term patterns in American politics. What I would like to show in this article is that across a great length of post-Reconstruction history in the United States, midterm elections for the House of Representatives have gone almost uniformly poor for the party in control of the White House. In fact, not a single president since Rutherford B. Hayes, who was president from 1877-1881, has avoided experiencing a midterm election where his party lost seats in the House of Representatives.
I think 2026 is gonna be a rough year for Trump and his cronies, and the final death knell for his aspirations.
Legislation under the moniker “right to repair” has now been introduced in all 50 states, marking a major milestone in this grassroots consumer movement. GNN has reported on the march of right to repair laws across the US, but also the kind of entrepreneurialism they engender: like an aftermarket auto parts company that makes replacements for well-known faulty components in automobiles. Passed in New York, Minnesota, Colorado, California, and Oregon, Wisconsin just became the final US state to introduce some sort of right to repair laws. In broad terms, all of these bills would generally guarantee a consumer’s right to access replacement parts for devices and machines, repair manuals or other relevant documents for expensive products, diagnostics data from original manufacturers, and even in some cases, such as automobiles, appropriate tools necessary for maintenance.
Big tech doesn’t want you to fix your stuff, just buy a new one, luckily there are laws coming to protect your rights to repair.
You’ve probably heard the news. On Tuesday evening, the House GOP narrowly passed a budget resolution by a vote of 217 to 215, with only one GOP member (Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a deficit hawk) voting with the Democrats. Based on worried reader comments and the crowing of GOP members busily spreading misinformation, you’d think the budget had been sealed, along with the fate of programs like Medicaid, and delivered to Trump for his signature. Not so. The resolution that passed is just a blueprint. That is to say, it gives instructions on how to move forward with the full budget, including instructions to House committees to find cuts that fit within the blueprint. It also has to line up with a companion bill from the Senate that does the same basic things. That means we are still a very long way from the enactment of tax cuts for the uber-wealthy and draconian cuts to government health services in places like Medicaid. And that means we have time to mobilize and see the budget go down to defeat, just like we have seen every other GOP budget bill fail over the past two years. So let’s unpack what the budget blueprint is and what it isn’t. We will also track its next steps to understand where it is vulnerable to public pressure, especially when it comes to votes from Congress members in critical swing districts where there are many recipients of Medicaid.
And once again the GOP show themselves utterly unfit for the task they cheat so hard to try and get.
Time for a music break. Young MC Bust a move
Roughly 96% of Apple shareholders on Tuesday rejected the proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, that the company "abolish" its DEI efforts because the programs pose litigation, reputation, and financial risks. The company had recommended stockholders reject the proposal. "We've never had quotas or targets for Apple," Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company's shareholder meeting on Tuesday.
Not everyone is on board with Trumps Anti DEI agenda. Keep that in mind.
A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked the Trump administration’s freeze of federal funding, dealing a stark blow to President Trump’s sweeping efforts to realign government spending with his agenda. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan enjoined the government from “implementing, giving effect to, or reinstating under a different name” the White House budget office’s directive to freeze federal assistance while the court reviews the spending.
Another day another judge slapping Trumps hand away from the cookie jar.
Elon Musk's status as the world's wealthiest person is in no danger of changing. But since mid-December, the tech titan's net worth has declined by more than $100 billion, or approximately 25%, as a sell-off in shares of Tesla, his electric car maker, has accelerated in recent weeks. On Tuesday, the stock closed down another 8% to $302.80 and is off 25% year to date. The latest drawdown comes as new data showed new Tesla vehicle registrations plummeting in Europe, down 45% year-on-year for January, even as overall sales growth of electric-battery vehicles on the continent climbed. Sales in China also recently came in trending down.
I sincerely believe Elon is going to lose his fortune supporting Trump. He’s just gonna be the next cautionary tale for the next asshole who teams up with Trump will ignore when he gets ruined as well.
Around a dozen current and former federal workers are behind a new website created as an outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about the Department of Government Efficiency’s dismantling of government agencies. “We the Builders” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real world impact of its access to government tech systems, a former federal worker behind the project tells The Verge. The website was created by people who “made government websites easier to use while protecting the integrity of your personal information,” according to its description. Had DOGE wanted “to use technology to build a more efficient country, they would ask us,” the site says. “But they haven’t. They are destroyers. We are the builders.”
Ha! Nice, pretty embarrassing for Elon. But not the most embarrassing thing for him this week…
Oh yes, this happened. I don’t use the phrase “Hero” very often. But whoever made this is a hero.
If you have read about fascism and tyranny or watched cable news, you have probably seen Professor Timothy Snyder, who has been warning about Trump and tyranny for a few years now. Snyder’s book On Tyranny is one of the go-to modern works for people who want to understand tyranny and how to fight it, so what Professor Snyder posted on his X account on Saturday merits attention. Snyder posted: Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.
Not even a month, and Trump is already running out of steam.
This is an administration that has set a standard of constant consolidation of power and punishment of enemies. A month in, the Postal Service trial balloon and quick cleanup shows it has run out of ideas. But the real question about Trump’s second term was always whether he would bully the country into an effective monarchy, or fall prey to the laws of political gravity. I’m taking a pundit risk by saying that we now have that answer, after one month in office: Trump’s cooked. His failure has followed the usual direction of political overreach. Brave dissidents from the political opposition, corporate America, or his own coalition didn’t suddenly rise to the challenge. It started from the bottom up, as the governed gradually but definitively withdrew their consent, giving space for those we somehow call “leaders” to distance themselves. This doesn’t mean that the subsequent three years and eleven months will be a garden of earthly delights. Terrible things are going to happen. Good people will be persecuted and bad people elevated pretty much every day for the next 1,400 or so. But when Trump disgracefully walks out of Washington in 2029, I’m far more inclined to believe that we will have a government to return to.
We are currently holding our own against Trump, lets keep going.
That’s enough full stories for this week, now enjoy some Pokemon
And now for the lightning round
KAIST develops molecular switch to reverse cancer
An innovative street grid proposal
Why Russians are souring on Putin’s war
What could go right? Life jackets, not tobacco enemas
Connecticut cities and towns push for greener, less expensive power
And now its time I think for the cute corner.
And last but not least, our organizing spotlight. Where we highlight ways to more proactively fight against Trump.
The Resist List
Side with love
x Something to ponder — Mac (@macx3d.bsky.social) 2025-03-01T03:33:23.270Z
The Anti Authoritarian playbook
Leaving MAGA
That’s all for this week. Stay safe out there, and take care of yourself.
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