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From the GNR Newsroom its the Monday Good News Roundup [1]
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Date: 2025-03-24
Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup, that magical time of the week when your intrepid GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the GNR Discord) bring you all the good news to start your week off right, along with music, cartoon, cute animals and more.
Well its official, this is my last week before I move to my current place. With any luck I will have the internet ready to go in the new place next Sunday so I hopefully wont miss a beat when it comes to the GNR, but we will see. If worse comes to worse I’ll ask one of the other regulars to step in.
So with that bit of admin out of the way, lets get on with the good news, starting with some music. From the Sailor Moon Soundtrack: The Power of love
The two biggest voices on the Democratic Party’s progressive left wing visited Colorado’s Front Range yesterday to make the case that a fight against the billionaire oligarchy should be the target of the Democrat's resistance. Via Colorado News Online:
The resistance is alive and well, and its only growing from here.
Campaign contributions from out-of-staters and so-called dark money groups will be banned in Illinois judicial campaigns beginning in January under legislation Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law Monday. Several states have enacted laws forcing disclosure of funders to nonprofits — including social welfare groups [501(c)4s], labor unions [501(c)5s] and industry trade groups [501(c)6s], 501(c)4s, 5s and 6’s — whose political spending is referred to as “dark money,” since those groups aren’t required to make their donors public.
Huge news for Illinois.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's glib response to seniors possibly not receiving their Social Security checks set off the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Sunday with host Michael Steele repeatedly shouting "How dare you?" In an interview with podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya, the Donald Trump appointees claimed, "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain," before adding that anyone who protested the delay could well be a "fraudster." After sharing the clip on Sunday morning, both Steele and co-host Symone Sanders Townsend covered their mouths in shock and dismay before Steele went off on a scathing rant.
For those who either don’t remember or weren’t alive when this happened, Micheal Steele was the former head of the RNC appointed post Obama winning his first term. His appointment was basically an attempt by the GOP to rebrand themselves by basically going “I can’t be racist, I have a black friend.”
So you know, I can see why Steele decided to leave that job and get a show on MSNBC.
We might be on the precipice of a pivotal moment in Alzheimer’s disease research. In clinical trial data released this week, scientists have presented early evidence that it’s possible to delay symptoms in people genetically fated to develop Alzheimer’s at a young age. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine led the study, which aimed to test whether an experimental anti-amyloid drug called gantenerumab could help people with an inherited form of Alzheimer’s. In a subset of patients treated the longest, the drug appeared to reduce their risk of developing symptoms as expected, by 50%. The findings will require a follow-up, but outside experts are cautiously optimistic about what this could mean for the future of treating Alzheimer’s.
First the good news about curing cancer and HIV from last week and now this. We are on a disease eradicating roll.
Not a news article just an amusing side bit. I want to formally announce I am no longer going to react with fear or worry from anything this administration says or does, my only response will be mockery and scorn. I mean it was already but I’m making it official. Trump and Elon are crashing and burning and I am going to enjoy every second of it.
Donald Trump’s death knell to the Education Department isn’t likely to go over well with the American public. The president stripped apart the centralized authority overseeing the American educational system on Thursday via executive order, marking the end of a 45-year-old institution. But hours after Trump signed the agency’s death certificate, even Fox News was sharing polls indicating that the vast majority of the country is unlikely to support the president’s sweeping move. “Most voters oppose Trump’s efforts to reduce the number of government employees, changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and, ranking near the bottom in support: his campaign promise to close the Department of Education,” the network reported.
Case in point. Donny can’t take two steps without falling flat on his face.
I am a Democrat, a contrarian and an optimist. So, in a way, this is kind of the perfect moment for me to have an advice column for Democrats. While many of my fellow Democrats are in a deep, dark funk over the damage that Donald Trump is doing to our country, I can tell everyone both why they are wrong and why they should stay positive at the same time, lol. In all seriousness, despite everything bad that is happening right now—and there are a whole lot bad and disturbing things happening—I refuse to give in to despair, depression, and a doomer outlook on the future. So, please take a few minutes of your day to give me a chance to convince you why you should remain optimistic as well. It is in that spirit that I offer my list of eight reasons why Democrats should maintain a positive attitude in this difficult moment:
In these trying times, being happy is a form of resistance, which is why I’m going to keep enjoying life despite all of this *waves hand around*
Iowa Democrats have flipped a state Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Chris Cournoyer, who resigned to become the state's new lieutenant governor. Democrat Mike Zimmer has defeated Republican Kate Whittington in the special election for Senate District 35. According to unofficial results from the Iowa Secretary of State's website, Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Whittington's 48%.
This is how we take back the country: One race at a time, one seat at a time, bit by bit we win this country back and jam the gears of oppression along the way.
Back in 2017, it was easy to see that Donald Trump was not popular. There were major protests on the streets, but time may have caused us to remember Trump’s descent into being the least popular president of all time as happening a little bit faster than it really did.
Its still bewildering to me they gave this orange turd a second term. Its like you had a really bad breakup with an awful abusive asshole, but then once you are alone you get really depressed and melancholic and you miss them despite everything, so you go back to them, only it doesn’t take you long to remember why you left them in the first place.
But yeah, Trump is floundering, that’s not gonna stop any time soon, so lets enjoy his flopping around.
This is exactly what more elected Democrats should be doing. Arizona Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego recently visited rural areas, including deep Trump country, to speak directly with voters. He held a town hall in Sierra Vista, a Republican stronghold where the House seat in Arizona’s 6th Congressional District is held by a Republican.
Let it not be said that Dems are not doing anything.
Pete Marocco, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, told State Department staff on Tuesday night that he is stepping away from his role at USAID and returning to his previous role at the State Department, according to an email obtained by ABC News.
Looks like there is trouble at Trump Tower.
Now for another musical interlude: Dan Hartman, I can dream about you
Republicans outnumber Democrats in Utah by almost a five-to-one margin. Republicans outnumber unaffiliated voters nearly two to one. Utah’s politics are very conservative. The entire congressional delegation in Washington, DC, is Republican. All of these facts make what recently happened at the University of Utah campus all the more impactful. Reps. Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy held a joint town hall together, which could be viewed as a safety-in-numbers strategy put into place because the two House members had some idea of what they were walking into. What they faced over the course of an hour was an unbelievable amount of constituent anger.
Yeah people are not happy with the GOP, and they aren’t afraid to ruin a town hall over it.
Autistic people often face an uphill battle when searching for a job, especially during interviews. New Virginia Commonwealth University research underscores the enduring value of employer neurodiversity training when coupled with candidates’ disclosure of their autism diagnosis during the hiring process. Less than 60% of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder who do not have an intellectual disability are employed full-time or enrolled in post-secondary schooling. A growing body of research suggests that could be due to how employers perceive autistic people during job interviews. “People are saying, ‘I feel like I’m being discriminated against during the interview process,’” said Christopher Whelpley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in VCU’s School of Business. “But you can’t really prove it. We wanted to establish whether there was actual or significant bias going on.”
As an autistic person, this is of particular interest to me personally.
WASHINGTON — The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent nonprofit agency established by Congress 40 years ago, asked a federal judge to immediately block the Department of Government Efficiency's attempted to shut it down after what its lawsuit portrayed as a "takeover by force" of its headquarters building that took place with the assistance of the FBI, the Justice Department and local Washington police. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell sharply questioned the decision to have “armed law enforcement at the ready” to resolve a dispute over the agency at a hearing hours after the lawsuit was filed. Certainly, she said, there were ways to resolve the matter “without using the force of guns and threats by DOGE" against American citizens and those who have served the country for years.
And once again the legal system lays the smack down on Trump and Elon.
Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday after South African conservationists and fishing industry groups reached a legal settlement on no-fishing zones around six of the penguins’ major breeding colonies. Sardine and anchovy fishing will not be allowed for 12 miles (20km) around the penguin colony off Cape Town on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and Bird Island, across the bay from Gqeberha, also known as Port Elizabeth. There will be more limited closures around four other colonies, according to a court order formalising the agreement.
Hooray! Lets rescue the little penguins!
The first satellite in a constellation designed specifically to locate wildfires early and precisely anywhere on the planet has now reached Earth's orbit, and it could forever change how we tackle unplanned infernos. The FireSat constellation, which will consist of more than 50 satellites when it goes live, is the first of its kind that's purpose-built to detect and track fires. It's an initiative launched by nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance, which includes Google and Silicon Valley-based space services startup Muon Space as partners, among others.
Technology is pretty cool sometimes.
Nothing to add here, just another win for us.
The Pentagon has restored some of its webpages that highlighted Black veterans such as Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen and Vietnam-era Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers from World War II and the Japanese American 442nd Combat Regiment.
Trump is trying to whitewash history, we wont let him.
Alright I think that’s enough good news, now for Pokemon
And now for the lightning round:
four ways to calm your mind in stressful times
What could go right? Ordinary people rescue democracy
Tesla trade ins on record high amid backlash
Do boycotts work?
The case for Government as developer
And now, the cute corner:
And now the Organizing Spotlight, to show ways that you can help safeguard democracy
Chop wood, carry water 3/20
Key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery, its empathy
Serbia’s protests are dismantling Vucic’s grip on power
And that’s all for this week, see you next week hopefully from my new location.
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