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From the GNR newsroom, its the Monday Good News Roundup [1]
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Date: 2025-06-16
Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup, the 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.
Right, so past weekend was a big one obviously, the big No Kings rally, where we proved once again that we vastly outnumber them, and that there will always be someone willing to stand up to Trump and his tyranny. Because of my lack of transport I couldn’t go to an event myself, but I was there in spirit, and I will of course report on the follow up, so lets quit beating around the bush and get to it.
But first, in honor of No Kings day, let us remember someone who really reminds me of Trump: Prince John the phony king of England.
Dear readers, The “No Kings Day” nationwide rallies against Donald Trump/for democracy on Saturday turned out millions of people. That’s per a collective crowdsourcing effort led by Strength In Numbers, and involving many members of the independent data journalism community. We systematized reports from official sources, accounts from the media, and self-reported attendance from thousands of social media posts into a single spreadsheet. (Researchers, please take our data!) As of midnight on Sunday, June 15, we have data from about 40% of No Kings Day events held yesterday, accounting for over 2.6m attendees. According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday. Organizers say 5m turned out, but don’t release public event-by-event numbers.
Those are some big numbers right there.
And once again the so called Proud Boys are made fools of. You love to see that.
x I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.lol) 2025-06-14T23:32:55.334Z
Meanwhile, at Trumps personal pity party, we learn that Irony is in fact dead.
What a day! Millions of Americans protested peacefully. Below are images from No Kings events in all 50 states. I’ll be back with a full report on it all tomorrow.
Not much to add on this one, just enjoy the pictures.
LINCOLN, Neb. — A virologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Qingsheng Li, was awarded $3.5 million to advance his work on a vaccine to prevent HIV. "We strongly believe that, actually, a vaccine is going to be a very cost-effective means to stop this pandemic," Li said. Right now, there is medication for managing HIV, but no cure for it. If Li's project succeeds, he would be the first to develop an effective vaccine to prevent HIV. "I'm not sure this can resolve the problem, but I think it's a good step forward," Li said.
I think we will be the generation that defeats AIDS, and Cancer, and other diseases.
A Wisconsin watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk claiming that he unlawfully bribed voters with million-dollar checks and $100 giveaways in the state’s latest Supreme Court election. Wisconsin Democracy Campaign — a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that investigates election transparency — along with two Wisconsin voters, filed the suit against Musk, his super PAC America PAC and another Musk-owned entity called the United States of America Inc. In the suit, the plaintiffs claimed that Musk and his entities violated state laws that prohibit vote bribery and unauthorized lotteries. It also accuses Musk of conducting civil conspiracy and acting as a public nuisance. Musk and America PAC did not respond to a request for comment.
Elon may be done with politics, but politics are not done with him. Its time to pay the piper poor little rich boy.
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional. The Republican president’s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only mailed ballots received by Election Day and condition federal election grant funding on states adhering to the new ballot deadline.
And yet again, a judge has to pull Trumps hand out of the cookie jar and tell him no.
The video game actors’ strike may soon come to an end. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the major video game labels, which include Activision Productions Inc., Blindlight LLC, Disney Character Voices Inc., Electronic Arts Productions Inc., Epic Games Inc., Formosa Interactive LLC, Insomniac Games Inc., Take 2 Productions Inc. and WB Games Inc., have reached a tentative deal on the terms for the Interactive Media Contract after months of work stoppage.
Great news from the video game industry.
Type 2 diabetes has affected millions across the world, with countless people experiencing daily blood sugar fluctuations and other health complications. Many individuals struggle with insulin resistance, which makes blood glucose levels hard to manage. Emily M. Walker, Ph.D, a research assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, along with colleagues at Michigan Medicine, studied the root causes behind faulty energy production in mitochondria that ultimately affect insulin production, resulting in diabetes.
I am prediabetic, so this is very good news for me personally, and a lot of people. Like I said science and progress are kicking ass and taking names lately.
Two days ago, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed the nation’s strictest law against corporate control of health care practices in the state. It’s a major defeat for private equity and large health insurers, and something that advocates and physicians have been advocating for years, as more and more of the state’s capacity got bought up by financiers. It’s also a ground-breaking event that could catalyze the creation of a new health care system, one managed by medical professionals and patients instead of Wall Street. And it’s all thanks to UnitedHealth Group.
Great news, healthcare decisions should be left to doctors, not shitty insurance companies.
And now a musical interlude, Dokken into the fire:
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. In 1986, millions of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila in peaceful protest and prayer in the People Power movement. The Marcos regime folded on the fourth day. In 2003, the people of Georgia ousted Eduard Shevardnadze through the bloodless Rose Revolution, in which protestors stormed the parliament building holding the flowers in their hands. While in 2019, the presidents of Sudan and Algeria both announced they would step aside after decades in office, thanks to peaceful campaigns of resistance.
We’ve already got Trump running scared, and we’ve only just begun.
Every single day we cut through Trump’s raging dumpster fires of lies and propaganda to deliver the truth. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re in the right place. Let’s get to it. Walmart heiress Christy Walton just ran a full-page ad in The New York Times promoting the upcoming protests. The message had an American flag and the Statue of Liberty on it, featuring the banner: “No Kings, June 14, Mobilize.” With more than 1,800 protests planned, Saturday looks to be the biggest day of events we’ve seen against Trump this year. Widespread publicity like this can only help. On Sunday, soccer fans for the Los Angeles Football Club unfurled massive banners that read “abolish ICE,” and “immigrants are the heartbeat of Los Angeles.” They chanted loud anti-ICE messages, and a lot of the players voiced support for their fans. At a press conference, Dem Rep. Yvette Clarke said Trump’s deployment of troops to LA is impeachable, stating: “But we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.” We sure will.
The harder Trump ties to keep us down the harder we fight back.
I’m not — and I’m pretty sure they are not — trying to reassure people. The present situation is extremely dangerous, and a lot of very bad things are extremely possible. Including some very grim outcomes. The good outcomes may not be all that good, and they may go through a lot of damage to the nation in general, and to a lot of individual people as well. And yet the idea that it is simply a given that Trump will inevitably succeed in what he’s doing is flat-out wrong. He’s defeated all the time. He chooses battles badly, doesn’t prepare for them at all, hires unqualified incompetents to run things and then interferes without bothering to learn anything about the situation. He believes that he’s best served by people who will go along with whatever he wants — unlike his first-term White House staff and executive branch choices, many of whom turned back his excesses. He is not.
Like we’re not stupid we know the situation is dire, but we can totally win and beat Trump.
x Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City. — Nick Pinto (@nickpinto.bsky.social) 2025-06-10T22:38:56.780Z
The resistance against ICE is growing by the day.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia saw a 33% drop in deforestation in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, the environment ministry said Thursday, citing stronger community coordination and a crackdown on environmental crime. Speaking at a press conference, Environment Minister Lena Estrada Añokazi said deforestation fell from 40,219 hectares in early 2024 to 27,000 hectares this year. The government identified 18 active deforestation hot spots, including 13 in the Amazon and others in regions like Catatumbo, Arauca and the Pacific north. “In the Amazon’s national parks, deforestation dropped by 54% ... which is a very good result,” Estrada said, highlighting gains in Amazonian parks Tinigua, Chiribiquete and La Macarena.
Great news protecting the rain forests.
That’s enough for this week I think, lets have some Pokemon
And now, the cute corner
And I think that’s all she wrote for this week. Have a good rest of your week, rest up, recharge, and get ready for the next round, we still got a lot of fighting left to do.
ALSO: Please share your own pictures from No Kings Day in the comments. Thank you.
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