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From the GNR Newsroom: Its the Monday Good News Roundup [1]
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Date: 2025-06-30
Welcome back friends to the Monday Good News Roundup, that time of the week when your humble GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the fine folk at the GNR discord) bring you all the good news to start your week off right.
Not much to say today: My birthday was Friday, I am doing well on my CPAP machine, so lets dispense with the pleasantries and dive right in to the good news.
But first, some music. I present for your consideration: The Shoebody bop
..I don’t know this just speaks to me for some reason.
Around the world, 20 percent of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths each year from diseases that are preventable by vaccination. About half of those underimmunized children received at least one vaccine dose but did not complete the vaccination series, while the rest received no vaccines at all. To make it easier for children to receive all of their vaccines, MIT researchers are working to develop microparticles that can release their payload weeks or months after being injected. This could lead to vaccines that can be given just once, with several doses that would be released at different time points.
Science really is amazing. I love it.
BUDAPEST, June 28 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Hungary's capital on Saturday as a banned LGBTQ+ rights rally swelled into a mass anti-government demonstration, in one of the biggest shows of opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Crowds filled a square near Budapest's city hall in sweltering heat before setting off across one of the main bridges over the Danube, waving rainbow flags, some draped in capes and some carrying signs mocking Orban.
You might find it comforting to know we aren’t the only country who is dealing with a bigoted moron being in charge. And it seems like the people of Hungary are rising to meet the challenge, I wish them luck.
A federal judge on Friday dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to throw out a defamation lawsuit against him filed by plaintiffs formerly known as the Central Park Five. U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone said that Pennsylvania’s Anti-SLAPP law, designed to protect defendants from lawsuits targeting protected speech, does not apply in federal court, rejecting Trump’s motion to dismiss the case.
Trump trying to weasel his way out of his past sins, but they’ll keep coming back to haunt him.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., announced Sunday that he would not run for re-election, one day after he drew President Donald Trump’s ire for opposing the party’s sweeping domestic policy package. The surprise decision opens up seat in battleground North Carolina that was already set to be one of the most hotly contested races of the 2026 midterms.
And once again the GOP shoots itself in the proverbial foot. We definitely need to take advantage of this.
BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and requiring it to reinstate employees who were terminated in a mass layoff. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration's request to put on hold an injunction issued by a lower-court judge at the urging of several Democratic-led states, school districts and teachers' unions.
And yet again the courts slap Trumps baby hand and tells him no. You love to see it.
We made it through another week of Trump’s chaos, so I’m happy to have a new edition of Great News for you today. Thanks for being here—let’s get to it. Thousands of protesters gathered across the state of Wyoming, with more than 500 people outside of the state’s Capitol building. The event was held to counter GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s unhinged plan to sell-off millions of acres of public land. WY Rep. Karlee Provenza called the three Republicans holding federal offices in the state during the rally. Provenza would leave each a voicemail, and then towards the end signaled to the crowd who loudly chanted “not for sale!”
Just a sampling of all the good news from the past week. Reemmber Trumps days are numbered, literally. He’s got three and a half years left. Save the date.
This ones a bit long but I think its well worth it.
This may surprise you, but Democrats are basically a lock to win the House of Representatives in 2026. There are six main reasons for this:
Another reason Trump is running out of time. 2026 is our best chance to stop this lame duck once and for all.
x Omaha's Republican House member, Don Bacon, announces he is retiring, so the seat immediately catapults near the top of Democratic pick-up opportunities: www.notus.org/republicans/... — Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2025-06-28T00:09:53.567Z
When archaeologists opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt in the 1920s, the unexpected deaths among members of the excavation team that followed sparked rumors of a “pharaoh’s curse.” Decades later, doctors speculated that fungal spores may have contributed to those deaths. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a new way to harness that fungus: using it to treat leukemia.
Alright, I did not have “harnessing the mummy’s curse to cure cancer” on my bingo card today. But I’ll take it.
And now for a music break. Teenage Bottle Rocket Post Mortem Depression
RICHMOND — Early voting was strong across Virginia this year in the 45 days leading up to Tuesday’s primary elections, in which voters will choose Democratic nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general and, in a handful of districts, candidates from both parties for the House of Delegates and local offices. Nearly 158,000 people had cast votes in Democratic primaries as of Thursday — up from 124,000 at the same point in Democratic primaries four years ago, when the party had a hotly contested, five-way primary for governor, according to analysis of the latest available data by the Virginia Public Access Project. Virginia’s early voting period, which is among the longest in the nation, ended Saturday.
Impressive numbers to be sure.
People born more recently are less likely to have dementia at any given age than earlier generations, research suggests, with the trend more pronounced in women. According to the World Health Organization, in 2021 there were 57 million people worldwide living with dementia, with women disproportionately affected. However, while the risk of dementia increases with age, experts have long stressed it is not not an inevitability of getting older.
Well that’s good, one less thing to worry about I suppose.
Exploiting a possible loophole in a Supreme Court decision that limits sweeping universal injunctions against President Trump’s executive orders, the American Civil Liberties Union and immigrants rights’ advocates are now filing a class action against the president’s plan to restrict birthright citizenship. The lawsuit charges that the Trump administration is flouting the Constitution, congressional intent, and longstanding Supreme Court precedent and requests an emergency restraining order preventing the executive order from being enforced.
Look, I know Friday was rough because once again the Supreme Court showed their ass (Its especially annoying that my birthday lands at the same time they pull shit like this), but the ACLU isn’t giving up and neither should you.
Now I don’t think AI should be writing our stories or drawing our pictures, but there’s a lot of things it CAN do and do well, and this is one of them.
The White House failed to see the artistic value of a mysterious installation of a gold “television” erected in front of the Capitol that plays a video of Donald Trump dancing shoulder-to-shoulder with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The installation, which was created by unknown artists and is permitted to stay through Sunday, sits where last week’s anti-Trump statue “Dictator Approved” drew similar outrage.
I may not know art but I know what I like. Well, I do know art I took art history classes in college, but you know what I mean.
More than 15 percent of medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold statewide in 2023 were zero-emission. But the road has been bumpy amid growing uncertainty about California’s regulations and the Trump administration’s hostility toward electric vehicles, the clean energy transition, and the state’s climate policies. The Golden State started its trucking transition in 2021 when it required manufacturers to produce an increasing number of zero-emission big rigs, known as Advanced Clean Trucks (ACTs). The following year, it mandated that private and public fleets buy only those machines by 2036, establishing what are called Advanced Clean Fleets (ACFs). The Environmental Protection Agency granted the waiver California needed to adopt ACT in 2023. But it had not acted on the exemption required to enforce ACF by the time President Donald Trump took office, prompting the state to rescind its application as a “strategic move” to keep “options on the table,” according to the California Air Resources Board. The US Senate threw the fate of the Advanced Clean Trucks rule into question when it revoked the state’s EPA waiver on May 22, stripping California of its ability to mandate the electrification of private fleets, though it can still regulate public ones. Now the one bright side for the state’s efforts to clean up trucking is the Clean Trucks Partnership, under which several manufacturers have already agreed to produce zero-emission rigs regardless of any federal challenges.
Trump can’t stop the future, no matter how hard he tries.
“The flooding of the Irpin valley became a symbol of how nature can be used to defend against an invader, says Oleksii Vasyliuk, a zoologist with the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and director of the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group. To the northeast of Kyiv, nature didn’t even require human intervention. “The landscape there is so rich in peatlands,” Vasyliuk notes, “that many Russian tanks and other armored vehicles simply sank into the ground.” After this setback, Russia abandoned plans to advance into Kyiv and has since focused its ground assault on drier regions in Ukraine’s southeast. Environmentalists have proposed giving the Irpin military honors as the “Hero River.”
We’re restoring nature, and sticking it to Putin. Best of both worlds.
I think that’s enough for this week. Now for Pokemon.
And now, the cute corner.
And now for organizing spotlight to finish us off.
Seven ways you can oppose the Republicans mega bill
I study the resistance against the Nazi’s, here’s what the US left can learn from it
Lessons in courage, care, and collective action
And that’s it for this week, see you guys next Monday.
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