Today is another BYOGN Sunday for the Good News Roundup team. Please bring your own Good News to the comments. Meanwhile, our founder, GoodNewsRoundup herself, rounded up these three links to get us started:
California lawmakers rallied enough votes Friday to pass the nation’s toughest net neutrality law to prevent Internet providers from favoring certain websites, setting up a fight with federal regulators who voted last year to erase such rules.
A long-awaited ruling from a conservative judge over the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program did not go as Texas had hoped: The judge refused to halt DACA on Friday. The ruling, however, also allows the case to proceed quickly toward the Supreme Court.
Tuesday morning, I stopped at the Trumbull town clerk’s office and did something that I never thought I would do. I resigned from the Republican Party and registered as an unaffiliated voter.
I was letting go of a lot of history. I have been a loyal member of the Republican Party for most of my adult life. I have been a member of my local GOP town committee for many years and I have been elected, as a Republican, to the Trumbull town council five times. I served, as a Republican on other local boards, as well.
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I can't take it any more. Trump does not represent true Republican values. He does not represent my values. I am leaving the Republican Party and, for the time being, will remain unaffiliated.
The data from the poll aggregators is moving dramatically left.
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538 moved its odds of Dems winning the House from 5 in 7 to 3 in 4 last night, with an average estimated gain of 34 seats.
Wherein I borrow a poll and review the week
And now, ripped from borrowed from Cheers and Jeers with a tip of my hat, Bill in Portland Maine’s regular Friday evening feature, a hidden gem of Daily Kos, a summary of Good News from the previous week in the form of a poll. You can catch his poll every Friday evening, and yes I see the innuendo in the first half of this sentence. You can still vote in his poll, which has about 2700 votes so far. (Hint: It’s not too late to Recommend his story.)
- The Democratic primary winners, including Andrew Gillum in the Florida governor's race and Kyrsten Sinema in the Arizona race for U.S. Senate
- The Texas jury that found police officer Roy Oliver guilty in the killing of black high school freshman Jordan Edwards, sentencing him to 15 years in prison
- D.C. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, for striking down major portions of three Trump executive orders that make it easier to fire federal employees
- Jimmy (93) and Rosalynn (91) Carter, for donning their work duds and helping build a new habitat for Humanity house in Indiana
- Low-income Nebraskans, as a referendum question to expand Medicaid officially gets the go-ahead to be on the ballot in November
- Seth Frotman, student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for delivering a resignation letter blasting director Mick Mulvaney for turning his back "on young people and their financial futures."
- The Affordable Care Act, as a Fox News poll reveals that Obamacare is far, far, FAR more popular with voters than the Republicans' deficit-exploding tax cuts for the rich
- The 3-judge panel that ordered North Carolina to immediately redraw the state's congressional districts because Republicans gerrymandered them like a bunch of Confederate-flag-waving racists
- Marine environmentalists, who won a settlement with the Trump administration, forcing it to designate three protected habitat areas for endangered humpback whales in the Pacific
- Hawaii, for following up their stoic weathering of Hurricane Lane by beating South Korea 3-0 to win the Little League World Series Championship
Bringing Your Own Good News
- What’s your good national news?
- How are you resisting? (I’m not asking you to brag about yourself, but to mentor and encourage others by showing how easy and satisfying it is to Resist your way.)
Power with, not power over,
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Addendum 5 p.m. Sunday: I had a tech issue, but did not observe the deletion of my list of Resistance activities, so I added the section entitled: 5 R’s of the Resistance.