The Good Gnus group is a community of readers, writers, activists, supporters, community builders, and patriots. We begin gathering every day at 7 a.m. ET to celebrate national good news. Our most active members are of course a subgroup of members of Daily Kos, whose Front Pages celebrate “News, Community, Action.” However, you don’t have to be a member of Daily Kos to be a Gnusie.
We are realists, not fools, idiots, or ostriches. We seek the truth. We know we live in a world where active, nefarious, and evil decision-makers do very bad things, and create stress and anxiety in us, our loved ones, our friends, our neighbors, and our allies, and destroy people and systems we hold dear. However, we choose to focus on the good news that people create around the country.
Sometimes we ourselves create Good News. Together we are strong and resilient. We return regularly to these pages to revitalize.
In a Good News Roundup, the weight of bearing good news is not borne by the author alone: Gnusies can be counted on to adorn the comment section with good news. Often commenters create three times as many comments as Recommendations! If you cannot linger with us for hours, I recommend you return in the mid or late afternoon, learn who your favorite commenters are, and Find their names on return visits. We count on certain favorite Gnusies to bless us in the comments with humor, hope, history, and analysis every day.
We bring good news, and we create good news.
Poll #1: Who Won the Week?
Cheers and Jeers archive and future editions here. Way, way more than 2 thanks to The One, our Wicked Wizard of Wit and writer of Who Won the Week, Willhelm von kosland!
- LGBTQ protections among our northern neighbors, as Canada bans "conversion therapy," which psycho-quacks for Jesus falsely claim can change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity
- Deqa Dhalac, who became the first Somali-American mayor in the United States when she was seated in South Portland, which is Maine's 4th largest city
- President Biden: fastest economic recovery in U.S. history; gas prices falling; opens democracy summit; promotes infrastructure law in Kansas City; welcomes Kennedy Center honorees to WH
- Dana Milbank of WaPost, for dropping a bomb on his fellow journalists by proving their coverage of truthful, smart, USA-loving Biden has been as negative as their coverage of lying, idiotic, Russia-loving DJT
- Former Nat'l Guard Colonel Earl Matthews, for accusing senior Army leaders, inc. traitor Mike Flynn's brother, of lying to Congress about their slow-as-slugs response during the Capitol riot
- Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, who received their Nobel Peace Prizes today in Oslo
- The Justice Department, for announcing a lawsuit against Texas's redistricting plans, which are white supremacy on steroids
- Washington DC, which unanimously approved renaming the street in front of the Saudi embassy "Jamal Khashoggi Way" to honor the journalist killed on the crown prince's orders
- The Starbucks employees in Buffalo who became the first from the company to vote for unionizing in the U.S.---they'll join Workers United, an SEIU affiliate
- The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, for their "withering rejection" of Trump's attempt to stop the release of documents related to his planning of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Bill’s Friday poll is here.
Who won the week for you? Who made a winning move after Bill's deadline on Friday?
Charlottesville African American history museum will create art from the bronze Lee statue
“Charlottesville will give the bronze statue of Robert E. Lee removed from public display to an African American history museum that plans to melt it down and transform it into public artwork.” ~Kyle Griffin
Meteor Blades, Daily Kos staff emeritus: Biden sets sights on federal carbon neutrality by 2050: In his Wednesday announcement about the United States “leading by example in tackling the climate crisis,” the president issued an executive order for the federal government to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 65% in 2030 and attain carbon neutrality by 2050. That will require transforming the government’s entire fleet of 600,000 cars and trucks into zero emission vehicles by 2035. Under the order, the nation’s 300,000 federal buildings must produce no net emissions by 2045, with a 50% cut by 2032. All electricity procured by the government must come from clean sources by 2030, while all procurement decisions must meet net zero emissions by 2050. The executive order will tackle about 15% of all U.S. carbon emissions, according to RMI (formerly the Rocky Mountain Institute), a non-profit, clean energy organization.
Biden signs executive order to make U.S. government carbon neutral by 2050
The president aims to leverage the federal government’s massive buying power to jump-start the market for clean energy, electric vehicles and more efficient buildings.
In an executive order he Biden Wednesday, Biden set new goals for the government to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 65 percent by the end of this decade and to zero out federal emissions by 2050.
The order puts the U.S. in line with global targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century, which scientists say is needed to reduce the effects of climate change.
This Week in Good News
Many Gnusies visit the Roundups every day. Perhaps you missed one?
When Even NPR Makes Me Want to Scream Into the Abyss, You Know I Am Ready To Rant.... Saturday's GNR
GoodNewsRoundup
Good News Roundup for Friday, December 10, 2021: We Are the Defenders of Democracy
chloris creator
Thursday Good News: Next Up, Build Back Better
Mokurai
December 8- Good News Roundup (Friday)
niftywriter
Good News Roundup for Tuesday, December 7, 2021
arhpdx
Live from the GNR Newsroom: ITS THE MONDAY GOOD NEWS ROUNDUP COMEBACK SPECIAL!!!!
Jessiestaf
Sunday Good News ☼ 2 Polls, Bill in Portland Maine's AND Thankful to Daily Kos Tech Team?
2thanks
Thank you, team!
Science
“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person.” ~ Bill Bryson
Giant exoplanet found around most massive planet-hosting stars known
Astronomers have directly imaged a planet orbiting a pair of stars so massive they challenge our ideas of how planets and stars form.
Image: [My favorite image from the Daily Kos Image Library with the search of “galaxies.” No images therein for “exoplanets.” ~ 2thanks] This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The distorted shape of the larger of the two galaxies shows signs of tidal interactions with the smaller of the two. It is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger one.
Our map of Gnuville: 702 of us have shared our global locations!
To leave your mark, please Reply in the comments to tljdk or silverfoxcruiser. Please include your city and state only, NOT street number and street. (Please persist, we are volunteers.)
Image: Two maps of the United States, one above the other. The maps indicate the approximate locations of members of the Good News Roundup community in 2019 and 2021. The lower map contains many more blue pin-markers than the upper map. Upper image: A map of Gnuville from February 15, 2019 with about 50 Gnusie pins. Lower image: A map of Gnuville from March 21, 2021 with 582 pins across our orb.
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Tech Talk for Kosacks
- On a desktop or laptop, to banish the Daily Kos “Load More” buttons, click this link, which opens the main Daily Kos page and shuts off the Load More buttons at the same time. After that, you’re good to go. The “Load More” option also resets the user back to the display of the old-style, React comments.
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Where Ever is Herd
Morning Good News Roundups at 7 x 7: These Gnusies lead the herd at 7 a.m. ET, 7 days a week:
- The Monday GNR Newsroom (Jessiestaf, Killer300, and Bhu). With their five, we survive and thrive.
- Alternating Tuesdays: NotNowNotEver and arhpdx.
- Wednesdays: niftywriter.
- Thursdays: Mokurai the 1st, 2nd, and 5th (when there is one), WineRev the 3rd, MCUBernieFan the 4th.
- Fridays: chloris creator. Regular links to the White House Briefing Room.
- Saturdays: GoodNewsRoundup, the one and only!
- Sundays: 2thanks. A brief roundup of Roundups, a retrospective, a smorgasbord, a bulletin board, an oasis, a watering hole, a thunder of hooves, a wellness, a place for beginners to learn the rules of the veldt.
hpg posts Evening Shade diaries at 7:30 p.m. ET every day! After a long day, Gnusies meet in the evening shade and continue sharing Good News, good community, and good actions. In the words of NotNowNotEver: “hpg ably continues the tradition of Evening Shade.” Find Evening Shades here.
oldhippiedude posts Tweets of the Week on Sundays at 6 p.m. CT. Our second evening Gnusie hangout zone! In search of a TOTW diary? Look here or here.
For more information about the Good News group, please see our detailed Welcoming comment, one of the first comments in our morning diaries.
The 6 R’s of the Resistance
Joe Biden is now our President. However, we continue to stay vocal and active, we continue to pull Joe to the left, and we continue resist the GQP.
- Refresh and Rest: Take care of you, the hero: Eat well, exercise, and rest.
- Resist: Protest on the streets, call senators and representatives, etc.
- Rebel: Run for office, GOTV (Get Out The Vote), support a progressive.
- Revolt: Change the laws, change the culture, build your communities.
- Rely: Trust that millions of others are fighting the good fight.
- Rejoice: Joy promotes resilience and gives rise to hope.
How to Resist: Do Something …
From chloris creator:
Indivisible has created a Truth Brigade to push back against the lies.
Propaganda, false characterizations, intentionally misleading messages, and outright lies threaten our democracy and even our lives. We can effectively combat disinformation, despite the well-funded machines that drive it. They may have money, but we have truth and we have people. People believe sources they trust. When we share and amplify unified, factual messages to those who trust us, we shift the narrative. When we do this by the thousands--we’re part of the Indivisible Truth Brigade, and we get our country back. Join us.️
Our own Mokurai is a member. You can see his diary on the California recall here.
From GoodNewsRoundup
Most important: DON'T LOSE HOPE. This is a giant and important fight for us but, win or lose, we keep fighting and voting and organizing and spreading truth and light. We never give up.
On Daily Kos:
We welcome comments in Roundups every day regarding:
- National or local Good News.
- Links, stories, music, videos, quotes, tweets. (No tweets or images of the saffron chlamidiot, please.)
- Your resistance activity.
In my Sunday smorgasbord Roundups, I especially welcome the following types of comments:
- Who won YOUR week?
- Questions about Daily Kos tech issues or our map.
- Good News Roundups and you.
- How are you resisting?
Top Image: Starhawk created this diary’s top image of the rampant gnu and gave it to the members of the Good News Roundup group (Gnusies)! Thank you, Starhawk! This is a quite detailed sketch of a gnu drawn in brown, green, and black. A happy and dynamic gnu dances on its left hind leg in a classic rampant heraldric pose. Joyful letters prance above and behind the mane: “Happy Dance.” Signature: Nick Korolev, 2021.
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Thank you for fighting for truth and justice with all us Gnusies! 40% of our Readers don’t visit every day, 50% of us do, and 10% are here for the first time! We all do what we can. For 4 years, we’ve shared positive news, laughed, organized, resisted, rebelled, revolted without being revolting, relied, rested, mentored, created, crossed rivers, chewed our cud, puffed methane out both ends, and laughed. Here’s looking at you, kid, and standing upwind!
As always, please share more Good News than I can find or provide.
I’ve scheduled this diary to post at 7 a.m. ET, though I will likely not be able to comment for most of the day. I’ll be working on my major project, rolling a big ball uphill over and over moving from our home of 41 years to a new house, which requires ADA changes and upgrades by contractors, electricians, and plumbers. Decluttering, deciding, exciting, exhausting. We’ve moved most of our furniture, still need to move shelves and a few chairs, clean the old house, repair a few items, and sell the house (as is). We know our realtor.
We have to remove just a few more carloads of this and that, do a little electrical work (replacing wires, hanging light fixtures), and schedule the house cleaners.
Therefore, I may not be able to return until later in the day. Fortunately for me, you all know what to do!
This is a group diary, and by my power I declare this Good Gnus Salo(o)n open! Let the good-news sharing and community building begin!
Power with, not power over ❤️ ✊ ❤️
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