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!
- 71-year-old Black social justice advocate Ben Frazier of Jacksonville, who risked arrest after causing Gov. Ron DeSantis to flee for challenging his covid policies at a public press event
- Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi of Texas Children's Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine, for developing a "game changer" Covid vaccine that can be made easily and cheaply for poor countries
- The nerds at NASA, as the James Webb Space Telescope deploys all five layers of its sunshield, and secondary mirror, with pinpoint precision
- Alvin Bragg, who became the first Black Manhattan District Attorney, taking over the Trump fraud investigation from Cy Vance, Jr.
- President Biden: Jan. 6 speech goes right after Trump & his cult; rolls out a plan to fight meat monopolies; unemployment drops to 3.9%
- The Congressional Progressive Caucus, for endorsing legislation to expand the Supreme Court by four seats
- French President Emmanuel Macron, for vowing to "piss off" his country's anti-vaxxer cult at every opportunity
- The air quality in the House, as Devin Nunes departs to be Donald Trump's newest chambermaid
- Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley, for sentencing the three racist Georgia idiots who murdered Ahmaud Arbery to life in prison
- Anyone who's glad to see 2021 in the rear-view mirror
Bill’s Friday poll is here.
Who won the week for you? Who made a winning move after Bill's deadline on Friday?
A quintessential week in Gnuville:
When Everything Looks Hopeless, You’re The Hope: Saturday's GNR
GoodNewsRoundup
Good News Roundup for Friday, January 7, 2022: A Year and a Day Since the Insurrection
chloris creator
First Thursday, 1/6 Good News: It Isn't Over 'til It's Over
Mokurai
Good News Roundup for Jan 5, 2022
pucklady
Good News Roundup for January 4, 2022 — There was A LOT of good news in 2021!
arhpdx
From the GNR Newsroom, its the Monday Good News Roundup!
Jessiestaf
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN---DAY353---Evening-Shade-Saturday
2thanks
GQP dooming, Biden booming!
“Folks, let’s get one thing straight: the news that today’s unemployment rate has hit 3.9% is HISTORIC. It’s the fastest single-year decline in unemployment in our country's history.
“That’s the Biden Boom.” ~ Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair
Good news! The warring right-wing provocateurs are all crap
The uncivil war: Trump's right-wing provocateurs are eating each other alive
Kerry Eleveld: The warring factions are mainly the result of a power vacuum now that Trump isn't dominating the mediascape and the perennially inaccurate soothsayer Q has gone silent.
“In the absence of a president like Trump and in the absence of a figure like Q, there’s this void where nobody knows who to follow,” explained Sara Aniano, a Monmouth University graduate student who studies far-right rhetoric and conspiracy theories. “At one point it seemed like Q was gospel. Now there’s a million different bibles, and no one knows which one is most accurate."
Good news! They're all crap. There, that was easy.
Economic Update!
The White House:
- Unemployment rate fell to 3.9%, a rate we weren't projected to hit until 2026 before passing the American Rescue Plan
- 6.4 million jobs created, the most in any year since 1939
- The economy has regained 84% of jobs lost in the pandemic
Religious Freedom Day, always January 16th
We’ll see diaries this week on religious freedom as we celebrate Religious Freedom Week on Daily Kos. Here’s one:
Religious Freedom Day & Reproductive Freedom
Frederick Clarkson for Pro Choice
Image: Celebrate Religious Freedom Day: "Religious Freedom is the right of individual conscience - to believe as we will and to change our minds freely, without undue influence from government or from powerful religious institutions. It also means the right to practice our beliefs free from the same constraints." (Political Research Associates)
Democrats probably gain congressional districts
"The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor," Dave Wasserman, per Kyle Griffin
kos: Anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. is suing Daily Kos, trying to force us to reveal the identity of one of our community members. We’re telling him to go pound sand. Lawyers are involved. You can get the background here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. In short, community member DowneastDem wrote about Kennedy cavorting with Nazis at a Berlin rally. Kennedy then sued in New York court to reveal her or his identity. Kennedy claims he wants to sue for defamation, but he’s refused to sue any other media outlet reporting on the Nazi rally, and he’s refused to sue me and Daily Kos, even though I’ve said much worse things about him. Kennedy is attempting to dox a community member for criticizing him, and we’re refusing to let him do it. The great folks at Public Citizen are providing that community member with pro bono legal services.
Kennedy won the first round in New York state court, which allowed him to try and get the blogger’s identity from us. But, we’re in California, and a California court said “nope” and quashed the subpoena, pending the outcome of any New York appeals. So we’re now back in New York, where we have appealed the trial court’s decision. In the final days of 2021, we got unexpectedly great news on that front, as the entire media establishment has filed an amicus brief supporting our First Amendment fight.
Our map of Gnuville: 700 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.
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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