Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup, that time of the week where your GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the GNR Discord) gather the good news to start your week off right.
So maybe not the best week last week huh, Especially a bad one for me personally because I decided to make a fool of myself. I’ve been growing increasingly frustrated with the doomerism and back biting against Democrats going on about, and so I decided to speak my mind in a short journal on the subject. I should have noted I was talking only to a very specific demographic of people out there, people who A) Didn’t vote for Harris in the previous election yet still feel opinionated about how the Dems aren’t doing enough to help us, and B) People who are actively calling for violence (Which do exist, I’ve seen at least one journal calling for people to arm up), but I didn’t make that very clear in the journal, and as a result I offended more than a few people I didn’t intend to offend. And for that I am sorry.
And of course, not like an hour after I posted it, the...incident occurred. You know the one, So I was pretty much left with egg on my face.
If I had a nickel for every time I made an impassioned defense of the Democratic party and they turned around and did something stupid, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but its weird that happened twice.
But you know what, the past is past, sometimes you gotta be a man, suck it up and take the L. Life goes on, and so do I. Luckily, despite the incident, I think there’s still plenty of good news out there, and dammit I’m gonna bring it to you. So lets get to it.
So lets start with some music. Ghoulies are go by the Groovie Ghoulies
The chaos ushered in by Donald Trump and Elon Musk these last 55 days hit a major setback this week as two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of improperly laid off workers.
We’re halfway through Trumps first (Second?) hundred days and he and Elon don’t have a lot to show for it except a lot of court battles. Lets keep fighting and keep pushing.
The world is bad sometimes, but it feels even worse if you can’t stop staring into the all-consuming abyss that is the 6-inch screen of a smartphone, following you through space and time. It taunts you with its compact, light build that’s small enough to slip into your pocket and take anywhere, and its siren call is so strong that for some reason, we cannot sleep without our phone on our nightstands.
As we weather the horrors around us, it may occur to you that you would feel calmer and more attentive and balanced if you did not pick up your phone dozens of times a day to doomscroll. It’s messing with our brains to intersperse our day with glimpses into the most extreme, engagement-baiting TikToks, only to flip over to X or Bluesky and see crushing news headlines.
Like any bad habit, doomscrolling is hard to kick. But it’s not hopeless. So how do you stop doomscrolling? We have some ideas about how you can set yourself up for success.
Yeah, back during Trump administration one I stayed glued to my computer and all the bad shit going down, and it messed me up, I think the reason I am doing so much better this time (Aside from the fact we did this all once before and came out the other side) is the fact I learned to stop doomscrolling. And if you have a doomscrolling problem, you can stop too.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.
The motion for emergency relief was filed late Friday in federal court in Maryland by the legal services group Democracy Forward against the Social Security Administration and its acting commissioner, Leland Dudek. The unions want the court to block DOGE’s access to the vast troves of personal data held by the agency.
Another day, another person catching Elon with his hand in the cookie jar and telling him “no.”
In neighborhoods across the globe — yes, even in Antarctica — it is not uncommon to find a Little Free Library, or a book-sharing box filled with a collection of free books to take, share, and enjoy.
If a location on the South Pole wasn’t enough, Little Free Library is celebrating a major milestone: Its 200,000th box.
Good for them, education is vitally important (and why the GOP is trying so hard to cripple it), so read to your kids (and read more if you do already)
Hi, all, and happy Sunday!
It’s been a hell of a week, and yet…great things did happen. I’ve got a long list of them below; I urge you to spend some time reading them and sharing them with friends. Remember, what we focus on grows. If we ONLY focus on the hell we’re going through we won’t have the stamina to persist until we get to the rebuilding part.
So enjoy this list. Savor it. Relish every word.
And never forget that people like YOU are making these wins possible. Thanks for that.
We’re not the only ones spreading the good news: Chop Wood, Carry Water, Hopium, What could go right? Its like a justice league of good news.
- Two more people have potentially been cured of HIV after undergoing stem cell transplants.
- Like others, the patients received stem cells from donors with a mutation that makes them resistant to HIV.
Two more people have been potentially cured of HIV after receiving stem cell transplants to treat blood cancer or bone marrow disease, physicians reported Monday.
Like a half-dozen or so other cases that have been reported in the last 15 years, both patients received stem cells from donors with a rare genetic mutation that can make a person naturally resistant to HIV infection by keeping the virus from entering human cells.
This is super exciting news. We might be the generation that defeats AIDS.
ity Council members voted 12-1 Wednesday to make Boston a sanctuary city for members of the transgender community.
Councilor-at-Large Julia Mejia and District 9 Councilor Liz Breadon called on Boston to adopt the measure supporting transgender people, pointing to what they see as harmful rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump and the White House.
“Boston is not going to back down,” Mejia said Wednesday. “We’re seeing attacks on our trans loved ones, and here on the local level, a lot of folks are feeling helpless.”
There will always be those who will stand up and protect the people they love.
A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Thursday to block significant cuts to the Department of Education made by the Trump administration this week.
Led by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, the coalition of more than 20 states filed suit in federal court after the agency cut about half of its workforce. More than 1,300 employees were laid off in a single day, the latest move toward Donald Trump’s goal of dismantling the department entirely.
The lawsuit alleges the cuts to the department have “devastating effects” on the states, which receive anywhere from millions to billions of dollars from the federal education department annually, James said in a press release. The cuts will hurt students, including those with special needs and those from low-income households.
We’re not gonna let Trump get away with anything.
Friends,
It seems as if the horrendous Trump news doesn’t end — and it doesn’t. We’ve barely endured just over seven weeks of his scourge and every day brings new awfulness.
But the worse it gets, the more Trump, Musk, and the rest of the oligarchy reveal themselves. And the more they reveal themselves — the more they abuse their wealth and power, side with Putin, trample civil liberties, and ride roughshod over the Constitution — the stronger the backlash against them will be.
Here’s this week’s summary of 10 reasons for very modest optimism.
More collections of reasons to be hopeful for the future.
Last May, Florida enacted a law deleting any reference to climate change from most of its state policies, a move Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis described as “restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.”
That hasn’t stopped the Sunshine State from becoming a national leader in solar power.
ha! Get wrecked DeSantis you loser. You can’t stop the truth with a decree or a law, the green future is coming, and you can’t just pretend its not happening.
Anyway, time for another music video. Durry: I’m fine (No really)
The deadliest phase of the street fentanyl crisis appears to have ended, as drug deaths continue to drop at an unprecedented pace. For the first time, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have now seen at least some recovery.
A new analysis of U.S. overdose data conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also found that the decline in deaths began much earlier than once understood, suggesting improvements may be sustainable.
Well that is certainly a relief, I know the whole Fentanyl thing was a big issue for a while.
A Chinese smartphone manufacturer is preparing to debut a new deepfake detection software, which it says uses AI to detect AI.
Embodying the schoolyard concept of it takes one to know one, the company says it analyzes the millions of individual pixels on a phone screen to look for things like faceswaps or other AI artifacts.
Technology really is amazing sometimes.
On the heights of a mountain range just 30 miles west of Sydney’s Central Business District, the population of a charismatic marsupial was found to be ballooning despite recent fires.
Recorded at 45% higher than before Australia’s drought-wildfire combo of 2019, it was described as “nothing short of remarkable.”
The greater glider is an arboreal marsupial that can glide the distance of a football field using a long skin membrane that stretches between its arms and legs. With a diet composed exclusively of eucalyptus leaves, a lack of trees means a lack of gliders, and in the Blue Mountains, parts that were only lightly burned are positively full of these animals.
Getting a little taste of the cute corner early when its combined with stories of cute little Marsupials recovering from near extinction.
ennard Lee, a UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, calls himself just a “simple doctor,” but he’s anything but. During the pandemic, he led clinical efforts that showed it was still safe to give cancer patients chemotherapy, disproving fears that the coronavirus made this too risky, helping to maintain cancer treatment worldwide. He also delivered UK research that showed lateral flow testing was effective in identifying the most infectious Covid patients.
His most important project, however, is the one he’s currently leading as the national government advisor for mRNA cancer vaccines. This new type of vaccine, which is based on the same technology as the Covid vaccines first developed by BioNTech and Moderna, is seen by many as a potential breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Ahead of speaking at WIRED Health in London next week, Lee tells WIRED why he hopes these vaccines will prove to be the “silver lining of the pandemic.”
First defeating HIV now Cancer, we are really knocking it out of the park with the cures for these diseases.
For example, Edwards was asked, “Why are you doing nothing while Trump destroys the U. S. Constitution?”
The congressman replied, “I think, I think I sense I think I sense maybe a faction in this room of folks that, uh, that might not have voted for President Trump. And, and I'll And, and, and, and I'll say that, uh, I happen to believe very much that, President Trump supports our Constitution. And I, and, and I sleep good at night knowing that every vote that I cast is in support of our Constitution and your freedoms and, and, and limited government.”
This answer got a Republican booed at his own town hall.
Good, keep their feet to the fire people. If we have to be miserable the next four years than so do they.
The week is nearly over, but the madness from Musk and Trump is certainly not—so I’m glad to have more good news to deliver today. I hope it gives you some relief, and shows you there are a lot of great people fighting back against Trump and his maga cult.
Rallies are planned in DC and at every state capitol tomorrow, to call out Trump’s firing of Veterans and dismantling of the VA. The organizing group’s promotional poster quotes General Mark Milley, reading: “We don’t take an oath to a king.”
In Raleigh, North Carolina yesterday, there was a “down with DOGE” protest organized by NC Democrats. Putting a spotlight on firings of federal workers, the midday rally featured enormous puppets of Musk, Putin, and Trump. One of the organizers, journalist Lauren Windsor, said: “Get out here and get loud and be engaged … people need this sense of community right now.”
We are not backing down, we’re gonna fight back and fight back hard against this, and we’re gonna keep going.
The White House on Thursday pulled President Donald Trump's nomination of Dr. David Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, multiple sources told ABC News.
The withdrawal came just before Weldon was to appear for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, where he was expected to be grilled on his past comments questioning vaccine safety. The room was all set for the hearing before the developments, which was first reported by Axios.
Another defeat of a terrible Trump nominee.
Back on January 28, in the special election for Iowa's 35th Senate district, the Democratic candidate won 52%-48% in a district that Donald Trump won 60%-39%. This shift of 25 points allowed Democrat Mike Zimmer, a former public school principal, to turn a deep red seat blue.
Now this week, on Tuesday, March 11, in the special election for Iowa's 100th state House district, the Democratic candidate narrowly lost 52%-48% in a district that Trump won 62%-36% back in November 2024. While it was not quite enough to flip the district blue, it is still an eye-popping 24-point shift toward Democrats.
According to results compiled by The Downballot, across the 12 special elections for state legislative seats held so far in 2025, Democrats have performed, on the mean, 9.7 points better than Kamala Harris did in November 2024—and 10.5 points better on the median.
2026 will be here before we know it, and when it comes will be our chance to counter attack and cripple Trump once and for all.
That does it for good news this week, now for Pokemon!
And now for the lightning round!
What could go right? Four cents closer to parity
Russia is only winning in Trumps head
Democrats should “Do something” and they are
Texas broke its solar, wind and battery records in one week
Resistance to Trump is everywhere
And now, the cute corner.
And finally the organizing spotlight.
Tesla Takedown
Lessons on Trans Liberation from the US south
How can congressional Dems fight back against Trump and Musk? Oversight
That’s all for this week, I’d say more on the outro but its raining pretty hard and I feel like the power is about to go out any second. Have a good week all.
