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What’s a Pip?
A pip (a seed) is a brief note about a Good News item. It could be a link. It could be a sentence with a link. A section includes more information about a Good News item, usually an excerpt, occasionally a comment. We have a few sections today.
How to read pips: If you are eating an orange and crunch on a pip, it takes a moment to process and remove it (the pip, not your mouth). Similarly, I recommend taking a moment to process each Good News pip. Don’t just speed-read the list. Instead, possibly invite the pip to sink down from your mind into your body, maybe letting go of any fear or anxiety you may find. Maybe take a deep breath? Deep breathing is good.
Poll #1: Who Won the Week?
Russia’s assault on Ukraine is causing a lot of suffering, but there may be a kernel of Good News within.
The best reason for nations to switch to power from the sun and wind is that it will reduce, by some degree, the severity of the climate crisis (and save millions of lives lost each year to pollution). The second best reason is that it’s cheaper than fossil fuel, and any nation who doesn’t shift will be stuck with an economy running on expensive energy. But it seems to me—not a military analyst, but a fairly good tea-leaves reader—that the war in Ukraine may be adding a third to the list: its comparative invulnerability to attack.
Nonprofit groups with disparate missions are banding together in an alliance aimed at protecting one another if they become targets of President Donald Trump’s ire, people involved in the initiative said.
Referring to the effort colloquially as a kind of “NATO for nonprofits,” the groups plan to rally behind an embattled nonprofit by offering strategic and legal support, issuing supportive statements and loaning staff who would help keep it afloat until the crisis passes.
Just as the NATO military alliance views an attack on one member state as an attack on all, the network of nonprofits would serve as a bulwark against Trump administration actions that disrupt the work of groups that are providing lawful services and exercising free speech, supporters of the effort said.
Vanita Gupta, a senior Justice Department official with the Obama and Biden administrations is a leader of that initiative. She also worked for civil rights organizations, including as the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
GrandchildsFuture, member of Daily Kos: District Court Judge Karin Immergut ruled this afternoon that President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s federalization of the Oregon National Guard could not go forward, and issued a temporary restraining order.
Federal judge blocks Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard to Portland • Oregon Capital Chronicle
In her 30-page opinion, Immergut issued a powerful rebuke of Trump’s perception of his executive power and found he violated the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees police power within the states resides with the states. Immergut said protests in Portland were not by any definition a “rebellion” nor do they pose the “danger of a rebellion.”
“Furthermore, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs,” Immergut wrote. “This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation.”
ICYMU: This Week in Gnuville
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Extra! Extra! by Jess Craven
On Sunday afternoons, Jess Craven sends Extra! Extra! emails, free for sharing. Therein she lists many good news items. Excerpts from last Sunday’s Extra! Extra! follow.
In some of them, she notes good resolutions of difficult situations. Perhaps you heard a bad-news item but did not hear the good followup.
Jess describes herself: “Activist, organizer. Author of Chop Wood Carry Water Daily Actions. Political content creator. Co-host of the Practivist Pod. Mom to a 🏳️⚧️ kid.” She’s #29 on the Substack political leaderboard.
You can subscribe to her almost-daily emails here. On weekdays, she provides easy action steps for resisting patriots. Here is the archive of all her emails.
- Less than a week after it was taken off the air, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” started broadcasting again. This, after more than a million people canceled their Disney streaming subscriptions.
- Kimmel’s return on Tuesday after almost a week off the air brought the show its highest ratings in decade. With nearly 18 million viewers in under 24 hours, his 28-minute monologue also became his most-watched ever on YouTube.
- Sinclair and NexStar also backed down and reinstated the Jimmy Kimmel show to their stations. This, even though ABC and Disney didn’t accept Sinclair’s request for an ombudsman and other changes. YOU HELPED DO ALL OF THIS!
- One of the worst officials in America—Oklahoma School Superintendent Ryan Walters—announced that he plans to resign. You may remember him from the porn-on-his-Zoom incident a few months ago. Anyway, he’s terrible. Good riddance.
- Activist groups in HazMat suits gathered outside Eau Claire City Hall to protest Rep. Derrick Van Orden as “hazardous” to communities and healthcare.
- ICE released an Oregon firefighter arrested last month during the Bear Gulch Fire.
- Alan Greenspan and every other living former Fed chair submitted amicus briefs to the Supreme Court saying that Lisa Cook should keep her job.
- Environmental justice activist Carletta Davis became the first Black female mayor of Prichard, Alabama.
- The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the RNC’s lawsuit challenging Michigan’s voter roll maintenance practices.
- Residents of Prince George’s County in Maryland achieved a pause in all data center development after hundreds protested a massive site in Landover.
- Indianapolis residents have also shut down a proposed Google data center.
- California refineries are closing as gasoline demand slips into permanent decline.
- The Interior Department announced more than $54 million for waterfowl habitat and increased public access on refuges.
- Huntington’s Disease has been successfully treated for the first time. HUGE!
- A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore $50 million in grant funding to U.C.L.A. for medical research, including studies into Parkinson’s disease treatment, cancer recovery, and other areas that would improve the health of Americans.
- World Central Kitchen announced it’s building two new kitchens in Gaza, which will “nearly double” its daily meal production and move it closer to its goal of serving one million hot meals to people every day.
- Cars with solar panels will become available in the US as early as next year, as companies in the cottage industry for sun-powered vehicles and add-on solar panels ship their first products.
- Millions of Californians will receive refunds on their electric bill this October.
- Researchers were able to embed digital fingerprints into 3D-printed parts, which could help make ghost guns more traceable.
- The Gates Foundation pledged $912 million to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria and urged governments to take stronger action, too.
- The U.S. Forest Service will now provide wildfire fighters with N95 respirators as part of standard equipment. The decision reverses a decades-long policy that banned the use of respirators to reduce exposure to toxins and carcinogens, with only bandanas approved for use as facial coverings.
- A federal judge ruled that parts of Florida’s book ban law were unconstitutional and violated students’ First Amendment right of free access to ideas.
- Despite an internal effort to reverse the regulation, the EPA will continue to hold polluters responsible for cleaning up “forever chemicals,” maintaining an important role of the agency despite chemical industry opposition.
- Scientists have created a clear coating that turns windows into solar panels without compromising the view.
- Energy-related CO2 emissions dropped 20% from 2005 to 2023 in the U.S., despite 14% population growth.
- In a historic first, the Congressional Progressive Caucus voted to endorse blocking offensive weapon sales to Israel.
- A 79-year-old Van Nuys car wash owner (and US citizen) has filed a federal civil rights claim seeking $50 million after he says he was violently body slammed and pinned by federal agents during an immigration raid at his business. The claim names the DHS, CBP and ICE as defendants.
- Fresno city officials celebrated a federal judge’s decision to block the Trump administration from taking more than $250 million in federal funding away from Fresno, as well as millions more from other local governments.
- Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank.
- President Xi Jinping of China told a U.N. climate conference this week that his country would seek to reduce emissions by at least 7 to 10 percent by 2035. This is the first time China has ever made such a commitment, at least publicly.
- Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) announced she would introduce articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. due to the “health care chaos” and “reckless cuts” he’s brought under his tenure.
- The Sandy Hook Promise tip line stopped a potential school shooting at a Bay Area high school.
- MacKenzie Scott gave $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs.
- Microsoft will get green steel from a first-of-its-kind facility in northern Sweden as the tech giant looks to curb the climate impact of its data center build-out.
- Less than two weeks after the Trump administration dissolved a panel analyzing financial risks from climate change, former panel members are forming a new institute to continue the work.
- A federal judge blocked the USDA from sharing data about SNAP applicants in 21 states.
- Two Arizona voter suppression laws remain blocked* after a federal appeals court Monday decided not to rehear the case. A panel previously ruled the measures were unlawful.
- Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations that it tricked people into paying for Prime, and sabotaged their attempts to cancel.
- After three long months of being detained...Efrain, an undocumented father and husband in Los Angeles, is finally back at home! So many of you donated to help him raise legal fees. It worked! THANK YOU!
- Britain, Australia, and Canada confirmed that they each now formally recognize Palestinian statehood.
- Sens. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, and Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, introduced a bipartisan bill to re-establish national emergency suicide prevention hotlines and other services for LGBTQ+ youth.
- House and Senate Democrats have opened separate investigations into the Trump administration’s decision to close a criminal F.B.I. inquiry into Tom Homan.
- For the first time, women outnumber men in NASA’s newest astronaut class.
- A federal judge ruled that the Revolution Wind project can resume construction, saying that the Trump administration’s stop-work order will cause “irreparable harm” if the halt continues. WHOOO!
- Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
- Nebraska agreed to withhold any voter data from the DOJ until a pro-voting lawsuit seeking to prevent them from sharing statewide voter registration information is settled.
- The DNC announced bilingual organizing support to Mobilize Californians to vote yes on Proposition 50 in California.
- Adelita Grijalva won a special election for the U.S. House seat previously held by her father, Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March. She overperformed Kamala Harris’s margins by 17 points and will be the first Latina Congresswoman in Arizona!
- Carbon-free sources met more than 80% of China’s new electricity demand last year. Wow!
- A Hawaii group is organizing to buy back a huge swath of Molokaʻi Island from the billionaire investment firm that currently owns it. Their ultimate goal is to return Hawaiian land to Indigenous communities.
- The Federal Trade Commission and seven states have sued TicketMaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for allegedly using deceptive pricing tactics and coordinating with brokers to allow them to illegally buy up and resell tickets at exorbitant prices.
- Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed three new bills that offer new protections for Oregon consumers from deceptive and abusive business practices, stepping in where now-gutted federal consumer protection agencies left off.
- New data about voting in 2023 and 2024 shows that down-ballot voting increased, reflecting greater voter engagement in state and local races. HUGE news!
- Bishop Michael Pham, appointed by Pope Leo as the first U.S. bishop under his papacy, is showing up at immigration courts to support families caught in the current crackdown.
The Five R’s of the Resistance:
I’ve repeated these for many years.
- Resist: Protest on the streets, call senators and representatives, boycott, 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.
- Rest: Take care of yourself, we are in this for the long term.
WineRev’s Good and Goofy Notes
Watch for WineRev’s History Corner in the comments: “Here there be highlights, lowlights, and sidelights from events of this date from years ago, so you might get a different and longer perspective on how humans have coped, as well as a few items that will help you win Bar Bets on Trivia Night at your favorite watering hole.” You can find all his comments here, even today’s, once he posts it. Tech Tip: You can search for >>> in Roundups to quickly find his comments.
WineRev, last Sunday:
Prithee good day and welcome to all as the Sunday dawns upon thy lands and shines through thine windows. Verily SageHagRN and I, thy WineRev, didst indeed take in the Minnesota Ren Fest yesterday. Under God’s own glorious sky and sweet temperatures, we partook of sellers of metal and glass and cloth. Food was everywhere, with even non-medieval tastes at hand (at tongue?) by some sorcery: Renaissance tacos, Korean beef, Pho soup, and we also brought home for thee, the Gnusies of the Brunch of Breakfast, dishes warmed via a Table of Steam, cooked via griddle and oven, and even by metal boxes of pop and zap.
Now mead flowed in abundance and the lines unto these merchants were long. Yet for this Daily Brunch we procured tins of tea and, again, the exotic and wonderful: from the reaches of Arabia came dark brown, hard seeds, crushed and then wound in a rag and steaming water poured upon the rag so that the water, now brown, seeped into a mug below. The merchants called it by its Arabic name: Qa-fee and it be a hearty drink. So likewise with the roasted, crushed and sweetened ka-cawoa beans that the explorers of Hispania have brought back and mixed into a drinking mass they call cacao-late (although some visitors pronounced this cho-ko-late, but such a crude rendering will be soon forgot.)
Now come ye, one and all, into the Hall of Hopes and make thyselves at ease among the thrones, the cushions that sing their name of “cushing” on a couching. Also there be the chairs of rocker-y and the softened of raised feet and leaned-back head. There be wonders here in the Hall: plates that glow and sparkle and speak, with words for reading, reciting, chuckling, cheering on, and explaining to the curious. A toast, a toast! to our host 2thanks, and cheers to each and all for thy gathering and presence this fine day.
Science
Please share good science news with us! (Especially JWST, health, environment.)
A good place to look for science news if you are waiting for the Sunday Roundup is the archive of Overnight News Digest. On Saturdays, the OND always focuses on science, though not all of it is devoted to what I would call Good Science News.
Need more good news?
… arhpdx posted a list of good news sites toward the top of a recent Roundup, or you can find that same list in my comment: Good News Sources. Thank you, arhpdx and Mokurai!
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Where Ever is Herd
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- Mondays The GNR Newsroom (Jessiestaf, Killer300, and Bhu). Jessie’s invitation to the Good News Roundup Discord.
- Tuesdays arhpdx and niftywriter.
- Wednesdays 1st bilboteach, 2nd MCUBernieFan, 3rd WineRev, 4th alamancedem.
- Thursdays: Mokurai: GNR on Bluesky: Authors Starter Pack.
- Fridays chloris creator.
- 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. For instance, we do not welcome grammar-police comments in Roundups.
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How to Resist: Do Something …
”Build your communities,” said Kamala Harris
A Cascade of Protests. Be proactive and find one near you:
How to call 3 Reps calls a day in less than 5 minutes
To determine my script for calling my Senators and Representative every day, I use the following:
Action Steps from Gnusies
Seven of our Good News writers regularly post a panoply of fantastic action steps in their Good News Roundups. If you don’t see a way to become active that suits your personality, your funds, or your time, please review their most recent diaries for many different options to volunteer and/or donate:
GoodNewsRoundup set up another fundraiser which “splits our donations among the 15 House seats held by Republicans in swing districts. These are seats that were either won by a margin of 4% less and/or were won by Harris in 2024. In other words, these are seats we can win in 2026. Any money you donate will go directly to whomever our candidate will be in 2026. We only need to flip three of these!” [Goodie]
Take the House in 2026: By using ActBlue and not a PAC, GoodNewsRoundup keeps our funds out of the slimy pockets of the Mothership Strategies grifters (in case you have not heard). Her fundraiser allows donors to opt out of sharing personal information with candidates.
One last time: Take the House in 2026!
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Notes on Images
Top Image: Our Starhawk created the above this detailed sketch of a gnu in brown, green, and black on white. A happy and dynamic gnu rises on a hind leg in a classic heraldric rampant stance. Joyful letters prance above and behind the mane: “Happy Dance.” Signature: Nick Korolev, 2021. — Thank you, Starhawk, for our dancing gnu!
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A Little Bit About Me
On Saturday I went to a panel discussion hosted by my county Democratic Party. The 3 Democratic candidates for Michigan Secretary of State presented 5-minute statements and answered questions :
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