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GoodNewsRoundup brought us this in her Roundup yesterday. It bears repeating.
Mike Madrid, Great Transformation Substack:
I want to offer some perspective.
Every generation of Americans has been summoned to defend the promise of democracy. Some have stood in snow-covered camps with no shoes and no certainty of survival. Others have crossed oceans into fire, fighting for freedom not only for themselves but for the world. Some marched in the Deep South against the racist laws that have scarred us since our founding. And some have stood their ground at home, marching, organizing, speaking up, so that our institutions might endure and our ideals might live.
Now, it is our turn.
Our moment may not look like Valley Forge, Gettysburg, or Omaha Beach. We are not dodging bullets or charging trenches.
But make no mistake, we too are in a war for democracy. It is a different kind of battle, fought not with muskets and bayonets, but with ballots and truth, with civic engagement and institutional defense. The stakes, while less visible than physical combat, are no less meaningful. If we fail to engage, if we lose faith in truth or drift into apathy, the American project, the promise that people can govern themselves, will erode from within. This bloodless war may be quieter than its predecessors, but defeat for our freedoms and our Constitution would be no less final.
Let us be clear-eyed: we are not asked to cross icy rivers or charge into enemy fire. We are asked to vote, to speak, to organize, to protest, to resist authoritarianism not with muskets or tanks, but with conviction and clarity. It is not glory we are called to, but responsibility.
To believe that our time is uniquely cursed is a form of arrogance. We are heirs to people who endured far worse and prevailed. But to believe that democracy will survive without our effort is a form of delusion.
This nation has survived civil war, global war, economic collapse, racial injustice, and constitutional crisis. It has done so not by accident, but because enough people, sometimes just barely enough, rose to the challenge.
We must do the same.
This is a moment of choosing. Between fact and fiction. Between hope and fear. Between democracy and something much colder.
Let us be worthy of the moment. Let us honor Washington's quiet plea for courage, Lincoln's call to finish the work, and Eisenhower's faith in ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Today, fear has gripped millions of Americans, but the moment must be met with catalyzing action, not paralysis. Turn fear into righteous anger. Do not let it leave you frozen.
The cause of liberty has always depended on imperfect citizens rising to perfect occasions.
Now it depends on us.
What’s a Pip?
In the Sunday Good News Roundups, we post a brief note about a Good News item, a pip (a small seed), which could be a phrase or a sentence or two with a link. A section includes more information about a Good News item, usually an excerpt, occasionally a comment. Some Sundays bring no sections at all, only pips.’
How to read pips: Slowly and with pauses. 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. Smell and sip your beverage, nibble on a bit of food, look out the window, discuss with a companion, make a note to discuss it with or email it to a friend.
Poll #1: Who Won the Week?
ICYMU: This Week in Gnuville
In case you missed us: Miss a day or two? Need more Good News? Need a respite from ruin scrolling? New to Good News Roundups? Kicking doom scrolling out of your life?
Sunday the 23rd dawns upon us. This year, the 23rd is a mere 5 days until the Great American Gathering unto Turkey and all the Trimmings Day…...complete with out-of-town relatives and family connections in frequent cases. Thank you each and all for taking a break from a) starting to thaw the turkey, b) fretting about politics around the table (a serious concern for many) and c) getting enough fixin’s ready in order to serve pumpkin pie slices UNDER the home made whipped cream (which is REQUIRED to hide any vestige of the slice being visible-----you know, just like the Pilgrims did it…..)
In order to pace ourselves for what can be a good but trying week, you have come by the Gnuville Breakfast Brunch for…..a break! OK, you’ve got it: there are all sorts of stories, comments, recs, click-links, replies and chuckles here, and while often political, mostly served up (this morning by 2thanks) with positive, uplifting, affirming stories. It is good for us to NOT consume a steady diet of doomer-ism and corporate media, so please, come in. Find a sofa, recliner, wingback, ottoman for the feet, a rocker, or even a hammock here in the Lets Exhale Together Lounge. Tune in the WiFi, and beckon (beckon, I say!) one of the Brunch staffers for your drink order (coffee, tea, mocha, mimosa, margarita) and your Sunday Morning Breaking of the Overnight Fasting Meal.
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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.
- It appears that U.S. Border Patrol has ceased its “surge” operations in Charlotte. They did a lot of damage, but the courageous and fierce response by Charlotte residents very likely shortened their stay…and saved lives. BRAVO!
- After massive public pushback, the village of Palmyra, WI, announced it will no longer pursue a partnership with ICE.
- Federal prosecutors will dismiss charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago. (Yes, SHE was charged. Go figure.)
- Greystar, the largest landlord in the country, agreed to pay $7 million to settle a lawsuit over using software that incorporates non-public data from other landlords to set higher rents.
- Pope Leo isn’t letting up about the treatment of migrants. Good!
- An ICE agent is facing felony assault and child endangerment charges in Riverside County after being caught on camera detaining a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint.
- Home Depot is on the defensive about their association with ICE as boycott calls grow louder.
- Three years after its ‘radical ownership’ restructuring, Patagonia has given another $180 million to nature.
- More than 30,000 students in Charlotte, North Carolina were absent from school on Monday in protest of ICE’s presence in the city and the deportations of their classmates.
- 13,000 square miles of Gabon’s Congo Basin rainforests will be protected under a recently signed landmark deal.
- The House and Senate voted to force the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Finally! And the bill has been signed by the President. It means the DOJ now has 30 days to release the files.
- A growing number of ‘repair cafes’ are popping up around the world to curb consumer waste.
- Trump’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest level since January 6.
- A report found that renewables could increase developing countries’ GDP by around 10% in 25 years.
- Four years after the European Union banned neonicotinoid use in fields, France’s population of insect-eating birds has increased by 2%-3%.
- Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air.
- Siembra NC hosted a “Safe to Work, Safe to School” training at a church in Charlotte. Over 1000 people registered—they had to turn people away!
- The House Ethics Committee is investigating Republican Rep. Mike Collins, a leading Senate candidate in Georgia, and his top aide Brandon Phillips. Not sure what for yet but it can’t be good.
- Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given millions of dollars in no-strings-attached gifts to tribal colleges. It’s apparently been a game-changer for them.
- A company that sought a data center development in Kalkaska County, MI announced it is dropping the plan after clear opposition from the community.
- In an announcement at COP30, Germany said it’s committed to contributing €1 billion ($1.15 billion) over the next decade to Brazil’s new global rainforest fund.
- According to a new Fox News report, 76% of voters view Trump’s economy negatively.
- A global survey found 41 percent of electric vehicle drivers would avoid Tesla for political reasons.
- Trump is facing pushback from his own party in Indiana as he threatens Republicans who refuse to go along with his election rigging plans
- A significant victory in South Carolina—SB 323 failed to advance out of the Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee. This dangerous bill would have imposed the harshest total abortion ban in the country while further stripping South Carolinians of essential reproductive health care.
- Santa Fe passed a new ordinance that will calculate minimum wage based not on the Consumer Price Index alone, but on the cost of housing, too.
- A mass coral spawning event is opening a critical window for reforestation work on the Great Barrier Reef.
- Students will get free tuition at Johns Hopkins University if their families make $200,000 or less.
- In a clinical trial, a tiny drug-releasing implant wiped out bladder cancer in 82% of patients. The new therapy is the most effective one reported to date for the most common form of bladder cancer.
- New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is seeking a federal trial for a charge he was hit with during an act of civil disobedience against immigration agents inside 26 Federal Plaza in September — rejecting an offer to drop the case.
- Democrats reached their largest lead in decades on the generic Congressional ballot.
- Target reported sales dropped during its latest quarter. In fact, CNN thinks Target “may have hit rock bottom.” (We’ll see.)
- A Tennessee judge blocked Trump’s use of the National Guard in Memphis.
- A US Judge upheld a New York law barring immigrations agents from courthouses.
- Zelensky announced that Ukraine will acquire 100 Rafale jets made in France.
- A New Orleans man who spent three decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated was just elected as the city’s chief record keeper.
- Energy and environmental groups are suing the Trump administration—again! This time, the lawsuit is a direct response to the cancellation of nearly $7.6 billion in grants for clean energy projects in blue states, which the plaintiffs assert is politically motivated and violates the First and Fifth Amendments.
- California has reached 16,942 megawatts of available battery storage — about one-third of the estimated capacity needed to reach its goal of 100% clean energy by 2045.
- Lula stared down Trump and scored a tariff victory for Brazil.
- South Korea will shut down all of its coal power plants by 2040 as it commits to “accelerating a just and clean energy transition,” the country’s climate minister says.
- After a massive public backlash over the Coast Guard’s proposal to declassify Swastikas and nooses as hate symbols, the leader of the Coast Guard announced that the changes would not be going into effect after all. Nice job, y’all!
- A new American Research Group poll shows just 35% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 62% say they disapprove.
- Trump met with Zohran Mamdani, and to say that it went well for Mamdani—and therefore New York City as well—is an understament. (See the photo above.)
- A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt its National Guard deployment to Washington DC while a lawsuit over the matter plays out in court.
- A judge ordered the release of more than 300 people detained by the federal government as part of the ICE operations being conducted in the Chicago area.
- Voters now rate the economy worse than they did under Joe Biden. (Not good news, necessarily, but bad for Trump, so sort of good).
- A federal judge ordered some public school districts in Texas to remove Ten Commandment displays from their classroom walls by next month, a victory for families who had argued that the posters infringed on their religious freedom.
- The House unanimously voted to claw back language in last week’s government funding bill that could award some GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for having their phone records searched as part of the January 6 investigation.
- NPR secured a legal settlement restoring a multimillion-dollar contract that was revoked under pressure from the Trump administration.
- For the first time ever, American car companies will soon be required to test vehicle safety using dummies that are representative of women.
- Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison is launching what he calls a seven-figure campaign aimed at “expanding the map” for Democrats in rural areas and small towns that tend to be friendly to Republicans.
- Oversight Committee lawmakers subpoenaed major financial institutions linked to Epstein: JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, which have been accused of funding the sex offender’s exploits long after he was convicted in 2008.
- A federal judge plans to ‘promptly’ move ahead with an effort to find out which Trump administration officials were responsible for flouting his orders in a high-stakes immigration case – and whether they will face punishment for their actions.
- Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, in a new deal formally approved by a federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.
- A federal appeals court panel rejected an effort by Trump to revive a “meritless” lawsuit against CNN for the network’s use of the term “Big Lie” to describe his false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.
- John Oliver launched a ‘Last Week Tonight’ auction, including an original Bob Ross painting, to support public broadcasting.
- In NYC, Met Museum employees have petitioned to create a union. The proposal, for a union to represent nearly 1,000 employees, would make the Met one of the largest unionized museums in the country.
- The Washington Post’s editorial board blasted Trump for comments dismissing the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a Tuesday meeting with Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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.
Regular Good News
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:
Sunday the 23rd dawns upon us. This year, the 23rd is a mere 5 days until the Great American Gathering unto Turkey and all the Trimmings Day…...complete with out-of-town relatives and family connections in frequent cases. Thank you each and all for taking a break from a) starting to thaw the turkey, b) fretting about politics around the table (a serious concern for many) and c) getting enough fixin’s ready in order to serve pumpkin pie slices UNDER the home made whipped cream (which is REQUIRED to hide any vestige of the slice being visible-----you know, just like the Pilgrims did it…..)
In order to pace ourselves for what can be a good but trying week, you have come by the Gnuville Breakfast Brunch for…..a break! OK, you’ve got it: there are all sorts of stories, comments, recs, click-links, replies and chuckles here, and while often political, mostly served up (this morning by 2thanks) with positive, uplifting, affirming stories. It is good for us to NOT consume a steady diet of doomer-ism and corporate media, so please, come in. Find a sofa, recliner, wingback, ottoman for the feet, a rocker, or even a hammock here in the Lets Exhale Together Lounge. Tune in the WiFi, and beckon (beckon, I say!) one of the Brunch staffers for your drink order (coffee, tea, mocha, mimosa, margarita) and your Sunday Morning Breaking of the Overnight Fasting Meal.
Thank you for coming by with your thoughts, ideas and uplift to and for others here.
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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🎩 to elenacarlena who inspired this section. She also suggested starting with a very brief kosmail, and, if that one goes through, add text of greater length as a reply. But always keep a copy!
I should probably make “Solving Kosmail Issues” a diary.
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:
- 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 and 5th alamancedem.
- Thursdays: Mokurai: GNR on Bluesky: Authors Starter Pack.
- Fridays chloris creator.
- Saturdays GoodNewsRoundup, the one and only!
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How to Resist: Do Something …
”Build your communities,” said Kamala Harris
A Cascade of Protests. Be proactive and find a nonviolent protest 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:
Take the House in 2026!
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Win the Majority in 2026!
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A Little Bit About Me
Thanksgiving Week: We came, we saw, we celebrated! It was a week full of Thanksgiving for me! I hope your week was as wonderful as mine. Visiting Gnuville is necessary every day for many of us, and I can't imagine life without Gnuville: Good News, Camaraderie, and Action Steps! Thank you, my friends! 💙
A Little Bit About Us
GNR Authors have been busy behind the scenes this week, thinking, planning, and making decisions about how our Roundups could be better, how we could do a better job of bringing Good News to Gnuville. We are very grateful for the dozen authors who participated! More next week.
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