Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup, where we of the GNR newsroom (myself, Bhu and Killer300) bring you the good news to start your week off the right way, straight away.
I have some personal good news in my life, I think I might have finally secured an apartment to stay in for myself, I only need to go to the doctors and get official diagnosis for my autism in order to qualify and then I am in. Fingers crossed!
So that covers what passes for admin in this clown show, lets get down to business.
We usually don’t do videos here, but I think this one is worth sharing and my peers agree. We do have the power to fix climate change.
Speaking of:
“I refuse to write off or write an obituary for something that’s still alive,” Gill told The Associated Press, referring to the Earth. “We are not through a threshold or past the threshold. There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.”
“It’s really, really, really hard to walk people back from that ledge,” Gill said.
Doomism “is definitely a thing,” said Wooster College psychology professor Susan Clayton, who studies climate change anxiety and spoke at a conference in Norway last week that addressed the issue. “It’s a way of saying ‘I don’t have to go to the effort of making changes because there’s nothing I can do anyway.’”
I think its important to remember that even the very worst case scenarios of climate change do not result in the end of life on earth, and definitely not the end of humanity. Like it will be bad, don’t get me wrong, but its not “We’re all gonna die” bad. That being said, lets make sure we fix it before it does get too bad though.
A new, assertive feminist movement has swept Pakistan in the past five years. Led by a younger generation of women, it is confronting entrenched patriarchy in the country and demanding radical reforms to protect the rights of other marginalised communities and gender minorities.
As I’ve said before, all over the world young people are standing up for their rights, and its amazing and inspiring to see.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon cannot argue at his trial that he is not guilty of contempt of Congress because he was following the advice of his lawyer, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said such a defense is not available in a contempt of Congress case, dealing Bannon’s defense a major setback. He faces trial in July.
Hey, remember when everyone was terrified of this man sized pimple on the back of the universe? Yeah me neither.
Jeff Bezos has been brought back down to Earth. No boss is invincible. The workers at Staten Island’s JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center proved it by beating the massively rich and powerful corporation 2,654 to 2,131 in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election on April 1. Meanwhile, a rerun election campaign by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala. facility remains too close to call when challenged ballots are considered. That the workers in Staten Island organized themselves into an independent Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is profoundly heartening and begs for some introspection from labor leaders and organizing directors. Maybe, just maybe, workers are ready to organize on a massive scale. What are existing unions doing to make the most of the moment?
So, big takeaway here: AMAZON HAS A UNION NOW! Good for them. Hopefully this will catch on elsewhere and we will see a return of unions mattering in America.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov briefly admitted Thursday that Russia had suffered “significant” losses of its troops in Ukraine, calling the losses “a huge tragedy” for the country in an interview with Sky News.
Yeah it seems that things are not going well for Russia either. Its really amazing to me that Russia failing this bad. I mean you think at the very least a wannabe strongman like Putin would at least keep his military in top shape, but he can’t even manage that. I think maybe Putin should have retired like the rumors said he was gonna do in 2020.
A federal judge signaled Friday that she’ll likely allow a group of Georgia voters to move forward with their constitutional challenge against GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, which claims she can’t run for reelection because she aided the January 6 insurrectionists.
Federal Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District of Georgia said during a lengthy hearing that she has “significant questions and concerns” about a recent ruling in a similar case, which blocked the same challenge against Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a North Carolina Republican.
The GOP seem to think they can just ignore laws with impunity. I think its time to bring them down to earth.
Maryland enacted the most sweeping change to its abortion laws in three decades on Saturday, as Democratic state lawmakers overrode Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto.
The new law puts Maryland at the vanguard of abortion rights nationwide, expanding access and requiring most insurance policies to cover the entire cost of the procedure. The state is among a small minority to advance abortion protections this year as many rush to pass restrictions in case the Supreme Court strikes down the right to abortion.
Good for Maryland, while the GOP in Texas are fighting to take away abortion, its nice to say that in other places access to it is being expanded despite the GOP’s attempted interference.
The so-called “salmon-rice project” began a decade ago, when a motley group of scientists, rice farmers and conservationists joined together to answer a simple question: if they were to flood rice fields with water from the Sacramento River — effectively mimicking the region’s original ecological rhythms — would juvenile salmon take to the fields and grow?
Its always nice to see that what was damaged can be restored. We can’t fix everything done to the world, but we can do some things.
Late Saturday evening, former President Donald Trump officially endorsed his old TV pal Dr. Mehmet Oz in the raucous Republican U.S. Senate primary race in Pennsylvania.
In doing so, Trump, while speaking at a rally in North Carolina, ignited fury and ridicule among some of the loudest voices in Trumpworld.
At issue among Trump’s most fervent supporters is the belief that Oz, a Turkish-American TV physician who has hobnobbed with Hollywood’s elite and has flip-flopped on the issue of abortion, isn’t a trustworthy “America First” Republican candidate, compared to fellow candidate Dave McCormick, who has ex-Trump administration official Hope Hicks by his side. (Another Trumpworld stalwart, Stephen Miller, stopped all involvement and employment with the McCormick campaign after Trump’s Oz endorsement, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast after this story was published.)
And once again Trump pisses off his base. honestly when will they learn? Trump was never on their side, he’s a lying sneaking con man whose only out for himself.
And on that note we must bid adieu to the good news roundup for this week. We had a lot of good stories, and I hope you all feel a little bit better about the state of the world because of it.