We began posting Good News Roundups (GNRs) in 2017. Our writers collect upbeat news about the nation and world, news that we do not get from down-beating corporate media. Choosing not to flee or freeze, with the help of Good News Roundups we engage (fight). We don’t passively wait for the future to arrive, we invite the future with our actions. At our cores, know that doom-scrolling beats down and inhibits our physical and mental health, so we choose to wash and feed in a flood of good news. You can read more good news by our writers here.
Welcome to this Good News Roundup!
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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.
We bring good news, we celebrate good news, and we create good news. We accomplish the latter in many ways. Our members participate in real-world activities to create justice.
What’s a Pip?
In the Sunday Good News Roundups, we call 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.
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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’s official! Democrat Pulkit Desai, a U.S. Marine combat veteran, has been elected mayor of Parsippany, NJ. He defeated Republican incumbent James Barberio by 77 votes.
- Adam Schiff announced he will attempt to block Trump from receiving a $230 million payout from the Justice Department with a new bill.
- Tesla (TSLA) has fallen 18% since November 3, erasing more than $280,000,000,000 in market value, and is on track for its worst month since February.
- Georgia’s State Election Board agreed to stop conducting its work behind closed doors after settling a lawsuit that revealed members had been using private emails and messaging apps to discuss election rules.
- A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination.
- Democratic Socialist Katie Wilson has been declared the winner of the election for mayor of Seattle!
- PA Governor Josh Shapiro signed a new budget into law that contains over $900 million in additional funding for K–12 public education, an $11 million increase for food security, $193 million per year in tax relief for working families, and more!
- Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tapped Lina Khan to run his transition team! She’s the BEST! That team, by the way, is all female!
- A Utah judge rejected a new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers and adopted an alternate proposal creating a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
- California high school graduation rates and other indicators of success are slowly but steadily improving according to new data released by the state Department of Education.
- After Trump declined to attend, two Democratic governors, California’s Gavin Newsom and New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham, went to Brazil to attend the COP30 summit.
- Thousands of student protesters in Belgrade, Serbia, formed a human shield around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to stop Jared Kushner’s redevelopment company, Affinity Partners, from turning the historical monument into a luxury complex.
- About a week after her arrest, a day care worker detained by federal immigration agents in Chicago was released from custody.
- President Obama surprised dozens of veterans after their plane arrived in Washington for Veterans Day.
- For the first time in decades, the Los Angeles city council overhauled its rent control rules, sharply lowering the annual rent increases facing tenants in one of the country’s most expensive cities.
- A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom. (I’m pretty sure we called about this!)
- South Park is basically devoting their whole season to trolling Trump, and their ratings are way up as a result.
- America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement on Wednesday in support of immigrants, their most forceful collective action yet that rebukes the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.
- Chuck Borges, the former SSA data chief turned DOGE whistleblower, announced he is running to represent southern Maryland in the state’s senate.
- A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court revived the criminal case against six prominent Trump allies who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors amid Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election.
- Three-quarters of Americans support the release of all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case
- Mike Johnson finally swore in Rep. Grijalva, making her the 218th signature on the Epstein discharge petition. A House vote on releasing the files will happen this week.
- A groundbreaking study has discovered that sperm whales produce vowel-like and diphthong-like patterns in their communications, revealing a previously unknown dimension of complexity in their vocalizations.
- Trump got booed at a Commanders NFL game.
- Since launching its own methane-tracking satellite earlier this year, California has helped close 10 large methane leaks in the state. That pollution reduction is roughly the same as taking 18,000 gas-powered cars off the road for an entire year.
- The final count is in, and it’s a flip! New Jersey’s Maureen Rowan ousted a two-term Republican incumbent in deep-red 2nd District State Assembly seat, by just 842 votes.
- China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.
- Catholic sisters just sold land back to a Native American tribe in Wisconsin, the first transfer of its kind.
- Cait Conley, Rebecca Bennett, Maura Sullivan, and Joanna Mendoza, all women veterans looking to flip GOP-held districts next year, launched a group called the Hell Cats, named after the first all-female Marine unit that served in WWI.
- A Baltimore police officer who was seen chasing a person in his police cruiser has been charged with attempted murder.
- In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls.
- A District Judge ordered the release of at least 313 people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement between June and early October.
- 5,000 New Mexico kids enrolled in universal free childcare in the first two weeks of the new program.
- In a huge rejection of Trump, Indiana’s GOP state Senate leader declared the chamber will not convene in December to redraw maps.
- In a move advocates say will reduce utility costs, a federal appeals court just upheld Biden-era emissions standards for commercial water heaters and consumer furnaces.
- House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) will not seek re-election in 2026.
- The Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking to overturn their 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
- Hormone therapies for menopause will no longer carry a black box warning. An FDA official said the warnings are based on outdated science and have discouraged women from taking hormone therapy.
- New Mexico lawmakers approved $192 million in state funding to cover SNAP benefits through January 20 or until federal payments resume.
- In Tarrant County, Texas, Democrat Taylor Rehmet came within three percentage points of winning Senate District 9 — which voted for Donald Trump by over 17 points in 2024 — flat out over his two Republican opponents. He now heads to a runoff with one of them.
- A critically endgangered black rhino calf was born in the wild in Kenya.
- For the first time, Maryland’s school board reversed a local county-level book ban.
- Five and half billion dollars have been pledged at COP30 for a global forest fund to conserve and restore forests.
- Boston’s steam heat system is being transformed into a clean “district energy” system to deliver warmth during frigid winters without release carbon emissions.
- A paramilitary group that’s been at war with the Sudanese military for over two years said it has agreed to a humanitarian truce.
- California returned 17,000 acres to a native tribe and reintroduced elk to the foothills of the San Francisco bay area.
- More than 1,000 unionized workers at Starbucks are now on strike at 65 locations across the country to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company.
- In Oregon, a federal judge permanently blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops in the state.
- A flagship report says the renewable energy supply boom will officially end the fossil fuel era. The International Energy Agency’s flagship report says the rise in low-carbon electricity will make the clean energy transition ‘inevitable’, despite President Trump’s calls to carry on drilling.
- Over 1 million balcony solar panel systems have been installed across Germany.
- A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 44% of Democrats said they were “very enthusiastic” about casting their ballot next year, compared with just 26% of Republicans.
- In Oregon, salmon are making exciting progress in their return to the upper Klamath Basin, with biologists and the Klamath tribes celebrating a series of firsts as salmon reach areas where they have been absent for over a century.
- No Surrender Fund, an “anti-MAGA” group, is airing an ad in North Dakota slamming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for claiming he’s a soybean farmer.
- Back pay owed to federal workers for the time they were furloughed during the government shutdown is expected to land in their bank accounts early this week.
- Dozens of churches in Britain—commonly heated by oil or gas boilers—are currently in the process of installing electric-powered heat pumps as part of eco-minded retrofit projects. Many churchgoers view the schemes as acts of Christian stewardship.
- Key lawmakers say support is building in the House toward passage of the Epstein bill. Up to 100 Republicans, purportedly, could vote yes.
- The 200 federalized California National Guard members sent to Portland, Oregon, and another 200 federalized Texas National Guard members sent to Chicago will return to their home states. The federalized Guard troops arrived in those cities in early October but never deployed operationally because of legal challenges that continue playing out in the courts.
- Trump signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
- As ICE attacks their city, protestors are marching peacefully through Charlotte to say HELL NO. Solidarity, NC!
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.
Gnuville’s Good News on Bluesky™
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, 2 days ago:
Friday, Friday/ Weekend’s he-re...(Mamas and the Papas, right?) Around the Good News Round Up, Fridays usually mean Chloris Creator drives the goats of Good News Stories up into the Alpine meadows. (It helps she spends time in Switzerland.) Then, wafting down the across the mountain avens, the edelweiss, and the saxifrage, comes the Alpenhorn-supported bowl singing that she is conducting, summoning all the Gnusies to the Gnuville Breakfast Chalet.
So the Trinkraum (“drink room”) is offering up hot chocolate, mocha, mocha-cocoa, spiked hot chocolate 16 different ways, …..oh and tea, coffee and mimosas. The Steam Table is doing “rosti” 4 different ways, along with “you name it” off the griddle, from the oven, out of the microwave, or popping from the toaster. Park your walking staff and find a cozy spot for you, your food, your drink and your pixel screen in the Matterhorn Lounge (which has all the furniture on various flat stones, niches and crags so everyone looks scattered on the mountain.) The stories are running like a Swiss watch (natch!) so please, read, rec, comment, ask, reply, digress, ingress, outgress, support, extend, and chuckle…..you know, the famous GNR Interaction Online…..which is why we come here! Thanks again, Chloris, for the Launch.
Science
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies It’s a Revelation - New York Times Gift Subscription
Amazing butterflies, amazing humans.
For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the way to their overwintering colonies in central Mexico.
This long-sought achievement could provide crucial insights into the poorly understood life cycles of hundreds of species of butterflies, bees and other flying insects at a time when many are in steep decline.
The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app ,,, Most monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams, so each tag-bearing migrator making the transcontinental journey is, by weight, equivalent to a half-raisin carrying three uncooked grains of rice. [...]
Tracking the world’s most famous insect migration may also have a big social impact, with monarch lovers able to follow the progress of individual butterflies on the free app, called Project Monarch Science. Many of the butterflies are flying over cities and suburbs where pollinator gardens are increasingly popular. Some tracks could even lead to the discovery of new winter hideaways.
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🎩 to Besame in her Overnight News Digest last night.
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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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:
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A Little Bit About Me
My poll last week showed Thanksgiving is the favorite holiday of 38% of participants. Happy Thanksgiving Week, Everyone! For those who celebrate Thanksgiving, may you find gratitude in all the moments of planning, preparation, cleanup, and enjoyment!
Not many sections this week, since I’m busy with caregiving and prepping for our small-family Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone! Thank you for joining us this morning!
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Thank you for fighting for truth, justice, and Democracy 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. Since 2017, we’ve shared positive news, laughed, organized, resisted, rebelled, revolted without being revolting, relied, rested, mentored, created, crossed rivers, chewed our cud, and laughed. Here’s looking at you, kid, and standing upwind! Beginners, you are cordially invited to comment!
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! Laissez les bonnes nouvelles rouler!
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