Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup, that time of the week when your intrepid GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the fine folk at the GNR Discord) bring you all the good news to start your week off right.
The best good news is from myself: I got that apartment i was shooting for and its gonna be a lot cheaper than I initially thought. I am going in the morning to give them part of the deposit and the first check and fill out the final paperwork. I’m very excited to have my own place again.
And with that out of the way, lets get on with the good news, but first some music. Dig by Incubus
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been quietly disbanded with eight months left in its charter, according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director.
OPM Director Scott Kupor told Reuters that DOGE—the sweeping cost-cutting effort led by billionaire Elon Musk that dominated the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term—“doesn't exist,” adding that most of the office's functions have been absorbed by OPM, the federal government’s human resources agency.
Kupor said that DOGE is no longer the “centralized entity” it once was when Trump appointed Musk to lead the agency in January.
Well, we may still have three years of the orange idiot (at most), but it looks like the chapter has closed on DOGE at least. And what an intensely stupid chapter it was.
Hi, all, and happy Sunday!
You didn’t think I was going to skip this good news roundup just because I’m overseas, did you? I would never! Too much great stuff happened this week— the absolute horrors that also occurred notwithstanding. If we don’t stop and savor our victories what’s the point in working so hard, right?
So take a few minutes to read through all the ways we made progress, scored wins, or saw Trump take losses this week. It’s a long list!
Always happy to promote other good news aggregates aside from us. Good news is best when its shared, as many of you already know.
Thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial calling for Trump’s impeachment and removal on Saturday. The rock band Dropkick Murphys headlined the rally—marking the third consecutive day of major protests against the regime in our nation’s capital.
At the event, Dem Rep. Al Green stated: “I must vote to impeach a president who would put the lives of members of Congress at risk … who doesn’t respect the Constitution … who is devolving our democracy into a dictatorship. He must be impeached. He must be convicted. He must be removed.”
Hey Trump, looks like you got those big crowds you wanted, and they all want you to go away.
Democrat Maureen Rowan has won her race for the State Assembly in the 2nd legislative district, ousting two-term Republican incumbent Claire Swift (R-Margate).
Rowan unseated Swift by 842 votes, 39,444 to 38,601, in the fifth lower house pickup for Democrats.
Swift’s running mate, Assemblyman Donald Guardian (R-Atlantic City), was re-elected to a third term, albeit narrowly. A former mayor of Atlantic City, he had enough of a lead for the New Jersey Globe to call his race last week.
Guardian received 39,902 votes. The other Democratic candidate, Pleasantville Councilwoman Joanne Famularo, finished third with 39,253 — 190 votes out of second place.
Dems are still winning elections hand over fist. This is promising news for next year.
Reform UK’s former leader in Wales Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP.
Gill, a key member of the Ukip and Brexit party groups led by Nigel Farage in the European parliament, had pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery between 6 December 2018 and 18 July 2019.
What, a conservative politician is corrupt? I would have never guessed. ITS SUCH A RARE OCCURRENCE.
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
Larry Wang, CEO of Singapore-based FoloToy, told CNN that the company had withdrawn its “Kumma” bear, as well as the rest of its range of AI-enabled toys, after researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund raised concerns around inappropriate conversation topics, including discussion of sexual fetishes, such as spanking, and how to light a match.
People need to seriously dial back on the AI because this sort of thing is just absurd.
President Donald Trump has declining approval ratings across the board and voters are growing dissatisfied with his handling of the economy, according to a series of recent polls.
I mean I don’t know what people were expecting. Did they just not pay attention during the last Trump term? Like come on, we could have avoided this.
No quote for this one, just another collection of good news stories from this week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a loyal supporter-turned-critic of President Donald Trump who faced his political retribution if she sought reelection, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January.
Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online, explained her decision and said she didn’t want her congressional district “to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for,” she said.
Greene’s resignation followed a public falling-out with Trump in recent months, as the congresswoman criticized him for his stance on files related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with foreign policy and health care.
And Greene becomes the latest person to get screwed over after trusting Trump. You think they would learn by now.
Well, well, well. CNN refused to settle with Trump in his bogus $475 million defamation lawsuit against the network. And guess what? They won. A federal appeals court rejected his attempt to revive the case.
Trump was suing over the fact the channel kept using the term “The Big Lie” when referencing his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A reminder that no one should ever just bend a knee to Trump. Especially not anyone in the news business.
Glad to see some news networks are standing up to Trumps nonsense. The worm is turning.
Now for another musical break: Lady of the valley by White Lion
What has been achieved since 2015?
While climate action overall is critically lagging, there are pockets of striking progress.
Global growth in renewables has skyrocketed, even exceeding the expectations of optimists. Plummeting costs are helping to drive the boom, with investments in clean energy growing and now doubling those going into fossil fuels.
The share of global energy provided by renewables has more than tripled since the Paris Agreement.
In 2024, the world experienced its largest-ever increase in renewable energy generation, which now provides 40% of global electricity. In the first half of this year solar and wind exceeded all demand growth for electricity, surpassing coal for the first time.
Global solar capacity is over four times what was predicted in 2015, doubling every three years. Wind has tripled, according to analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a UK-based non-profit.
Make no mistake, there’s a lot of work still to be done, but progress is being made. We can still make this right.
Walk through any city in the United States, and you’ll find concrete walls and chain-link fences with privacy slats covered in spray-painted graffiti. Sometimes these quirks are a communal display of public art and creativity, but other times they’re just plain vulgar and disrespectful.
What if those walls could be transformed, instead, into a bountiful, bursting pollinator garden?
I mean, I kind of like graffiti (when its like actually art and not just stupid racist crap) but this is a cool idea right here.
However, he added, "when people have lived good lives—many of them for 10, 15, 20 years—treating them in a way that is, to say the least, extremely disrespectful, and with instances of violence, is troubling."
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a "special message" last week lamenting the Trump administration's immigration policies. Pope Leo, who was born in Chicago and spent 20 years as a missionary and bishop in Peru, had encouraged the bishops to produce a strong and clear statement.
Pope Leo making me proud to be a Catholic.
In hindsight, it’s obvious that when Trump demanded that Texas gerrymander five years ahead of schedule, Republicans expected no resistance to their plans. Trump and Republicans thought they could cheat Democracy while the country could only gasp in horror. But instead of an easy win, Republicans instead faced a long string of failures in their attempts to steal the House due to Republicans’ own incompetence, Democrats fighting back, and Republican past gerrymandering biting them in the ass.
Yeah I think the big news this week is that the GOP’s plan to cheat their way to a win in the house has failed miserably, just like everything else Trump and the GOP do.
Five months after a "breakthrough" HIV prevention drug got approval in the United States and became available in many wealthy countries, it's getting rolled out in two African countries hit especially hard by the disease.
On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced that Eswatini and Zambia have each received 500 doses of lenacapavir, a drug manufactured by Gilead Sciences that's been hailed as by Science as a "breakthrough." Just two injections a year provide near-complete protection against an HIV infection.
We may very well be seeing the end of the HIV virus. this is amazing.
For the first time in years, something in the air feels unfamiliar.
The Trump signs that once clung to fence posts and barn doors like permanent fixtures are vanishing.
Republicans are whispering doubts out loud.
Even Congress—yes, this Congress—is fracturing in ways that would have been unthinkable eighteen months ago.
But after a decade of chaos, corruption, and survival by sleight of hand, hope feels dangerous.
It feels… premature.
Still, there’s a shift.
And whether it’s the beginning of a political thaw or just a break in the storm, you can feel it.
I honestly think its the beginning of the end of Trump. The tide is finally turning against him.
And I think that does it for news this week. Now for Pokemon.
And now, the cute corner.
And that does it for this week, see you all next Monday from my new place, and have a happy Thanksgiving
