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The Good News Report
Apr. 5th, 2025 10:58 pm1. The Hands Off Protests - had an estimated turn out of anywhere between 10-20 million. It is estimated the 5 Million people turned out on the West Coast and Big Cities alone, and we already know the East Coast was even bigger - since the biggest turn outs were in DC, NYC, Boston, and Florida, but also in the Midwest - with Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis, not to mention the Southwest. Please believe me when I state that I am not exaggerating when I inform you that every single state, plus the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico came out en mass to protest in HANDS OFF yesterday. Cities, towns, suburbs, and even rural areas - along highways, came out in all the states. Places with just under 2000 residents, came out with over a thousand. People who had never protested in their lives, protested. They did in the rain (Kentucky has had flooding and is in emergency crisis - but protested anyhow, NY it rained most of the day - and was in the forties and fifties, and over 200,000 protested in NYC, and that's not counting the thousands across the state), they did it Vegas, in LA, in Oklahoma City, in Topeka, Kansas, in Kansas City, in Indiana, in JD Vance's home town of Middletown, Ohio, they did it Fort Myers Florida, and in Alabama, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Main, Wisconsin, Arkansas, every single state. They protested and flooded DC. They protested in Canada, and in Europe. They protested in Mexico and the US Virgin Islands.
It was huge.
Hmmm...they even showed up in Conservative Heavy Long Island... Mineola had 2,000 people show up (it has a population of about 4,000 if that).
[See previous post for links]
I told Bro.
Bro - glad someone went, I don't go to protests, I'm too tall - they'd point the laser canon at my head. [Bro also has to stay home with his cat.]
[I didn't go either - I can't handle massive crowds of people. I did the Women's March and decided, yeah, no, not doing that ever again. I'll do other things.]
2. On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services this week, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News on Thursday some programs would soon be reinstated because they were mistakenly cut.
Go Here
3. The list of famous auto industry flops is long and storied, topped by stinkers like Ford’s Edsel and exploding Pinto and General Motors’s unsightly Pontiac Aztek crossover SUV. Even John Delorean’s sleek, stainless steel DMC-12, iconic from its role in the “Back To The Future” films, was a sales dud that drove the company to bankruptcy.
Elon Musk’s pet project, the dumpster-driving Tesla Cybertruck, now tops that list.
AND The just-released production and delivery report was Tesla’s worst in three years. Dan Ives of Wedbush said in a note to clients that Tesla is seeing soft demand in the United States and China, as well as facing pressure in Europe. “The brand crisis issues are clearly having a negative impact on Tesla...there is no debate,” he said. Ives said that Wall Street and analysts alike knew that the first-quarter figures were likely to be bad, but that it was even worse than expected. “We are not going to look at these numbers with rose-colored glasses...they were a disaster on every metric,” he said.
Go Here
4.The global under-five mortality rate has fallen by over 50% since 1990 according to a new report by the United Nations. The report highlights five “exemplar” countries - India, Nepal, Senegal, Ghana, and Burundi - that, despite resource constraints and diverse contexts, have surpassed global declines through a common cocktail of strong governance, data-driven policies, expanded immunization, and innovative health financing.
5. Illinois has returned stolen land to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation The federal government ceded the land to Potawatomi Chief Shab-eh-nay in 1829, but then sold it to white settlers 20 years later. Governor JB Pritzker has now signed a law restoring the 1,500-acre Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area back to Potawatomi ownership. The land will stay open to the public as a park.
6. Thailand prohibits all corporal punishment of children. Thailand has enacted full prohibition of all corporal punishment of children, making itself the 68th state worldwide to protect children from violent punishment. With a child population of 14,131,000, prohibition in Thailand brings the total number of children worldwide protected by law from corporal punishment to approximately 343 million, or 15% of the global child population.
7. California pilots a solar-over-canal system to combat drought. Project Nexus will cover canals with solar panels, generating clean energy while preventing water evaporation. The $20 million pilot follows UC Merced research showing potential for 13 GW of annual energy—one-sixth of state capacity—while saving 50,000 acres of land. There's more solar canals coming, too. Go HERE
8. Research shows that community groups and small farmers restore land 6 to 20 times more effectively than international NGOs or governments and deliver more sustainable and equitable results.From Mexican fishers who have planted 1.8 million mangroves to locals in Guyana that are protecting a rare bird, here are 10 community-led conservation solutions that are working around the world.
9.In the U.K., “Safe Spaces” in banks and pharmacies give domestic abuse victims a lifeline to seek support — and start again. QT gas stations have safe spaces in the US. Signs posted near the pumps and indoors. Ask the managers and they will shelter you and get help.
10. Every generation in the United States has a lower risk of dementia than the last. While previous projections estimated U.S. dementia cases would double by 2050, a new analysis finds that age-adjusted prevalence has dropped by 67% over the past 40 years. If this trend continues, total cases may rise by only 25% instead of doubling.
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It was huge.
Hmmm...they even showed up in Conservative Heavy Long Island... Mineola had 2,000 people show up (it has a population of about 4,000 if that).
[See previous post for links]
I told Bro.
Bro - glad someone went, I don't go to protests, I'm too tall - they'd point the laser canon at my head. [Bro also has to stay home with his cat.]
[I didn't go either - I can't handle massive crowds of people. I did the Women's March and decided, yeah, no, not doing that ever again. I'll do other things.]
2. On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services this week, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News on Thursday some programs would soon be reinstated because they were mistakenly cut.
Go Here
3. The list of famous auto industry flops is long and storied, topped by stinkers like Ford’s Edsel and exploding Pinto and General Motors’s unsightly Pontiac Aztek crossover SUV. Even John Delorean’s sleek, stainless steel DMC-12, iconic from its role in the “Back To The Future” films, was a sales dud that drove the company to bankruptcy.
Elon Musk’s pet project, the dumpster-driving Tesla Cybertruck, now tops that list.
AND The just-released production and delivery report was Tesla’s worst in three years. Dan Ives of Wedbush said in a note to clients that Tesla is seeing soft demand in the United States and China, as well as facing pressure in Europe. “The brand crisis issues are clearly having a negative impact on Tesla...there is no debate,” he said. Ives said that Wall Street and analysts alike knew that the first-quarter figures were likely to be bad, but that it was even worse than expected. “We are not going to look at these numbers with rose-colored glasses...they were a disaster on every metric,” he said.
Go Here
4.The global under-five mortality rate has fallen by over 50% since 1990 according to a new report by the United Nations. The report highlights five “exemplar” countries - India, Nepal, Senegal, Ghana, and Burundi - that, despite resource constraints and diverse contexts, have surpassed global declines through a common cocktail of strong governance, data-driven policies, expanded immunization, and innovative health financing.
5. Illinois has returned stolen land to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation The federal government ceded the land to Potawatomi Chief Shab-eh-nay in 1829, but then sold it to white settlers 20 years later. Governor JB Pritzker has now signed a law restoring the 1,500-acre Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area back to Potawatomi ownership. The land will stay open to the public as a park.
6. Thailand prohibits all corporal punishment of children. Thailand has enacted full prohibition of all corporal punishment of children, making itself the 68th state worldwide to protect children from violent punishment. With a child population of 14,131,000, prohibition in Thailand brings the total number of children worldwide protected by law from corporal punishment to approximately 343 million, or 15% of the global child population.
7. California pilots a solar-over-canal system to combat drought. Project Nexus will cover canals with solar panels, generating clean energy while preventing water evaporation. The $20 million pilot follows UC Merced research showing potential for 13 GW of annual energy—one-sixth of state capacity—while saving 50,000 acres of land. There's more solar canals coming, too. Go HERE
8. Research shows that community groups and small farmers restore land 6 to 20 times more effectively than international NGOs or governments and deliver more sustainable and equitable results.From Mexican fishers who have planted 1.8 million mangroves to locals in Guyana that are protecting a rare bird, here are 10 community-led conservation solutions that are working around the world.
9.In the U.K., “Safe Spaces” in banks and pharmacies give domestic abuse victims a lifeline to seek support — and start again. QT gas stations have safe spaces in the US. Signs posted near the pumps and indoors. Ask the managers and they will shelter you and get help.
10. Every generation in the United States has a lower risk of dementia than the last. While previous projections estimated U.S. dementia cases would double by 2050, a new analysis finds that age-adjusted prevalence has dropped by 67% over the past 40 years. If this trend continues, total cases may rise by only 25% instead of doubling.
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