r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/blankpaper_ • 13h ago
Hopium Wins this week
A lot of positive things happened this week! In an attempt to push back on some of the doomerism in here, I was hoping to compile a list of maybe 10-15 good things and ended up with over 50 because I kept finding more and more stuff (and there’s more, I just got tired of listing things lol)
Election results - Susan Crawford won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election by 10 points. The court retains a 4-3 liberal majority, and it shows other republicans that Elon’s involvement may be a liability - Florida special elections for district 1 and district 6—although republicans kept those two seats, the margins were cut in half. They were both about R+30 in November and down to about R+15 this week. Gay Valimont flipped Escambia county, which has been red for decades - Democrat John Laesch beat the republican incumbent in the Aurora, IL mayoral race - Winnebago County, Wisconsin—flipped the county executive seat to a dem - Wisconsin superintendent of instruction—democrat won against a republican backed by DOGE and Moms For Liberty - Dems won every partisan race in DuPage County, IL - Dozens of township elections in IL flipped power to dems, some of which had never before elected a dem
Legal stuff - The Democratic Party is suing the Trump administration over his EO to control elections. Named plaintiffs are Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, the DNC, DGA, DSAA, and DCCC - Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over his EO to control elections - WA and OR filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over the election EO - Judge ruled that Pennsylvania has to count undated and incorrectly dated ballots - Judge ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute anyone for helping women travel to other states for abortion care - The New Civil Liberties Alliance (right wing group) is suing Trump, saying that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn’t give him power to impose tariffs - Judge denies DOJ effort to move Mahmoud Khalil’s case to Louisiana, it stays in New Jersey - Judge ordered Trump admin has to bring back Abrego Garcia from El Salvador - Tufts University filed a declaration in federal court supporting Rumeysa Ozturk’s release (first time a university has done so for a detained international student) - Judge denies DOJ effort to move Rumeysa Ozturk’s case to Louisiana, moves it to Vermont instead
Republicans breaking ranks - 9 House republicans sided with dems to force a vote on proxy voting, causing Mike Johnson to shut down the House and cancel all votes for the rest of the week - Anna Paulina Luna left the Freedom Caucus - 4 Senate republicans voted with dems for a resolution to undo the tariffs on Canada - A bipartisan bill was introduced by Chuck Grassley and Maria Cantwell to require congressional approval for tariffs - Republican representative Don Bacon said he plans to introduce a bill that mirrors the bipartisan Senate bill to reclaim Congress’s authority over tariffs - Rand Paul gave a half hour speech on Trump’s tariffs being an unconstitutional abuse of executive power - Other senators criticizing the tariffs: Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Thom Tillis - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be looking to quit soon - Republican senator James Lankford said it’s “entirely appropriate” for an investigation into Signalgate
Dems doing stuff - CORY BOOKER 👏 broke the record for longest Senate speech, knocking segregationist Strom Thurmond out of the top spot. He read letters from constituents, bringing their voices to the Senate floor, and talked about all the horrible things the Trump administration is doing, getting it all on record - Ruben Gallego is putting a block on all VA nominees until they reverse their gutting of the VA - Adam Schiff is putting an indefinite hold on Ed Martin’s nomination - Senate democrats created a Social Security war room - Adam Schiff announced that dems (led by him and Jamie Raskin) will hold a shadow hearing to question ousted DOJ officials on Monday - Georgia democrats staged a walkout in protest of anti-trans bills - Gavin Newsom is pursuing trade agreements with other countries to spare California from retaliatory tariffs - Obama spoke out against Trump - DNC Chair Ken Martin launched “People’s Cabinet”—experts in different policy areas to cut through Trump’s lies and speak directly to the people
New bills - Andy Kim, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff introduced a bill to require security training for those with high level security clearance - Mikie Sherrill introduced a bill to require Elon and his team to pass a drug test in order to continue government work - Sarah Jacobs introduced a bill to defund DOGE
Elon’s L’s - Trump told his inner circle that Elon’s on his way out soon - Tesla sales fell 13% in Q1 - Tesla stock is down 43.5% since inauguration - The EU is preparing penalties of $1B against X for failure to combat illicit content and disinformation - EU officials are building a case that X’s failure to moderate content has made it a “hub of illegal hate speech, disinformation and other material that is viewed as undercutting democracy across the 27-nation bloc”
Misc - The Pentagon is launching an investigation into Hegseth for Signalgate after receiving a joint letter from the chair and ranking member of the senate armed services committee (Republican Roger Wicker and Democrat Jack Reed) - The White House cancelled all tours on 4/5 in anticipation of protests - RFK stated that HHS will be reinstating programs and employees that were cut by mistake - San Francisco to begin issuing speeding tickets based on income. Low income people are eligible for further discounts or to pay it off via community service - LA city council unanimously passed a motion for a study of independent Know-Your-Rights training, paid time off, and fair scheduling for the CA Fast Food Workers Union - GOP pollster Frank Lutz praised Cory Booker’s speech and said it puts him in a leading position for 2028. He also said if you ask senate democrats right now who they’d want as party leader, they’d choose Booker over Schumer
Other resistance - Thousands of people went to the Capitol in Utah for trans day of visibility and unfurled the world’s largest trans flag, in response to Utah outlawing pride flags in schools and government buildings - Students at the University of Minnesota held a protest to demand their school become a sanctuary campus - Two more associates left Skadden over the firm’s capitulation to Trump, their resignation letters are public - Celebrities and fashion houses put together a trans-led runway show as a fundraiser for the Trans Justice Funding Project
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u/renla9 12h ago
Great Post
I'm definitely feeling a lot more positive after this week.
As painful as it is I think the stock market crashing will be the point where we start to see more Republicans break ranks. If Trump sticks to his guns and the market keeps dropping imo he'll be gone somehow within 3 months
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u/Count_Bacon 1h ago
Honestly it's our best hope he's starting to fuck with rich peiples money now and that's the rule for these elites you don't mess with the rich money
What I'm concerned about happening is that he keeps losing support and power. If it's looks like it's about to completely unravel i wouldn't put it past trump and the heritage foundation to stage a false flag attack. Like nuke an American city level so they can declare martial law and take all power
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u/lolololcity 6h ago
Thank you so much! I think I've developed an addiction to reading the news just hoping I will find nuggets like this. You saved my brain!
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u/Gh0stf0xy 11h ago
Yesss, the good stuff you announced in the Daily Discussions thread, thank you so much! Put that hopium right into my veins, I love it! This, along with Kamala basically going "I told you so" at the Leading Women Defined Summit, is something i desperately needed.
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u/mystifyingfermi 7h ago
Thank you! It’s easy for the good things to get lost in the noise so this was very helpful. A week let post like this would be very welcome!
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u/strange-vida 8h ago
Thank you. I needed some good news all in one list to really feel good things are still happening and building. Do you put out a “Wins this week” post regularly?
Can anyone recommend an email newsletter or subreddit that puts out a list of positive news each day or week? And ones that put out a list of the things Trump and Republicans are doing each day or week for times I do not scour the headlines? It gets exhausting.
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u/Sherd_nerd_17 6h ago
The Dworkin Report! I just signed up and get, “good news that’s bad for [felon] and [tfg] regularly- every single day or every other day, I believe:
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web
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u/fallingoffofalog 3h ago
Chop Wood, Carry Water on Substack focuses on positive things. It's been a lifesaver for me lately.
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u/blankpaper_ 3h ago
I really like Ariella Elm for positive news. I follow her on tiktok and instagram but I think she has a substack too
Someone else mentioned amandasmildtakes and I second that one. She’s on Instagram and tiktok, she posts weekly recaps of Trump’s losses and in between that she posts a lot of really levelheaded takes on stuff to talk people down off the edge. I think she downplays things a little too much sometimes, but it’s a welcome change from the doom and gloom worst case scenarios that are everywhere else
For normal news (the mostly bad stuff), https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com does a daily recap and has an email newsletter you can sign up for. They do a “today in one sentence” summary that’s basically a list of headlines, and then below that they have summaries of each story and links to multiple news sources for them. It makes it easy to have a basic top-level awareness of what’s going on, or dig deeper if you want to
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u/jd2004user 4h ago
I very much believe success criteria should be decided beforehand. Before the Florida election a win was considered the success criteria but after that didn’t happen the tune was changed to “look how we closed those margins!!”
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u/blankpaper_ 13h ago
I have every intention of blocking anyone who wants to pop in here and complain that ALL OF THIS is meaningless btw