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Overnight News Digest for November 30, 2022 (Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow edition) [1]
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Date: 2022-11-30
From Nevada to Georgia, it's not over yet!
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and now moi, JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw.
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Georgia Run-off — One week to go!
We’ll lead with a nod to next week’s election, the Georgia run-off to return Rev. Raphael Warnock to a full 6-year term in the Senate.
Wherever you are, you can TAKE ACTION this week to give us some breathing room in the Senate (and make Manchinema less of a progress-blocking chimera)
Here are some links:
I know, you’re thinking “Will one more Senate seat really make that much of a difference?”
Yes.
A 51-49 Senate would give Democrats an outright majority, meaning that Schumer wouldn’t have to negotiate a power-sharing agreement with Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The two parties had to do that two years ago and also in 2001, the last time the Senate was evenly split. Committees are now evenly split between the two parties due to the 50-50 power-sharing deal. This often creates extra steps when a committee vote is tied, forcing Democrats to hold votes on the Senate floor to move ahead with bills or nominees.
And in REALLY fun election news, it turns out that pushing a false narrative when you’re a national media company has real world consequences! “Nobody could have imagined...”
x It’s really mind-blowing seeing the @nytimes—one of the chief purveyors of false/misleading “doomsday headlines” about crime in NY & around country—now reporting on the electoral impact of their own harmful journalism practices. And yet mentioning only other papers & “media.” pic.twitter.com/vWDJgP6e8H — Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) November 27, 2022
How much of a difference? 3,340 votes was all it took:
x A swing of 3,340 votes from GOP to Dem in the 5 closest House races would have allowed Dems to hold the House. — Tom Bonier (@tbonier) November 27, 2022
x The most tantalizing thing here...
Dems could redraw NY11 to take in uber-liberal Park Slope (home to the Lesbian Herstory Archives).
At Biden +17, the new seat would be unwinnable for election denier Nicole Malliotakis (R) pic.twitter.com/C5iqCL5eRT — Brent Peabody 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@brent_peabody) November 30, 2022
And in other election news:
x As it turns out Sam Bankman-Fried was the fourth biggest donor to the Republican Party.
https://t.co/YWvjqplwoP — Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 29, 2022
In happy news, EVs are starting to arrive at the USPS next year (despite the machinations of the fossil fuel lobby that has tried to block them for years, as well as DeJoy)
As the White House pushes public agencies and big business to slash greenhouse gas emissions, it is leaning on the Postal Service to step up the pace to meet President Biden’s directive to ensure all new government-owned vehicles are EVs by 2035. And, after a hard-won $3 billion infusion from Congress to jump-start its transition, the first of the agency’s 34,000 zero-emission mail trucks will begin rolling out next year. Most of those funds, according to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, will remedy a massive and widely underappreciated challenge in the green migration: the arduous and costly build-out of EV infrastructure, from gargantuan new buildings to thousands of charging stations. Some congressional Democrats had hoped he would spend the money included in the landmark Inflation Reduction Act to purchase additional EVs instead. The Postal Service’s more than 217,000 vehicles make up the largest share of federal civilian fleet, meaning any significant progress to electrify it would swiftly advance Biden’s climate agenda. And experts say all manner of government entities — from federal agencies to local police departments — will follow a similar process to move away from fossil fuels. x First of U.S. postal service's planned 34,000 EVs start rolling out next year. Infrastructure to support them in the works. Exciting to see some of new climate law impacts taking form
https://t.co/bYw44x5qli — Fred Krupp (@FredKrupp) November 28, 2022
Hawaii has now got not just one, but TWO volcanoes in active eruption. Pretty cool; pretty dangerous.
Three days since the eruption of Mauna Loa began, the leading edge of the lava flow is now 3.6 miles away from Daniel K. Inouye Highway. It has reached the bottom part of the slope of the volcano and is entering into a flat area. … Hawai’i County Civil Defense Administrator Talmadge Magno said the big operation and concern is residents and visitors flocking to see the eruption on the 60 mph highway. The county is trying to work with land owners and Pōhakuloa Training Area to create an additional viewing area for safety. ...Volcanic gas plumes are lofting high and vertically into the atmosphere. Pele’s hair (strands of volcanic glass) is falling in the Saddle Road area. Hon said the glass particulates are being carried 5 to 10 miles from the eruption. x Vimeo Video
The Reef snapshot: summer 2021-22, quietly published by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority on Tuesday night after weeks of delay, said above-average water temperatures in late summer had caused coral bleaching throughout the 2,300km reef system, but particularly in the central region between Cape Tribulation and the Whitsundays. “The surveys confirm a mass bleaching event, with coral bleaching observed at multiple reefs in all regions,” a statement accompanying the report said. “This is the fourth mass bleaching event since 2016 and the sixth to occur on the Great Barrier Reef since 1998.” It was the first mass bleaching event recorded during a cooler La Niña year.
x 'Devastating.' An alarming report shows coral bleaching has affected 91% of the the Great Barrier Reef:
https://t.co/NjmP2HdXKp
One of the seven wonder's of the nature world is being destroyed before our eyes. We must #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal pic.twitter.com/3B5wYXiZJ7 — Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) November 30, 2022
x Now that the (official) Atlantic hurricane season has come to an end, worth check back to see how the various pre-season forecasts did [spoiler alert--we came closest, w/ a most-likely prediction of 15 named storms; there were 14]:
https://t.co/7QvUB8Cma2 pic.twitter.com/FcDeeWsxDu — Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) November 30, 2022
Meanwhile… Frackers were finally forced to admit that they screw up people’s water systems. It only took
It began with an explosion on New Year’s Day 2009. Soon, residents of the tiny rural community of Dimock discovered dangerous levels of methane gas had seeped into their private water wells. Almost 14 years later, after setting off a series of events that would make the village synonymous with anti-fracking campaigns worldwide, Cabot Oil and Gas pleaded no contest to 15 criminal charges, including nine felonies. It marks the first time Cabot took responsibility for destroying drinking water supplies. The company agreed to pay $16.29 million to Pennsylvania American Water to build a public water system that will provide clean water to the impacted people, along with a pledge the company will cover water bills for 75 years. In the meantime, the funds will pay for individual filtration systems and bottled water.
Why do we have a student debt problem? Because public education used to be free.
x "“There was 130 years of free tuition in municipal colleges in New York. It ended literally half a dozen years after the system finally integrated....That's not just a coincidence.” --Stephen Brier — Louise Seamster (@louise_seamster) November 30, 2022
This will be my only comment tonight on Elon Musk and Twitter (Thanks, Harry Turtledove!)
x .@elonmusk Perhaps I should point you at the Popper Paradox. pic.twitter.com/Jtxlt4XYuq — Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) November 27, 2022
Okay, one more comment — I’ve got to ask: “Just who the hell does Musk think is going to buy Tesla EVs after he ‘owns the libs” who were his almost exclusive supporters? Does he really think his new buddies in the white supremacy/anti-semetic/blow-up-the-planet movements are gonna start lining up to but an EV the way they bought a MyPllow?
I’m sure as hell never going to buy one now, and I know a lot of folks who feel the same.
Like Alyssa Milano:
x I gave back my Tesla.
I bought the VW ev.
I love it.
I’m not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company’s products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t seem to be a winning business model. — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) November 26, 2022
Want to pay your $7 to hike the prized Coyote Buttes North at Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument? Sure, just pay a $9 "lottery application fee." Even by junk fee standards, this is a very junky fee – it's not a fee for paying a fee, it's a fee for the chance to pay a fee. Only 4-10% of lottery entrants get a permit (Coyote Buttes is a very fragile ecosystem and entrance is severely limited), which means that Recreation.gov's rake from this junk fee is about 1,000% of what it actually makes on hiking permits. Well, at least that money is going to Coyote Buttes, right? Preserving the petroglyphs and the dinosaur tracks and whatnot? Nope. The Bureau of Land Management gets the $7 entry fee from the 64 daily hikers who are lucky enough to visit Coyote Buttes. The $14,400 in lottery fees that the day's hopeful hikers pay to Recreation.gov for a shot at a permit all go to a giant military contractor: Booz Allen. I know. What. The. Actual. Fuck. On his BIG newsletter, Matt Stoller explains how a beltway bandit like Booz Allen became the Ticketmaster of America's public lands. The deal started in 2017, when Booz got the contract to build Recreation.gov "at no cost to the federal government." x Nearly all the fees collected to use America's national parks and other public lands go to the military contractor Booz Allen - only pennies go to actual upkeep for the parks.
https://t.co/US1cHLrN6a — Cory Doctorow @
[email protected] (@doctorow) November 30, 2022
Up to a point, the way Medicare has designed the hospice benefit rewards providers for recruiting patients who aren’t imminently dying. Long hospice stays translate into larger margins, and stable patients require fewer expensive medications and supplies than those in the final throes of illness. Although two doctors must initially certify that a patient is terminally ill, she can be recertified as such again and again. Almost immediately after the Asera-Care takeover, Farmer’s supervisors set steep targets for the number of patients marketers had to sign up, and presented those who met admissions quotas with cash bonuses and perks, including popcorn machines and massage chairs. Employees who couldn’t hit their numbers were fired. Farmer prided herself on being competitive and liked to say, “I can sell ice to an Eskimo.” But as her remit expanded to include the management of AseraCare outposts in Foley and Mobile, she began to resent the demand to bring in more bodies. Before one meeting with her supervisor, Jeff Boling, she stayed up late crunching data on car wrecks, cancer, and heart disease to figure out how many people in her territories might be expected to die that year. When she showed Boling that the numbers didn’t match what she called his “ungodly quotas,” he was unmoved. “If you can’t do it,” she recalled him telling her, “we’ll find someone who can.” Farmer’s bigger problem was that her patients weren’t dying fast enough. Some fished, drove tractors, and babysat grandchildren. Their longevity prompted concern around the office because of a complicated formula that governs the Medicare benefit. The federal government, recognizing that an individual patient might not die within the predicted six months, effectively demands repayment from hospices when the average length of stay of all patients exceeds six months.
x The Shell Plastic Plant flared most of the evening last night, Nov. 28, 2022 turning night sky an eerie orange over Beaver, Pa. says #EyesOnShell team member Bob Schmetzer. Shell reported a "malfunction" on its Facebook page. pic.twitter.com/quyo1Pmtr8 — Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (@bcmac_) November 29, 2022
Yep, no danger here:
x “I will not accept that it’s a highly dangerous road”
From ITN archives. pic.twitter.com/snILgnwvPi — Stephen R Jones 🇺🇦 (@Meliden) November 28, 2022
x Photographer uses a gyroscopic camera to capture a video of the earth’s rotation.. 🌎
🎥 IG: brummelphoto pic.twitter.com/76qkENtcew — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 30, 2022
RIP Christine McVie (1943 — 2022)
Along with many of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits, Christine McVie wrote “Don’t Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow”), which became an anthem for the youthful energy that Bill and Hillary Clinton brought to the White House after beating George HW Bush in the 1992 election.
Whatever else happens, always keep in mind that we’re working for the future, while they are working to drag us back to a dead past.
This performance is from Clinton’s inauguration.
“Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow Don’t stop — it’ll soon be here It’ll be here better than before Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone”
What’s everyone up to tonight?
Tell me about the things you’re doing to make tomorrow… better than before.
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