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Thursday GNR: Dig Harder!! [1]
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Date: 2023-06-29
Haters love nothing better than a Lost Cause, and boy, howdy, do they have a doozy!! They can’t really pwn the Libs, so they have fallen back on Cognitive Dissonance, denying that prophecy has failed, and going bigger and worse in the media. See the latest iteration of the Blasphemy and Mental Slavery Coalition (officially Faith and Freedom) Road to Majority Conference that just wrapped up. Or don’t, if you value your sanity.
For the past twelve years, the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference has empowered conservative activists to fight for their values at the polls and in the public arena. Designed to forge a path toward a pro-family majority, the conference equips attendees with the knowledge and connections they need to drive engagement and voter turnout. This year’s timely gathering will accelerate conservatives further down the road to majority ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
President Biden will be on Deadline White House on MSNBC at 4 PM today for his first live sit-down TV interview, with Nicole Wallace. Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow will join in after the interview for some analysis. We are going to hear a lot about Bidenomics, because
Guess what, folks? It’s working!
My man!
GDP, jobs, unions, renewables up, inflation down. What’s not to like? Unless, of course, you have invested all of your self-worth in denial and rage and hate and being More Equal than others.
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, Jack
Schadenfreude
More indictments and trials coming. More Trumpists, including Rudy Giuliani and some fake electors, cutting plea deals and testifying in full. More of the I-DJT confessing on tape, before witnesses, in New Jersey! while claiming that whatever it is totally exonerates him, and it was, of course, as you know, mere “bravado”. As if.
Rs doubling down on voter suppression, disinformation, Dog Whistles, abortion, drag queens, trans youth, guns, immigrant stunts, book banning, the climate “hoax”, Putin, censuring Adam Schiff, impeaching Biden, crashing the economy in the next budget fight, Soshulizm, Brandon, and above all Wokeness. More bogus moral panics will emerge from their nightmare fever dreams for us to point and laugh at. Now that they are firmly in the minority, every bit of desperation that they pull out will only dig them in deeper with the electorate, and be used in ads against them. Two-thirds of Gen Z is on our side. Rs are doing everything they can think of to drive more of them and everybody else away, other than the diehard White patriarchal reality-denying Christianist Nationalist Supremacists.
Enough! You can hear about all of their lunatic antics anywhere, 24/7, interspersed with Prigozhin et al. Sufficient unto the day is the meshugas thereof. Let’s give reality a break.
It’s a keeper
Regular Good News
We need more of what Biden and everybody in his administration and DoJ and Ds in Congress and We The People are doing than the MSM will let us have. It is up to us, then, to sharpen our Google-fu, go find it ourselves, and share it as widely as possible.
A few items that I have saved in the last few days.
The Dam has Sprung a Leak. More, Please. x A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin’s participation in it disqualified him under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. pic.twitter.com/ShtuxiHjF8 — Allen Marshall (@AllenCMarshall) June 23, 2023 A Trumplican Nightmare from the Past Yusuf Salaam, once a member of the railroaded “Central Park Five”, later the “Exonerated Five”, by DNA evidence, He was also a Trump victim early on, when the I-DJT bought an ad in the NYT demanding a judicial lynching. Currently, Salaam has won a Democratic Primary for the Bronx City Council, which certainly means he will be elected. He was on Alex Wagner Tonight last night. x Yusuf Salaam, a member of the exonerated “Central Park Five”, is on track to win a seat on the New York City council.
https://t.co/B6uZPwgeB0 — The Hill (@thehill) June 28, 2023 Solar Farming x There's a lot but here's one
https://t.co/OrmkMN8KKe — DocValerie (@Doc_Valerie) June 23, 2023 The Helpers Keep Turning Up x A non-profit organization, made up of some 350 volunteer pilots and staff, is helping transport those who need an abortion from states that have made it mostly illegal to states that allow the procedure.
https://t.co/BqoevdfcOf — NBC News (@NBCNews) June 25, 2023 !!!Moar Gunz...Less? Sometimes actuaries at insurance companies are the only people willing to confront reality. When it has to do with potential claims for Real MoneyTM, of course. x Spirit Lake School District (Iowa) was notified by its insurer that the company would not renew its liability insurance if the district allowed employees to carry guns on campus.
After learning that there were no viable insurance alternatives, the board decided to repeal the… pic.twitter.com/Qy5gkIFgzn — K-12 School Shooting Database (@K12ssdb) June 24, 2023 Yes, what could go wrong? Good News Sources
Here is our standard list again. This appears in our enqueued Emergency Potluck GNR for the use of all of our authors.
I sometimes run through all of them and add a story from each one to a GNR, and so it is today.
Civil Eats (good news about food systems, with a lot of warnings)
Absent Federal Oversight of Animal Agriculture Safety, States and Others Step Up for Change
States are extending OSHA powers, overtime, and collective bargaining while labor-driven programs center workers. Future Crunch (based in Australia) Good News on Global Inequality, AIDS in South Africa and Giant Tortoises in the Galapagos Plus, Dolly Parton, same sex marriage around the world, water in Morocco, a plan to save the Amazon, tree cover in Africa and bee protection in New York. Good For All News (Jane Goodall’s site, with hopeful news about conservation and activism)
Preventing Pandemics with Data from the Forests of Gombe
GoodGoodGood (similar to Good News Network)
7 Ways To Avoid Becoming a Misinformation Superspreader
1. Educate yourself
You have me right there.
Good News Network (a wide range of stories, with occasional fluff)
Grocery Carts Can Tell Researchers Who May Be at Risk for Stroke –And 39 Shoppers Were Diagnosed
Ah, yes. Living in the Future.
Optimist Daily (a daily newsletter of good news)
Over-the-counter contraception pills: A radical shift towards convenient contraception
FDA advisory panels unanimously agreed to recommend the approval of Opill (generic name: norgestrel), an over-the-counter (OTC) birth control pill.
Help us break the bad news bias Positive News is uplifting more readers than ever.
Small acts of kindness are frequent and universal, finds study
According to scientists, humans are wired for kindness, irrespective of the culture they’re from or where they live
We also have extensive wiring for empathy, specifically the ability to model in our minds what another person or animal is feeling.
Progress Network (positive opinion pieces and links to good news from all over)
Let’s create the future of our dreams instead of our fears.
Put another way, we could wake up from other people’s nightmares.
What Could Go Right? Beating cancer
With new tools and better data, we're slowly sending a global scourge into remission.
Cancer is hundreds of diseases, in every type of cell in the body. We can prevent many; we can cure many; we can manage many; and many remain as dread scourges.
This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Everyone knows someone who has been touched by cancer. It is a leading cause of death worldwide; in 2020, says the World Health Organization (WHO), one in every six deaths was from cancer. While the number of cancer deaths is rising—around 10 million in 2020—this is due to the world’s ever-rising population numbers. Absolute numbers aside, we are actually making strides against cancer, particularly in high-income countries. Globally, the age-standardized death rate from cancer has fallen by 15 percent since 1990, according to Our World in Data. (Since many more old people than young people die of cancer, the age-standardized rate gauges progress by accounting for the world’s growing numbers of older people.)
Reasons to Be Cheerful (another positive newsletter)
The Mormon Church Is Giving the Shrinking Great Salt Lake a Boost
The church is taking measures to help restore its home valley’s beleaguered body of water. The Mormon Church has begun to take a public stand on environmental issues that affect the Salt Lake Valley, where it’s headquartered. At conferences, bishops have spoken out about the importance of water conservation, including a speech this past spring in which a bishop presented plans to donate church-owned water to the Great Salt Lake. Science Alert
Excellent story below on the gravitational wave background in the Science section.
Everyday Heroes
80-year old asks for donations to charity rather than birthday presents.
Eggs & Bread is a cafe like no other, based in Walthamstow, East London. It boasts ‘the smallest menu on Wood Street’ – only boiled eggs, toast, jam, porridge, tea and coffee are available. It’s self-service too! At the end of your meal, you pay what you like.
Nicoló Govoni is a young Italian journalist from Cremona. As soon as he obtained his degree, he left Italy for India, where he started an orphanage, then went to Palestine and finally to the refugee camp in Samos, Greece and opened a school.
Sheryl Lee Ralph shares how her kindergarten teacher’s sweet gesture impacted her The Emmy-winning actor describes what experiencing kindness from a white teacher meant to her during the early days of desegregation. r/UpliftingNews
3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet gets translated, changes history
They were doing trigonometry 1500 years before the Greeks. "The huge mystery, until now, was its purpose – why the ancient scribes carried out the complex task of generating and sorting the numbers on the tablet. Our research reveals that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of right-angle triangles using a novel kind of trigonometry based on ratios, not angles and circles. It is a fascinating mathematical work that demonstrates undoubted genius." Waging Nonviolence (good news about organizing and activism)
The French villages that rescued thousands during WWII continue to welcome refugees
Wanting to study a place that specialized in peace, anthropologist Maggie Paxson came to Le Chambon — only to discover that its good deeds aren't just in the past.
Yes! (a magazine that emails a newsletter focusing on one or two good news stories)
A Young Person’s Guide to Spotting Fake News
By Project Censored and The Media Revolution Collective As Nolan Higdon notes in The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education, “Fake news is anything but self-explanatory. It extends far beyond news itself and exists in numerous formats such as rumors, lies, hoaxes, bunk, satire, parody, misleading content, impostor content, fabricated content, and manipulated content.” x x Vimeo Video
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
I usually post news about renewables in this section, but I am holding most of them back for a reboot of Renewable Tuesdays, starting next week. I will post links in GNRs, of course. Electric bus funding, huge growth in green jobs, technology advances, politics, the developing world, greenwashing and gaslighting…and a list of the best sources of real information I know about.
Way Bigger than JWST
(And no, it isn’t just the modestly named Very Large Telescope interferometer system, now under construction in Chile, and already producing results.)
From Science Alert, listed above.
The entire observable Universe is humming, and we’re ready to tune in.
A Big Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Coming Thursday. Here's Why We're Excited
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) [has] organiz[ed] a coordinated and global announcement on Thursday 29 June 2023. The update will shed light on research conducted by the International Pulsar Timing Array – a global consortium of gravitational wave detectors: North America's NANOGrav; the European Pulsar Timing Array; the Indian Pulsar Timing Array Project; and Australia's Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. "Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation can provide a wealth of information about astrophysical source populations and processes in the very early Universe, which are not accessible by any other means," explains theoretical physicist Susan Scott of the Australian National University and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.
[See also] the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), set to be launched in 2037.
It's based on the same technology as LIGO and Virgo, but [in solar orbit] with "arms" that are 2.5 million kilometers long. It will operate in a much lower-frequency regime than LIGO and Virgo and will therefore detect different kinds of gravitational wave events.
Caracal Ear Flicks
Tastes Like Chicken—Wait, It Is Chicken!
AP: US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation’s first ‘lab-grown’ meat
It was previously approved in Singapore.
“The most common response we get is, ‘Oh, it tastes like chicken,’” said Amy Chen, Upside’s chief operating officer.
The only downside is that it is quite expensive, and will be in only limited production for some time to come. No retail sales this year. They’re working on that.
Are Pandas Cute or What?
JWST is Still the Bee’s Knees
Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds
Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been [greatly—HT Mark Twain] exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb.
x The “redshift” of a galaxy enables scientists to deduce the galaxy’s distance and age. The redshift of one galaxy observed by JWST shows that it shed its light 325 million years after the Big Bang, making it the earliest known structure in the universe.
https://t.co/0BM3DoETwY pic.twitter.com/oeSwsRZfWB — Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine) June 23, 2023
Too Happy—Cut It Out!
Funny or Schadenfreudelicious
Support your local cartoonists, and the striking writers. And further lawsuits against Fox.
Here is another keeper from way back.
Jesse Watters, oog.
Why TV troll Jesse Watters is a strange choice to replace Tucker Carlson
Fox News taps Jesse Watters to succeed ousted host Tucker Carlson in key prime-time hour In recent years, Watters established himself as one of Fox’s most strident conservative culture warriors.
File that with Vlad the Imploder.
OK, Harry, sing us out.
Hineh ma tov uma na'im
Shevet achim gam yachad. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity! הִנֵּ֣ה מַה־טּ֭וֹב וּמַה־נָּעִ֑ים שֶׁ֖בֶת אַחִ֣ים גַּם־יָֽחַד׃
Psalm 133:1
R.I.P. Harry Belafonte - Hine Ma Tov (live in England, 1959)
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