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Thursday GNR: Are We Having Fun Yet? [1]
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Date: 2023-07-20
Yes, there are still too many paskudnyaks about, but I find that they are sufficiently reduced so that we can enjoy our continued fight for the rights of all, including them. We can point and laugh. We can use their shenanigans in our political ads, and thank them for constantly outing themselves. We still have to fight them in the legislatures and the courts and the media and everywhere else available, but we can and do enjoy being in a solid and growing majority, and gaining important victories every day.
And, of course,
Cry harder!
So that we can sing!
And dance, like gnus out on the veldt with ten thousand close friends.
Sandy Owen - Big Bash Boogie
Regular Good News
SCOTUS Ethics
Senate Democrats announce vote to advance Supreme Court ethics bill A key committee will vote on the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act this month. “Since the Court won’t act, Congress will," Democratic sponsors said. Yes, we know that it will have no chance in the House in this session. We are putting down a marker for 2025, along with lots of other markers. Ohio Ballot Measures
Whomp ‘em! Whomp ‘em good!
x Early voting is underway in OH, in which the state’s radical GOP legislature is trying to eliminate majority rule on citizen-led ballot measures. Join a phone bank 2nite w/ our partner @ActivateVote to reach voters to #VoteNo on Issue 1. Sign up below: ⬇️
https://t.co/6fkgIypAJF pic.twitter.com/b41x5z141e — The Union (@JoinTheUnionUS) July 17, 2023
Good News from MTG at TPUSA!??!!!
Build Back Better is the largest public investment in social, infrastructure, and environmental programs, that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete.
Of course, she says that and much more like it’s a BAD thing:
Brandun Soshulizm Brandun Soshulizm Those People Brandun...
x Caught us. President Biden is working to make life easier for hardworking families.
https://t.co/w0CwdlCfO9 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 17, 2023
And now it’s an official Biden campaign ad.
x I approve this message. pic.twitter.com/f1q5giNM8j — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 18, 2023
Illinois Infrastructure
WREX: Gov. Pritzker announces largest multi-year infrastructure repair program in Illinois history
$40.99 billion will be invested over the next six years to improve all modes of transportation state-wide.
Lightning Round
From our regular sources.
Civil Eats: For Many Kids, a Boost to Summer School Meals Is a ‘Game Changer’
Future Crunch:Good News On Trachoma Elimination, Human Rights in Mexico, and River Restoration in Spain, Plus, crime in New York, AIDS in Namibia, childhood mortality in Cambodia, tree planting in Fiji, nature restoration in Europe and a welcome reprieve for the Amazon
GoodGoodGood: Millions Displaced By War in Sudan: How To Help
Good News Network: Fossil Preserves Dinosaur Being Attacked and Eaten by Mammal as Mudslide Entombs them Both
Optimist Daily: New York fossil fuel plant pivots to offshore wind energy and takes employees with them
Positive.News: Pumping hot: inside Britain’s first heat pump village creates zero-carbon heat network
Progress Network: What Could Go Right? Pouring water on the culture war flames 🏳️🌈
Reasons to Be Cheerful: Rural Drug Courts Are Embracing Medication Treatment for Addiction
Smile News: The World’s Largest 3D Printed Building is a Horse Barn That Can Endure Florida Hurricanes
Upworthy: Couple retires to live on cruise ships because it's 'cheaper than a nursing home'
Metta Center for Nonviolence: A new biography of Martin Luther King for a new generation
Yes!: Reversing the Damage of Cannabis Criminalization
Repellent Rascals etc.
We must be clear. The Ultra-MAGA do not want Congress to do them good. They want everybody in the US harmed INCLUDING THEMSELVES. They just want the rest of us harmed much worse. You can see this in Red state governments, which are routinely at the bottom of the listings for every measure of economic and social welfare, especially human rights.
So don’t try to appeal to their self-interest in any normal way.
x A new CNBC study found America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023 are all Republican-led red states. The study measures quality of life issues, including crime, health care, childcare, as well as inclusive policies on discrimination and reproductive rights. pic.twitter.com/cvxkV6XfJt — Tony - Resistance (@TonyHussein4) July 17, 2023
But you can talk to their Gen Z children. A third of them have come over to us, and continue to do so every year as millions more of them reach voting age. And you can increasingly talk to their wives and elders—some of them. Watch this space.
Indictments!!!
Whenever, wherever, whoever!
x BREAKING: Trump’s attorney makes a HUGE blunder in front of a large conservative audience, accidentally exposes Trump’s role in the “fake electors” scheme that is currently being investigated by Special Counsel Jack Smith as charges against Trump loom in the near future.… pic.twitter.com/ykex2fLy4G — Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) July 19, 2023
NYT: Target Letter to Trump Raises Possibility of Obstruction and Fraud Charges
A person briefed on the matter said the letter cited three statutes that could be applied in a prosecution of the former president.
Conspiracy
Witness tampering
Deprivation of rights
No! Really?
In response to that Target Letter, Republican Presidential candidates are whinging about
a corrupt Federal police state
(Vivek Ramaswamy)
losing the confidence of the American people
(Mike Pence)
and the like.
Well, boo-hoo.
The Wheels on the Bus Come Off, Come Off
I can’t actually give you all of the bad news from the DeSantis campaign this week.
Losing ground against the I-DJT. Running out of spendable campaign money. Firing staffers. FL health administration vacancies, due to anti-vaxxerism. Malaria. AAA out of FL home and car insurance market. CRT. DEI. Don’t Say Gay. War on Woke. Private DeSantis State Guard losing recruits because it’s “too military”. Roads made with radioactive mining waste. The Mouse that sued. Kidnapping refugees to pwn Blue states, with criminal charges filed in Texas.
Karma, of the most vehement sort, the kind that comes to those who deny that karma applies to them.
As Rachel Maddow highlighted on her show on Monday. And in episode 5 of Deja News: Taken for a Ride, about Southern segregationists busing poor Blacks to Librul cities in 1962. Even most Southern Whites considered that to be too cruel. It had to be not just abandoned, but memory-holed.
Maximum Fearful Leaderism
NYT: Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025
The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.
When I get back into the Oval Office, I will totally obliterate the Deep State.
Steve Bannon is still wittering on about his Leninist program of Deconstruction of the Administrative State.
Evan as BLM and Antifa traveled the streets of this country, and burned them to the ground...
Vivek Ramaswamy
x 🚨A whopping 95.8% of attendees who voted in the Turning Points Action conference straw poll said they oppose the United States supporting Ukraine against Russia, Charlie Kirk announced on the stage in Florida on Sunday. @Mediaite.
https://t.co/tMHROwJdn0 — The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) July 17, 2023
I approve this message
Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA in 2012 to channel his racism, misogyny, and hatred of Millennials, now extended to Gen Z.
The ads write themselves. No, it’s better than that. We can just continue to use their videos as our ads, as with MTG above.
The Turning Point Action Conference is one of the regular Wrong-Wing Cognitive-Dissonance-fests which begin from the premise that all of Trump’s losses and all of the evidence that he is a losing loser and they are a shrinking minority are Fake News.
Earlier this week Trump challenger Asa Hutchinson was greeted with boos and chants of “We Want Trump” and “Trump, Trump, Trump”.
HIPAA, SHMIPAA
x Tennessee's attorney general has demanded patient records from a Vanderbilt University clinic that provides gender-affirming care, part of a wider assault on trans rights in the state. @jhollymc of @TNLookout says many trans people "do not feel safe to live in the state anymore." pic.twitter.com/OsnogKW9Uh — Democracy Now! (@democracynow) July 10, 2023
Vanderbilt's Decision to Turn Over Trans Patient Records to the State Sparks Backlash
Well!
🎩 George Takei
Unredacted records, with no opt-out or other protections. Cue lawsuits.
AG Lynn Fitch wants to make info on out-of-state abortions available to Mississippi authorities
Fitch, Mississippi’s first-term Republican attorney general, and 18 other state attorneys general have filed comments in opposition to a proposed change to federal regulations, known as HIPAA, that protects the privacy of people’s health care. Under the rule change proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, state agencies would not be able to glean information on an abortion performed in a state where abortion is legal. For instance, if a woman from Mississippi, where abortion is illegal in most instances, traveled to a state where abortions are allowed to receive the procedure, a Mississippi law enforcement agency would not be able to gather information on the procedure under the proposed rule.
Time for our side to weigh in, in numbers.
Linda!
You're No Good Linda Ronstadt
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Python—Galaxy Song
Is that weird or what?
x These are leaf sheep, and they live in the sea grazing on algae. They retain the chloroplasts in algae and use them to photosynthesise energy from light into usable energy—food. Solar power can keeps it satiated.
Nature is amazing. Protect it.#ActOnClimate #biodiversity pic.twitter.com/dfTeZPmE1S — Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) July 12, 2023
x Earliest Merging Galaxies Discovered in New JWST Photos
https://t.co/ZZmgIzR7Eo — gomaam (@gomaam) July 16, 2023
x A melanistic Fox, one of the rarest animals on the planet. pic.twitter.com/TonsELoTuX — Figen (@TheFigen_) July 15, 2023
We have been neglecting the modestly named Very Large Telescope, but it has been as busy as ever.
x The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and ... —
https://t.co/2eMScJii4j via @ESO — s. rolland 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇸🇩🇪🇳🇱🇧🇪 (@stphrolland) July 2, 2023
You have to click through to see the image with the planets in it.
First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star Captured by ESO Telescope
Well, it was Sunday when he set this off.
Another Object Has Been Found Emitting Strange Radio Signals in Our Galaxy
Called GPM J1839-10, the peculiar cosmic object has been caught flashing out radio waves every 22 minutes.
JWST Just Detected Carbon in The Cosmic Dawn… Before We Thought Carbon Was Possible
Greatly exaggerated. This just means that Population III stars produced and shed lots of carbon produced in the CNO cycle.
We Just Got The First Evidence of Two Planets Sharing The Same Orbit
The system in which the discovery was made is already famous: PDS-70. It was here that we saw, for the first time, direct images of not just one but two exoplanets in the process of forming, baby gas giants named PDS-70b and PDS-70c. Here, too, astronomers found evidence of a moon-forming disk around one of the proto-exoplanets, PDS-70c. Now, a closer look has revealed evidence of something – a blob fainter than the exoplanet – sharing the orbit of PDS-70b. Calculations suggest that whatever it is has up to around twice the mass of Earth's Moon. And while that blob isn't a planet – yet – researchers are excited about its location.
Sixth HIV Patient Declared in Remission "Will Need to Be Watched Closely"
A man dubbed the "Geneva patient" is the latest person with HIV to be declared in long-term remission – however he did not receive a transplant with a virus-blocking gene mutation like previous cases, researchers said Thursday.
He received a stem-cell transplant, but unlike the previous five cases, it was not from a donor with the CCR5 mutation.
x The way he uses his exercise wheel for lazy eating is just… 🥰 and his stare is defiant, not arsed one bit that we caught him doing it 😍
I found my spirit-animal 💜 pic.twitter.com/hQNkUBff0k — JayneH (@Do_Your_Task) July 19, 2023
x Maybe ask the WHO? "All children diagnosed with measles should receive two doses of vitamin A supplements, given 24 hours apart. This restores low vitamin A levels ... Vitamin A supplements may also reduce the number of measles deaths.
https://t.co/zEQWMQruqf — Squirrel Patrick (@PatrickSquirrel) July 16, 2023
Yes.
Vitamin A for treating measles in children
The evidence suggests that vitamin A in a single dose was not associated with a reduced risk of mortality. However, two doses of vitamin A (200,000 international units (IUs) on consecutive days) reduced the mortality in children aged less than two years (RR 0.21; 95% CI 0.07 to 0.66) and pneumonia‐specific mortality (RR 0.57; 95% CI 0.24 to 1.37). Two doses of vitamin A reduced the incidence of croup (RR 0.53; 95% CI 0.29 to 0.89) but not pneumonia morbidity (RR 0.92; 95% CI 0.69 to 1.22), nor diarrhea morbidity (RR 0.80; 95% CI 0.27 to 2.34).
RR is Relative Risk.
x London Faces Measles Outbreak Due to Reduced MMR Uptake. Why are Parents Losing Faith in Children’s Vaccination Programmes?
https://t.co/LGkud5zjjR via @LD_Sceptics — Ivor ‘Roxy Mectin 🏄♂️🇸🇪 (@ivor_mectin) July 16, 2023
x The SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (@cerrotololo) has observed a star system that will one day form a #kilonova, the ultra-powerful, gold-producing explosion created by merging neutron stars.
👉
https://t.co/RSH4gKcRQ5 pic.twitter.com/ay9sW5k8B9 — Erika (@ExploreCosmos_) February 4, 2023
x Best friends
https://t.co/4v0trtaCZg — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) July 16, 2023
Magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Alaska last Sunday.
x LAZY IN THE SUN
ANIMALS RIGHT: NO SUNDAY WORK!!#TwitterNatureCommunity pic.twitter.com/87XrpMVKoF — Splendor at the edge of the forest (@SNewbrunswick) July 8, 2023
x These 'Beach Animals' were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.pic.twitter.com/1m2JvPXUSB — Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 15, 2023
x A raft of hippos cooling off in the heat of the day. At night they walk around on land and feed on vegetation. These animals appear lazy and lethargic but you don’t want to underestimate them. They can move quickly when they want to— and those jaws and teeth are formidable. pic.twitter.com/jnvJbu6G9y — Scott Solomon (@ScottESolomon) July 13, 2023
x Playing with the mind of Physics pic.twitter.com/KaHkzIJE2A — Science (@ScienceGuys_) July 16, 2023
x The way he throws the duck away.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/kAKZGqAm4A — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 16, 2023
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
Support your local cartoonists, the Pulitzer Prize winners, fired by McClatchy, and the striking writers and actors.
x McClatchy will no longer publish editorial cartoons in newspapers as it lets go of three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists pic.twitter.com/XP5Qax80Z7 — The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) July 14, 2023
x Trump always wanted to see Hillary in prison. pic.twitter.com/5smvHTbLD7 — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) July 16, 2023
x “Join, or Die. a 1754 political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin … addresses the disunity of the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War; several decades later, the cartoon resurfaced as one of the most iconic symbols in support of the American Revolution.” pic.twitter.com/t1kXKpFexo — cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) July 19, 2023
x Megyn Kelly ?ed #Trump on his misogyny & he said she was on her period.
Several red states are seeking laws violating ♀️'s privacy 2 get ♀️'s med-records in other states. They want ♀️ in the kitchen.
Dems say ♀️ have a right to life liberty & pursuit of happiness. #DemVoice1 pic.twitter.com/RPwUZflbJz — roger ledbetter (@rogerledbette11) July 18, 2023
OK, sing us out, friends.
Pharrell Williams - Happy (Video)
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