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Thursday Good News Roundup: Calloo, Callay! [1]
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Date: 2023-08-17
So much karma on their side, and wokeness on ours! So much screaming! So much that we get to do more of! So much good that we are doing, and planning to do after we win the Federal trifecta next year! So much good electoral news in the meantime! And so much more!
(I went looking, and found more than 50 books attacking wokeness as the greatest evil in, I don’t know, maybe ever. I plan to start seriously on the positive books on wokeness for Readers and Book Lovers next week. I started with The War on "Woke, Inc." and Nightmares of the Anti-Woke.)
The Trumplerwock and his 18 indicted co-conspirators have until noon on Friday, Aug. 25 to turn themselves in, in Fulton County GA. We are promised that they will get the full regular treatment, including mug shots. The posturing and legal maneuvering have begun. But you can read about that all over DKos or anywhere.
Newest Trump conspiracy theory has fans clamoring for a 'mistrial' in Georgia
Trump Stiffed Some of his Co-Defendants (Updated)
Mark Meadows goes Nuremberg defense, claiming he was "just doing his job" facilitating coup
Trump Has Already Violated Judge Chutkan's Order - But in Georgia
The Other 147 “Unindicted Co-Conspirators” per Jack Smith, and
[Mark Meadows] wants the [GA] case moved to federal court.
Same charges under Georgia law, same prosecutors, but before a Federal judge under Federal rules of evidence, and probably no cameras.
AG Fani Willis now proposes arraignments for the week of Sept. 5, and a March 4 trial date, the day before Super Tuesday.
Oh, BTW, how about this?
x BREAKING: Donald Trump is hit with MORE devastating news as Arizona’s Attorney General announces that Trump may soon be hit with a FIFTH criminal indictment over the “fake electors” conspiracy that he masterminded in an attempt to steal Biden’s win.
But it gets even BETTER…… pic.twitter.com/YXFJrlsLYl — Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) August 17, 2023
But enough of indictments. How was your week?
Regular Good News
It’s the one year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden and other Democrats are taking a victory lap.
Civil Eats: As the Climate Crisis Escalates, Here Are 18 Food and Ag Solutions
Future Crunch: Good News on Endometriosis, Poverty in Mexico, and Indigenous Conservation In Canada
Plus, sexy farming, ending witchcraft in Ghana, heart disease in the US, women's rights in Oman, fishing restrictions in South Africa, and land restoration in the Netherlands.
Good For All News:
x Happy #InternationalYouthDay ! Our youth program, @RootsandShoots, started in 1991 when a group of students in Tanzania told Jane about the issues their communities faced. Together they created Roots & Shoots and showed that anyone can make a difference!
https://t.co/OBpskVobsP pic.twitter.com/1RjjNyZ5xM — Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute (@JaneGoodallInst) August 12, 2023
GoodGoodGood: 5 Good News Stories About Happiness
The U.S. has actually gotten happier Before you get too excited, yes, the United States is still working through some major systemic issues, and lots of individuals and populations are suffering at the hands of these issues, but the World Happiness Report shows the U.S. as the 16th happiest country, out of 150 countries worldwide, in 2022. Finland has it all figured out, taking first place again for the fifth consecutive year, but the U.S. has jumped three places since 2021. John Helliwell, a World Happiness Report editor, refers to increased “benevolence and trust” during the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst for these statistics.
That’s in spite of the vast wrong-wing wellsprings of fear, rage, and hate. We outnumber them. Our ranks are swelling, including a third of their children. Their ranks are shrinking, including their oldest cohort dying in a bit more than the normal manner, of covid and despair.
Good News Network: GNN Readers Donate 20,000 Meals to Hungry Kids in Partnership With Nutrition Company
Optimist Daily: The electric bus fleet of Modesto City Schools is igniting a greener future in education
With the introduction of 30 brand-new electric buses in this Northern California school district, Modesto City Schools is embarking on a groundbreaking road toward sustainability. This bold step represents a watershed point in the district’s commitment to establishing a greener, more environmentally conscious learning environment. Modesto City Schools has become one of the first districts to convert 50 percent of its bus fleet to battery electric vehicles with a single purchase, taking a big step toward a cleaner future.
Positive News: The sports club spreading positivity in war-torn Yemen
Progress Network: What Could Go Right? Massive [global] poverty drop
New data show that the change since 2000 is in the hundreds of millions.
Reasons to Be Cheerful: Talk About It: How Climate Conversation Groups Inspire Action
When it comes to the climate crisis, discussion doesn’t just decrease anxiety — it spurs real change, too.
The Happy News: On Instagram
Earlier this year, a team of conservationists from the Government of Chad and the Wildlife Conservation Society released a stunning image (third slide) taken by a remote camera of a healthy female lion from Sena Oura National Park in Chad, where the big cats haven’t been seen in nearly two decades.
The Smile News: Joe Biden’s 23 greatest achievements as president of the United States … so far
“Seriously, it has been amazing to watch the media narrative on the Biden administration change,” Paul Krugman wrote in The New York Times in August. “Just a few weeks ago President Biden was portrayed as hapless, on the edge of presiding over a failed presidency. Then came the Inflation Reduction Act, a big employment report and some good news on inflation, and suddenly we’re hearing a lot about his accomplishments.”
r/UpliftingNews: Massachusetts passed a millionaire's tax. Now, the revenue is paying for free public school lunches.
A new 4% tax on the state's wealthiest residents will account for $1 billion of the state's $56 billion fiscal budget for 2024, according to state documents. A portion of those funds will be used to provide all public-school students with free weekday meals, according to State House News Service.
Upworthy: Women working in Africa’s cocoa farms have received business education programs for 15 years. Here’s how that benefits the entire world.
Nearly 60% of the world’s cocoa comes from both Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, where Barbara and other mothers make up over half of the labor force. These female cocoa farmers shoulder the same physical burden as their male counterparts—all while also running households and paying for their children to go to school. And yet, they typically don’t receive equal income. Nor do they have access to the resources that could help them achieve financial independence. Thankfully, positive changes are taking place. Barbara’s story exemplifies the impact of programs offered by CARE and Cargill, such as Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA), which are small groups that offer low-interest loans to individuals living in poverty, helping them to build savings without going into devastating debt. Through these initiatives, women, like Barbara, are equipped with vital knowledge like financial literacy to improve household incomes, sustainable agriculture practices that improve yields, and nutrition education to diversify their family’s diets.
Waging Nonviolence: What should we do with the perpetrators of the climate crisis?
Chuck Collins’ novel “Altar to an Erupting Sun” raises important questions of strategy in the fight for a livable future.
Yes!: For a Just Transition, Recruit More Women Electricians
The U.S. is finally moving away from fossil fuels, but there aren’t enough electricians to do the job.
From My Home Town Accelera fuel cells power first green hydrogen passenger train in North America The train, the Coradia iLint, started running in June in Canada as part of a demonstration project by France-based Alstom and is expected to take riders on a trip along the railway of Train de Charlevoix in Quebec through the end of September. Manufactured by Alstom, the Coradia iLint uses Accelera fuel cells to power the train and is supplied with green hydrogen from an Accelera electrolyzer, Cummins said. Accelera, which is a business segment of Cummins and is headquartered in Columbus, said the demonstration project seeks to aid the development and marketability of hydrogen propulsion technology in North America. x Canada tested the world's first passenger train powered by hydrogen.
The Coradia iLint train from the French company Alstom has a zero level of harmful emissions. It runs on electricity generated by mixing hydrogen with oxygen. pic.twitter.com/M3hLvR3Gc9 — Sprinter (@Sprinter99800) July 24, 2023
Regular Karma=Finding Out
x The House Judiciary GOP is against Law and Order and is corrupt by ignoring the fact that every witness against Traitor Trump is a Republican while attacking the president's son with no real evidence or witnesses just shows how fake the committee really is pic.twitter.com/DQ0MlgSkdn — karma Is Coming (@DrewTempleton2) August 15, 2023
x HA!
Trump is considering surrendering for his arraignment during the Republican Primary Debate to put the cameras back on him.
Republicans deserve every minute of this karma. pic.twitter.com/wl7aZbOCSB — 🏳️🌈Pam🟧🟦🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 (@pm_mcdaniel) August 16, 2023
Politico, 8/15: Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite ‘momentous’ bid by Twitter to delay, unsealed filings show
Judge Beryl Howell lit into Twitter for taking steps to give Donald Trump advance notice about the search warrant. Is this to make Donald Trump feel like he is a particularly welcomed new renewed user of Twitter? But it took a bruising battle with Twitter’s attorneys in January and February — punctuated by a blistering analysis by a federal judge, who wondered whether Elon Musk was attempting to “cozy up” to the former president by resisting the special counsel’s demands — before prosecutors got the goods.
We know now about the warrant (from before Smith’s appointment as Special Counsel, and kept secret for some time), and Elmo’s ridiculous claims that only he knows how free speech works, and the court battle, but not what evidence Jack Smith’s people gleaned from all of the DMs and notes and deletions. Will will, though. There are hints in his indictment, there will be evidence introduced at trial, and this will all eventually enter the public record.
x THE LORD WILL SPEAK TODAY is trending.
That bein said🤣 pic.twitter.com/hMNXzVmiwf — Teddygram X™️ (@Teddygram62) August 16, 2023
x He will present a Detailed but irrefutable REPORT that the SOUTH won the Civil War pic.twitter.com/ucRY5XQ0Es — Jared Moskowitz 🟧 (@JaredEMoskowitz) August 16, 2023
x BREAKING: Civil war rips through the Republican Party as Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp shreds Donald Trump's frantic lies in the wake of his new historic indictment — infuriating MAGA in the process.
It all started with Trump promising to release a "CONCLUSIVE" report that will… pic.twitter.com/8LxlhQHJYR — Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) August 15, 2023
A former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft
x This is shocking.
Police and prosecutors in the Andrew Malkinson case knew there was another man’s DNA on the victim’s clothes in 2007 – three years after he was wrongly convicted of rape – but he remained in prison for another 13 yrs.
Heads must roll.
https://t.co/6sgFydm6QW — Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) August 15, 2023
x BREAKING: Jared Kushner's $2billion corruption has been referred to the DOJ pic.twitter.com/aTMOlVzr1h — PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) August 17, 2023
Why do we get these stories every day? Why so many police, pastors, priests, politicians...but no drag queens? Why so many child victims and so much kiddie porn?
x Witness breaks down in court as she recalls alleged rape by Pastor Timothy Omotoso🖕🏻
https://t.co/8EFnUxUqT0 — Hollowell(SnakesDontTalk) (@KrishnaKCMO) August 16, 2023
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
Including several notable animal fossils.
x Do you know which is the largest galaxy in the Universe? In comparison Milky way is only 100,000 light years across. Read more about this galaxy here -
https://t.co/dl5TgC5FHt #jwst #jameswebb #galaxies pic.twitter.com/O7Sx6aF66q — Jameswebb Discoveries (@webbdiscoveries) August 16, 2023
IC 1101, a supergiant elliptical galaxy residing some 1.07 billion light-years away in the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster, [is] 6 million light-years across.
IC 1101
The lack of other bright and luminous galaxies other than IC 1101 at the center of the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster suggests that they were absorbed and consumed ("chewed-Up") by the nascent IC 1101. Since the halo is somewhat flattened, the halo most likely retained the distribution of the bright luminous galaxies as they were consumed.[10] The depleted core and other characteristics of IC 1101 such as the halo component and its structure at moderate distances from the center suggest that the galaxy underwent numerous galactic mergers and interactions, perhaps as much as 10, or even more.[5] The smoothness of the halo suggests that it formed early in the history of the cluster.[25][10][28]
500 Million Year-Old Jellyfish–Oldest Ever Found–May Have Swallowed Prey Whole
Burgessomedusa phasmiformis fossils from the Cambrian, found in the Burgess Shale.
x 🪼Meet Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, the oldest swimming #jellyfish ever found in the #fossil record🪼
This 505-million-year-old swimming jellyfish from Burgess Shale highlights diversity in the Cambrian #ecosystems
🧐➡️Read more at
https://t.co/ryq3ngVAIH#taxonomy #biodiversity pic.twitter.com/OJuWG3mmEs — CETAF (@eurotaxonomy) August 16, 2023
x #jameswebb Observation Alert! JJames Webb Telescope's Cosmic Odyssey to Probe NGC 6240 the Starfish Galaxy. Read more here -
https://t.co/Rhyhz1vywO pic.twitter.com/QDKaGphEj7 — Jameswebb Discoveries (@webbdiscoveries) August 13, 2023
James Webb Telescope's Cosmic Odyssey to Probe NGC 6240 the Starfish Galaxy
Oldest bat skeleton ever found by paleontologists finally has a name
x Batty for fossils? This #FossilFriday, meet Icaronycteris gunnelli. This ancient critter’s remains represent one of the oldest bat skeletons ever found! This species lived about 52 million years ago during the Eocene epoch and was discovered in Wyoming’s Green River Formation. pic.twitter.com/NyX2KegMvN — American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) April 28, 2023
The deviance of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete. So comes the latest result from the Muon g-2 Collaboration, which runs an experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Batavia, Ill., to study the deviant motion of the muon. The measurement, announced to the public and submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters on Thursday morning [last week], brings physicists one step closer to figuring out if there are more types of matter and energy composing the universe than have been accounted for.
NOAA. NWS .gov launches new Heat.gov webpage
The Daily Bucket - Friendly Seal's 2023 pup
Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Friendly Seal has a pup this year! Friendly Seal is the name we gave the Harbor Seal we met in 2013.
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
Support your local cartoonists, and the striking writers and actors. And the Memiverse.
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x Judge Chutkan to Donald Trump. 😂 pic.twitter.com/arzj4q39Am — Tony - Resistance (@TonyHussein4) August 11, 2023
Andy Borowitz, that is, NOT the News:
Melania Concerned That Trump Will Be Unavailable to Attend Divorce Proceedings /s
And in that vein:
x Civil War pic.twitter.com/7jcEXHGNSW — Mark my words - Trumps Going to Prison! (@TFGLiedUSADied) August 16, 2023
x OMG, this is HILARIOUS!
Civil War re-enactors don't want any slaves to ruin their play acting.
"We don't represent this part of history." pic.twitter.com/OMlO8xgr9R — BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) August 16, 2023
This one goes under Fuggedaboudit.
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