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My FRIDAY 11/10 Good News Roundup: Remember There are More of Us [1]
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Date: 2023-11-10
Not only are there millions more of us, but we are gaining voters while the other side loses them steadily, by mostly normal death among their elderly, and quite unusual loss of a third of their Gen Z children to us. Also women upset about abortion, and a whole lot of other people upset about the other side’s increasing nastiness and paskudnyakery. Even some among the elderly stalwarts of Republicanism have gotten the message in recent years that the Leopards Eating People’s Faces party does indeed mean their faces.
x I expect that older Trumpistias assume that he won't cut THEIR Social Security, only those Bad People's payments. Then they'll keep voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
https://t.co/S8YNTqlQmI — Kevin Standlee 💉x6 (@KevinStandlee) August 29, 2020
We also have majorities, larger than just Democratic numbers, on all of the issues.
We are still processing the Good News from the Tuesday elections. More below.
There was a Republican primary debate last Wednesday. More below.
You might have noticed that Chloris Creator wrote the GNR yesterday on my usual day. She is traveling today, and asked me to swap. Glad to help.
CNN: Joe Manchin won’t run for reelection, giving GOP an opening to flip West Virginia seat
He won’t be able to
stand in the doorways and block up the halls
Bob Dylan, The Times They are a-Changing
but that means we want to win one at least more seat in the Senate. I will not attempt to analyze our chances today. Simply losing his seat would leave us with control, at 50-50 plus VP Harris. There will be plenty of Doom&Gloom, and plenty of real analysis to come. Remember, the 2024 elections are literally a year away, an eternity in politics.
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney are competing in the GOP primary.
Manchin is, however, hallucinating about running for President against Joe Biden.
Jamelle Bouie: ‘Manchin is dreaming:’ What the third-party push gets wrong about America
Good News for Us
x AT LAST... they have reached a "tentative" agreement...
and I am tentatively thrilled beyond words!!!#SAGAFTRA_STRONG ✊
https://t.co/tAZDqB1JJm — Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) November 9, 2023
The Strike Is Over! SAG-AFTRA & Studios Reach Tentative Deal On New Three-Year Contract
x Under U.S. pressure, Israel agreed to begin "tactical localized humanitarian pauses" in the fighting in northern Gaza neighborhoods for four hours a day, Israeli and U.S. officials said Thursday.
https://t.co/2eC78KNQSF — Axios (@axios) November 9, 2023
Israel will begin 4-hour pauses in military operations in Gaza each day, White House says
The move appeared to formalize a pattern of halting the violence to allow humanitarian aid to flow into the enclave and to allow civilians to flee away from the fighting.
OK, then, how about lots more aid trucks? Including fuel for hospitals, and no genocidal excuses about Hamas being in the hospitals.
Israel sees 'sign of life' in Gaza hostage video
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has posted videos of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza. The group said it was prepared to release a 77-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy for humanitarian and medical reasons, but only if "appropriate measures" were met. Israel described the videos as an important sign of life, but declined to say whether they would be released.
That is, Israel hypocritically says that meeting those conditions is “giving in to terror”.
Democrats kicked all kinds of a$$ while Trump had yet another bad election night
A majority of America will have access to legal marijuana following Ohio election
and another 21% can get medical marijuana.
Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ member Yusef Salaam wins New York City Council seat
One of those whom The Trump wanted judicially lynched at the time.
WHY Polling is Dead, Dead, Dead.
The bedrock of a valid poll is to collect a true random sample of the population you want to study. You have to get a high response rate from your sample. What happens if you don’t get a high response rate? In that case you have what’s called a “self-selected sample”. Did respondents answer honestly? They say, “I never answer my phone unless I know who’s calling.” They say, “I wouldn’t answer the door unless I was expecting someone I know.” They say, “I’m never home!” Then there are on-line polls. How these can possibly be thought have the slightest validity boggles my mind. So, what they apparently rely on now is “weighting”. If you find that your sample is under-or-over-supplied with people who fall into some known demographic category, you correct for that in the analysis phase. But from what is leaking out of polling organizations now, that point has long been passed. According to an insider who made a comment here some months ago, now it’s basically ALL weighting.
Bogus NYT/Siena Polls—The Rest of the Story
Trump leading Biden in swing state polls—until you ask, what if Trump gets convicted? Well, then, he loses 6 points of support.
Also the demographics of those polls are nonsense.
Bad News for Them
Coup bombshell: See prosecutor Jack Smith's new plan for Trump trial, path to prison
The DOJ will use the Jan. 6 insurrection as trial evidence against Donald Trump, according to a new court filing. MSNBC’s Ari Melber breaks down Jack Smith’s trial plan and is joined by Former Senior Prosecutor in the Mueller Probe Andrew Weissman.
Chris Hayes, too.
The Republican front-runner will be treated like the people he sent to the Capitol.
The House J6 committee had recommended such charges, but they weren’t in Smith’s original indictment. So now they are. Patriots, you may applaud—and stop worrying so much.
The trial is set for March 4, 2024. Judge Chutkan has no intention of allowing that date to slip. There will be a verdict and likely a sentence during the Republican primaries, and of course an attempted appeal, no doubt on the same frivolous grounds as all of the others.
Arizona AG investigating 2020 alleged fake electors tied to Trump
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office is conducting an ongoing investigation of an alleged attempt to use alternate electors after the 2020 presidential election to benefit former President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the attorney general confirmed. Arizona is one of seven states that Trump lost in 2020 but where the former president's allies allegedly attempted to create a fraudulent slate of electors. How long the investigation has been underway, its status, and its scope, are not clear. Mayes, a Democrat, made her first public comments about the investigation on Wednesday.
Arizona’s ‘fake electors’ for Trump catch DOJ’s attention Two Arizona lawmakers were subpoenaed in connection to the group of "fake electors" who created their own election certification in 2020. Former governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has also been contacted by federal investigators. A spokesperson told Arizona’s Family that Ducey is cooperating with the investigation and “do the right thing.” x BREAKING: Trump gets BRUTAL news as Michigan’s Attorney General tells a judge that she and the Secretary of State “stand ready” to ban Trump from the ballot in 2024 for inciting the January 6 insurrection if the judge gives them the green light.
But it gets WORSE for Trump…… pic.twitter.com/4ys2EAo8Sj — Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) November 9, 2023 Adding insult to injury for Donald Trump, the judge announced at the end of the hearing that she has heard enough incriminating evidence against Trump — and is ready to make her ruling as to whether he should be banned from the ballot in the “next few days.”
x BREAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James blindsides Ivanka Trump during today’s testimony by releasing bombshell courtroom evidence that proves that Ivanka was FULLY AWARE that her father Donald Trump committed financial fraud.
Attorney General James showed the judge… pic.twitter.com/H4TYmHjZSQ — Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) November 8, 2023
Forced-birther Republicans in Ohio, Michigan refuse to accept voters’ will on abortion
In the midst of Tuesday night’s debacle for Republicans in Ohio and Virginia, Fox News’ Sean Hannity lamented, “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don't want abortion legal under any circumstances.” Gosh, I wonder why women would think that? Meanwhile, Republican officials in Ohio were vowing to overthrow the voters’ choice to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution. “The legislature has multiple paths that we will explore to continue to protect innocent life,” Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens declared. “This is not the end of the conversation.” Republican Senate President Matt Huffman agreed, saying, “This isn’t the end. It is really just the beginning of a revolving door of ballot campaigns to repeal or replace Issue 1.”
x The #ExxonMobileBaytownComplex in Texas claims to contribute to a circular economy. It's greenwashing at work. 🏭 😷 @insideclimate #PlasticPollutes
https://t.co/uDAedSlmBG — Plastic Pollutes (@PlasticPollutes) November 3, 2023
x 🚨 Big brands like @CocaCola, @Danone, and @Nestle are in hot water for claiming their plastic bottles are "100% recyclable".
Consumer groups, represented by the BEUC, have had enough of the greenwashing.
Time to expose these corporate deceptions!
Share & demand the truth! pic.twitter.com/FAgedznaWZ — Greenpeace Africa (@Greenpeaceafric) November 8, 2023
x Could not believe my eyes when I saw this bus roll by on my way home from representing @CAPE_ACME at today's BC #ClimateEmergency Campaign annual Progress Report.
Greenwashing like this should be illegal.
And we're working on it.
https://t.co/hBxMlL7gS6https://t.co/UfYXi6OVQr
https://t.co/eXegHMMROr pic.twitter.com/fOScsnDwXk — Dr. Melissa Lem (@Melissa_Lem) November 8, 2023
x Nikki Haley signed an abortion ban in South Carolina that provided no exceptions for rape or incest and allowed for jailing providers. pic.twitter.com/FR03nM7wwL — The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) November 9, 2023
She pretends to seek consensus, and then pledges to sign any abortion bill that comes to her as President.
x Nikki Haley admits that she will "go after" Social Security and Medicare if elected:
"Any candidate that tells you they’re not going to go after Social Security and Medicare is not being serious." @BidenHQ.pic.twitter.com/XgBgGUQ4uu — The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) November 9, 2023
Bishop Of Columbus, Ohio Flat-Out Tells His Catholic Flock How To Vote
Rick Santorum says Republicans can't let 'very sexy things like abortion' be on the ballot
And we mustn’t have all of these ballot measures because the Founders feared and loathed direct democracy, which is
Not the way to run a country.
House Republicans have a new favorite joke, but still no plan for funding government
Not really a joke, just a series of stunts: bills to reduce the salary of some Black or LGBTQ Administration official to $1.
The Third Debate
Republican presidential debate: The underwhelming showdown
This one was hosted by NBC, not Fox, with Lester Holt, Kristen Welker, and conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt moderating, so to speak. The debate and the commentary were all over TV last night, so I am mostly going to give you the, um, lowlights here. There were glimmers of sanity, as when Nikki Haley talked about making contraception more available and supporting mothers, and Desantis called out Trump for massively increasing the debt.
DeSantis complained about Trump not building the wall and getting Mexico to pay for it.
Christie continued to slam Trump.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Vivek, as the most hated candidate, is the MVP of the debate, because he makes the others look better than they are.
Tim Scott was the one to proclaim an intent to put in a 15-week national abortion “limit” without exceptions, which Republicans agree is not a ban. As if.
Nikki Haley is running both sides of her mouth for something else. Trump’s Cabinet? The post-Trump nomination? Not VP, clearly.
SCOTUS was not on the stage, but its lies were.
They all lamented being the party of losers since 2018.
We’ve become a party of losers, at the end of the day.
Vivek Ramaswamy
Watching the Furious Five Debate Tonight
Live blogged.
Mika Brzezinski calls out Chris Christie over his reckless and dishonest framing on abortion
I did not say there was abortion in the ninth month. What I said was that the law in New Jersey and New York and Illinois and California permits it.
Good old implausible deniability.
Dark Brandon to haunt third GOP presidential debate as Democrats celebrate their big night
The Biden-Harris campaign is putting up 1,000 signs featuring the “Dark Brandon” meme around the venue for the GOP presidential debate in Miami today, it said.
x Wow. The Biden campaign is now putting up Dark Brandon signs around the Republican debate venue in Miami, Florida after devastating losses for Republicans last night. Dark Brandon is rising stronger & better than ever before. This is trolling to the next level & it’s amazing. pic.twitter.com/aYvb2Aaxow — Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) November 8, 2023
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
x Scientists using #JWST just made a discovery in revealing how planets are made. By observing water vapor in protoplanetary disks, Webb confirmed a physical process involving the drifting of ice-coated solids from the outer regions of the disk into the rocky-planet zone. 1/ pic.twitter.com/qOi6oPktsy — Erika #PlanetaryDefense 🎯 (@ExploreCosmos_) November 8, 2023
Ultra wide field Euclid telescope, launched July 1, is operational.
x New images from the @ESA_Euclid space telescope mark the beginning of a new era of studying dark matter and dark energy. NASA teams are supporting #ESAEuclid with hardware, science, and data processing. Learn more:
https://t.co/U7CfzNtBCk pic.twitter.com/06EofPNxXs — NASA (@NASA) November 7, 2023
x Still wondering how this species survive in the wild.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/bMVXdGA8S4 — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 9, 2023
x A study examines how #JWST has conducted a 1st-time detection of CO2 in the centaur 39P/Oterma.
A centaur is a small planetary body that orbits between Jupiter & Neptune & frequently crosses the orbits of one or more of the gas giant planets within our solar system. 1/ — Erika #PlanetaryDefense 🎯 (@ExploreCosmos_) November 7, 2023
x Excessively high levels of insulin in the blood can trigger the onset of pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic cancer rates are increasing, and this rise is linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Earlier research has shown that when insulin production was reduced, there was a… pic.twitter.com/5I7c6RWUpf — Meat Head (@markeatsmeat) November 1, 2023
x Such weird animals
https://t.co/aUf8TfBn5G — Larry David (@NotLarrayy_) November 4, 2023
x Please join us for Diabetes Day 2023 on November 14th! pic.twitter.com/j5miIQVvGm — UW Diabetes Research Center (@UWDRC1) November 6, 2023
More about energy storage in the next Renewable Tuesday.
x #EnergyVault is proud to announce five additional EVx™ Gravity Energy Storage System Deployments in China. These projects bring planned EVx deployments in China to seven, totaling 3.26 GWh, or $1+ billion in project scope.
Read more:
https://t.co/GFjzJrvRLz$NRGV #EnergyStorage pic.twitter.com/WYKVZKD7O6 — Energy Vault (@EnergyVaultInc) November 6, 2023
x In 1995, U.S. and Canadian wildlife officials released 14 wolves in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring. pic.twitter.com/5aYegVOMAT — Scirex (@scirex) November 9, 2023
x ‘The thinner tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn’
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which parts of two different trees, commonly but not… pic.twitter.com/Ta34iNeEp2 — Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) November 9, 2023
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
The writers and the actors have won their strikes. There are plenty more actions to support. In any case, support your local cartoonists.
Some cartoons aren’t jokes, but they bring a smile to your face in other ways.
x never thought I would post a political cartoon but here we are pic.twitter.com/stOBFzirPJ — Liberal Bidenomics Enthusiast (Christmas Democrat) (@PopulistJoe) September 29, 2023
x This is a sad but telling political cartoon. Describes well what it feels like being a supporter of accurate literature on Black history in Florida right now. pic.twitter.com/UlrlyhFbSZ — Eric Deggans at NPR (@Deggans) October 20, 2023
x Could you imagine someone saying they're a net-zero murderer? Big polluters want to use carbon offsets to claim they're "net-zero." But net-zero is NOT zero. Learn more at
https://t.co/bstoFCSWEd #climateemergency #carbonoffsets #greenwashing pic.twitter.com/ftgijm29KK — Undeniable: The Climate Emergency Network (@UndeniableNtwrk) November 7, 2023
x We need REAL FORESTS, not tree plantations, to avoid climate catastrophe.
Tree planting is NOT a free pass for unchecked carbon pollution.
🎨: @sepponet #ClimateCrisis #Greenwashing pic.twitter.com/J7sFq2vqI1 — Greenpeace International (@Greenpeace) November 5, 2023
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