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Regular Thursday GNR, and Welcome to 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-01-02
The 119th Congress will convene tomorrow, to vast pointing and laughing as they struggle to elect a Speaker, and try to be ready for certifying the Electoral College vote. No matter how badly it goes, nor how long the disaster runs on, somebody will serve as President. We will hear the details soonest.
Not that nice Jewish boy, Yeshua bar Yosef.
Whatever they scream about loudest, do more of.
Welcome to the Good News Roundup and the first full day of the New Year! Yesterday the leading edge of 2025 took all day, and a bit more, to creep all the way around the Earth.
Janus, the Roman God of new years and of January, looking backward with satisfaction at things now over, and forward with trepidation at things to come
Opening Music
As someday it must happen that a GNR comes round,
I’ve made a little list, I’ve made a little list,
Of sources of the best Good News that everywhere is found,
So that none of it is missed, so none of it is missed! Oh, Lordy, there are tapes and now subpoenas by the score!
And witnesses in hundred lots and documents and more!
And animals and science facts and “Biden gets things done”!
Republicans in disarray—in chaos! Oh, what fun!
Cartoons to make you laugh or cry and weirdness, we insist.
We make sure they don’t get missed, they’ll none of ‘em be missed. We’ve got them on the list—we’ve got them on the list,
So they’ll none of them be missed, they’ll none of them be missed.
Gilbert’s original lyrics in The Mikado included
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind
Such as — What d'ye call him — Thing'em-bob,
And likewise — Never-mind,
And 'St— 'st— 'st— and What's-his-name,
And also You-know-who —
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list,
For they'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed!
Yes, you may fill them in. I’m going to leave their crimes and grifting and infighting strictly alone, and tell you about Good News that is good news.
Good News for Us
It turns out that
Wrong-Wing overreach is our best weapon in the new administration.
They are still driving out millions of their own children every year, and now they are going after their own women and elders.
Immigration is good for us and the economy, but threatens Rs with many millions of new voters.
Our prospects in 2026 are excellent. (Remember, repetition is good. I repeat, repetition is good.)
We are beating back voter suppression in the courts.
Marc Elias, the ACLU, the NAACP LDF, and others are on top of the states asserting a right to overturn Presidential elections and name their own electors.
Similarly many organizations are on top of the threats to women’s health and other rights.
Dems are getting our messages out, no matter what the Doom & Gloomers say.
Some in the MSM are taking notice, most notably on MSNBC.
Rs are no longer in disarray—It’s total chaos and fog of internal civil war now.
And there’s plenty more where that came from.
Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness!
x JWST reveals surprising surface chemistry is occurring on Pluto’s moon Charon
https://t.co/neA5putibG — Space Nerd (@Cguvhi7) January 2, 2025
The space telescope spotted both carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of this distant moon.
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
Image of Yoda stuck into real photograph of Fata Morgana mirage of ship in sky
Not funny, ha-ha. Important. We here highly resolve that government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
P. D. Q. Bach and More
P.D.Q. Bach Fan Channel
P.D.Q. Bach | The Latest Sensation | Peter Schickele | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Happy New Year From The Muppets
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