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GNR for Friday, March 28, 2025: my 400th GNR. Despair is not an option. [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
Welcome 🌻 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News!
A few times over the past 7+ years of writing GNRs, I have mentioned this is a marathon, not a sprint. Sometimes you write words, and even though you know they’re true, those words come back with force, almost as if they were said by someone else, someone much smarter.
Of course, these words have been said by others. And there’s another version that I heard — not sure who said it — explaining how it’s not just a marathon, but a marathon relay, as we pass off the baton to others.
That’s what it’s been like, writing these GNRs. Sure, I’ve done 400, but others have done as many or more. Others have taken on administrative tasks. Others have come in and subbed as we need a break.
More and more, I have come to see the GNRs as vital, and I am so grateful to GoodNewsRoundup for inventing them. For keeping despair at bay.
Bernie Sanders says: "At this particular moment in history, despair is not an option. Giving up is not acceptable. And none of us have the privilege of hiding under the covers."
Some think the GNRs are a way of hiding under the covers, because we don’t usually look at the bad things. But we are not hiding under the covers. We do what we can to fight the despair. We are refusing to give up. We refuse to be miserable (at least not all the time), because happiness is what they want to take away. By reminding you — and ourselves! — of what is good and what is working, the areas where people are having success, we give you (we hope) and ourselves (certainly) the strength to fight on. Sometimes we can even point in directions we think will be effective.
Yes, it has been going on much longer than I expected.
But we are not alone. I’ve been following some of the rallies and the protests — there are so many! — that it’s heartening. Many Americans are waking up. Many people around the planet are waking up and are refusing to accept what is unacceptable.
Come on in, dear gnusies, and see what has been rounded up for today.
Regular Scheduled Programming
No one here is naïve; we are aware of the many who are fighting to destroy our country. Some of us expected it: the cheating, the lying, and the chaos. But we are here to read the efforts and the positive results of those (including us and our fellow gnus) who are working so hard to save our country and the planet from those very bad people. We are furious with them for what they are doing and we are letting them know.
Remember:
💜 Although they lie all the time, reality matters. And our goals — based on reality — are more popular.
💙 They want us to be demoralized. The best way to keep up your spirits is to fight. So, take the time to recharge your batteries, make sure to protect yourself, your family and your friends, but find ways to contribute to the well-being of our country and our world.
🗽 Reports on Resisters 🗽
So many people are working so hard! So many people are showing up at rallies and protests!
I’ve been reporting on them. Maddow has been reporting on them. There are so many, they are hard to track.
x Our local protest today against fascism in Rochester Hills, MI (just north of Detroit). Protests don't have to just be in big cities or DC - get your neighbors together and share your voice! We do this every 2 weeks 🙂✊️ — (@kzengel.bsky.social) 2025-03-24T03:20:06.941Z
Sometimes it works! Social Security rolls back service slows down cutbacks after furious response Sean Craig The Daily Beast
The Social Security Administration has delayed controversial plans to cut phone services for retirees by two weeks and ditched a proposal that would have forced some disabled and elderly people to visit a physical location to claim benefits. “We have listened to our customers, Congress, advocates, and others, and we are updating our policy to provide better customer service to the country’s most vulnerable populations,” Leland Dudek, the acting SSA commissioner, said in a statement announcing the abrupt policy turnaround on Wednesday.
It’s not nearly enough, but it’s something.
Other countries are protesting, too:
x BREAKING: Mass protests form in Nuuk Greenland to Protest Against US Attempts to Take Over. — Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T21:06:10.483Z
Their protest worked!
x TRUMP ADMIN SCALES BACK GREENLAND VISIT AFTER MASSIVE BACKLASH The Trump administration has been forced to cancel most of its planned visit to Greenland after facing backlash from Greenlanders, and will now only be visiting a U.S. military base on the territory. 1/ — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-03-27T16:26:46.777Z
And, against their local oppressors:
In Gaza, against Hamas:
x Hundreds join protest against Hamas in northern Gaza — The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-03-25T21:22:33Z
In Turkey (against Erdogan):
x Turkey continues to protest against erdogan. This is from Ankara. — Orion412 (@orion412x.bsky.social) 2025-03-24T21:32:47.981Z
💪 Get Ready to Fight 💪
I listened to part of a zoom happy hour held by Mueller, She Wrote. In it they discussed things you might want to have with you at a protest. Including telling people where you are going to be, so if you don’t come back — if you are sent to El Salvador or Gitmo — your friends know where to look.
Still, the protests are so massive, and there are so many of us, that your risk of being arrested and deported is small. Non-zero, but small.
More rallies coming up!
x hey nobody freak out but there are now over 600 rallies scheduled around the country for April 5th handsoff2025.com — Leah Greenberg (@leahgreenberg.bsky.social) 2025-03-24T14:14:12.984Z
You want to plan a protest yourself? I haven’t checked it out, but this looks interesting:
x 👀 Find these tools on our website: Protest Planning Guide • Flyer Template (Canva) • Op-Ed Guide • Media Advisory Template • Marching 101 • Know Your Rights • Find a Protest • Host a Protest • Digital Safety • Virtual Actions Join our Movement, FIND or HOST a protest at www.FiftyFifty.one. — 50501: The People’s Movement (@50501movement.bsky.social) 2025-03-23T23:44:38.670Z
I’m not 100% sure about 50501, but the advice in this might be sound.
x Check the map Find your protest RESIST Like your lives depend on it The single most important thing we can do today is protest. Visible protest. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/ — AltYellostoneNatPar (@altyellonatpark.org) 2025-03-25T13:00:33.197Z
Also, do all you can to support Ds in special elections! From Charles Gaba (known here as BrainWrap):
x 📣 Feeling helpless? Looking for some way to take action? There's *30* Special Elections coming up (including WI Supreme Court & 3 for U.S. House!). NEXT UP: 3/25: SC HD-113: Courtney Waters 3/25: PA SD-36: James Malone 3/25: PA HD-035: Dan Goughnour secure.actblue.com/donate/speci... — Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charlesgaba.com) 2025-03-23T17:25:16.157Z
💣 Republicans: Party of Crimes and Chaos 💣
Two perfect months? Well, yes, if you’re working for putin!
x - Planes falling from the sky - Consumer confidence plummeting - Grocery prices soaring - Job losses mounting - Measles outbreaks - Major security snafus - Protests EVERYWHERE - Social Security threatened - Medicare & Medicaid threatened "Two perfect months" 🤡 — BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T22:50:41.991Z
I wonder if this was really inadvertent, or if someone had a conscience. Anyway, there are leaks in the maladministration. Let’s make more.
x In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... — Shane Harris (@shaneharris.bsky.social) 2025-03-24T16:11:03.827Z
Not just the Atlantic. Moscow
x Everything the Senator says is true. By my timeline Witkoff was actually sitting waiting to meet with Putin when he accepted the group invite. — Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T15:54:30.931Z
As Jessica Craven writes, this is an opportunity:
Friends, we need to make an unholy noise about this and not stop until Hegseth and Walz Waltz have stepped down. It’s a dreadful thing, but it’s also an opportunity and we need to grab it. Imagine what Republicans would do if the roles were reversed. Let’s do that. Then do it louder. Then double down. Signal-Gate could be a massive, massive problem for Republicans and Trump, but only if we make it one. So instead of spending more time with an intro I’m going to let you get straight to your actions. They may feel duplicative—do them all anyway. We want Congress’s phones, email servers, and everything else to be exploding with contacts from outraged constituents
We have an excellent judge assigned to the case:
x Gotta love the random judicial assignment fairy 🧚 — Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T13:23:19.798Z
🚚 💙 Democrats Deliver 💙 🚚
And Ds are calling for resignations: Senator Schiff calls for resignations of Trump officials over “Signal-Gate”. Schiff: They should be fired, or they should quit. Meiselas: Senator, you’re calling for those resignations? Schiff: Yes, I am.
x EXCLUSIVE: Senator Schiff calls for resignations of Trump officials over “Signal-Gate” Schiff: They should be fired, or they should quit. Meiselas: Senator, you’re calling for those resignations? Schiff: Yes, I am. — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T01:47:18.713Z
And in case you didn’t hear, we’ve been winning some special elections. And even if you did hear, well, repetition is good! Repetition is good!
x uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country… — Sam (@samd.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T01:59:13.853Z
The Downballot has some good analysis on what happened. (David Nir and Jeff Singer)
Despite the district's history, one conservative activist, Scott Presler, warned last week that Parsons, a Lancaster County commissioner, was "currently losing this special election" and complained that Republicans "aren't taking special elections seriously." ✂️ Malone focused his message heavily on education and cuts to the federal government that he's had to deal with as mayor of a small town, specifically calling out Musk for slashing “benefits for veterans, retirees, and students." He also did not shy away from popular positions on reproductive rights and touted an endorsement from Planned Parenthood. And he specifically urged voters to back him as "an extra Democratic voice" who would bring greater balance to the GOP-controlled Senate. Parsons, meanwhile, emphasized low taxes and grocery prices, but he failed to show up at a recent candidate forum—the same mistake that the Republican candidate had made in the Iowa race.
Reminds me of how GOP are not showing up at townhalls.
Also, less of an upset, but important:
x Democrats will KEEP the Pennsylvania State House! — Pennsylvania Democratic Party (@padems.org) 2025-03-26T01:54:42.681Z
💜 Unity? 💜
🎩 Andrew F. Cockburn West Virginia (!!!) rejects anti-vax bill Lori K West Virginia Watch
The House of Delegates on Monday rejected a bill that would have loosened the state’s strict school vaccination laws. Delegates voted 42 to 56 against Senate Bill 460. The legislation would have implemented a religious exemption for the state’s vaccine laws, allowing families who object to the shots on religious grounds to submit a written statement to their school administrator in order to be exempt from the requirements. The state’s private and parochial schools would have been able to set their own requirements for vaccines. Under current law, children must have a medical reason for being exempt from vaccine requirements. The bill also would have revamped the state’s medical exemption process. ✂️ Del. Keith Marple, R-Harrison, speaking against the bill, recalled people he’s known who became crippled after getting polio, a vaccine-preventable virus that can cause paralysis and meningitis and can lead to death. The wild polio virus has been eradicated in the United States because of vaccines, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
I know that 7 to 2 isn’t unanimous, but Thomas and Alito are crazy. Getting Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to change is significant.
x BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that ATF's restrictions on the sale of ghost guns does NOT violate federal law, reversing the 5th Circuit. It is 7–2, with Gorsuch (!) writing the majority opinion. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... — Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T14:08:54.472Z
Maybe they were afraid that team blue would start arming? Or maybe they were alarmed by threats in general, toward judges both high and low? But it’s a great decision.
x Today's 7–2 decision is a surprise because Gorsuch and Kavanaugh both voted to *block* the ghost gun regulation when it came to the court on its emergency docket. They flipped their votes—Gorsuch wrote the opinion!—and this time, only Thomas and Alito dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... — Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T14:12:01.070Z
Steps toward reasonability. Nice!
📥 Actions You Can Take 📤
Tax-exempt organization complaint referrals. 13909. You can fill this out for the NRA and lots of other organizations. How about if some of us white folk go into some of the MAGA churches and video record what they’re saying?
Voting rights. This may be the biggest issue threatening our democracy right now. Besides contacting your representatives at the state and federal level to do the right thing (depending on who they are), you can support and contact these organizations:
ACLU — American Civil Liberties Union
Democracy Docket — founded by Marc Elias, so important in fighting the challenges after the last election.
Fair Fight — founded by Stacey Abrams
🌱Grass roots. Join with local communities to make a difference. It could be your local Dems. It could be your school board or your library. Reach out to people. We all need each other these days.
🏃 Run for something. If you want to run for something, but have no idea what to do, these people will help you. They also like money and volunteers to help those people who are running, so even if you’re not in a position to stand for office, you can help. Note: they are especially planning to target the 57 Rs in local governments who participated in the insurrection.
👎 Defund the seditionists. Defund the seditionists. This is a list with companies that sometimes have donated to the seditionists. The list is long. You will recognize many of the corporations, and you probably have a relationship with some — either you are a customer, a shareholder, or maybe even an employee. Contact them and compliment or complain, but let them know you are watching. Forward it to others.
🔎 Want to check out what’s going on with campaign contributions? Check out this diary. 👀
🐍 Schadenfreude 😈
🎩 Mimer. One sign comes down, thousands go up Rose Evans Idaho Statesman
A Meridian teacher was told to remove a sign from her classroom because it violated district policy on “content-neutral classrooms.” Now, a Boise business is showing support by making T-shirts emblazoned with the sign. The sign and T-shirt say, “Everyone is welcome here,” above hands of different skin tones holding hearts. Meridian, said she was told by administrators in February that her sign didn’t “allow people to express differing opinions, that it is controversial in today’s political environment,” the Idaho Statesman reported. A spokesperson for the West Ada School District later clarified that the problem with the sign wasn’t its welcoming message, but the imagery of hands with different skin tones, which “aligns with themes commonly associated with DEI initiatives.” Inama’s story made national news. In the days since, the teacher said she has received an outpouring of support from parents, fellow teachers and former students. Now, two friends in Boise have teamed up take the support “worldwide.” The idea started when former Kiss FM radio host Chris Stewart, known as Lucky the DJ, heard about Inama’s story and wanted to get students and teachers in the district to wear shirts displaying the welcoming message. “One sign comes up, thousands go up,” Stewart told the Statesman. Stewart called Shawn Wright, owner of Brigade Screen Printing in Boise, with the idea. Neither expected that days later, they’d have sold over 15,000 of the shirts — at cost. The shirts and hoodies range from $18 to $36, according to Brigade’s website.
Some of the reasons you should not get a cybertruck:
x NEW: Tesla is recalling 46,096 Cybertruck vehicles in the U.S.- nearly all Cybertrucks made up to February - to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving! All Teslas should be banned from the streets given the danger they pose. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/t... — Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T12:43:44.474Z
Yeah, wish we could recall tRump and elon as well! Is there any way we could?
So sorry for showing Skum’s face — l searched a while, but couldn’t find anything. But it’s with a great headline: 128 countries BAN Tesla cybertruck!
Also, there are serious safety issues, but this is the GNR and we’re not going to celebrate deaths, not even in the Schadenfreude section.
I don’t know the cause of this, but it’s fun to read:
x Russian and Regional Media: Fast and Mir payment systems stopped working in Russia Banks affected include Sber, T-Bank and Alfa-Bank. Others impacted include GazProm whose credit card system is down at the pumps. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T11:16:40.281Z
Gazprom forced to sell luxury properties as it loses $12.9 billion Ryan Hogg Fortune
Gazprom is looking at every avenue to cut costs, including its portfolio of luxury hotels, after the group fell to its second successive year of losses as Russia’s war with Ukraine continues to hammer energy exports
📣 Let’s Honor Truth ☀️️
Honoring Politics Girl and all the others who spoke up against Hegseth
x I was ripped to shreds on #CNN for standing up for the safety of the American military before Hegseth was hired. Told I was a “disgrace” who should be “ashamed of myself”, berated through the commercial break and threatened with defamation. Look where we are now. — PoliticsGirl (@politicsgirl.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T18:50:52.972Z
Also honoring Mueller, She Wrote (Allison Gill):
x I am happy to confidently say that trump is a fascist and a deranged racist. I regret nothing. I lost my government job for taking that stance in 2019 and I wouldn't change a thing. — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-03-26T17:38:22.253Z
Both NPR and CNN should be ashamed. No wonder legacy media is suffering.
🌹 Let’s Celebrate Love ❤️
Believing that others are good makes you happier than money Andy Corbley Good News Network
Believing that a wallet will be returned if dropped in public is one of the most important indicators of well being and happiness. In fact, it’s 7 times more impactful that doubling your income, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 just released this week. Jeffrey Sachs conceived of the report that would measure wellness in 2012 and Gallup began interviewing people in 150 countries, and compiling those comparisons every year. While analyzing the results for 2024, the researchers found that belief in the kindness of others is much more closely tied to peoples’ happiness than previously thought. For instance, evidence across the world from the perceived—and actual—return of lost wallets shows that people are much too pessimistic about the kindness of their communities compared to the reality. The actual rates of wallet return are around twice as high as people expect. Believing that others are willing to return your lost wallet is shown to be a strong predictor of population happiness—and the Nordic nations once again top the ranking of the world’s happiest countries. They also rank among the top places for expected and actual return of lost wallets. ✂️ The United States , at 24th, fell to its lowest-ever position in the 13 years of polling. The United Kingdom ranked just higher at 23rd, with Brits reporting their lowest average life evaluation since their reports from 2017. All country rankings are based on a three-year average of each population’s average assessment of their quality of life.
Doesn’t this explain a lot? Because most of the magas do not seem like happy people.
Also, there are times when I left things behind at restaurants in other countries (Czech Republic, Hungary). Husband was sure these items were lost forever, but when we went back, the people in the restaurants had my stuff at the counter. Even though my accent and my other Americanisms scream tourist, the people were honest.
Truth and love lead to happiness. Lies and hatred — the weapons of tRumpism — lead to unhappiness.
📎 Odds & Ends 📎
When Colorado put polling places inside its jails, voter turnout soared Alex Burness Reasons to Be Cheerful
Tiffany Lee, the county clerk and top elections official in southwestern Colorado’s La Plata County, wasn’t sold at first on the state’s new law requiring every jail to create an in-person polling place for incarcerated voters. Lee, who was elected as a Republican but is now unaffiliated, said she and the local sheriff didn’t appreciate a new mandate and felt it was too one-size-fits-all to work for a diverse state. But Lee’s apprehension melted away on October 22, 2024, when she and the sheriff opened their first in-person voting session at the jail, located in the city of Durango. Lee recounted how a young incarcerated woman whom she helped cast her ballot profusely thanked her, and told Lee that the experience of voting made her feel like a part of her community. “I had tears in my eyes,” Lee told Bolts. “I thought to myself: This is exactly where I need to be today. It was just an awesome feeling.”
Even if you think that felons should not vote — and I think they should be able to — many people in jail have not yet been convicted and so are legally innocent.
UNICEF working wonders in Afghanistan Andy Corbley Good News Network
After a few years of Herculean efforts, UNICEF has reached a point where it has prevented two-thirds of Afghanistan’s healthcare sector from collapsing. Working mostly in rural areas, the operation has been vast, employing 28,000 full-time carers and physicians and 32,000 volunteers staffing 96 fully-equipped hospitals and 2,400 rural healthcare centers, sometimes as small as a single room. But for vaccination, childbirth, and routine checkups, even a small room can make a huge difference, and the work that UNICEF and partners have been doing is also helping to build better medical habits among rural populations inured to outside influence and change. Taking over from a failing medical system that collapsed in 2021, UNICEF has propped up huge areas of medical sector work under ridiculous monetary constraints since no money can be transferred into the country’s financial institutions. Since the program began, there have been 2.2 million babies born in UNICEF facilities, a 20% increase since 2019.
UK reducing the amount of pesticides Paige Bennett EcoWatch
The UK government has announced plans to reduce pesticide use on farms 10% by 2030. The target is the first pesticide national action plan (NAP) from the government in a decade and is meant to help reduce harm to pollinators and improve agricultural productivity via more sustainable methods. The new action plan follows the ban on neonics in the UK, which was upheld earlier this year when a request for the emergency authorization to use a neonicotinoid called Cruiser SB was denied. “The Government is restoring our natural world as part of our commitment to protect the environment while supporting productivity and economic growth. Environment Minister Emma Hardy said in a statement. “That is why we have banned bee killing pesticides in England and today we’re going further to support farmers and growers to adopt sustainable practices.”
A lot about how Switzerland transformed its rivers and lakes Phoebe Weston The Guardian
he sight of people launching themselves into an inner-city waterway would be unthinkable in most cities in Europe, the US and many other parts of the world. Three-quarters of Britain’s rivers are in poor ecological health, according to data collected by thousands of citizen scientists in 2024, with experts describing the findings as “truly disturbing”. Yet across Switzerland, such swimming scenes are normal. This hasn’t always been the case. In the 1960s, Switzerland had among the dirtiest water in Europe, blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. For decades, swimming was banned in some rivers such as the Aare and Limmat on health grounds, and people could get ill if they swallowed the water Raw sewage and industrial wastewater flowed directly into water bodies – in 1965 only 14% of the population was connected to a wastewater treatment plant. Today, it is 98%, and the country has a reputation for pristine swimming waters, sometimes referred to as its “blue gold” – and it’s all thanks to a complex network of sewage plants. A key driver of that transformation was a tragedy in the mountain resort of Zermatt in 1963, when a typhoid outbreak killed three people and made 437 others ill. Soldiers were deployed and schools turned into emergency hospitals as panic spread. Pressure grew on the government to clean up the waterways, found to be the source of the outbreak. In 1971, the treatment of wastewater was written into Swiss law..
When I lived and worked in Zurich, I often swam in the Limmat.
Wolves making a rapid recovery in Europe Cristen Hemingway Jaynes EcoWatch
Wolf populations in Europe have made a big comeback, increasing by almost 60 percent in a single decade, according to a new study. Populations of large carnivores are declining globally, according to a press release from the Public Library of Science (PLOS). In Europe, however, recent conservation policies have supported wolf recovery. “We report that wolves are continuing to make a remarkable comeback across Europe, with their population growing to over 21,500 individuals by 2022 – a 58% increase in a decade,” the authors of the findings wrote. “This is a notable conservation success, particularly in a region heavily shaped by human activity, from agriculture to urbanization. Improved monitoring methods have helped us track their recovery, although these tools vary in quality and extent across countries.” A decade earlier, the estimated wolf population had been just 12,000.
I have written about this before, but I am still greatly enjoying watching the Big Bear Valley eagle cam. At the moment I am writing this -Thursday afternoon, 3/27 — the two remaining chicks are doing well. They are so plump that they remind me more of turkeys than eagles. Their parents are very good hunters. On Wednesday this week, 8 fish were delivered to the nest. It must be so weird — like one of us being snatched by aliens — for a fish to die in a nest in a tall tree. Most fish appear to be dead before they reach the tree, but some are still twitching.
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💙 What You Can Do to Rescue Democracy 💙
It turns out that participation in democracy is not just an every-four-years event but requires active participation, like, whenever you can find time.
It turns out that participation in democracy is not just an every-four-years event but requires active participation, like, whenever you can find time.
I know it’s tough to see the path forward. And I can’t guarantee that there is a path forward. But people who are smarter and braver than I have seen ways to move ahead.
Their (the fascists’) plans really are dark, but many of them are also dumb, in the sense that they don’t make sense. So many of them cannot succeed.
Here are some quick hits.
Stay involved. Yeah, that’s tough. I want to look away too, but by taking simple actions you can make a difference. Keep contacting your representatives, both in DC and at home.
Support causes that will fight. Send money if you can. Also, spread their news with clicks and conversation.
Slow them down. Oppose and block at every turn.
Make tRump unpopular. Doing this weakens him. And it should not be that difficult. The GOP made a lot out of Biden is old and eggs cost too much. Well, tRump is older than Biden was at the beginning of his term and tRump has no policies that are going to bring down inflation. And a host of other problems, like he’s a convicted felon.
Divide the GOP from each other. They are a coalition based on contradictory promises, so there’s plenty to work with.
Keep telling the truth and showing love.
Make sure to pace yourselves in this marathon and to practice self-care.
Current projects:
Look in the comments for Progressive Muse’s report on Postcards to Voters
And Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny Lessons:
(1) Do Not Obey in Advance; (2) Defend Institutions; (3) Beware the One-Party System; (4) Take Responsibility for the Face of the World; (5) Remember Professional Ethics; (6) Be Wary of Paramilitaries; (7) Be Reflective if You Must Own a Gun; (8) Stand Out (this means, speak up, even when others do not); (9) Be Kind to Our Language; (10) Believe in Truth; (11) Investigate; (12) Make Eye Contact and Small Talk; (13) Practice Corporeal Politics; (14) Establish a Private Life; (15) Contribute to Good Causes; (16) Learn from Peers in Other Countries; (17) Listen for Dangerous Words; (18) Be Calm When the Unthinkable Arrives; (19) Be a Patriot; (20) Be as Courageous as You Can
🌻
💙 President Joseph R. Biden: “Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart. The battle is perennial, and victory is never assured.” 💙
Sir Winston Churchill: When you’re going through hell, keep going.
🌹 🌹 🌹
TRUTH MATTERS. LOVE MATTERS.
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