Welcome to “Improving the Senate” Sunday!
I’m scaling my Roundup way back this morning due to recovering (resting) following an intense election season, minor health issues, and the usual caregiving. I’m thankful and not complaining.
We Make Good Trouble
On November 5, we started a fundraiser for Senator Raphael Warnock’s runoff campaign. Let's improve the Senate and re-elect an incredible man!
We’ve reached $6K, surpassing our goal. Thank you! New goal $10K!
If you plan to donate, sooner is better than later! Deadline December 6.
About 15% of us Readers, Members of Daily Kos, and Gnusies cannot donate money to anything (I’ve been there), but do what you can do, and if you want to join us, you can do this: Share this campaign on your social media. A single share could be worth more than your donation!
The Good News Roundup group raised more than $200,000 in 2022, divided among 60 candidates!
Details, results, specific candidates here! We did it! Thank you!
As of this morning, 36 of our candidates won, 17 lost, and results are still unknown for 7.
WineRev’s Good and Goofy Notes
After WineRev posts his G&G comment, I’ll post a link here. His G&G comments are small but worthy Good News Roundups with a welcome, a good-news tidbit, another bold-faced and centered welcome, and his this-day-in-history notes. You can find all his comments here, in case you have a hankerin’ and missed one. Meanwhile:
WineRev, last Sunday: So YES! YES!!! The Good News Round Up is open…..and on Sunday! That means 2thanks is on the case. She ran a good campaign, visited every corner of Gnuville, handled the bobble of her press secretary’s personal life very smoothly (and, as we all expected, the so-called “scandal” the GQP tried to gin up about Ashley’s turning in a report on seals in Greenland “late” and getting her grade raised turned out to be an extra-credit assignment that WAS ON TIME…..2Thanks stuck by her nobly.) And now that the returns have come it to the Gnuville Breakfast Brunch, Tabulation Central &Foreign Desk (ex-pat Gnusies voting by overseas mail), 2Thanks has easily won Sunday! So the RoundUp is OPEN, on both the House and the Senate side, accepting Good News and comments and links and threads wandering in delightful wander-wonder-wunder, and we congratulate her on another term …
[Piping up to perhaps reduce confusion, I sign off every Sunday with “2thanks (he, him).” I don’t insert this note because I’m offended — In fact I’m rather pleased. No apology necessary. ~ Wandering in jolly wander-wonder-wunder across the gender landscape, ~ 2t]
Science
Recent additions to the battlements of Castle 2thanks to ward off Covid infection.
Please share good science news with us!
(Especially JSWT, health, environment.)
Need more good news?
… arhpdx posted a list of good news sites toward the top of a recent Roundup, or you can find that same list in my comment: Good News Sources. Thank you, arhpdx and Mokurai!
[On a desktop, you could open that comment in a new Tab by clicking the timestamp, and then you could Bookmark that page or save it to your Favorites.]
Our map of Gnuville: 763 of us have shared our global locations!
To leave your mark, please Reply in the comments to tljdk or the map-building comment. Please include your city and state only, NOT street number and street. (Please persist, we are volunteers.)
Image: Two maps of the United States, one above the other. The maps indicate the approximate locations of members of the Good News Roundup community in 2019 and 2021. The lower map contains many more blue pin-markers than the upper map. Upper image: A map of Gnuville from February 15, 2019 with about 50 Gnusie pins. Lower image: A map of Gnuville from March 21, 2021 with 582 pins across our orb.
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Tech Talk for Kosacks
- Load-More Workaround: On a desktop or laptop, to banish the Daily Kos Load More buttons, click this link, which opens the main Daily Kos page and shuts off the Load More buttons at the same time. You must Reload any open Daily Kos pages. After that, you’re good to go, but you may need to come back here and click that link again in a few weeks. The DK Help Desk asked me to add this: The “Load More” option also resets the user back to the display of the old-style, React comments.
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Where Ever is Herd
Morning Good News Roundups at 7 x 7: These Gnusies lead the herd at 7 a.m. ET, 7 days a week:
- The Monday GNR Newsroom (Jessiestaf, Killer300, and Bhu). With their five, we survive and thrive.
- Alternating Tuesdays: NotNowNotEver and arhpdx.
- Wednesdays: niftywriter.
- Thursdays: Mokurai the 1st, 2nd, and 5th (when there is one), WineRev the 3rd, MCUBernieFan the 4th.
- Fridays: chloris creator. Regular links to the White House Briefing Room.
- Saturdays: GoodNewsRoundup, the one and only!
- Sundays: 2thanks. A brief roundup of Roundups, a retrospective, a smorgasbord, a bulletin board, an oasis, a watering hole, a thunder of hooves, a wellness, a place for beginners to learn the rules of the veldt. For instance, we do not welcome grammar-police comments in Roundups.
Sun-High Good News Roundup: It’s a long dry trek between 7 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. ET. About half way between is noon or 1 o'clock. If you'd like to create a midday oasis post a Good News Group diary regularly at about that time, please let me know via kosmail. The team will support you. If morning is a better time for you, Mokurai says he can trade times.
hpg posts Evening Shade diaries at 7:30 p.m. ET every day! After a long day, Gnusies meet in the evening shade and continue sharing Good News, good community, and good actions. Find Evening Shades here or on the Trending List.
oldhippiedude posts Tweets of the Week on Sundays at 6 p.m. CT. Our second evening Gnusie hangout zone! In search of a TOTW diary? Look here or here or on the Trending List.
For more information about the Good News group, please see our detailed Welcoming comment, one of the first comments in our morning diaries.
How to Resist: Do Something …
Fundraiser of the Good News group.
by Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos Staff
Some of our Good News writers regularly post a panoply of fantastic action steps in every one of their Good News Roundups. If you don’t see a way to become active that suits your personality, your funds, or your time, please review their most recent diaries for many different options to volunteer and/or donate:
On Daily Kos:
We welcome comments in Roundups every day regarding:
- National or local Good News.
- Links, stories, music, videos, quotes, tweets. (No tweets or images of the saffron chlamidiot, please.)
- Your resistance activity.
In my Sunday smorgasbord Roundups, I especially welcome the following types of comments:
- Who won YOUR week?
- Questions about Daily Kos tech issues or our map.
- Good News Roundups and you.
- How are you resisting?
- How are you supporting Democratic candidates?
- Please let’s stick to Good News today, no mews or databases.
In the comments of all Roundups, we do not welcome Grammar Police or Debbie Downers.
Top Image: A detailed sketch of a gnu drawn in brown, green, and black on white. A happy and dynamic gnu dances on its left hind leg in a classic heraldric rampant stance. Joyful letters prance above and behind the mane: “Happy Dance.” Signature: Nick Korolev, 2021. — Thank you, Starhawk, for creating the top image of a dancing gnu and for giving it to us Gnusies!
A Little Bit About Me
Our grandchild is now 6 months old, doing fine, thank goodness! I’ve been combining lifelong interests in math, learning, and games, and I’ve been exploring games to play with infants. In one of these articles I read that children who play Chutes and Ladders perform better in math than those who do not. No time for more this morning.
Our Roundup is almost open!
Thank you for fighting for truth and justice with all us Gnusies! 40% of our Readers don’t visit every day, 50% of us do, and 10% are here for the first time! We all do what we can. For 5 years, we’ve shared positive news, laughed, organized, resisted, rebelled, revolted without being revolting, relied, rested, mentored, created, crossed rivers, chewed our cud, puffed methane out both ends, and laughed. Here’s looking at you, kid, and standing upwind!
As always, please share more Good News than I can find or provide.
This is a group diary, and by my power I declare this Good Gnus Salo(o)n open! Let the good-news sharing and community building begin!
Power with, not power over ❤️ ✊ ❤️
2thanks (he, him)