Good Day, Everyone and Happy Wednesday! MCUBernieFan and I have switched days, so next Tuesday you can expect their signature brand of good news!
What’s new today? Read on and find out.
Resistance Rising Everywhere
Elections continue to show resistance even in so-called “red states”. Last night results:
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The next big worry for the GOP: Will Don Bacon seek reelection?
His #NE02 — already the bluest House seat held by a Republican — includes Omaha, where Dems are headed to a double-digit win tonight.
Bacon has said he'll decide by "late summer."
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— The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) May 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Several elections on tap tonight:
• Omaha Mayor: Dem John Ewing up 54-46 in early vote. Would be a flip.
• OK #SD08: GOP wins but another big Dem overperformance—around 20 pts
• MA #HDEssex06: Dem win, double-digit Dem overperformance
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— The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) May 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The year so far:
• Dems outperform in 19 of 21 specials and flip two deep-red seats
• Liberals defend WI Supreme Court with double-digit victory
• Dems win Omaha mayor's office for first time since 2009
— The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) May 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
💪🏼 People Resist
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Everyone seems very worried about "Gosh, well what do we tell the transphobic people to get them to vote for Democrats?"
Tell them to get the fuck over it. Tell them, straight to their faces, "I feel embarrassed for you that this is a thing you are whining about."
— Robyn Pennacchia (@robynelyse.bsky.social) May 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
👨🏽⚖️ Civil Servants Resist
📚 Library of Congress Staff Turn Away New MAGA Bosses, Yasmeen Hamadeh, Daily Beast, May 13, 2025.
Two Justice Department officials were denied access to the Library of Congress on Monday, causing a brief standoff on Capitol Hill.
The two officials—Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general, and Brian Nieves, a deputy chief of staff and senior policy counsel—were seeking access to the U.S. Copyright Office but were denied entry at around 9 a.m., sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The New York Times.✂️
Library staff members called U.S. Capitol Police, however the two Justice Department officials left willingly after General Counsel Meg Williams asked them to leave and reiterated they were not allowed access to the Copyright Office.
📊 The Congressional Budget Office Still Works, Bill Scher, Washington Monthly, May 13, 2025.
The CBO has long had a deserved reputation for honest, nonpartisan analysis. Trump’s Washington has been, seemingly, doing everything possible to turn Washington into a propaganda machine cranked by compliant apparatchiks. The CBO is a creature of Congress, not the White House. It was created by the Budget Act of 1974 to give Congress more resources to counter the Executive Branch’s much larger Office of Management and Budget, and its 10 directors have been widely respected figures like the late Alice Rivlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Still, you might think the current Republican leadership would replicate the slash-and-burn approach of DOGE, rid the joint of anyone unwilling to forsake accuracy, and concoct budget analyses that serve Trump’s agenda. ✂️
Swagel’s reputation for objectivity and a conservative pedigree appears to have insulated him from Trump’s wrath, at least so far. But on Sunday, he unveiled an unvarnished analysis of the GOP health care plan. He gave an interview to the Financial Times, allowing the possibility that Trump’s tariffs could harm the economy. The FT quoted Swagel as saying, “At some point, if the high tariffs are sustained, those will have broader [negative] economic impacts.”
That could be one heresy too many for Trump. But even if the president does throw one of his trademark tantrums, Republican congressional leaders may not be inclined to dump Swagel. The GOP’s fiercest budget hawks, like Representative Chip Roy, are already flagging attempts to use budget gimmicks that mask the cost of the party’s proposed tax cuts. “This is fairy dust, and they’re full of crap. And I’m gonna call them out on it,” Roy said of the Senate’s attempt to treat a renewal of Trump’s expiring first-term tax cuts as cost-free. Installing a White House toady at CBO would discredit GOP numbers. Without a credible CBO score of how much the bill will reduce the deficit—if it would reduce it—the hawks may bail and deny Trump his big, beautiful bill.
👨🏼🌾 As Trump aims to deport millions, one pathway to legal status got bigger, Ximena Bustillo, NPR, May 12, 2025.
In the past, legal experts said applying for a green card while in the U.S. on a temporary visa would draw more scrutiny to applications from immigration officials. Temporary workers had to attest their intent to only be in the U.S. on a short-term basis. Still, having a green card application pending could not only jeopardize an H-2B worker's chances of visa renewal, but also increase the risk of the green card itself being denied.
But the new rule explicitly clarifies that such workers are eligible to apply for permanent residency in the U.S. without risking their visa status.✂️
The Biden-era rule, which could take the Trump administration years to undo, leaves open one pathway to immigration for tens of thousands of workers on temporary visas even as the administration seeks to close down others, like certain asylum or parole programs.
Getting workers on a green card also provides employers with more certainty about keeping their most prized employees, amid uncertainty about lower caps and competition for H-2B visas in the future.
"They want to have something in place so that anytime they are out-competed for those visas, they have a fallback plan of having their workers obtain green cards," said Nataly Mualem, founding attorney of Mualem Law, which specializes in workforce visas.
🏬 Businesses resist
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Retail giant Kroger joins Costco in rejecting an anti-DEI proposal from conservative shareholder activist group the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR).
Kroger: Diversity & Inclusion "have guided what we do for half a century" and "Diversity & Inclusion are embedded in our business"
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— Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) May 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Kroger rejected an anti-DEI proposal submitted by conservative shareholder activists at the National Center for Public Policy Research. NCPPR has overwhelmingly lost anti-DEI proposals in 2025 shareholder votes at Costco, Apple, Coca-Cola, Levi Strauss, others.
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— Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) May 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
⛪︎ Churches Resist
There’s something that I know a lot of progressive Christians have been expressing for awhile: frustration that a version of white Christian nationalism has crowded out (in the public understanding) the kinder, gentler Christian identity that takes the teachings of Jesus to heart and tries to live a New Testament Christian life.
That may be changing! Moderate and liberal Christian churches — the old “mainline” churches that we’ve all been assured are dying out — are standing up and pushing back against MAGA cruelty. I, for one, am here for it!
Here are two stories which will warm the hearts of liberal Christians everywhere!
⛪︎ Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition, Jack Jenkins, NPR, May 12, 2025.
In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration.
Here’s a picture of St. James Cathedral, Episcopal Church in Chicago
In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago, the government "informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees."
The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion, which boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.
"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," Rowe wrote. "Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government."
Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to "wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September," the denomination will continue to support immigrants and refugees in other ways, such as offering aid to refugees who have already been resettled.
🦁 The newly elected Pope Leo XIV calls for media to use communication platforms for “peace”, while subtly calling out media cowardice and disinformation.
Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace, Sarah Ventre, NPR, May 12, 2025.
It is early days, yet, of course, but I am hopeful that Pope Leo XIV may bring even more effectiveness and an injection of fresh energy into the work that Francis started. And that would be good news for the world because Francis was all about care for the marginalized, the homeless, the poor and the suffering. He never stopped advocating for refugees and migrants, too. Now Leo is entering the stage and is reportedly concerned with those same issues of human suffering and a desire for “just” peace. Leo brings his own gifts of superb communication skills as well as administrative experience. With 1.4 billion Catholics in the world, that could be quite a force for good.
VATICAN CITY — "The way we communicate is of fundamental importance: We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war," Pope Leo XIV said in an address to journalists Monday morning. He implored them to use communication as a tool for peace.
Pope Leo XIV
Referencing Pope Francis' message from the World Day of Social Communications in January, Leo said, "Let us disarm communication of all prejudice and resentment, fanaticism and even hatred; let us free it from aggression. We do not need loud, forceful communication, but rather communication that is capable of listening and of gathering the voices of the weak who have no voice."✂️
Leo also reiterated the church's solidarity with imprisoned journalists and called for their release.
"The church recognizes these witnesses — I am thinking of those who report on war even at the cost of their lives — the courage of those who defend dignity, justice and the right of people to be informed, because only informed individuals can make free choices."✂️
Just before blessing those gathered at Paul VI Audience Hall and shaking the hands of seasoned Vatican journalists, Leo concluded by saying, "I ask you to choose consciously and courageously the path of communication in favor of peace."
🎶 Musical Interlude for Peace 🎶
🧬 🔬 Science and Health News 🩺 💊
🤕 Migraine drug is first to tackle debilitating early symptoms, Fred Schwaller, Nature, May 12, 2025.
Scientists have shown that a drug approved to treat migraine headaches can also alleviate debilitating non-headache symptoms, such as fatigue, brain fog and blinding light sensitivity, that occur as the migraine is starting.
The drug — called ubrogepant — is already known to stop the onset of a full-blown migraine attack in some people if they take it when the headache begins. But a phase III clinical trial, described in Nature Medicine on 12 May1, shows that it can also tackle the ‘prodrome’ symptoms that arrive hours or even days earlier.✂️
The process of a migraine starts long before the head pain, when brain circuits involving the hypothalamus — a region that regulates several vital bodily functions — become dysregulated. In the prodrome, or premonitory phase, people can experience various unpleasant symptoms, including fatigue, neck pain, an aversion to light (photophobia) or sound (phonophobia) and difficulty concentrating.
“Not enough attention has been given to prodrome symptoms,” says Goadsby. The trial aimed to “fill this gap” by investigating whether ubrogepant has an effect on the initial stages of a migraine.
🪻 Some plants cause more suffering than others for gardeners with pollen allergies, Jessica Damiano, AP, May 13, 2025.
Allergy-inducing plants are those that rely on wind rather than bees or butterflies to spread their pollen. Ragweed, which strikes in late summer and early fall, gets the most notoriety, but its springtime counterparts can be at least as irritating.
Trees most likely to cause symptoms include birch (Betula), catawba (Catalba), cypress (Cupressus), elm (Ulmus), hickory/pecan (Carya), oak (Quercus), sycamore (Platanus) and walnut (Juglans), according to the Ogren Plant Allergy Scale (OPALS), created by horticulturist Thomas Ogren and published in his 2020 book, “The Allergy-Fighting Garden.”✂️
On the other hand, plants with “double” flowers or heavier pollen that doesn’t travel far are less likely to release much pollen.
Among trees, apricot (Prunus armeniaca), fig (Ficus), fir (Abies), fruiting pear (Pyrus), fruiting plum (Prunus domestica, Prunus insititia), redbud (Cerus), serviceberry(Amelanchier laevis), female ash (Fraxinus), female box elder (Acer negundo), female cottonwood/poplar (Populus), female maple (Acer), female palm (Arecaceae) and female willow (Salix) are easier on the respiratory system.✂️
As for flowers, you’ve got options: Begonia, female clematis, columbine, crocus, daffodil, delphinium, hibiscus, impatiens, iris, bird of paradise, pansy, petunia, phlox, poppy, snapdragon, tulip, verbena and zinnia are friends. Roses, too — especially tightly packed, dense-petaled varieties, which exude even less pollen than those with single or semi-double flowers (rose allergies are more often fragrance-related than due to pollen, according to Ogren).
🍚 I like rice — it’s one of my favorite starches — but I had no idea it could be better for you than just the starch on your plate to fill you up along with the “good” foods! 🤣 Check it out for yourself!
There's a secret superfood in white rice and pasta: Here's how to unlock it, Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR, May 12, 2025.
But what if there's a way to make the naughty carbs a bit nicer? In the past decade, food scientists have figured out a way to help people digest refined carbohydrates more slowly. In the process, they've uncovered a surprise: a super nutrient hidden inside white pasta and white rice.
It's called resistant starch. Studies have found that eating more resistant starch comes with myriad health benefits. It can improve gut health, lower inflammation in your body and enhance insulin sensitivity. And for people with diabetes, it helps with blood sugar management, a meta-analysis in Frontiers in Nutrition found.
And here's the good news: You can create this supernutrient in your own kitchen. All you have to do, Patterson says, is cook the rice or pasta and then chill it.
🌱 The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria, Dan Charles, NPR, May 13, 2025.
Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist in Brazil, spent decades looking for bacteria in the soil that could act like fertilizer, boosting farmers' harvests. But she faced a lot of skepticism.✂️
Today, her work was rewarded with the World Food Prize, which recognizes advances in agriculture and nutrition. Bestowed by the World Food Prize Foundation since 1987, it comes with a cash award of $500,000.✂️
Hungria isolated useful strains of bacteria called rhizobia which inhabit nodules on soybean roots, capture nitrogen from the air and convert it into a form that feeds the plant. She also documented benefits from a strain of another soil microbe, Azospirillum, which releases hormones that stimulate the growth of roots, allowing plants like corn, wheat and pasture grasses to capture nutrients more efficiently.✂️
Hungria wants to see women taking a bigger role. Farming has been shaped by a kind of masculine attitude, she says: claiming more land, competing to be "the winner of production."
Women are more likely to shift the focus of farming toward environmental sustainability, Hungria says. Caring for land that's already been claimed rather than trying to clear more. Focusing not just on the size of the harvest but on which crops deliver better nutrition.
That'll be part of her speech, she says, when she formally accepts the World Food Prize later this year. . And Hungria says she'll use the cash she has won to fund a new award that will recognize women who are working in agriculture, microbiology, communications or for the benefit of people with special needs.
🔬 Scientific societies take charge as U.S. climate report faces political uncertainty, Optimist Daily, May 14, 2025.
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) announced plans to publish their own peer-reviewed assessments of climate change impacts on the United States. Their move comes after the administration told 400 scientists working on the federally mandated report that their work was being reevaluated—casting doubt on a key document required by law.
“We are filling in a gap in the scientific process,” said AGU President Brandon Jones. “It’s more about ensuring that science continues.”✂️
Rather than accept a gap in the public’s understanding, the AGU and AMS have chosen action. Their goal: produce a full scientific report within a year. Former federal scientist Anjuli Bamzai noted that the value of these reports lies in their long-range forecasting. “With the assessment, we’re better equipped to deal with the future,” she said. “We can’t be an ostrich and put our head in the sand and let it go.”
Wuebbles agrees: “Watering down or killing the national assessment will not keep the message about the importance of climate change from getting out.” The truth, backed by data and observation, has a way of surfacing.
🎶 Music Time 🎶
🐩 💙 CG’s Picks 💙 🐩
Hello Everybody! It’s me, CG! I was able to find some nice stories for you today!
First, two stories from my city — a dog/cat story and a bird story!
Chicago animal control unveils free, 24-hour microchip scanning to find lost pets, Kaitlin Washburn, Chicago Sun✶Times, May 8, 2025.
Lost pets can now be reunited with their families faster, thanks to a new free station for scanning their microchips.✂️
Microchips, about the size of a grain of rice, are radio frequency identification devices implanted in dogs and cats, usually between their shoulder blades. Owners then register their personal information, like their phone number and home address, on to the chip using a registration database. The chips are only active when they’re scanned and aren’t powered by batteries.
The chips can be scanned and activated at any animal shelter, vet clinic or police station. Owners can figure out which registry tracks their pet’s microchip on the American Animal Health Association’s website.
The process for using the scanner is laid out at the station in English and Spanish. The steps are:
- Scan the pet’s microchip using the handheld device provided in the weatherproof case.
- Write down or take a photo of the chip number that appears on the screen.
- Call the microchip company; instructions provided at the scanning station.
- The company will reach out to the registered owner and help facilitate the reunion.
🐦 Now the bird story ….📢 da da da DAAAAAA!!!…. we are SO excited here in Chicago! Imani and Sea Rocket — our Great Lakes Piping Plover pair have returned to Montrose Beach!! Also, the bachelor plover, Pippin (a real favorite with our bird watchers) has also returned and now everybody is hoping another female will come to the beach and pair up with him! There was one hatchling who survived last year, Nagamo, but we don’t know its sex nor if it is going to make it back here this year. FINGERS and PAWS CROSSED!!! 🤞🐾
But for now, we are overjoyed that both Imani and Sea Rocket have returned!! 😍 There’s another successful pair that returned up in Wisconsin at Waukegan. I don’t know as much about them, but we here in Chicagoland are so happy for Wisconsin, too!
Piping Plover Nest Watch Is On as Imani's Mate Lands at Montrose and Waukegan's Pair Makes Safe Return Too, Patti Wetli, WTTW (PBS), May 12, 2025.
The moment Illinois piping plover watchers have been waiting for finally arrived: The ladies are back.
Sea Rocket, the female plover who mated with Monty-and-Rose scion Imani in 2024, landed at Montrose Beach over the weekend, identified by her telltale leg bands, according to Chicago Piping Plovers. She joins Imani and Pippin, in a repeat of last year's love triangle.
Plover monitors will be keeping a close eye on mating and nesting behavior, with Sea Rocket and Imani having hatched four chicks in 2024. Only one, Nagamo, survived to full fledge. With Nagamo's sex unknown, hopes have been high that the chick might be a female and a potential partner for Pippin.
The size of the protected beach at Montrose could likely support two nesting pairs of plovers, according to wildlife experts.
👶 Here, have a few moments of dogs with newborn human babies:
🐶 This next story is sort of sad and sort of happy. I feel bad for Charlie the pug, because his humans are fighting over who gets to keep him. That has to be awful for everybody. I think the judge did the best thing, in a situation that is so hard. But vaccination is important — even life and death in some cases. I am happy that Charlie will get his vaccinations.
Regina woman wins custody of Charlie the pug because former partner refused to vaccinate him, Dan Zakreski, CBC, May 12, 2025.
"These types of claims tear at the heartstrings of a judge," he wrote in his May 1 civil court decision... Having to decide whether a person is to be denied access to, and possession of, a pet that they have loved and cared for over many years is not an enjoyable task."✂️
Charlie the pug (screenshot of CBC photo)
Demong said the man did not help his case by admitting under questioning that he had doctored the original purchase agreement by adding his name and signature to make it look like the couple had jointly paid the $800 to buy it from a breeder.
Even with that misstep, Demong said both owners raised the animal, took good care of it and shared costs.
It was the stance on vaccines that tilted the scale. The man had made it clear he opposed vaccines, going so far as sending a letter to their vet indicating that he did not consent "to Charlie my black pug get [sic] his vaccinations of any sort."✂️
"Were he granted exclusive possession and ownership of Charlie and followed through with his anti-vaccine approach to Charlie's care, this nonfeasance/misfeasance could cause illness or death not only to Charlie, but to animals and humans which come into contact with him," Demong wrote.
"It is not only in Charlie's best interest, but it alleviates the potential concern that [his] approach to dog care might create serious health hazards to other animals and to people who encounter him."
Demong awarded the woman full ownership of Charlie, conditional on her paying her former partner $400.
⚡️ Lightning RoundUp ⚡️
⚡️ Reality Strikes Back, Matt Kerbel, Wolves and Sheep, May 12, 2025.
⚡️ Why Pope Leo XIV is More than One Small Stand Against Trump, Jill Filipovic, Daily Beast, May 13, 2025.
⚡️ I’m a College Dropout and I’m Better at U.S. Civics than SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts, Michael Ian Black, Daily Beast, May 13, 2025.
⚡️ Why the Democrats are still stuck in the past, Paul Rosenberg, Salon, May 10, 2025.
⚡️ How middle-of-the-night wake-ups might unlock your most creative ideas, Optimist Daily, May 8, 2025.
⚡️ A GRAND EXPERIMENT IN PARENTHOOD AND FRIENDSHIP, Rhaina Cohen, the Atlantic, May 11, 2025.
⚡️ Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork, Jack Leeming, Nature, May 13, 2025.
🎧 Antony Blinken: ‘The jury is still out’ if the US is a reliable ally, Times Radio YouTube, May 12, 2025.
🎧 Pope Leo XIV: The Journey from Chicago to Rome. A Charlie Rose Global Conversation, Charlie Rose, May 10, 2025.
🎧 Pete On How We Stand Up To Trump and Offer Something Better, Pete Buttigieg, May 13, 2025.
🎧 Trump Broke The Global Economy All By Himself (w/ Justin Wolfers), the Bulwark, May 13, 2025.
🚧 🩷 ❣️ How Can You Help Build a Better World? ❣️ 🩷 🚧
I’m going to share some of the excellent links and suggestions from GoodNewsRoundup and chloris creator. Repetition is good!
🎩 GOODNEWSROUNDUP:
There are many ways to get involved. Everyone can find something that works for them.
Here are some ideas.
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If you can, I strongly recommend going to an in person meeting in your area.
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Join the truth brigade! Grassroots-powered lie-stopping. Person by person; mind by opened mind
- Election Response Center is a project hosted by Working Families Party, MoveOn Civic Action, Indivisible, and Public Citizen. They are organizing lots of events to get people fighting. Join one at this link
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The ACLU plays a key role in filing lawsuits that often stop voter suppression. Get involved with them at this link.
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Get involved with the Democratic party. We aren’t perfect, but they are fucking evil.
- Get involved with the States Project They are working on turning state legislatures blue
- Get involved with Swing Left. They are working on races right now!
- People For the American Way is a national progressive advocacy organization that inspires and mobilizes Americans to defend freedom, justice, and democracy from those who threaten to take them away. Get involved with them here
- Center for American Progress Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan policy institute and advocacy organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. Get involved with them here
🎩 CHLORIS CREATOR:
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.
Other Actions
I alternate between PTV Etsy shop postcards (now on sale for May!) and other pretty postcards that I find on Bookshop.org like these flower ones.
📞 Call your Congress critters and register your concerns!
(202) 224-3121 is the main switchboard number for Congress. They will ask for your city and state or your zip code and connect you with your representatives. It’s easy and it does make a difference.
📪 Write postcards to help Democratic candidates and progressive judges get elected:
Postcards to Voters3️⃣ Check out
Third Act Actions page — there might be something there that you can do.
🚨 NEW! 🚨
Thanks to arhpdx for this link from yesterday’s GNR:
🧵 Share your favorite news sites, podcasts or vloggers in the comments! The GNR comments section is a bonus reason to read GNR every day!!
💙 RoundUp WindDown 💙
That’s it from me and CG for this Wednesday.
Remember everybody, you are important and your wellbeing is important, too. Take good care of yourself. Get some rest. Eat nutritious food. Make time for fresh air and time outdoors to help you keep perspective.
Thanks for reading and have a happy Wednesday!
