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- Sergeant of the Guard Chelsea Porterfield, for supervising the 1st all-female sentinel changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery
- The war on malaria, as the World Health Organization OKs world’s 1st vaccine that could prevent 5M cases and 23,000 deaths in children under 5 yearly
- The slow march toward judicial diversity, as Lauren King is confirmed as a federal judge in Seattle, making her the sixth Native American to sit on a federal bench
- The hundreds of thousands of participants protesting the wave of anti-abortion laws at the 2021 Women’s March in DC and over 500 other cities
- Ex-Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen, for pulling back the curtain to expose the rot in Zuckerberg's social media misinformation- and hate-spreading platforms
- Investigative Journalism, as Reuters exposes AT&T's funding of Q-Anon cult network OAN, and the reporters who pored through leaked tax-dodger files to produce the Pandora Papers
- District Judge Robert Pitman, for ordering Texas to suspend its new Republican vigilante-justice abortion law
- President Biden: hardline stance on vaccines is working "spectacularly well"; raves for restoring Bears Ears back to pre-Trump boundaries; unemployment rate drops to 4.8%
- The 42 million Americans on food stamps who are getting an average 27% boost to their benefits this month---the largest increase in its history
- The Nobel Prize winners, including Peace Prize recipients Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists fighting to defend free expression in the Philippines and Russia
Bill’s Friday poll is here.
Who won the week for you? Who made a winning move after Bill's deadline on Friday?
Science
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” ~ Louis Pasteur
World Health Organization green lights the world's first malaria vaccine
On Wednesday, the RTS,S vaccine got the green light from the World Health Organization for widespread use.
Jason Beaubien, NPR: This is not only the first authorized malaria vaccine, it's also the first vaccine ever approved for use against a parasitic disease in humans.
The recommendation comes after RTS,S showed positive results in a pilot program in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. The vaccine cut malaria cases by 40% and reduced hospitalizations of the potentially deadly disease by nearly a third.
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Pedro Alonso, head of WHO's Global Malaria Program, says part of the problem is that malaria is a complicated disease. "This is a parasitic disease," he points out. The parasite life cycle plays out in multiple stages in different parts of the human body and in the mosquito hosts. "This is orders of magnitude more complex in terms of the biology of the causative organism [than a virus]," he says.
Image: Blood cell infected with malaria, Daily Kos Image Library.
The discovery that a chemical is deadly to the bacterium that causes Lyme disease but harmless to animals might allow the disease to be eradicated in the wild.
“Lyme disease is well-positioned to be eradicated,” says Kim Lewis at Northeastern University in Boston. “We are gearing up, the first field trial will be next summer.”
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that lurks in wild mice. Ticks that feed on the mice become infected and can infect other animals, including people.
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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.
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- Fridays: chloris creator. Regular links to the White House Briefing Room.
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The 6 R’s of the Resistance
Joe Biden is now our President. However, we continue to stay vocal and active, we continue to pull Joe to the left, and we continue resist the GQP.
- Refresh and Rest: Take care of you, the hero: Eat well, exercise, and rest.
- Resist: Protest on the streets, call senators and representatives, etc.
- Rebel: Run for office, GOTV (Get Out The Vote), support a progressive.
- Revolt: Change the laws, change the culture, build your communities.
- Rely: Trust that millions of others are fighting the good fight.
- Rejoice: Joy promotes resilience and gives rise to hope.
How to Resist: Do Something …
From chloris creator:
Indivisible has created a Truth Brigade to push back against the lies.
Propaganda, false characterizations, intentionally misleading messages, and outright lies threaten our democracy and even our lives. We can effectively combat disinformation, despite the well-funded machines that drive it. They may have money, but we have truth and we have people. People believe sources they trust. When we share and amplify unified, factual messages to those who trust us, we shift the narrative. When we do this by the thousands--we’re part of the Indivisible Truth Brigade, and we get our country back. Join us.️
Our own Mokurai is a member. You can see his diary on the California recall here.
From GoodNewsRoundup
Most important: DON'T LOSE HOPE. This is a giant and important fight for us but, win or lose, we keep fighting and voting and organizing and spreading truth and light. We never give up.
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I’ve scheduled this diary to post at 7 a.m. ET, though I will likely not be able to comment for most of the day. I’ll be working on my major project, rolling a big ball uphill over and over moving from our home of 41 years to a new house, which requires ADA changes and upgrades by contractors, electricians, and plumbers. Decluttering, deciding, exciting, tiring.
Therefore, I will not be able to return until much later in the day. Fortunately for me, you all know what to do!
Power with, not power over ❤️ ✊ ❤️
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