Cheers and Jeers archive and future editions here. Way, way more than 2 thanks to The One, our Wicked Wizard of Wit and writer of Who Won the Week, Willhelm von kosland!
- Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand, for introducing a postal banking bill to bring basic banking services to low-income Americans and raise $9 billion annually for the USPS
- Team Biden-Harris: 100M vaccinations goal on target; Trump-era US Attorneys fired; drops support for ACA lawsuit now at Supreme Court; denies classified intel to #45; 61% approval in AP poll
- Net Neutrality, as Justice Dept. withdraws a lawsuit blocking California from establishing statewide net neutrality laws after Trump's FCC repealed them nationally
- LGBTQ Americans, as White House reinstates Fair Housing Act protections at HUD, and re-opens enlistment to trans patriots who want to serve their country in uniform
- Fulton County, Georgia prosecutors, who opened up a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the state's election win for Biden-Harris by ordering officials to "find" 11,000 votes
- The impeachment managers---Reps. Raskin, DeGette, Cicilline, Castro, Swalwell, Lieu, Dean, Plaskett, and Neguse---and their staffs for their devastating January 6 timeline of Trump's insurrection
- Egyptian-American Hassaan Shahawy, who becomes the first Muslim president of the 134-year-old Harvard Law Review
- The legacy of gay civil rights icon/1963 D.C. March organizer Bayard Rustin, as the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions and director George Wolfe team up to produce “Rustin” for Netflix
- New Zealanders, for spending their Waitangi Day festivities together without masks or lockdowns because they've managed the Covid pandemic brilliantly from the start, so…no worries!
- The winners from Sunday's most consequential weekend sporting event which, of course, was Puppy Bowl XVII
Bill’s Friday poll is here.
Who do you think won the week? Did someone do something important after Friday afternoon (Bill's approximate cut-off point)?
Our map of Gnuville: About 500 of us have shared our global locations!
To leave your mark, please drop a comment or send them a kosmail: tljdk, silverfoxcruiser, and keepiru. Please include city and state only, NOT street number and street. (Persist, we are volunteers.)
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Science
Trust in COVID vaccines is growing
Attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines seem to be improving in some parts of the world, a survey of thousands of people in 15 countries has found. Researchers have welcomed the results, which suggest that an increasing proportion of people are willing to be immunized. But they caution that some problems persist, such as concerns about vaccine safety.
“For the first time since the pandemic began, I can sense that optimism is spreading faster than the virus,” says behavioural scientist Sarah Jones at Imperial College London, who co-led the global attitudes towards a COVID-19 vaccine survey.
The survey is part of the COVID-19 behaviour tracker, run by Imperial together with the UK market-research company YouGov. It ran from November 2020 to January 2021, polling around 13,500 people across Europe, Asia and Australia each time. In November — before countries began to approve COVID-19 vaccines — only around 40% of respondents said they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if they were offered one during the week that they took the survey, and more than half were worried about potential side effects.
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Good News Roundups 7 x 7: These Gnusies lead the herd @ 7 a.m., 7 days a week:
We've changed our Tuesday and Wednesday lineups:
- Mondays: Jessiestaf. Jessie’s five help us survive and thrive.
- Alternating Tuesdays: NotNowNotEver and arhpdx.
- Wednesdays: niftywriter.
- Thursdays: pucklady the 1st Thursday, Mokurai the 2nd, oldhippiedude the 3rd, MCUBernieFan the 4th, and Mokurai the 5th (when there is one).
- Fridays: chloris creator. Regular links to the White House Briefing Room.
- Saturdays: GoodNewsRoundup. Heart-stirring and soul-healing introduction and sometimes memes to succumb to.
- 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.
Thank you, karij! ❤
Due to changes in her working-at-home schedule, karij has had to step down from her Wednesday writing rotation, but niftywriter has picked up the openings on Wednesdays, and arhpdx has switched days to alternate Tuesdays with NotNowNotEver. And we are looking forward to greeting and hugging and mooing and leaping into the river and frolicking over the veldt with karij in future comments. Happy trails, karij! And thanks again!
~ 2thanks, for the Gnusies ❤
The 6 R’s of the Resistance
Joe Biden is now our President. We’ll need to stay vocal and active, we’ll need to keep pulling Joe to the left, and we’ll need to keep resisting 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 …
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Tattoo the Republicans’ impeachment votes on their foreheads.
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Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Fixing our Democracy
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And the following, from GoodNewsRoundup:
- Are you looking for a new focus now that we have good people in charge? Fighting voter suppression might be for you! Nothing is as important! What can you do?
- Contact your local representative NOW to encourage them to pass the For the People Act. This link makes it easy to do!
- The ACLU plays a key role in filing lawsuits that often stop voter suppression. Get involved with them at this link.
- The League of Women Voters work year-round to combat voter suppression through advocacy, grassroots organizing, legal action and public education. You can get involved with them at this link
- Volunteer with Black Votes Matter at this link. They have on the ground work in 10 states and people from other states can write postcards, phone bank, fundraise, and text.
- Spread The Vote works to get voters IDs before voting begins. You can volunteer with them at this link.
- Finally, when it comes time to pass S1 (the new voting rights act) the Democrats will have to end the filibuster to do it. It will not pass without that. 10 Republicans will not vote for it. So, when the time comes, you will need to call, call, call and call your Senators to push them to do this. If you live in Arizona, Montana, or West Virginia, you may want to put in for some vacation time to really devote yourself to it. It will be the only option. Get ready!
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 campaigning?
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How to thank the Capitol Police
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Happy Hearts Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day to all first-time readers and founding Gnusies (3 years and 3 months ago) and everyone in between!
Image: A heart-shape sign with a “Love” Valentine message is on display on the North Lawn of the White House February 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. The office of first lady Jill Biden set up the Valentine messages to the country overnight to mark Valentine’s Day. According to a media release, Valentine’s Day has always been one of the favorite holidays of the first lady. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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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 3-1/2 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!
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