Welcome 😄 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News!
I celebrated the 4th of July by going to a restaurant, my first time in nearly two years. Such an ordinary experience, made extraordinary by circumstances.
I also expect to be AFK (away from keyboard) most of today, so I ask everyone else to chip in and manage things.
In order to remain in good standing with a granddaughter, a while back I watched Frozen II. In it Anna has to make choices, even when she is not sure about the outcome. Here are a few of the lyrics:
Just do the next right thing
Take a step, step again
It is all that I can to do
The next right thing
I won't look too far ahead
It's too much for me to take
But break it down to this next breath, this next step
This next choice is one that I can make
So I'll walk through this night
Stumbling blindly toward the light
And do the next right thing
That’s what we’re doing. The next right thing, the steps we can see. And because so many around the country — indeed, around the world — are attempting to get us to go in the same direction, sometimes we actually succeed.
Come on in, dear gnusies, and add your own bits today, and I’ll check what you wrote when I get back.
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, the chaos, and yes, even the attempts to cling to power despite the clear will of the people. 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 from those very bad people. We are furious with them for what they are doing and we are letting them know. Remember:
💚 There are more of us than there are of them.
💛 They are terrified when we organize. THERE IS LOTS OF EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE TERRIFIED!
💔 They want us to be demoralized. We have to keep demoralizing them. Name, blame and shame! IT IS WORKING! WE HAVE EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE DEMORALIZED!
💙 The best way to keep up your spirits is to fight. So, take the time to recharge your batteries, but find ways to contribute to the well-being of our country and our world.
🗽 Biden as President!🗽
Biden, Harris and their administration have been hard at work. Here are the last week’s posts at the White House briefing room.
- Thursday, July 8, 2021: Readout of President Biden’s Meeting With Leaders from Legacy Black Civil Rights Organizations
- Thursday, July 8, 2021: Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
- Thursday, July 8, 2021: Remarks by President Biden on the Drawdown of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan
- Thursday, July 8, 2021: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, July 8, 2021
- Thursday, July 8, 2021: FACT SHEET: Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework Creates Economic Opportunities for Rural America
- Thursday, July 8, 2021: President Joe Biden Appoints Nine Members to President’s Council of Governors
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Hong Kong
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Hong Kong
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Remarks by President Biden During a Tour of McHenry County College
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jen Psaki Aboard Air Force One En Route Crystal Lake, IL
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Visit of His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Remarks by President Biden Before Marine One Departure
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on the Assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Readout of White House Meeting with Youth Voting Groups
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021: Readout of Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger’s Meeting with Bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021: Readout from NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Saudi Vice Minister of Defense Khalid bin Salman
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021: Statement by President Joe Biden on the Six-Month Anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection on the Capitol
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, July 6, 2021
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021: Statement by President Joe Biden on Cameron Kinley
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021: Remarks by President Biden on the COVID-19 Response and the Vaccination Program
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021: Bill Signing: S. 409 and S. 1340
- Monday, July 5, 2021: Remarks by President Biden Celebrating Independence Day and Independence from COVID-19
- Sunday, July 4, 2021: President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Florida Emergency Declaration
- Sunday, July 4, 2021: Statement by Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger on Reporting Kaseya Compromises
- Sunday, July 4, 2021: Statement by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Military Plane Crash in the Philippines
- Saturday, July 3, 2021: Remarks by President Biden After Visiting King Orchards
- Friday, July 2, 2021: Remarks by President Biden in a Naturalization Ceremony with Essential Workers and Military Service Members
- Friday, July 2, 2021: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese, July 2, 2021
- Friday, July 2, 2021: Remarks by President Biden at the 2021 National Education Association Annual Meeting
- Friday, July 2, 2021: President Biden Announces Six Key Nominations
- Friday, July 2, 2021: President Biden Announces Seven Key Nominations
- Friday, July 2, 2021: Statement by NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Call with Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi of Indonesia
- Friday, July 2, 2021: Remarks by President Biden Honoring the 2020 World Series Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Friday, July 2, 2021: President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Amends Florida Emergency Declaration
As of July 8 (9 am Thurssday) 332,345,797 vaccinations have reached American arms.
👎 Out with the Bad, In with the Good 👍
Having tfg in office led to the deaths of so many. But look at this!
💣 Republicans in Disarray 💣
Not backing the incumbent senator of own party...
But others are on the other side (🎩 hpg):
More GOP turmoil, this time in Greenville, SC Jamie Lovegrove The Post and Courier
GREENVILLE — Top officials at the Greenville Republican Party have abruptly resigned after months of tension with outspoken activists, blaming their critics for a relentless campaign of “intimidation, threats, bullying, disenfranchisement and character assassination” that has thrown the organization into turmoil.
In a letter to South Carolina GOP headquarters July 8 that was obtained by The Post and Courier, Greenville GOP Chair Jennifer Black, 1st Vice Chair Stacy Shea and state Executive Committeeman Randy Page said the ongoing attempt to thwart their leadership has made their positions untenable.
“While we have patiently sought resolution, addressed the constant baseless accusations, and always demonstrated transparency and a willingness to move forward, it has been met with barricades at every turn,” the group wrote.
Republicans are refusing to get vaccinated in order to spite Biden. (Travis Gettys, Raw Story) This is so stupid, but what can you do?
"There hasn't been enough research done on it, and I'd rather take my chances with the virus than I would to get the vaccine," Jennifer Davis, a 41-year-old Trump supporter from Springfield, told Bloomberg. "I trust my immune system. If I get it, and it's my time to die, then I get it and it's my time to die."
Her 50-year-old uncle, Larry Krauck, spent spent 33 days on a blood-oxygenation machine toward the end of last year, before vaccines were available to the public, and he's trying to convince friends and neighbors to get their shots -- but Davis said even Trump himself couldn't convince her to do it.
We can only help them so much; after that, we need to protect ourselves and to protect the vulnerable.
New RW social site a complete mess Tim Miller The Bulwark
For starters, Gettr’s verification system is a mess because the platform hasn’t figured out how to resolve the tension between freedom of speech and the freedom to spoof. Which is to say, if you’re a Newsmax anchor, you can get a special red Verrit V, meaning that you are who you say you are. Other accounts are stuck with a black V that I could not determine the significance of. Still other accounts display a homemade checkmark.
And the pranksters got me! My very first brand follow—@SonicFastFood—was not a representative of America’s heritage of innovative and tasty drive-in cuisine, but rather a digital gathering space for furry porn. Of which there is a lot on Gettr.
Look, that’s not my bag of beans but no judgment. If MAGAs are into that sort of thing, that’s cool. But let me just say that during my first day on Gettr I didn’t come across a single substantive exchange of ideas—but I was exposed to a very great deal of Sonic the Hedgehog erotica. What a world.
💙 Democrats Being Cool 💙
Eric Adams’ win in the NYC primary gives Ds a better story with the police Mark Allen, Axios
Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain who's poised to become New York mayor after winning the Democratic primary last night, points to a new path for Democrats to navigate the police issue.
Why it matters: With homicides up across the country, and cuts to police spending in several major cities, key Democrats fear that last year's defund-the-police rhetoric could haunt them in next year's midterms. And Republicans plan to make crime a top issue.
Adams, 60, who retired as an NYPD captain after a 22-year law-enforcement career, spoke to rattled New Yorkers with a twin message of "the justice we deserve and the safety we need."
And we’re helping the economy, too!
Biden to sign EO curtailing non-compete clauses Oriana Gonzalez Axios
President Biden is expected to issue an executive order calling on the Federal Trade Commission to adopt rules to limit the use of noncompete clauses, the White House announced Wednesday.
Why it matters: Noncompete clauses "force workers to sign away their right to take jobs in similar fields, often for months after leaving a job. These are increasing income inequality and helping hold down Americans' wage," analysts say.
What they're saying: "[R]oughly half of private sector businesses require at least some employees to enter noncompete agreements, affecting over 30 million people. This affects construction workers, hotel workers, many blue-collar jobs, not just high-level executives," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a press gaggle.
Psaki noted that the executive order will also attempt to limit "unnecessary occupational licensing requirements." She said that nearly 30% of jobs in the U.S. require a license, and while they can be important for health and safety concerns, "overly burdensome licensing can lock people out of jobs."
Wages are going up, too, as employers compete for workers:
Democrats tackling the gun problem. This transcript is from the July 7 edition of the Rachel Maddow Show.
On the Democratic side, there is all that stuff I just described going on with the administration today. Below the federal level, at the state level today, we just got really interesting new law in New York state passed by the Democratic legislature in New York state, signed by that state`s Democratic governor. It`s a new law that would allow individual communities in New York or the state attorney general in New York to sue gun makers, to sue gun manufacturers for the horror that is caused by the illegal use of guns, the criminal use of guns in New York state.
Again, this new law just signed in New York. This is something that is definitely going to go to court. But there is a federal law that`s not that old that was passed by a Republican congress, signed into law by a Republican president. There`s this federal law that is designed to shield gun manufacturers from lawsuits, that this runs right up against. And arguably that federal law has really never been properly tested.
Here`s blue state New York today going on offense to say, hey, we`ll test it. We want to be able to treat gun manufacturers like the tobacco companies got treated or any other company that makes products that kill people, that society has to otherwise clean up after without their help. That innovation, that policy innovation, which, again, will definitely be tested in the courts, coming today out of New York right on the heels of something from the West Coast. San Jose, California, the biggest city in Silicon Valley, enacting a new regulation by which local gun owners in San Jose will be required personally to get liability insurance because gun ownership has proven to be something that inherently poses a risk to others, they want gun owners to have to buy liability insurance.
They also want an annual tax for gun owners to defray local expenses in dealing with gun crimes. That too will end up in court. But that`s the community of San Jose, California, relatively progressive community in progressive state going on offense on gun violence, trying to innovate some kind of policy solution to something that is so intractable and so intolerable in so many American communities, a problem for which Republicans have blocked every proposed reform or advance of any kind at the federal level.
💜 Unity? 💜
Biden in Illinois selling infrastructure in a red district Lynn Sweet and Rachel Hinton Chicago Sun-Times
Before Biden set foot in the gymnasium of McHenry County College, supporters of former President Donald Trump lined a street leading into the community college to remind the Democrat he was still in “MAGA Country.”
A few dozen Trump supporters rallied outside the college in Crystal Lake, slowing traffic as they waved U.S. flags, or banners that read “Trump Country” and “Make America Proud Again” as drivers in passing cars honked.
McHenry County was carried by Trump in 2020.
“Fight for your country!” a woman, who did not give her name, yelled into a megaphone over cheers from other Trump supporters.
This is important. So many of these people live in bubbles and have no idea about the truth. Biden is reaching out to them. And… infrastructure is popular.
Biden is also using this against McConnell
Sometimes we get acknowledgment...
Not everyone likes the Lincoln Project but they are taking actions against seditionist funders
📥 Actions You Can Take 📤
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. Biden and Harris can do the top-down stuff, but we have to support from the bottom. I don’t know how to deprogram 75 million people, but some things have been written about, such as deep canvassing, and lots of people are talking about this. If you know someone (who did not storm the Capitol), then see if you can be pleasant. Instead of trying to reason with them (logic is obviously not their strong point) distract them with something else. We need to remove the sources of lies and to take down the temperature. If we get more of the Rs to wear masks and to get vaccinated and to vote for Ds, the country will be a better place. We need to coax some of them out of the rabbit holes and diffuse the anger and the crazy.
🏃 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. This is a list with companies that sometimes have donated to the seditionists, and their current approach to supporting or not supporting 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.
🐍 Schadenfreude 😈
tRump’s bragging about the tax code may come back to haunt him. Harder to pretend ignorance when you’ve claimed to be an expert. Aaron Blake, Washington Post
“They go after good, hard-working people for not paying taxes on a company car,” Trump said Saturday night at a rally in Sarasota, Fla. “You didn’t pay tax on the car or a company apartment. You used an apartment because you need an apartment because you have to travel too far where your house is. You didn’t pay tax. Or education for your grandchildren. I don’t even know. Do you have to? Does anybody know the answer to that stuff?”
It’s certainly valid to suggest Trump is granting that these violations might have indeed happened. Perhaps the better interpretation, though, is that Trump is mounting a defense: one of ignorance. (Okay, maybe this stuff happened, but we — or at least I — didn’t know it was illegal.) And knowledge of the tax law is vital to proving tax fraud.
There is one massive problem with all of this, though. And that’s that Trump has spent years telling us he is, in fact, the world’s — and even history’s — foremost expert on the tax code.
“By the way, just so you know, I know more formulas, I know more about tax abatements, I know more about taxes than any human being that God ever created,” Trump said in March 2016.
Giuliani’s law license suspended again, but this time in DC, Summer Concepcion, Talking Points Memo
The hits keep on coming.
Less than two weeks after his law license was suspended in New York as a result of the lies he peddled in a bid to subvert the 2020 election on former President Trump’s behalf, Rudy Giuliani was dealt another blow with his suspension from practicing law in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
An order filed in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals cites the former mayor’s suspension from practicing law in New York as key to its decision to suspend his law license in D.C.
Recommendation to fire two Seattle insurrectionist police officers Lewis Kamb and Mike Carter Seattle Times
Two of the six off-duty Seattle police officers who attended a pro-Trump rally that led to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in January trespassed onto restricted grounds and stood by in the immediate vicinity of an “active insurrection,” according to a detailed six-month investigation by department watchdogs.
The two officers — a married couple identified by a department source as Seattle Police Department Officers Alexander Everett and Caitlin Rochelle — later downplayed and likely lied to internal investigators about their actions at the so-called “Stop the Steal” rally and should be fired, the investigation also concluded.
Three of the other four officers who attended the Washington, D.C., rally on Jan. 6 were cleared of allegations of unprofessional conduct and did not break any laws, the investigation found. The investigation into allegations against the fourth officer was inconclusive, according to the department’s civilian-run Office of Police Accountability, which released the findings Thursday.
📣 Let’s Honor Truth ☀️ and 🌹 Let’s Celebrate Love ❤️
Here is a story that fits both categories: health workers in Appalachia treating COVID deniers. Peter Jamison, Washington Post️
ABINGDON, Va. — The hospital executives at the lectern called her a hero, and the struggle that had earned Emily Boucher that distinction showed on her face: in the pallor acquired over 12-hour shifts in the intensive care unit, the rings beneath eyes that watched almost every day as covid-19 patients gasped for their final breaths.
The pandemic had hit late but hard in the Appalachian highlands — the mountainous region that includes Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee — and over the winter many of its victims had ended up on ventilators tended by Boucher and her fellow nurses at Johnston Memorial Hospital.
They were enduring the traumas known to ICU workers across the world: days filled with death, nights ruined by dreams in which they found themselves at infected patients’ bedsides without masks. But they were also enduring a trauma that many doctors and nurses elsewhere were not: the suspicion and derision of those they risked their lives to protect. ✂️
The post-traumatic stress experienced by nurses and doctors during the pandemic has been compared to what soldiers suffer. But in places still rife with covid denial — often rural, conservative and devoted to former president Donald Trump — there is a difference: It is like having fought in a war that many believe never took place.
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ More love…
And more defense of the truth Nicole LaFondTalking Points Memo
While the conservative fever swamps’ fear mongering over critical race theory intensifies to new, unhinged heights, the nation’s largest teachers unions are vowing to stand behind educators if they are punished due to new state laws that try to limit or outright ban critical discussions on race, discrimination and the role it plays in American history. ✂️
Educators across the country speculate the new laws are meant to discourage teachers from even talking about race in the classroom or giving honest lessons on the Civil War, slavery, abolition, the Jim Crow era and even up to modern day current events. But as more states consider legislation aimed at punishing teachers for teaching about race, two of the nation’s largest teachers unions have spoken up, vowing to protect educators.
“Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,” American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten told members during a virtual speech last night, according to the Associated Press. “Teaching the truth is not radical or wrong. Distorting history and threatening educators for teaching the truth is what is truly radical and wrong.”
📎Odds & Ends 📎
✈️ United Airlines offers workers extra for proof of vaccination Leslie Josephs CNBC
The carrier will give flight attendants up to three additional days off for nearly 10 hours of pay in their 2022 vacation day bank if they show they have been fully vaccinated by June 9, according to a memo from their union sent Thursday.
They will receive two days valued at 6.5 hours of pay if they receive the first dose between June 10 and July 1 and the second in the manufacturers’ requirements, unless it is a single-dose shot.
The programs are voluntary but the Association of Flight Attendants, their union, noted that governments could require it.
“In the event a vaccination requirement was to come about, any Flight Attendant not vaccinated and/or who has not provided documentation to substantiate the vaccination to United would be ineligible to work any flight to a destination in a country where a vaccination requirement exists,” the AFA said.
This is good. I saw a tweet that Alaska flight attendants were refusing to get vaccinated. Everyone, before you book a flight, ask if the personnel are vaccinated! Otherwise, they will spread the disease.
Acknowledging those who worked so hard:
💉 Walmart (!) providing access to cheaper drugs Good News Network
Walmart is seeking to bring “everyday low prices” to medical care.
They announced the launch of a version of insulin that will be less expensive to people who do not have health insurance or struggle to afford the cost of life-saving drugs.
“These products will save customers between 58% to 75% off the cash price of branded analog insulin products, which translates to a savings of up to $101 per branded vial or $251 per package of branded FlexPens,” said the company in a new release this week.
Type I diabetes is the genetic curse in my family; I don’t have it but both of my nieces do. This is very good news.
💰 Baltimore suing oil and gas companies forhigher temperatures Sushma Subramanian EcoWatch
In a recent lawsuit, the city argues that fossil fuel companies should be held responsible for such costs because they knowingly contributed to the climate crisis. Baltimore's case is one of more than 20 suits brought by a range of other cities, states and counties that are suing the major oil conglomerates for driving the climate crisis and offloading the financial burden onto the American public.
The legal strategy is a novel approach toward addressing the climate crisis, and some legal experts believe Baltimore's suit may be the bellwether for similar efforts across the country. The case has caught the attention of the US supreme court, which in May ruled in favor of the oil companies over a legal technicality. While the ruling gives the fossil fuel industry the green light to pursue arguing their case in federal court, where they believe they will face better odds than in state court, the legal process is expected to reveal new information on what the industry knew of the environmental destruction brought by climate change.
The Baltimore case, in particular, highlights the ways that densely-populated urban areas bear the burdens of extreme weather patterns. Marginalized communities are the most likely to face the effects.
Stretches of hot weather in the city have become more frequent over the past 40 years. According to the National Weather Service, 10 of the 12 periods in Baltimore's history that saw 20 or more days of 90-degree temperatures or higher have occurred since 1980. Last summer, 16 people died for heat-related reasons, three of whom were suspected or presumed homeless, according to statistics from the Baltimore city health department. On one day in 2020, there were more than 90 emergency department complaints due to heat-related illness, including hyperthermia, dehydration and sunburn.
🐦 I do a lot of other writing. A recent offering: Hunters of the Feather, a story about a thinker-linker crow who wants to save birdkind from extinction, and the sequel, Scavengers of Mind. (They’re really good! They’re really cheap! Buy and review or rate positively! And Hunters is also on sale at Kindle this week, and also available on Audible!) Other stories, based on Jane Austen novels — including a new one for lovers of Pride & Prejudice, Mrs. Bennet’s Advice to Young Ladies — and others on Greek mythology, can be found here.
💙 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.
Current projects:
Look in the comments for Progressive Muse’s report on Postcards to Voters
And some other ideas:
You can relax and recharge.
You can join protests and freeway blog.
You can help register new voters.
You can smile.
You can get out the vote for special elections.
You can reach out to upset Republicans. We need to win some back.
You can share your ideas below.
🌻
💙 “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.” 💙
President Joseph R. Biden
🌹 🌹 🌹
The welcome message, which I won’t be able to post today:
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