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- Senate Democrats, for unveiling a sweeping voting rights bill that's getting positive reviews for measurers that will block a ton of state GOP suppression laws
- The AZ Supreme Court, for ruling that all the paperwork related to the Cyber Ninjas' sham audit of the 2020 election results must be made public
- California Governor Gavin Newsom, for his mega-landslide victory over Guy Whose Name I've Forgotten in the dumb GOP recall election that wasted $300 million
- Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, for denying a request to delay E. Jean Carroll's rape-related defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump
- The Boston mayor's office, as the field of candidates vying for the city's top job are narrowed to Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi. For the first time, no white man is on the ticket.
- The first all-civilian crew in space, as four orbit earth for 3 days in the Crew Dragon capsule "Inspiration4" to conduct experiments and raise money for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
- 150th-ranked British tennis player Emma Raducanu, 18, for defying all odds and winning the U.S. Open tournament
- Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, for working quietly behind the scenes to calm the nerves of his counterparts in other major countries as lame duck President Trump lost his last marble
- Gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman & Maggie Nichols, for courageously condemning the FBI in a Senate hearing over the Larry Nassar investigation
- Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D), who got married to his partner Wednesday, marking the first same-sex marriage of a sitting U.S. governor
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
Why this stage of the pandemic makes us so anxious
Amy Cuddy, JillEllyn Riley, Washington Post Opinion: With the threat from the delta variant bearing down across the United States, it’s almost hard to remember the heady days earlier this summer when many of us were experiencing relief, joy, even euphoria as we began to resurface from the pandemic. Barbecues with friends, dinners out, live music, connecting with people face-to-face — all of the antidotes to isolation we’d been craving became tangible realities.
During the week of June 14, as vaccinations were becoming widespread and public life seemed to be returning to normal, Gallup classified 59.2 percent of Americans as “thriving” based on their responses to a survey that asked them to evaluate their lives, the highest average score on that measure in 13 years. Optimism was through the roof.
But now, many people are experiencing a starkly different set of feelings — blunted emotions, spikes in anxiety and depression, and a desire to drastically change something about their lives. If this sounds familiar, you might be one of the many people experiencing what we’ve begun to refer to as “pandemic flux syndrome.” It’s admittedly not a clinical term, but it seems to capture something about the moment we’re living through.
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One of the authors of that editorial, the social psychologist Amy Cuddy, for a long time had the most-watched TED Talk. In that talk, she explained “the functioning of body language, how it affects others and how we can use it to improve our lives and even change our body chemistry. Cuddy’s own experience with an accident, her recovery and successful completion of her academic degree is so inspiring that her TED Talk has been viewed 15,501,716 times.” Her speech is still in the top-10 list of the most-viewed Ted Talks.
Got any good science news for us?
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Image: Two maps of the United States, one above the other. Both maps indicate the approximate locations of members of the Good News Roundup community. The lower map contains many more blue pin-markers than the upper map. Upper image: A map of Gnuville from February 15, 2019 with fewer than 50 Gnusie pins. Lower image: A map of Gnuville from March 21, 2021 with 582 pins across our orb. [Thanks Kluger2!]
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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.
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- Thursdays: Mokurai the 1st, 2nd, and 5th (when there is one), oldhippiedude the 3rd, MCUBernieFan the 4th.
- Fridays: chloris creator. Regular links to the White House Briefing Room.
- Saturdays: GoodNewsRoundup is taking a well-earned month-long break. Other writers will sub for her. Fare thee well, Mayor!
- 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.
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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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