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Welcome 🌻 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News!

This week FOX tried to mock Joe Biden because he called his troubled son to tell him he loved him. I am not sure why they thought this was a good idea. There’s a lot of opioid use in the country, and Magats may be even more affected than the rest of us. 

Do they think loving others makes you weak?

We know better. Love is strong. Love supports, love empowers.

Love can keep someone from making a terrible decision.

I hope all the gnusies experience and support others with love.

Now, come in, get fortified, and then Get Out the f*** Vote!

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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. 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, October 13, 2022: Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Asta Skaisgiryte and Kestutis Budrys, Advisors to the President of Lithuania
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: FACT SHEET: Second Meeting of the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Readout from Communities in Action: Building A Better Michigan
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Remarks by President Biden on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investments
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Remarks By President Biden in Press Gaggle
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Readout of President Joe Biden’s Meeting with his Economic Team
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Remarks on Executing a Modern American Industrial Strategy by NEC Director Brian Deese
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Remarks by Vice President Harris at the White House Accelerating Infrastructure Summit
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Statement by President Joe Biden on the September Consumer Price Index Report
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by First Lady Jill Biden at the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA) Representative Assembly
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: FACT SHEET: The Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Action Plan to Accelerate Infrastructure  
• Thursday, October 13, 2022: Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Biden-⁠Harris Administration’s National Security Strategy
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Statement of President Joe Biden on the United Nations General Assembly Vote Condemning Russia’s Illegal Attempts to Annex Ukrainian Territory
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: A Proclamation on Establishment of the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Remarks By President Biden On Protecting And Conserving America’s Iconic Outdoor Spaces
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Situation in and in Relation to Syria
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Situation in and in Relation to Syria
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre En Route Vail, CO
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: President Biden Announces Key Appointments to Boards and Commissions

• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: FACT SHEET: President Biden Designates Camp Hale – Continental Divide National Monument
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Remarks by President Biden in a Virtual Reception for Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: The White House Opens Volunteer Applications for the 2022 Holiday Season
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Press Briefing By Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre And Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Bills Signed: H.R. 91, H.R. 92, H.R. 2142, H.R. 3508, H.R. 3539, H.R. 5809, H.R. 7698, S. 1098
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Readout of White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse Youth Roundtable
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Remarks by President Biden at the Summit on Fire Prevention and Control
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the Israel-Lebanon Maritime Agreement
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with Prime Minister Yair Lapid of Israel
• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with President Michel Aoun of Lebanon

• Tuesday, October 11, 2022: FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Delivers on Strengthening America’s Cybersecurity
• Monday, October 10, 2022: Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Democratic National Committee Finance Event  
• Monday, October 10, 2022: Bills Signed: H.R. 468, H.R. 1766, H.R. 4877, H.R. 5641, H.R. 7500, H.R. 7846, H.R. 8982
• Monday, October 10, 2022: Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine
• Monday, October 10, 2022: Statement by President Biden on Russia’s Missile Strikes

👎 Out with the Bad, In with the Good 👍

👍 The DOD is going to be much more electric. As the DOD uses many vehicles, this is important. This also means that people who wannabe like the military — you know, guys driving over-the-top gas guzzlers — will start lusting after EVs too.

👎 Suit thrown out

💣 Republicans: Party of Crimes and Chaos 💣

The J6 committee has voted to subpoena tRump (now he doesn’t have the “no one ever asked me to testify” defense) and the SCOTUS has rejected his emergency appeal:

There’s so much more analysis elsewhere, I will not try to compete

🔥 tRumper guilty of own arson Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Denis Molla, of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, made up a real sad story in October

2020 about how some leftist vandals spray-painted “Biden 2020,” “BLM” and an “Antifa” symbol on his garage door before setting fire to his camper. He said this was all because he flew a Donald Trump flag in what was about to become Joe Biden’s America. ✂️ 

But it was a big lie. Molla didn’t see three shadowy figures in the dark, one of whom dropped a matchbox. He didn’t heroically save his wife and kids from the flames, nor did he rescue four sleeping puppies from the burning garage.

“I couldn’t see anything. I had to just feel for where the puppies were,” he said, but these puppies were actually just crisis canines.

Molla was charged in July with two counts of wire fraud for allegedly filing a false arson claim. It’s less “alleged” now that he’s admitted in court he set the fire himself so he could score $300,000 in insurance money. He also scammed people on GoFundMe for about $17,000. Trump supporters are more likely to contribute to a GoFundMe out of spite than true sympathy, and this story hit their grievance centers in all the sweet spots.

They’re not just criminals, but stupid criminals. Criminals who are so anxious for attention, they set fire to their own things. It’s embarrassing to share a country with them. 

Ron DeSantis:

The defeated former guy

Did you ever wonder what happened to Cawthorne? He’s sulking somewhere

💙 Democrats Deliver 💙

❤️ Nancy Pelosi

California becomes first state to ban plastic produce bags Olivia Rosane EcoWatch

Much of the movement to reduce ocean plastic pollution has focused on the single-use plastic bags used to cart purchases away from the supermarket. But there’s another type of plastic bag that is ubiquitous in grocery stores across the country: the handleless plastic bags typically on offer by the produce or meat sections for shoppers to tear off and use to separate their apples or cold cuts from the rest of their haul.

In California grocery stores, however, these other plastic bags will soon be a thing of the past. The state became the first in the nation to ban them in grocery stores when Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to that effect into law September 30.

“This kind of plastic film is not recyclable. It’s a contaminant in almost any bin you put it into,” Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for pro-bill group Californians Against Waste, told The San Jose Mercury News. “It flies around landfills and flies out of trucks. It gets stuck on gears at recycling facilities. And it contaminates compost. It’s a problematic product we want to get rid of.”

The bill, known as Senate Bill (SB) 1046, stipulates that stores can only provide so-called “precheckout bags” if they are compostable or made from recyclable paper.

In France they seem to have stuff that will break down. And in some places, they charge you for each one of those bags, which is another way to reduce usage.

Good news for Ohio!

💜 Unity? 💜

We’re not going to get universal condemnation, but many agreed. Some of the African nations that abstained probably wanted to condemn Russia but cannot afford to do so as they are dependent on Russia for food and gas. And, there are many people in the no-voting countries who are very against this war. Just look at the protests in and refugees from Russia.

📥 Actions You Can Take 📤

DONATE TO GNR (part 3) SAVES DEMOCRACY!

newish!!! Tax-exempt organization complaint referrals. 13909. You can fill this out for the NRA and lots of other organizations. How about if some of us white folk go into some of the MAGA churches and video record what they’re saying?

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. Defund the seditionists. This is a list with companies that sometimes have donated to 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 😈

Alex Jones is a horrible RWNJ who has lied about the killings at Sandy Hook for years. The people to be awarded money have been harassed and terrorized by Jones’s followers. This verdict is well deserved.

And, by the way, there’s another trial to come.

Some of Russia’s missiles are missing their marks:

tRump keeps saying, “It’s MINE!” No one is surprised. Some of the candidates may be annoyed, but they have lots of other sugar daddies.

📣 Let’s Honor Truth ☀️️

Let’s take a moment to honor the women in Iran, refusing to endure the horrible theocracy anymore. 

🌹 Let’s Celebrate Love ❤️

We’re starting off today with President Biden, because it’s so important. Joe Biden loves his troubled son Stephen Robinson Wonkette. 

Monday night, Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity played a voicemail Joe Biden left for Hunter back in 2018, when neither man was president. The audio was “obtained” by the Daily Mail. In the voicemail, an obviously despondent Biden says, “It’s Dad. I called to tell you I love you. I love you more than the whole world, pal. You gotta get some help. I know you don’t know what to do. I don’t either.”

Everyone with human souls will need a moment to collect themselves. Fox News viewers will likely have continued without us, not that I flatter myself that very many read this site. ✂️

The ghouls cackling over this voicemail are wrong if they think it embarrasses Joe Biden or makes him look weak. It just makes normal people realize that he’s a good man and an even better father.

Now, a kind gesture to a stranger from a Sikh. Read the two tweets together:

Note the Notice is not the actual notice, but a picture taken off the internet by the author of the tweet.

Finally, Dolly Parton is just one of the most loving humans in our country:

📎Odds & Ends 📎

Some places are being converted into edible gardens, where anyone can come and take what they need. Cathy Free, Washington Post

The city of Andernach, Germany, planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to pluck and take whatever they wanted.

It was such a hit, the following year the city did the same with beans. The next year, it was onions. After that, the city planted fruit trees, lettuce, zucchini, berries and herbs. All were free to anyone who lived or happened to be in the town of 30,000 people.

It’s one of a growing number of places across the globe known as edible cities. In the United States, there are public lands from Seattle to North Carolina where people are welcome to pick and take from fruiting trees and bushes.

Composting in NYC! Paige Bennett, EcoWatch

The Queens borough of New York City is starting a new curbside compost program for its 2.2 million residents, who will not have to sign-up to be involved. The Department of Sanitation program launched on October 3, 2022, and according to the city, it will be the biggest compost program in the U.S.

Compost is collected all across Queens every week, and residents can compost leaf yard waste, food scraps, and food-soiled paper in either provided compost bins or bins adorned with free compost decals provided by the city. Buildings with 10 or more units received bins for free, and smaller residences could request free compost bins by October 1.

In New York City, there is about three pounds of trash put out each day for every resident, according to Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Of the 24 million pounds of rubbish, 8 million pounds are compostable.

And stuff you may not have known about. Note these spiders are not in the Americas:

🐦 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 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. All titles are available through Kindle Unlimited, but I only get paid if you turn the pages.

💙 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.

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💙 “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

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TRUTH MATTERS. LOVE MATTERS.