Ruminations, Revelations, and Reflections
Good News: We bring it, we make it.
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The Good Gnus group is a community of readers, writers, activists, supporters, community builders, and patriots. We begin gathering every day at 7 a.m. ET to celebrate national good news. Our most active members are of course a subgroup of members of Daily Kos, whose Front Pages celebrate “News, Community, Action.” However, you don’t have to be a member of Daily Kos to be a Gnusie.
We are realists, not fools, idiots, or ostriches. We seek the truth. We know we live in a world where active, nefarious, and evil decision-makers do very bad things, and create stress and anxiety in us, our loved ones, our friends, our neighbors, and our allies, and destroy people and systems we hold dear. However, we choose to focus on the good news that people create around the country.
Sometimes we ourselves create Good News. Together we are strong and resilient. We return regularly to these pages to revitalize.
In a Good News Roundup, the weight of bearing good news is not borne by the author alone: Gnusies can be counted on to adorn the comment section with good news. Often commenters create three times as many comments as Recommendations! If you cannot linger with us for hours, I recommend you return in the mid or late afternoon, learn who your favorite commenters are, and Find their names on return visits. We count on certain favorite Gnusies to bless us in the comments with humor, hope, history, and analysis every day.
We bring good news, and we create good news.
Making Good Trouble, Here, Now
On November 5, we started a fundraiser for Senator Raphael Warnock’s runoff campaign. Let's improve the Senate and re-elect an incredible man!
We’re up to $7K. Thank you! Goal $10K.
If you plan to donate, sooner is better than later! Deadline December 6.
Uplifting Senator Warnock
About 15% of us Readers, Members of Daily Kos, and Gnusies cannot donate money to anything (I’ve been there), but do what you can do, and if you want to join us, you can do this: Share this campaign on your social media. A single share could be worth more than your donation!
More actions, Paul Hogarth: Early voting is happening this weekend in the Georgia runoff. Can you help boost voter turnout?
Poll #1: Who Won the Week?
Gnusie Bill in Portland Maine lets me repeat the results of his research. He arrayed the following items in his popular Who Won the Week? poll in Friday’s Cheers and Jeers. Many people already voted in that poll. Please enjoy Bill’s on-point analysis and wit, vote in his poll, Rec his diaries, get on his bandwagon, send him a donation, and earn his blessing.
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!
- Florida university professors, as U.S. District Judge Mark Walker strikes down as "dystopian" Gov. Ron DeSantis's Nazi-style law canceling their First Amendment right to free speech
- Army veteran Richard Fierro and Navy veteran Thomas James, whose heroism stopped the Republican party-inspired MAGA terrorist at Club Q in Colorado Springs
- Democrat Doug La Follette, who was declared the winner of the hugely-important Wisconsin Secretary Of State election
- President Biden: OKs more Ukraine aid; oversees gas price plunge for Thanksgiving travelers; continues student loan payment pause; celebrates birthday & granddaughter's wedding at White House
- Democrat Mary Peltola, for crushing Sarah Palin in a landslide to win a full term in Congress representing Alaska---the first Dem to win that seat in 50 years
- The human rights protesters at the manbaby-run sinkhole known as "Qatar," where the World Cup once again reveals FIFA as a den of spineless money-chasing weasels
- Openly-trans contestant Amy Schneider, who wowed the world again by winning the Tournament of Champions competition on "Jeopardy!"
- Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D), for pardoning thousands of people arrested for possession of small amounts of marijuana pre-2016, when the state legalized pot
- The Pennsylvania state House, where Democrats pulled a midterm upset by flipping 12 seats to control the chamber, with likely first woman and second Black speaker Joanna McClinton
- Michigan state Rep. Kyra Harris Bolden, appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for a seat on the state Supreme Court---the first Black woman on that bench
Bill’s Friday poll is here.
Which item did you vote for? Why?
Who made a winning move after Bill's deadline on Friday?
