Good Wednesday Morning! We are another day closer to taking back our country! I feel at times, like many here on this site, a bit of trepidation. I pause at being too optimistic so I won’t be let down like 2016. Feeling this is normal and being a little cautious is OK, but do not let that bit of protection of your feelings get in the way of your motivation. We all have to self protect. The last election put many of us in shock. Let us use this though to educate others and to GOTV. I know what amazing things all of you here in this community and at this site in general are doing to help ensure Democrats are successful at all levels. It brings me such pride in humanity that you are all doing such great things when there is so much negativity all around us. This is why this is the Good News place.
Onward!
Kos!!!
He actually posted twice today but I am linking to just this one.
With Civiqs' real-time polling, we can see the rise ... and fall of the Kavanaugh bump
At +7 in the generic congressional ballot, Democrats have now matched their strongest lead in Civiqs’ polling all year…
Immediately post-Kavanaugh, you could see Republicans get a small boost … all the way to a -5 deficit. THAT’S how static public opinion is—the most momentous partisan battle of the year, and it moved numbers a couple of points. That’s it.
As you can imagine, Republicans and Democrats are utterly stratified. So who moved?
Independent women moved our direction…
I love it when Kos posts. The Kavanot bump is a not.
I thought this was a beautiful piece on the environment:
I’ve seen the Antarctic’s untouched beauty. There's still time to protect it
I thought it would be cold. Not just cold, but colder than anything I had experienced in my life. I had visions of bedraggled explorers in blizzards with ice-covered beards.
But standing there, in the bright Antarctic sun, watching creaking blue icebergs, penguins bursting in and out of the water, I felt utterly content in this glistening wilderness.
What I hadn’t thought about was the dark. And not the dark of night – although as a European, that brought a dazzling new astronomy of the southern hemisphere to me – but the dark of the deep, icy, ocean depths. I was going almost half a kilometre down to the Antarctic seafloor.
I’m told that more people have been to the moon than have been to the bottom of the Antarctic ocean. Maybe that’s apocryphal, but it certainly feels like it. We know precious little about this alien environment, which is why it is so crucial to protect it before it is too late.
Emerging back into the light at the surface, the bubbles of the submarine hull clearing, it was like waking from a dream, the intangible creatures of the abyss left far behind.
Right now, we have an opportunity to protect this place.
...as governments prepare to meet at the Antarctic ocean commission there are millions of eyes watching them and urging them to act. To secure the Antarctic for future generations. To allow its abundance of wildlife to flourish and its migratory species to thrive between the world’s oceans. To help create healthy oceans that contribute to global food security. To preserve the Antarctic ocean’s functions as one of the world’s largest carbon stores. Because, truly, what happens in the Antarctic affects us all.
It is a wonderful opinion piece. Read the whole thing if you can.
Speaking of penguins:
SAME-SEX PENGUIN COUPLE CARES FOR FOSTER EGG
Same-sex couple Sphen and Magic, also known as Sphengic, are often seen going for swims together in the penguin expedition.
Even though they don't have a biological egg of their own, the penguins are just as much part of the breeding season as the heterosexual penguins.
Now they're real foster parents.
They were given a real egg to care for from a penguin couple who had two eggs.
Awww. We all need a sweet animal story now and then.
OK, so this is not good news per se:
President Donald Trump called Stormy Daniels “Horseface” on Tuesday.
He made the comment after the porn star's lawsuit, which alleged that Trump defamed her in a tweet, was tossed on Monday by a federal judge.
The judge also ordered that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, should have to pay Trump’s legal fees if he chooses.
“Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas,” Trump said about the tossed lawsuit on Tuesday.
Daniels herself responded to Trump also, saying that the tweet “demonstrated his incompetence, hatred of women and lack of self control.”
But this is:
If there's a Democratic sweep in November, politically moderate suburban women will be a big reason why. "Now I’m Democratic," said one Michigan woman. "I’ve never been before."
Conversations with more than three dozen suburban women voters across three swing districts in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota illuminate that stark shift. For many of these women, a longstanding personal dislike of Trump has seeped into the Republican Party since the 2016 election — even to many Republican incumbents who have scrambled to distance themselves from the president.
More than a dozen women who said they voted for Republicans in those districts in the past — splitting tickets or even voting straight down a party line — echoed a similar sentiment: Not this time.
Not this time is right, damn it!
I don’t know about any of you but I have certainly noticed some “slow down” of my internet since pooty face at the FCC did away with net neutrality. Now I do not have any proof my provider is doing this, but it sure seems suspicious.
The New York Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed 14 organizations in its ongoing fraud investigation into who misused millions of people’s names and identifying information to file fake comments on the FCC’s proposal to kill the rules protecting net neutrality.
The subpoenaed parties mostly opposed net neutrality, including Broadband for America, an industry group that largely represents AT&T; the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a conservative lobbying group; and CQ Roll Call, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
“The FCC’s public comment process was corrupted by millions of fake comments — and our investigation found that as many as 9.53 million of those comments stole the identities of real people,” New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said in a statement. “The law protects New Yorkers from deception and the misuse of their identities. And all Americans deserve a fair and transparent process for determining public policy that impacts their daily lives. My office will get to the bottom of what happened and hold accountable those responsible for using stolen identities to distort public opinion on net neutrality.”
Go Barb!
For real, Fox News????
“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia,” Trump tweeted early Monday morning.
This is not true — as a Fox News-affiliated Twitter account quickly pointed out.
Fox News Research, a research group for the Fox News media company, published a rebuttal tweet less than an hour after the president’s remarks,
delineating a history of Trump’s transactions with the Saudis that date to the early 1990s.
Huh….never heard of Fox News Research. Did not know they knew what that meant...who knew.
You know I have to weigh in. Not sure how this fits the GNR but I am going there anyway. This whole Elizabeth Warren thing has me pretty shook up, ticked off and I don’t know, moody. I see a piece supporting her, I see a piece saying she should not have gone there, of course I see idiots response everywhere. I will be honest, I have no paper proof but my Grandma Jessie was Mohawk Indian. My Gramps was, what I suppose they would call a mixed breed. I look just like my mom and not very much like my dad. So when I tell people I am 25% Mohawk Indian they look at me like I am nuts. My dads parents ran away when they found out they were expecting him (it was 1922). They told him he was adopted. He only learned different after Gramps died. I guess my point in all this is we should not judge peoples heritages. I take mine seriously. I do not “use” it to claim any special status nor do I think EW means to. I am going to link to this opinion piece, you do not have to read it if you so choose. But you can see why I am frustrated with the whole issue. Really we have to move on from this crap and just fight to make our country better.
Why White Americans Love To Claim Native Ancestry
Ugh.
Anyway, I do not know who I am on board with for 2020. I am just focusing on 2018. But I do think EW is a fighter and we need her and she does not need this contempt.
Sorry for the rant.
Now this:
Watch Runner’s Emotional Reaction to Becoming First Ever Pro Athlete With Cerebral Palsy Signed by Nike
Despite having cerebral palsy, Justin Gallegos has spent the last seven years pursuing his passion for running – and his hard work has finally paid off.
Gallegos has just become the first athlete with cerebral palsy to sign a professional contract with Nike.
So great! I am proud to have worked in the human service field for over 15 years. This an amazing accomplishment!
Good News:
‘We’re getting our asses kicked’: Republicans massively out-raised in election homestretch
Democratic challengers outraised Republican House incumbents in 92 House districts in the last three months — a staggering mismatch that boosts the odds of a GOP washout in November.
There is no historical precedent for financing this broad and deep for congressional challengers. About half of the 92 GOP incumbents are protecting battleground districts, and some of them posted personal-record fundraising totals in the third quarter of 2018 — but they still found themselves swamped by a combination of incandescent online fundraising for Democrats and bigger donors spreading money to challengers around the country, as 61 Democrats raised over $1 million.
The financial picture is even worse for the GOP in open districts, where Democrats lead Republicans in both fundraising and cash on hand in two-dozen contested seats, after an unusually high number of retirements before this election.
Another Republican consultant, granted anonymity to speak candidly, put it more bluntly: “We’re getting our asses kicked. Nothing else to say.”
Democrat Dean Phillips, who’s running against Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) in the western suburbs of Minneapolis and raised $1.7 million last quarter, said that “if people believe that their investment matters and their participation matters, then this can last,” Phillips said.
“I think we’re showing that even under this broken system, change is possible,” said Phillips, who committed to not accepting any PAC money.
Yeaas!
Backed up by this:
Democrats have democratized fundraising and it's overwhelming Republicans
It's no secret by now that small-dollar donors are on fire this cycle and swamping Republican candidates with their cash push toward Democratic candidates. The New York Times crunched the third quarter numbers and found "Democrats outraised their Republican opponents in 32 of the closest 45 House races by a total margin of $154 million to $108 million since November 2016.”
One big piece of that advantage is provided by the Democratic fundraising conduit Act Blue, which already counts three times as many donors this cycle at 4.5 million contributors compared to 1.5 million contributors in 2014. Women also account for a higher portion of the giving than they did in 2014…
If Democrats take back the House this November (along with making gains in the states), it will be at least partially due to the many, many small-dollar donors who used their collective power to give Democratic candidates a fighting chance.
On a final note:
VOTE Nov 6th....and tell me, how do you think Nov 7th will look ? This is Deadline for Democracy.
Now ...no doubt….one party is going to either emerge or stay the same. We cannot continue as we are. We are at a Crossroads. When we explain to people that this 2018 Midterm election is THE MOST important election in American history, I don’t think they get it. I think we need to make sure when we talk to people to vote for sanity, we better let them know, just how important this election is. This is no longer about who is in power as much as it is about how the insanity in power changes America for longer than people can imagine. We may never recover if things do not change.
We cannot change the past. We CAN do something about the future. This is not a scare tactic. This is reality. Urgent !!!! No matter what… Nov 7th..A change is coming. It’s up to We the People to make sure it is the right change.
As always, follow Yosef52 for all you can do to GOTV.
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Well that is Rage Against the Machine Testify, but You Tube seems to be having issues. Hope the other video I posted works eventually.
I will just link here and hope it is fixed soon:
Well, thanks You Tube, lol.
Share your Good News in the comments. I always look forward to it. Sorry I cannot always reply in a timely manner, it all depends on what is going on at work.
Oh forgot this week...Go Beto! No matter what the outcome he will make a difference.