Fundraiser Updates
6: 6 a.m. ET Monday 4/15: We’re up to at least $2081! Goal remains $2500. … We huffed and we puffed and we effen blew the house DOWN! … Thank you, sweet everybody!
5: 4 p.m. ET Sunday: We’re up to $2036! You know what that means: Uppen the Goalen! I’ve reset the goal to $2500! … We’ve huffed and we’ve puffed and we’ve blowed the house DOWN! … Thank you, sweet everybody!
4: 2 p.m. ET Sunday: We’re up to $1826! Now I have to reset the goal again! [Not complaining. At all.] I’ve reset the goal to $2000! … We’ve huffed and we’ve puffed and we’ve blowed the house … Thank you, sweet everybody!
3: 12:00 noon ET Sunday: We’re up to $1001! I’ve reset the goal to $1500. We’ve huffed and we’ve puffed and we’ve blowed … Thank you, sweet everybody!
2: 10:30 a.m. ET Sunday: We’re up to $656! I’ve reset the goal to $750. These are the kinds of goalposts I like to move and see moved. We’ve huffed and we’ve puffed. Thank you, sweet everybody!
1: 9 a.m. ET Sunday: We’re up to $276! I’ve now set a goal of $500. We’ve huffed. Thank you, sweet everybody!
Note: When I say “We’re up to,“ I mean “We are up to at least” because, if you think about it, many donations are untrackable.
Ruminations
The leaders upon whose shoulders I stand this morning are JoanMar and Chase Iron Eyes (I took my shoes off). Specifically:
Help Needed! Still Without Federal Aid After Massive Flooding, Pine Ridge Braces for Another Storm [Chase Iron Eyes]
Help needed! Trump ignores the cries for help from the Pine Ridge Reservation...we won't [Joan]
Joan draws us in and then quotes Chase:
Eight thousand of our brothers and sisters of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are hurting, and they need our help. Kossack Chase Iron Eyes gave us an idea of what’s facing his community:
Here at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, we are bracing for the second unusually powerful storm in less than a month. As Winter Storm Wesley bears down, promising more severe weather for our Oglala Sioux Tribe homeland, the reservation still has a long way to go to recover from flooding caused by Winter Storm Ulmer in mid-March.
That storm damaged more than 75 structures, displaced 1,500 individuals and destroyed critical culverts and roads, causing millions of dollars of damage to our infrastructure.
Location, Location, Location
Standing Rock was the site of Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Pine Ridge is about 5 hours from Standing Rock, and both are home to Lakotas. Friends of mine traveled more than 1100 miles from Detroit to protest DAP. I’m sure that Lakotas traveled from Pine Ridge to Standing Rock to stand against Climate Change for us:
Now we stand for our brothers and sisters at Pine Ridge.\
JoanMar again:
What we can do
- We can donate here
- We can sign the petition here
- We can take to social media to fight (Twitter and Facebook are level playing fields)
- We can recommend, tip, republish, and tweet diaries having to do with this crisis
And remember, as [JoanMar’s] Grandmother was fond of saying, “Every mickle makes a muckle.”
I’m asking you to donate and vote in this diary’s poll to let us know anonymously how much you donated. If you tell us in the poll how much you donated, I will be able to keep a running total of today’s adventure. Today’s adventure for us is donating to residents of Pine Ridge. Today’s adventure for residents of Pine Ridge is survival. This is the first time I’ve used a poll to track donations, so please bear with me. This poll will obviously underestimate our fundraising total.
Please see the top of the diary for updates and the current goal.
P.S. — I agree with Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, who asked the world not to name the terrorist at Christ Church, so I choose not to name the white asset in the Russian House. I’d rather mock him than name him, but I am not going to mock him here.
Good News: We bring it, we make it.
The Good Gnus group is a community of readers, writers, activists, and supporters. 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 display the words “News, Community, Action.” However, you don’t have to be a member of Daily Kos to be a Newsie.
We are realists. We know we live in a world where active and nefarious decision-makers do very bad things and create anxiety in us, yet we choose to focus on the good news that people create around the country. Sometimes we ourselves create Good News. Together we are strong.
Today is a good day to make good news.
Pucklady’s Essay Yesterday:
Good News Roundup for Saturday, April 13
1200 words. Never too late to Recommend.
Renewable Fridays: Good News for Readers of Daily Kos
Daily Kos has a new Friday night series on renewables brought to us by Mokurai. His most recent diary is Renewable Friday: Getting to 100% (3500 words).
Here are three of the links Mokurai provided in Friday’s diary:
Possible Resistance Action Step: Follow the RenewableFridays tag and support Mokurai’s diaries.
Who Won the Week?
Our most famous and oldest (in kos years) Gnusie (that we know of), Bill in Portland Maine (long may he and Michael prosper and thrive), permits us to mooooch the results of his spelunking through inky caverns (researching actual-paper newspapers for good news). Bill stacked the following items in his Who Won the Week? poll in Friday’s Cheers and Jeers. 2,800 people voted in that poll, and only 3.14 to 9.42 of them were bots! Please enjoy Bill’s on-point analysis and wit, vote in his poll, Rec his diary, get on his bandwagon, send him a donation, and earn his blessing.
Cheers and Jeers archive and future editions here.Bill posted his first Cheers and Jeers diary in (Hold the phone!) December 2003! I would not be born until 7 years later (in kos years). Way, way more than 2 thanks to The One, our wicked wizard of wit, Willhelm von kosland!
And now, Bill’s Good News with links: What do you think of Bill’s summary?
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who became the latest recipient of the JFK Profile in Courage Award
- Massachusetts, for becoming the latest state to ban the practice of psychological torture known as gay-to-straight "conversion therapy"
- Federal Judge George Hazel, the third to find that the citizenship question Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wants to put on the 2020 census violates federal law
- Congressman Ted Lieu, for playing Republican white supremacist Candace Owens' Hitler comments to her face during a hearing on the rise of white supremacy
- The scientists---with special shout-out to algorithm genius Dr. Katie Bouman---who turned earth into a giant Polaroid One Step camera and took the first-ever photo of a black hole
- The Democrat-led House, for voting 232-190 to restore net neutrality rules guaranteeing a free and open internet
- Austin, Texas…deemed the most livable city in America in U.S. News' latest survey*
- House Financial Services Committee freshman Katie Porter (D-CA), for her tough questioning of Jamie Dimon from J.P. Morgan Chase, whose entry-level jobs don’t provide a living wage
- The activist group Reclaim Idaho, for convincing the Republican governor to veto a bill that would've made it a lot harder to put citizen initiatives on the ballot there
- The subcommittee members in Michigan who destroyed a Republican attempt to remove climate change, Roe v. Wade, and gay rights from social studies textbooks
Spoiler Alert … Top Results of Bill’s poll
- First-ever photo of a black hole and the scientists who discovered it 30%.
- Congressman Ted Lieu played the Hitler comments of Republican white supremacist Candace Owens to her face during a hearing on the rise of white supremacy 17%.
- Congressman Ted Lieu, for playing Republican white supremacist Candace Owens' Hitler comments to her face during a hearing on the rise of white supremacy 10%.
* Officebss replies to the survey of cities: “
Austin Texas is a wonderful city — I have very happy memories of many childhood summers and Christmases at my grandparents’ house here.
¶ Unfortunately, it is in the middle of TEXAS, and no woman of childbearing age should consider herself safe in that state now. So
I don’t know what criteria was used to determine Austin’s “livability,” but I’m guessing the safety of women from draconian legislation was not considered. ¶ Women’s access to healthcare, including abortion, and laws that are being passed to punish women and medical personnel for undergoing what is still currently a
legal procedure,
are factors that urgently need to be added to surveys of this type. We are half the population — the quality of life for women in any city should certainly be just as important as the quality of life for men.”
Our map of Gnuville: More than 240 of us have announced our locations.
To leave your mark, please respond to our mappers in the comments or send them a kosmail: WolverineForTJatAW, tljdk, silverfoxcruiser, keepiru, djbodhi.
Our mapping team is now complete! Thanks, djbodhi.
Comments, Bumped
Niftywriter: Thanks 2thanks! I love your Sunday Roundups because they focus on this great community and all the great people in it. It’s restorative and bracing as we head into another week.
Me: You’re welcome, niftywriter. When I open a fresh pint of ice cream Good News Roundup every day, I think “This is my favorite flavor of ice cream Roundup!”
Good News Roundups: 7x7: These Gnusies lead the herd @ 7 a.m., 7 days a week:
Rounding up Writers for Thursdays
We have April covered. BeeD has claimed 1st Thursdays, and MCUBernieFan 4th Thursdays. We need writers for the 2nd and 3rd Thursdays in May.
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How to Resist
The Five R’s of the Resistance
- 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.
- Rest: Take care of yourself, we are in this for the long term.
Gnu, Tell!
Your comment will definitely improve this Good Gnus Roundup. Uncle 2thanks wants you! your comment!
- National or local Good News.
- A link, story, music, video, or tweet.
- A local protest.
- Your resistance.
- Meta questions: Map or tech.
Thank you for fighting for truth and justice with all us Gnusies. Although 40% of our Readers don’t visit every day, that’s okay, we all do what we can. For almost 2 years, we’ve shared positive news, laughed, organized, resisted, rebelled, revolted without being revolting, relied, rested, mentored, created, crossed rivers, chewed our cud, puffed methane out both ends, and laughed. Here’s looking at you, kid!
As always, please share more Good News than I can provide.
Power with, not power over ❤️ ✊ ❤️
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Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
Redemption Song by Bob Marley with lyrics
Redemption Song by Bob Marley with Bob
Update:
- Moved Updates to the top of the diary.
- Revised the paragraph under the heading Location, Location, Location after inserting that heading.