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From your extra penitent friend.
Hi, all!
I’m sending this out to everyone again—not just paid subscribers—as I want to offer it as an amends, of sorts, for my overly glum and lecturing tone yesterday. It was a long, hard week in our family, and it came out in my message a bit more than I would have liked.
Hopefully the positivity below will help make up for my earlier poor mood.
You are all extra special to me. Truly. Thank you for all that you do.
Jess
Read This 📖
The State of Gerrymanders—the GOP advantage isn’t as big as we feared. Woot! Now there’s no excuse to not work like heck to hold the House in 2022.
You Should Run For Local Office. Here’s why.
Celebrate This! 🎉
A federal court in Alabama blocked the state’s new congressional map from being used. The court found that the enacted congressional districts likely violate the Voting Rights Act and ordered the Legislature to draw a new map.
After a million-mile journey, the James Webb Space Telescope reached its destination. It will study light from the beginning of time.
Papua New Guinea just became the latest country to abolish the death penalty.
A rancher and “wolf lover” in Alberta is successfully using no-kill methods to protect his cattle from predators. He hasn’t shot a wolf in 19 years and his methods are now being studied by researchers to see if they can be replicated.
Court OKs Special Grand Jury for Atlanta DA’s Trump Election Probe.
The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to rename Robert E. Lee Boulevard for legendary musician Allen Toussaint.
One thousand fin whales were spotted in the same waters where humans once drove them to near-extinction. Whaling in the area led to an estimated 2 million whales being killed, and it appears they’re now returning.
Cash stipends for poor mothers change their babies’ brain activity in ways associated with higher cognitive skills, according to new research, in a pretty strong argument for reviving the expanded child tax credit.
A Federal judge threw out Biden administration’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale, faulting its climate analysis!
The Georgia Department of Corrections has shut down the state’s oldest prison, which had been sued by the Southern Center for Human Rights over its horrific conditions.
A Wisconsin appeals court has temporarily blocked a judge’s order prohibiting drop boxes in the state.
General Motors announced it will invest $7 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing in Michigan, bringing thousands of jobs to the state.
BREYER IS RETIRING!!!
The LA City Council voted unanimously to pass a motion that advances phasing out oil and gas extraction across the City of Los Angeles!
The San Jose, California, city council voted Tuesday night to adopt a first-in-the-nation ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance, measures aimed at reducing the risk of gun harm by incentivizing safer behavior and easing taxpayers of the financial burden of gun violence.
The Biden administration canceled two mining leases near the Minnesota wilderness, in reversal of Trump-era decision.
A record 14.5 million Americans chose an Affordable Care Act health plan for this year, eclipsing previous high by nearly 2 million. The development is good news for President Biden, who had made expanding access a key goal.
Watch This! 👀
OK, I know the bill is dead for now, but it *will* be back, and with it, I hope, this ad. Genius!
Jessica, for my part, I thought you were right on in your chastising folks (including me) for signing up for a phonebank or postcard writing and not following through. I just finished writing 25 postcards today. It wasn't fun, but the feeling of making a contribution, however small, to our imperiled democracy made my day.
You are forgiven for a bad day. We all have them. Glad to know you are a human and not a robot.
Thanks for the laughs on this post!