Hi, all, and happy Sunday! As always, the list of good things that happened this week is exponentially longer than you’d think it would be. Our country is certainly struggling, but everywhere you turn are also regular people doing extraordinary things, legislatures passing amazing laws, and Democrats fighting for Americans. It’s deeply heartening!
I just saw a story on a national news network regarding something they called "Sunday Scaries". About people having issues facing another work week. I would say to anyone suffering from this so-called syndrome, Subscribe to Jessica's Chop Wood, Carry Water, Jay Kuo's The Status Kuo, and George Takai's The Big Picture, and after reading all their Sunday good news, you'll enter Monday with not a care in the world!! Thank you, Jessica!!
Okay, I’ve read the whole list of good news. Thank you so much. And with that, although I really can’t afford to pay for another substack subscription I’m going to anyway. You are worth me dying another day earlier due to lack of money! 😄. Thank you!
In the 2020 Bostock decision, Justice Gorsuch was remarkably respectful of Aimee Stephens' gender identity as one of the plaintiffs, and introduced her as follows:
Aimee Stephens worked at R. G. & G. R. Harris Funeral Homes in Garden City, Michigan. When she got the job, Ms. Stephens presented as a male. But two years into her service with the company, she began treatment for despair and loneliness. Ultimately, clinicians diagnosed her with gender dysphoria and recommended that she begin living as a woman. In her sixth year with the company, Ms. Stephens wrote a letter to her employer explaining that she planned to “live and work full-time as a woman” after she returned from an upcoming vacation. The funeral home fired her before she left, telling her “this is not going to work out.”
If the Supreme Court can do it, so can lower court judges, but some of them are just aholes. Yes, I'm talking about you, Stuart Kyle Duncan.
I deleted my earlier comment bc I'm having trouble articulating my thought, but I'll try again. You ask us to share this newsletter widely, but everyone who would benefit from progressive policies is not a snarky young political junkie who finds the satirical use of religious imagery hilarious. My Dominican sil who cleans motel rooms all week and goes to mass every Sunday isn't going to see that image and go, "Hahaha, I can't wait to read this!" A lot of working-class people are people of faith. Recently a speaker at my Indivisible group felt the need to "warn" us mostly middle-class white liberals that many members of her more diverse local group were in fact drawn to activism *because* of their faith, and they're sometimes going to say things like "Amen" and "Hallelujah" and "Praise God." There's a disconnect there, but if we all work together and respect each other's differences there's no limit to what we can accomplish.
I just saw a story on a national news network regarding something they called "Sunday Scaries". About people having issues facing another work week. I would say to anyone suffering from this so-called syndrome, Subscribe to Jessica's Chop Wood, Carry Water, Jay Kuo's The Status Kuo, and George Takai's The Big Picture, and after reading all their Sunday good news, you'll enter Monday with not a care in the world!! Thank you, Jessica!!
Okay, I’ve read the whole list of good news. Thank you so much. And with that, although I really can’t afford to pay for another substack subscription I’m going to anyway. You are worth me dying another day earlier due to lack of money! 😄. Thank you!
In the 2020 Bostock decision, Justice Gorsuch was remarkably respectful of Aimee Stephens' gender identity as one of the plaintiffs, and introduced her as follows:
Aimee Stephens worked at R. G. & G. R. Harris Funeral Homes in Garden City, Michigan. When she got the job, Ms. Stephens presented as a male. But two years into her service with the company, she began treatment for despair and loneliness. Ultimately, clinicians diagnosed her with gender dysphoria and recommended that she begin living as a woman. In her sixth year with the company, Ms. Stephens wrote a letter to her employer explaining that she planned to “live and work full-time as a woman” after she returned from an upcoming vacation. The funeral home fired her before she left, telling her “this is not going to work out.”
If the Supreme Court can do it, so can lower court judges, but some of them are just aholes. Yes, I'm talking about you, Stuart Kyle Duncan.
Thank you Jessica! This is just what I needed today❤️
Ditto what Karen said....I so needed this injection of positive news.
Speaking of Randy...here's a Dolly Parton video I was recently sent. Powerful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJXsmDBS8k
Thanks for the link to my piece, Jessica!
OMGosh love Randy & his political videos. This one sums up # DeathSantis - & the GOP - perfectly.
Wow. Just wow!
I deleted my earlier comment bc I'm having trouble articulating my thought, but I'll try again. You ask us to share this newsletter widely, but everyone who would benefit from progressive policies is not a snarky young political junkie who finds the satirical use of religious imagery hilarious. My Dominican sil who cleans motel rooms all week and goes to mass every Sunday isn't going to see that image and go, "Hahaha, I can't wait to read this!" A lot of working-class people are people of faith. Recently a speaker at my Indivisible group felt the need to "warn" us mostly middle-class white liberals that many members of her more diverse local group were in fact drawn to activism *because* of their faith, and they're sometimes going to say things like "Amen" and "Hallelujah" and "Praise God." There's a disconnect there, but if we all work together and respect each other's differences there's no limit to what we can accomplish.
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So uplifting yesterday!! Just read it! Thanks, Jessica. Our grassroots efforts are definitely working.
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Thank you for this list of #GreatNews.
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Lol! I knew this picture had to be from Rublicans. 😂. Love them. Now to read the rest of your newsletter….
Never mind.