This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Trolling for good deeds on Twitter; French kids dump cell phones, win World Cup; And countries are already dropping their terrible "anti-fake news" laws.
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Trolling for good deeds on Twitter; French kids dump cell phones, win World Cup; And countries are already dropping their terrible "anti-fake news" laws.
Barbecue orgies, potato pay and lava bombs + this day in history w/the McDonald's massacre and our song of the day by Eric Church on your Morning Monarchy for July 18, 2018.
After Blake Farenthold was forced out of Congress earlier in April for being a workplace perv, there was a vague hope Democrats could win his seat in a special election-- very vague. The DCCC gave the seat a thumbs down and refused to engage, especially after it was clear that the leading Democrat, Eric Holguin, is a progressive. The very gerrymandered district (TX-27) stretches along the Gulf from Corpus Christie and Port Aransas up through Victoria and Port Lavaca to Bay City and, incongruously, west through Shiner and Gonzales into the exurbs southeast of Austin.
A billion dollar antiballistic radar system is being planned for development in Hawaii in order to counter nuclear ICBM threats from somewhere. Even though, at the present moment, there aren’t any threatening postures from nations with ICBM tech, the need to spend 1$ billion on detecting and combatting those ICBMs is apparently greater than ever before, at least according to some congressmen.
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Closest allies, secret networks and surge pricing + this day in history w/the execution of Timothy McVeigh and our song of the day by Sex Headaches on your Morning Monarchy for June 11, 2018.
The best member of Congress from Hawaii was Patsy Mink-- a legendary FDR progressive-- served in Congress from 1965 2002, with a break to serve in the Carter administration. She was the first woman of color to be elected to Congress, as well as the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. And a stalwart progressive.
Monsanto memory hole, wedding cake justice and swilling sewage beer + this day in history w/the exhumation of Josef Mengele and our song of the day by Dierks Bentley on your Morning Monarchy for June 6, 2018.
Trying to figure out how someone is going to perform in Congress is the single most important factor in figuring out which candidate to support in a contested election. And as we saw earlier today, one of the easiest ways is to examine the voting records and leadership records of state legislators trying to make the jump.
Smoker's data, free popcorn and baby boxes + this day in history w/the attack of the "losers" and our song of the day by Cowboy Junkies on your Morning Monarchy for May 23, 2018.
