(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Good News Roundup 9/14: Karma is a GOOD Mommy Doggy [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-14 Amirite? There is good karma of unselfishness that leads to happiness in community with all, and bad karma of self and other, and the rest of the opposites, that leads to living in one’s own personal Hell in one’s own mind. All of our most bogus economics and politics comes down to this. But we have to put up with the deluded as long as they continue to fight for the Tyranny of the Minority. (An excellent book, BTW, by By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, highly recommended by Alex Wagner and Morning Joe) x https://t.co/S88GZwYhS9 Decoding Morality: How Our Brains Differentiate Right from Wrong Liberals (progressives) are more sensitive to care/harm and fairness/cheating. Conservatives emphasize loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation. — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) September 9, 2023 Regular Good News Local to Columbus IN We now have 2 Gbps fiber optic Internet becoming available everywhere in town from GigabitNowColumbus, We are considering their rates and such, now that they have reached our neighborhood, known as The Lagoons. They are part of Hoosier Fiber Networks, which is part of the national GigabitNow, which is part of IsoFusion. Our Usual Sources Civil Eats: The Organic Urban Farm Growing Healthy Food for One of Chicago’s Most Underserved Neighborhoods Regular Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad News for Them 🎩 Children’s author Judith Viorst An Impeachment That is Not an Impeachment The impeachment inquiry that the House is NOT going to vote on starting is Sorry, no. We get them every day. But this is one of the best. Nothing to do with impeachment. Just answer a few questions. House Speaker-in-Name-Only Qevin McQarthy Asked and answered, and asked and answered, and asked… Just like Benghazi, which McQarthy publicly admitted was not about facts and evidence of anything whatsoever. It was just about driving down Hillary’s popularity to bring the 2016 election into stealing range with help from Putin, Mike Flynn, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, among others. NYT (paywalled): What We Know About the Impeachment Case Against Biden There isn’t one. Oh, sorry, let’s see what the Gray Lady actually has to say about it. Republicans claim they have unearthed evidence of wrongdoing by the president and his family that could rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. In fact, there’s little to back up their allegations. Yeah, Biden made some misstatements during the 2020 campaign, while TDFG was out lying the Constitution off and planning to overthrow the government. Here is what we know about the seven accusations Mr. McCarthy made against Mr. Biden on Tuesday, and how they line up with the facts of what Republicans have — and have not — uncovered so far. Yes, this is the Say-What Owl Translation: Nope Nada Contrariwise Fuggedaboudit No, they aren’t joking Well, OK they think they aren’t joking Say what? BTW Jamie Raskin told Alex Wagner last night that Democrats are going to use the proposed GQP House impeachment “inquiry” to put [the Rule or Ruin faction] on trial. Also, it’s nice to see Raskin with his hair grown out since his successful cancer treatment. And Chris Hayes calls this an Impeachment Hoax. Oh, BTW, NBC reports Far-right Republicans tell McCarthy his impeachment inquiry won’t soften their spending demands. They demand that a government shutdown will be good for them in next year’s elections, because the whole point of the Freedumb caucus is to destroy gummint tyranny!! Never mind that that has never worked before. Cognitive Dissonance strong is with these droids. McCarthy could cut a bipartisan deal that would prevent a shutdown, but he totally doesn’t want to do that. It would for sure trigger a vote to oust him as Speaker. Matt Gaetz has promised it. So they want to use the shutdown to extort maximal concessions from McCarthy and the less wackadoodle House Republicans, because whatever they manage to get won’t survive negotiations with the Senate. Floriduh Judge Aileen Cannon rules against the Creature from the Marred-Lagoon on building a personal SCIF there, or worse yet, being able to view the documents at home without no steenkin’ SCIF. Judge in documents case lays out rules for Trump's access to classified information in lead-up to trial Under the rules laid out by Cannon on Wednesday, all classified information "produced, possessed, created or maintained" by Trump and his legal team or disclosed to them by the government must be stored and kept in a secure facility established by a court-designated classified information security officer. Classified information can only be discussed within the secure location, formally known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, "or in an area authorized" by the security officer, according to the order. See also “Un-Security Complex” on Alex Wagner Tonight. And “All Together Now” More or less as expected, The Thing that Ate the GQP filed to waive his right to a speedy trial, and to demand that his case be severed from the 18 other co-defendants in the Georgia RICO case. He wants to be tried separately. We all know, of course, that his real hope is to bollix the case so that he can’t be convicted before the 2024 election, or worse still, before the GQP convention. DA Fani Willis filed a motion to try all of the defendants together, starting in just a few weeks. x Fulton County DA Fani Willis has Trump and his co-defendants in complete and utter disarray. Their panic is palpable. https://t.co/VSMESm46xv — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 13, 2023 Be careful what you wish for, O Donaldinho. That means that the public gets to see all of the evidence in the televised trials of all of the others, without your lawyers having anything to say in them in your defense. All Together Now (Remastered 2009) Colorado Why Republicans' ‘knives are out’ for Colorado’s Ken Buck For nearly a decade, Ken Buck has been one of Congress' most consistently far-right members. For some of his extremist colleagues, that's not good enough. CNN reported this week that Buck’s criticisms of his party’s evidence-free impeachment crusade have “put a target on his back in conservative circles.” Now, there is a serious effort underway to find a candidate to mount a primary challenge against Buck in his solidly red district in eastern Colorado, three GOP sources told CNN Me & My Uncle (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 29, 1971) (2021 Remaster) x x YouTube Video I know my uncle is as honest as me, And I’m as honest as a Denver man can be. Ah, well, the bad old days are not over. Yet. Science! Animals! Weirdness! x Who's a good boy?! A #police #dog is being hailed a #hero for his help capturing #Danelo #Cavalcante, the convicted #murder who escaped a #Pennsylvania prison and was on the run for two weeks. His name is K-9 Yoda and he's a 4-year-old #Belgian #Malinois. https://t.co/uUZEmrezwq — The National Desk (@TND) September 14, 2023 There is a tradition of German Shepherds as police dogs, but forces are finding that Malinois are even better at being trained to take down fugitives safely. x The #JWST found 21 brown dwarfs. Some are as close as around 325 light-years, others as far as 13,700 light-years. 👉 https://t.co/PUTMHS4PqK pic.twitter.com/MoGJa9sDP3 — Erika  (@ExploreCosmos_) September 9, 2023 That’s an artist,’s conception, of course. We can barely image a few of the largest, closest stars, and are nowhere near taking pictures of exoplanets. JWST just gets very clear spectra of planets, peering through the glare of the stars they orbit. Yes, the top assembly is hanging from the bottom assembly, with wires at the corners to keep it from falling over. Saved in my Science Board on Pinterest. x The Sphinx Public Data Release: Forward Modelling High-Redshift #JWST Observations with Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations. 👉 https://t.co/7Vu6HhC929 pic.twitter.com/qB2IeZqYkV — Erika  (@ExploreCosmos_) September 8, 2023 This comparison of simulation results with JWST observations is from not long after the Universe became transparent (refshift z=1098), when space was filled with the light from hot hydrogen and helium, which has since cooled to 2.73 K with redshifting from the expansion of the Universe. We still can’t see the very, very first galaxies at redshifts of about z=20, but we are starting to get to redshift z=11. Chronology of the Universe While early stars have not been observed, some galaxies have been observed from about 400 million years cosmic time (GN-z11 at redshift z≈11.1, just after the start of reionization); these are currently the early observations of stars and galaxies. The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, is intended to push this back to z≈20 (180 million years cosmic time), enough to see the first galaxies (≈270 Myr) and early stars (≈100 to 180 Myr). Work proceeds apace on much, much bigger telescopes, on the ground and in orbit. The Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and more. x Elephants in Thailand have learned to exploit their right of way and stop passing sugar cane trucks to steal a snack.. pic.twitter.com/Ad6nRbthDs — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 11, 2023 x Composite image of the giant barred spiral #galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory's VLT with far-ultraviolet data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and infrared data acquired by #NASA's Spitzer #Telescope. pic.twitter.com/HWYlpKgsIB — The Cosmic Wanderer (@CosmicaPk) September 12, 2023 x The ATLAS Collaboration at @CERN observes the production of top-quark pairs in proton-lead ion collisions. Learn more in our new briefing ⤵️https://t.co/85kuuU2znX — ATLAS Experiment (@ATLASexperiment) September 7, 2023 x Cat with a job.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/FlqwyCXjuD — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 12, 2023 x New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use different forms of messengers to study the cosmos: https://t.co/qexkOiNcVi — symmetry magazine (@symmetrymag) August 1, 2023 x A wolf spider with her babies! (Photo Tom Murray) pic.twitter.com/DOlD4GxFKF — Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) September 12, 2023 x Panther chameleons from Madagascar can grow to over 50 centimetres long. (Photo Angi Wallace) pic.twitter.com/O7A7ia0ZhG — Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) September 11, 2023 x Cancer research and treatment have come so far. These investments will take us even further. Democrats deliver actual solutions to real problems. Let's do more! Register Democrats with https://t.co/fMnqbnqkW5#Voterizer#ProudBlue#DemVoice1 https://t.co/Ek8cCEFKTu — Kathy R. Elect Dems 💙 🟧 Don't whine. Act! 🌊🌊🌊 (@kathygpr) September 13, 2023 Funny or Fuggedaboudit Look, my wing of the Party talks about policy. Retiring UT Senator Mittens Romney on his move to cripple “Team Normal” even further by retiring. Support your local and online cartoonists and humorists, and the striking writers and actors. Yes, he’s spiking the artillery by spiking the ball, haha, heehee, hoho My son, Certifiable Genius, likes to say, “If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable!” Cartoon: A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at taking a mug shot by Ruben Bolling. 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