(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 10/12 Good News Roundup [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-12 I don’t do war crimes porn, which is all over the MSM now. I look for the helpers. There are more of us than of them, but they are far noisier. When there are trials or other forms of active karma, we can talk. Good News for Us After a rollicking ride, Pope Francis finally kicks open the doors of the church to same-sex couples Yes, for realz. New Mexico court rejects GOP lawsuit seeking to strike down Democratic-drawn congressional map Michigan Democrats advance bill to expand automatic voter registration Overnight News Digest: Claudia Goldin awarded economics prize for work on women's pay I will at some point write up Goldin, Claudia Dale. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-19-505077-6 for Readers and Book Lovers. Future Crunch: Good News In the last three decades humanity has made extraordinary strides in combating the threat of communicable disease. In 1990, diseases like malaria and tuberculosis made up almost a third of the global health burden, but by 2019 that had fallen to around a sixth. Overall, the number of healthy years of life lost due to infectious diseases more than halved during this period. Following a successful pilot that increased the number of teenage girls attending school in seven Nigerian states from 900,000 to over 1.6 million, the World Bank has approved $700M to roll the program out over 18 more states, reaching an estimated 8.6 million girls, as well as teachers, administrators, families, and communities. Bad News for Them The House House Republicans had a secret meeting yesterday to agree on a Speaker candidate. As if. The whole kerfuffle is supposedly over McCarthy making too nice with President Biden and House Democrats on funding the government. Both Scalise and Jordan told the Party in private that Republicans were going to have to fund the government, and that they weren’t going to be able to get any of the draconian cuts on their wish list through. So, what is this fight actually about? Chris Hayes was laughing over this on the news last night. Steve Scalise won the Party election, 113-99, over “Gym” Jordan. In a functioning Party, that would make him Speaker in the formal vote on the House floor today. Ah, ah, not so fast. Even some House Republicans publicly admit that theirs is nothing like a functioning Party. Several Deadender Losers whose guy lost refuse to vote for the winner. Even though the guy who lost supports Scalise. Even Matt Gaetz, who led the drive to dump McCarthy, supports Scalise. The Roll of Dishonorable Disfunction leads off with these two. Nancy Mace says Scalise, “David Duke without the baggage”, is too extreme. Maximum delusionalist Chip Roy says Scalise is not too extreme enough. Nov. 2024 Evening Brief: RFK Jr.'s campaign could soon haunt Trump, by kos His anti-vaxxer, anti-science, anti-abortion, anti-Semitic campaign is drawing more voters from Trump than from Biden. (Disclosure: I am one of many who got his bogus anti-vaxxer children’s charity booted from Facebook.) The BLOAT NYT: Prosecutors Ask if Trump Will Blame His Lawyers as Defense in Election Case The special counsel asked a judge to require the former president to disclose whether he would blame poor legal advice for his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss. If so, Smith stated in the filing, prosecutors should have access to more communications between the parties. Formally, that would be an Advice of Counsel defense. Do fish swim? Do bats fly? Witnesses for the Prosecution Fani Willis Issues Subpoenas For RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel And Alex Jones For Chesebro's Trial Fanni Willis got a judge to sign off for subpoenas of RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel and conspiracy theorist/grifter Alex Jones to appear in the trial of Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell. Suing Dinesh x 7/ A court ruled this month that a defamation case against Regnery Publishing re: the book “2000 Mules” by Dinesh D’Souza can proceed. The book was so problematic that Regnery had to recall it. (Regnery just released Rand Paul’s new book. It also published a book by Josh Hawley.) pic.twitter.com/HWCA2SYIrA — jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) October 10, 2023 George Woss’sname George Santos—10 new Federal charges in superseding indictment, including wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Rep. Santos faces new charges he stole donor IDs, made unauthorized charges to their credit cards A Tale of a Tuberville x This feels true. If it isn't, I'd hope my Senator, @TTuberville would demonstrate it by immediately remove his holds in light of the crisis we are facing. If you're from Alabama & agree, please comment below. https://t.co/AWq2EEvr9k — Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 8, 2023 Yes, indeed. Who are the voters going to believe, them or their own lying eyes? Srsly? Ken Paxton to file criminal complaints against Texas House impeachment managers Molly Ivins would laugh, and laugh, and laugh… [sigh] We all miss Molly. Molly Ivins can’t say that… Can she? Billboard in Texas No Comment Conservative PAC leader’s meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes escalates GOP infighting Science! Animals! Weirdness! ESO's [modestly named] Extremely Large Telescope construction at halfway mark Some think that this will end up as the largest telescope ever to be built when it is finished in 2028. The idea is that computers and atomic clocks will be able to handle visible light interferometry sometime after that. Then we will be able to use arrays of smaller telescopes to synthesize one with an aperture as large as the Earth. (We have been doing that with much longer wavelength radio telescopes for a long time.) Then we will be able to do the same with multiple space telescopes. Oarfish, the Real Sea Serpent x This is the Orion Nebula, seen by #JWST. But this is also art. This image is in 4K. Click it to open. You'll be glad you did. pic.twitter.com/P5F4GGj5Dq — Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) October 2, 2023 x Bird collects fur from a sleeping dog to build a nest.. pic.twitter.com/656XLFB3lr — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 5, 2023 Research to Reverse Diabetic Neuropathy, by Mokurai for Kos Diabetes Group Renewable Tuesday 10/10 We're Doing This, by Mokurai for Climate Brief x Malaria Vaccine "Are You Ready for the Malaria Vaccine?” The long awaited Malaria Vaccine is finally here, Uganda will be rolling out an immunization program next year between April and May Below is everything you need to know about this vaccine called RTS,S/AS01 Vaccine 🧵 pic.twitter.com/MeazKgtnDv — Dr Kizza Blair (@Dreadful45) October 12, 2023 x Something to make you smile.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/XIPS3RIgEY — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 1, 2023 In 1990, Jimmy Carter expressed the hope that he would outlive Guinea worm. 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