(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-10 Headlines You Won't Read Today Scandal Explodes in Biden Administration Poll: Americans Wish Election Season Lasted Longer Neo-Nazi Militia Endorses Democrat Kristi Noem Un-murders Puppy Twitter Under Musk Turns Profit Truth Social Under Trump Turns Profit Drag Queen Story Hour Harms Children Yeah. We’ll see about that. Culture Cancels Cancel Culture Mrs. Alito Branded “Traitor” By MAGA For Flying Flag Correctly Coal Poised To Make Comeback No Conservative Religious or Political Leaders Arrested Today For Pedophilia Truth Makes It Halfway Around the World Before Lie Gets Pants On Planet Earth to Humanity: I’ll Miss You When You’re Gone You are up to date on what isn’t happening. And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Monday, June 10, 2024 Note: Our sincerest apologies for not warning the Daily Kos community in advance that we were changing from jeans to shorts over the weekend. Those of you who suffered retina burn as a result of viewing our blindingly-white bird legs without proper protection can submit a claim to C&J's legal department. (Please allow 5-10 years for processing.) —Mgt. - By the Numbers: 10 days!!! Days 'til the Biden-Convicted Felon debate: 17 Days 'til the La Kermesse Franco-Americaine Festival in Biddeford, Maine: 10 Estimated number of living WWII vets in 2014: 1,002,466 Estimated number of living WWII vets in 2023: 119,550 Number of days it takes to shoot a season of Wheel of Fortune, which last Friday aired Pat Sajak's last day as host after 42 years: 40 Date on which Steve Bannon has to report to jail to serve time for contempt of Congress: 7/1/24 Number of events at the RNC convention in Milwaukee that Milwaukee-based retail giant Kohl's says it has agreed to sponsor: 0 - Puppy Pic of the Day: If caffeine hasn’t worked yet this morning, maybe this will... - CHEERS to more good news from the workin' stiff desk. Good data on the May employment front, as announced Friday: 272,000 new jobs were created. More good news: the official unemployment rate remains low at 4 percent. More good news: that was waaaaaay better than the experts not-very-expertly expected. So what to make of it all? More from Bill McBride at Calculated Risk: Construction employment increased 21 thousand and is now 613 thousand above the pre-pandemic level. Manufacturing employment increased 8 thousand and is now 185 thousand above the pre-pandemic level. That Trump fella really sucked. Through May 2024, the employment report indicated positive job growth for 41 consecutive months, putting the current streak in 5th place of the longest job streaks in US history (since 1939). Another strong report. The status of Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, remains the same from last month: hardly working. CHEERS to undoing the whole dam thing. Here's some good news on the environmental front, courtesy of your friendly local state of California. Here in Maine (he said, switching gears briefly but abruptly) we've overseen some significant dam-removal/river restoration projects that re-open fish habitats and improve the environment. But nothing in the charted universe compares to what all y'alls are doing out there in the Golden State: With parts of the Klamath River beginning to flow freely for the first time in 100 years thanks to the largest river restoration effort in American history, Governor Gavin Newsom this week visited the dam removal project that will revitalize nearly 400 miles of historical habitat for salmon and steelhead, when completed. Governor Newsom at Klamath River dam removal project in Siskiyou County this week Last September, the first of the four dams was brought down, and the rest are slated for removal later this year as a result of ongoing collaboration between California and Oregon, the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, PacifiCorp, and fishing and environmental groups. In December 2022, Governor Newsom joined U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, leaders of the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, and Oregon Governor Kate Brown to celebrate the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s final approval of the project. I'd like to contribute an idea to make this even better. They should adopt Carly Simon's song Let the River Run for this project, and play it on a continuous loop through giant loudspeakers so that everyone will be inspired to heed its words…but not the main lyrics, because those are about getting ahead in your career since the song is from the movie Working Girl starring Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver. So just blast the title of the song over the loudspeakers. I think that would be super. Oh, and we'll need to ask Carly if we can use her song royalty-free since there wasn't a line-item for "Inspiring Musical Accompaniment" in the budget. We'll have to contact James Taylor to make the ask, since I think he’s the only one who has her phone number. This is getting complicated. But I think it's worth it, don’t you? CHEERS to that shining city on a hill surrounded by gaseous swampland. 231 years ago this week, in 1793, Congress—back when it was functional—voted to make Washington, D.C. the official replacement for Philadelphia as the nation's capital. Today the beltway politicians, lobbyists and pundits have so sullied the name of the place, and besmirched the memory of the person for whom it's named (Ronald Reagan Washington, the Texas School Board history textbooks tell me), that we really should think about moving it again. I offer up my usual candidates: Goober Hill, LA…Devil's Den, CA…Cuckoo, VA…Crooks, SD…Rattlesnake Bend, FL…Mayday, GA…Oil Springs, KY…Petroleum, MT…Crappo, MD…Hell, MI…Money, MS…Loco, OK…and Idiotville, OR. Completely out of the question, however: moving it to any town named Normal. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x A very beautiful idea [📸 Hugo Suíssas] pic.twitter.com/APFZbaxN9Y — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 7, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - JEERS to lies and the lying liars who tell them. Do you remember this bit of nonsense as well as I do? Republicans will lie about ANYTHING. Shortly after George W. Bush's installation as president by the Supreme Court in 2001, White House staffers accused Bill Clinton's people of tearing the White House apart before they left—even going so far as to remove the "W" keys from all the computers. Remember that? That was our first concrete clue that conservatives without conscience (to use John Dean's famous phrase) were running the show. Well, it was 22 years ago this week that Congressional investigators released a report on the "scandal." Their conclusion basically said, "Don’t you have anything better to do than waste our time?" Tragically, they did: hire incompetent cronies, invade Iraq, ram No Child Left Behind through, give no-bid contracts to Halliburton and free passes to polluters, run up record deficits, let New Orleans drown, authorize torture...and so on and so forth. JEERS to stupid moments of unintended irony. You may have heard the joyous news last week that the Hermann Goering of Trump's "Unified Reich," Steve Bannon, was ordered by a judge to report to prison on July 1st to start serving a sentence for contempt of Congress. In a nutshell (which is only slightly smaller than the cell he'll occupy), he refused to obey a subpoena ordering him to testify at the January 6 Subcommittee hearings. By refusing to speak, he'll serve four months in prison, putting him out of action through the rest of the 2024 presidential campaign. So how does he respond to the criminal penalty he earned because he kept his mouth shut? “There's not a prison built or jail built that will ever shut me up." Too late now, buddy. But we enjoy the toilet wine in the hoosegow. - Ten years ago in C&J: June 10, 2014 JEERS to the offensive Nazi references of the week. Three more entries from the self-proclaimed "grown-up side of the aisle." Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council believes that marriage equality will soon lead to Christians getting rounded up in boxcars by gay Nazis and shipped off to the worst place imaginable: Canadian politeness camps. Meanwhile, outgoing Indiana treasurer Richard Mourdock says it's unmistakable that our on-the-mend economy is the same as Nazi Germany circa 1936 and therefore—say it with me—Obama is Hitler. And then we have the Las Vegas shooters, who didn’t appear to have any difficulty fusing Nazi and tea party dogma and tying them up in a neat little bow by shooting a couple cops and calling it the "start of a revolution." And to think it's only Monday. - And just one more… CHEERS to a Loving legacy. When Mildred Loving died 16 years ago at 68, she left behind a milestone that reached its dramatic height 57 years ago this week. The Supreme Court ruled on a case called Loving v. Virginia, striking down state miscegenation laws (Virginia's had been on the parchment since the mid-1600s). Since this is Pride Month, it's worth revisiting the statement Loving issued on the 40th anniversary of the announcement of its ruling in her case. When she fought for equal marriage rights, she meant for everyone: The older generation’s fears and prejudices have given way, and today’s young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry. Mildred and Richard Loving Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person" for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights. I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about. Love it. Have a lovely Monday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial Don’t throw your old laptop in the dumpster. 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