What about a thread for good news?

[Mongrel]

Also books: Allie Brosh is still truckin, writin and gettin published, and I can't think of anyone the denizens of 2020 need more.

Excerpt: https://outline.com/rUfjHp

AMA thread on r/books soon, apparently.

I don't know if it's previewed there but her story about her life as a cat door burglar is also in the new book and it's AMAZING.

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

Of course there's this to consider.



But we'll see, I suppose.

[Thad]

Paul Rudd has been handing out cookies to Brooklyn voters waiting in rain

I think we have some footage:

[Friday]

thanks, i had actually never seen what happens after he falls in despite seeing the first part of this clip fifty times.

[Thad]

Virginia Governor Passes A Long List Of Police Reforms, Including A Ban On No-Knock Warrants

[beatbandito]

Fishing company that burned Mi'kmaq fishing boats and lobster traps / haul bought out by corporation sharing ownership 50% with Mi'kmaq First Nations Coalition

[Mongrel]

Oh that's GOOD.

[Thad]

New York Becomes Latest State to Strengthen Anti-SLAPP Law, Providing Greater Protections for the Exercise of Free Speech, Petition, and Association

We still need a federal one, but this is a step in the right direction.

[Yoji]

Halal restaurant known for feeding the homeless saved from closing by donations. I'm sure there's more of these kind of stories than I might think, but I dunno, it stuck somehow. Maybe I just mentally pointed and laughed at how a scary Muslim did more Christ-like work than so many Christians.

[Büge]

Good for him.

[Thad]

Memorial to John Lewis replacing Decatur Confederate monument

[Thad]

Oregon law to decriminalize all drugs goes into effect, offering addicts rehab instead of prison

[Bal]

Easily the strongest affirmation of labor rights from a president that I can recall.

[Mongrel]

Wow, that's uh, really... good!

[Mongrel]

[Thad]

Kelly Loeffler Just Lost Her WNBA Team to a Player She Refused to Meet

By any measure, it should be the biggest story in sports: A franchise owner runs a racist Senate campaign, throwing their own Black players under the bus in the process. Meanwhile, one of those players takes the year off from playing ball to dedicate themselves to social justice concerns. That player asks to meet with the aforementioned franchise owner to discuss those concerns and is denied. The franchise owner refuses to meet and respectfully engage with someone who disagrees with them for political reasons. After the franchise owner faceplants their election campaign, ending in ignominious defeat, the players, the union, fans, and eventually even the league pressures them to sell the club.

That in and of itself would be a hell of a story. But this one goes to the next level: The aforementioned player joins an ownership group and buys the team. It’s positively cinematic. But this story isn’t getting the media attention it should be. That’s because it took place in the WNBA. Sexism is a hell of a drug, and it’s a damn shame because this is a story for the ages.

The now-former franchise owner is of course Trumpist lickspittle Kelly Loeffler, who lost her bid for Georgia’s senate seat to the Rev. Raphael Warnock. The team is the Atlanta Dream. The player is two-time WNBA champ Renee Montgomery. And this is truly news to celebrate.

[Mongrel]

What's that post floating around? Something like "I'm not gonna kill myself, if my depression wants me dead that badly it's gonna have to start shutting my organs down like a real fuckin' disease instead of hiding in my brain and trying to get me to do its dirty work for it. Kill me yourself, you coward."

Alternately:

Are millennials killing suicides??

[Friday]

huh.

So I looked into possible reasons for that, and discovered the "pulling together" effect. People speculate that when things get chaotic/tough for everyone, suicides go down because it gives people a shared connection.

That was absolutely not the case for me. I mean, I knew/felt that everyone was having it bad, but that was what was driving my own suicidal ideation.

Well, in any case, it -is- good news.

[mharr]

I'm sure humanity are at our best when something real and external is visibly trying to kill us all. Which makes the Q reaction to the virus all the more infuriating.