Tina @Porpentina2017@mastodon.cloud

Do you find that the positive stories in the #news tend to get buried in favor of infuriating stories? Me too. That's why every Saturday, I publish a list of good news stories at my blog, Political Charge.

Here's just 1 of the 12 #GoodNews stories I found this week:

>> This week Democrats took control of state houses in Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts and Minnesota as the new legislative season began

You can see the rest plus a handful of my favorite editorial cartoons from this week at this link:
https://politicalcharge.org/2023/01/21/political-charge-weekly-recap-1-21/

@Porpentina2017 I mean, perhaps McCarthy was thinking that it's moot because the Senate won't pass it. BUT, it gives the Dems a gift for 2024. Imagine -- we could honestly say that the GOP House passed a bill to hike sales tax to 30%! Can you imagine?

@GottaLaff 😞

Our story on the Jan. 6 committee shelving evidence of social media's failures makes today's @washingtonpost front page

https://wapo.st/3CUa0nD

Because it was running from the cops.

@TonyStark @Porpentina2017
My parents lived with me while my 84-yr-old dad recovered from radiation treatments for NHL. He had to learn to walk & drive again. I began giving him “driving lessons” when he was able to walk 1/2 mile. He & I had been impatient (but not rude) drivers. That changed immediately. I was shocked by how rude other drivers were even tho’ a sticker on his car indicated he was handicapped. “Until it happens to you.”

@mentallyalex @TonyStark @Porpentina2017 I have serious doubts about anyone who wants to demotivate others that way. They need to look inside and take responsibility for being a better person.

@TonyStark
> How are we all going to live in a cooperative, decent society if people cannot be commonly courteous to a stranger?

This is the part I wish more people would see. This is one of the underlying issues. United we stand, divided we fall wasn't just good advice - it was prophetic.

@Porpentina2017

Birdplace 2022…

#sgtpepper2022 New Year’s Eve update (with incomplete key)

Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’. Please bear with it.

@TonyStark Trying to find a moderate Republican would be like bobbing for apples in a trough full of sewage. And even if you found one that was seemingly pristine, you can't be sure there's not a worm in it.
The GOP is a hate group. It's not even a political position anymore, it's a moral one. Supporting the GOP supports hate.

Kevin McCarthy's goal is to hurt American citizens at the pleasure of Putin. To own the libs.

It's all a game for Republicans. Performance art. They are playing with a fire that will burn for decades if we can't stop them.

I tire of conservative lies about pay and the economy. A UK leader said that "significantly increasing pay for public sector is the worst thing we could do for inflation." Patently false!
1. Raising pay in one area doesn't cause inflation--it forces reprioritization of spending. Inflation is caused when the *overall* supply of money rises.
2. Unless leaders are going to limit corporate profit or executive raises, then balancing your economy on the back of nurses and bus drivers is simply evil.

And now you know that owls have incredibly long legs.

As of today, we are Suspending federation with mastodon.bida.im.

This is due to repeated antisemitism posts on their platform. In addition, their admins appear unresponsive both to reports and to private messages. We have an obligation to protect our users and community from hate speech and thus we must de-federate from this instance.