Saturday, August 03, 2019
Socialism’s pretty handy every time we bail out Wall Street with public tax money. It’s the only thing standing by to rescue Capitalism, which consistently crashes. (link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_and_bear_markets) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s… Oh, and if you dislike communism and central planning, stop funding the USA military
The Bubble:
James Baldwin happy smile
Marvel at this fabulous picture of Nina Simone and #JamesBaldwin via @SchomburgCenter pic.twitter.com/5cDds42Acv
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) August 2, 2019
happy donkey
This melted my cynical jaded heart tonight…
Friend thought I needed a smile and sent me a video of a donkey reunited with the young girl who raised him. It’s a good onepic.twitter.com/XJQhUTmk4m— Andrew Zimmern (@andrewzimmern) August 3, 2019
“Feel Good Friday”
Ethiopians planted 353 million trees in 12 hours, part of a 4 billion tree-planting campaign to fight deforestation and climate change.”
+ California professors install seesaws along U.S.-Mexico border wall.
+ Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year.
+ An Irish teenager just won $50,000 for his project focusing on extracting micros-plastics from water.
+ This 8-year-old is selling dozens of his paintings to benefit Austin’s homeless.
+ Dolphin mom adopts whale calf—a first. But what happens when the kid is big enough to easily dominate the parent? (My kids are half-Samoan, so this is a recurring question for me.)
+ Boy born without a hand meets a soccer player just like him. What a photo…
+ Buzzfeed: 16 Good Things That Happened This Week.
+ And if you missed it earlier in the week, the feel goodest thing in recent internet memory: Lizzo: Tiny Desk Concert.