{"id":5101,"date":"2022-09-03T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2022-09-23T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:52:26","slug":"good-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5101","title":{"rendered":"Good morning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure this Biden speech will change many minds, but I am so glad he said what he did. It&#8217;s a moment in our country&#8217;s history that deserves recognition, and the danger must be named. I think he named it well, and judging by all the fainting and whines today, other people think so too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EyWZ66eCC1M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t posted much recently because I&#8217;ve been busy. In addition to writing up <a href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5018\">my thoughts on the midterms<\/a>, with a reference guide to the most important Senate races, I spent a couple of days following virtual sessions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/netrootsnation\/videos\">Netroots Nation 2022<\/a>. I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%40jnfr%20%23NN22&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=live\">live-tweeted<\/a> a bunch of screenshots and recapped the panels I watched. I think all the live-streamed panels are available at that YouTube link, and next week I&#8217;ll write up a recap of my <em>#NN22<\/em> experience.<\/p>\n<p>The next weekend I spent entirely absorbed in ARMY&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbtsarmy.com\/projects-and-collaborations\/we-wanna-focus-on-bts\"><em>Global Streaming Battle of the Eras<\/em><\/a>, which was a blast. I was on <em>#TeamHYYH<\/em> of course, as I am still quite involved in thinking about the Bangtan Universe material. I spent several hours over two days <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnfr\/status\/1563605101008154624\">recapping old videos<\/a> set in the BU, as part of a hashtag battle. (My team won that portion of the fight, but alas, <em>#TeamLY<\/em> won the overall Battle.) A good time was had by everyone, near as I could tell.<\/p>\n<p>I still have my notes for a potential Bangtan Universe essay, but I&#8217;m afraid I won&#8217;t get back to that until after the mid-terms. Maybe sometime, though. Those thoughts are still alive for me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:30px;margin-bottom:30px\" src=\"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/pics\/bunny%20cake.jpg\"\" alt=\"Bunny cake\" align=\"left\">And of course ARMY celebrated JK Day on Sept. 1, the birthday of Jungkook of BTS. I saw a number of fundraising initiatives that were created in his honor. One raised funds for at-risk children in Korea. Another was funding menstrual supplies for people in parts of Africa. Others went by with details I didn&#8217;t catch.<\/p>\n<p>And separately, ARMY charity accounts were raising money for survivors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/aug\/30\/pakistan-floods-cause-devastation-in-pictures\">terrible floods in Pakistan<\/a>. It&#8217;s nice to see people do good things in the world.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with these <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3TF1cbZ\">very true words<\/a> from Greg Sargeant at the Washington Post (gift link, no paywall), about the Biden speech yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MAGA Republicans are seething with rage because Biden hit his target<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;That\u2019s a call for Americans to defeat Trump and MAGA in a manner that is peaceful and democratic. Biden is saying that an anti-MAGA majority exists in this country that can and must mobilize to stabilize our system.<\/p>\n<p>And the idea that this majority is out there and exists for the rousing \u2014 well, that\u2019s what enrages Republicans most of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nRemember to check your voter registration, everyone. Some states are stripping voters from the rolls for no reason at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure this Biden speech will change many minds, but I am so glad he said what he did. It&#8217;s a moment in our country&#8217;s history that deserves recognition, and the danger must be named. I think he named it well, and judging by all the fainting and whines today, other people think so too. &nbsp; I haven&#8217;t posted much recently because I&#8217;ve been busy. In addition to writing up my thoughts on the midterms, with a reference guide to the most important Senate races, I spent a couple of days following virtual sessions of Netroots Nation 2022. I live-tweeted <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5101\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,51,30,21,172,6],"tags":[272,48,122],"class_list":["post-5101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections-2","category-personal","category-random","category-resistance","category-voting","tag-bts","tag-elections","tag-random-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1kh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}