(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest for Weds Nov 15 (Thanksgiving Recess edition) [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-11-15 Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. x 🚨🚨BREAKING: The Senate JUST passed the bill from the House to keep the government running, thanks to support from the Democratic party. It now goes on to President Biden to get signed. More proof that when you need to get something done, Democrats will make it happen. — BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) November 16, 2023 See also this very important diary from Tweedledee5: That “laddered CR”? A surprise switcheroo—Mike Johnson’s GOP got played, lost EVERYTHING they wanted x Can the rest of America take the rest of this week and all of next week off? https://t.co/uyv3yHsQWF — Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 15, 2023 x And if you think the only people who will end up in the camps are unauthorized immigrants, I would invite you to consider the right-wing rhetoric about how leftists, BLM, antifa, Muslims pose major threats to our national security that must be stopped at all costs. — Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) November 12, 2023 x 🚨 BIDENOMICS INCREASINGLY POPULAR 🚨 According to a new YouGov poll, 46% of Americans now approve of the job President Biden is doing on the economy. Most impressive, since September, there has been a 9 pt swing on this question: YouGov: Do you approve or disapprove of the way… pic.twitter.com/DkGtja9WKK — Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) November 15, 2023 x Clean technologies are powering job growth in the global energy sector – with the workforce rising to 67 million last year Clean energy employment now makes up over half of all energy jobs, after overtaking fossil fuels in 2021 More in @IEA's new report: https://t.co/SwRil3cVdS pic.twitter.com/owPhWRSzHh — Fatih Birol (@fbirol) November 15, 2023 The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up to six million. "Active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is prohibited, because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry," the Vatican's doctrinal office said in a letter published by Vatican media on Wednesday. ...Masonic lodges are normally male-only societies, associated with arcane symbols and rituals. They have also sometimes been linked to conspiracy theories alleging undue influence on world affairs. x October 2023 broke records as the hottest October on @nasa’s temperature record, GISTEMP. This is the fifth record month in a row, continuing a long-term warming trend caused by human activities. pic.twitter.com/1LnR4yQgNk — NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) November 15, 2023 Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability. The ground-breaking discoveries are also shedding new light on how early empires functioned. Ongoing excavations in Turkey – in the ruins of the ancient capital of the Hittite empire – are yielding remarkable evidence that the imperial civil service included entire departments fully or partly dedicated to researching the religions of subject peoples. The evidence suggests that, back in the second millennium BC, Hittite leaders told their civil servants to record subject peoples’ religious liturgies and other traditions by writing them down in their respective local languages (but in Hittite script) – so that those traditions could be preserved and incorporated into the empire’s highly inclusive multicultural religious system. x Our #HopeForReefs team is continuing critical work with @MMRI_Maldives & local partners to explore deep-reef ecosystems. A recent trip focused on Dhaalu Atoll, where the team discovered undescribed species of fishes & nudibranchs — & were delighted to see healthy shallow reefs. pic.twitter.com/a5VvIYaSnk — California Academy of Sciences (@calacademy) November 10, 2023 Inspired by global warming and the refugees who lost their lives trying to reach Europe, Shezad Dawood’s work asks difficult questions. How will it go down in church? It was harrowing,” says artist Shezad Dawood. He’s recalling the time he cast eyes on the personal effects of refugees and migrants who lost their lives in the sea between North Africa and Sicily. Dredged up from the seabed, these possessions included passports, mobile phones, medicine, cigarette packets – and often, small quantities of earth from their homelands, carefully wrapped in plastic or cellophane. “All were heart-rending, but none more so than the last category,” he says. The items have been incorporated by Dawood, who is based in Hackney Wick, east London, into the Labanof Cycle, a suite of voluminous, elegiac textile tapestries. First he would paint the various possessions, then they would be screen-printed on to luxurious handmade Fortuny fabrics from Venice. The finished works are archives of loss. Objects that were once banal have become precious fragments of a life to be held on to. ...The Revd Dr Kenneth Padley, the cathedral’s canon treasurer and chair of its arts advisory panel, said Dawood’s installation was “provocative”, but hoped visitors and congregation would understand that “beneath the wrapping paper and joy of the birth of the baby, the Christian message of the incarnation is that God in Jesus comes into the brokenness of this world to transform and redeem it. Jesus himself becomes a refugee, like countless others before and since, as he flees to Egypt from the vengeful King Herod.” x A giant octopus kite is a challenge to fly, especially if 17 meters long, but it's also an amazing aerial showpic.twitter.com/G4R7qWKjaa — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 15, 2023 Let’s go fly a kite? Or maybe an octopus? What are YOU flying tonight? Tell us in the comments! 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