Social media is filled with funny moments and stories. Sometimes we just need to step away and take some time to relax; such posts allow us to mentally recharge.

As part of a weekly series that aims to make you laugh, Daily Kos will be compiling and sharing viral funny videos from across social media platforms. The news cycle can be a bit much at times. Self-care is needed. 

We all need balance, so let’s have some joy where we are able.

Hello, Daily Kos Community, and welcome back to Daily Kos Week in Action! This weekly series from the Daily Kos Activism team shares the issues we’re working on and gets your feedback on where we might focus our future efforts.

At Daily Kos, we believe in fighting for equity, especially when it comes to the law.

Coast to coast, the green rush is failing Black growers and entrepreneurs.

By Donnell Alexander, for Capital & Main

This story is the first in a four-part series about cannabis equity in America.

 
Full Disclosure: I am so thoroughly in the tank for cannabis that I believe negative “stoner behavior” can be chalked up to dosing issues. In my experience, cannabis is medicine, and too much of anything is bad for you.

Outdoor gear retailer REI remains committed to breaking the union-organizing effort by workers at its Manhattan store, but it also remains committed to pretending to be committed to social justice—in hilarious fashion in the case of a podcast episode featuring CEO Eric Artz and chief diversity and social impact officer Wilma Wallace.

Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, get out the vote, support candidates, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive movement grow and exert influence on the powers that be. Visit us every week to see how you can get involved!

Another year, another Super Bowl.

It is Friday. Our country’s traditional news media wonders what to do now that the bigger, more robust infrastructure bill—the one that might actually ameliorate many of the issues they now write about with their hands in the air—has not passed.

Jeff Bezos reportedly has a new vanity project: a mega-yacht with an estimated price tag of $500 million. It’s a floating phallic symbol with masts so tall that a historic steel Rotterdam bridge may have to be partially dismantled so Bezos’ superyacht can sail from its shipyard to the open sea.

The purportedly homegrown display of economic sabotage currently unfolding in Canada and on the U.S.-Canadian border has garnered a large share of right-wing supporters in this country, primarily among those who oppose COVID-19 restrictions, decry the use of vaccines, and generally revel in performative gestures against what they consider government “overreach.