.Vice President JD Vance Kamala Harris swears in Laphonza Butler (D) as California’s new senator.

Lol.

Not easy shoes to fill.

One of the two people running for Speaker compares himself to a KKK grand wizard, and the other coached students he knew were being sexually abused and instead of helping them asked them to deny they were being abused. How the bar has dropped.

“If I were an antiabortion politician, I’d be scared,” said Tresa Undem, a public opinion researcher who studies abortion and supports abortion rights. washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Everyone wondering if abortion access will still mobilize voters in 2024 got their answer tonight. Decisive wins for Democrats and abortion access across the board.

"We're in the business of making sure that the world's mayors have a voice in the national and international frameworks," says Mayor Marvin Rees of #Bristol🇬🇧 about the MMC in an interview with euronews during the Global #RefugeeForum🇺🇳

Sneak peak of the always impressive Helen Toner at TED Talks this week on navigating AI.

Can private companies pushing forward the frontier of a revolutionary new technology be expected to operate in the interests of both their shareholders and the world? In an essay, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley argue for more regulation in the AI industry econ.st/3R04JCc

“The majority of breaking digital news stories about this month’s unprecedented weather don't mention the climate crisis... Instead, most mainstream outlets continue to write about these lethal, record-breaking events as if they were merely acts of God.” heated.world/p/the-media-is…

Not sure I have ever seen a billboard like this from a state or city health department. They are all over Western Mass now.

20 year old white dude with an AR-15 starts shooting at Trump at a rally and Republicans are blaming women and DEI.

The message coming out of the right following an assassination attempt on the former president by a 20-year-old white man is that women are the problem. Not access to guns, or the vile rhetoric coming from the right, or a failure by the Secret Service. Women.

Worsening climate disasters are not an Act of God, they are an #ActofMan. Scientists agree that burning fossil fuels is overheating the planet, causing unnatural disasters. Help spread the truth by sharing this post. Go to ActofMan.com to help climate survivors.

Democracy Dies in Dollars.

who europeans would vote for in america’s presidential election, by country:

More Americans overseas voting this election than in 2020: Report newsweek.com/voter-turnout-…