Driving home tonight, I thought about Republicans' floor speeches today on the "sanctity of life". And how this concern for "life" apparently doesn't extend to the kids who were shot today in a school in Michigan. So I turned the car around, and went to the Senate floor.

Facts. Biden takes office. Unemployment rate: 6.3%. Today: 4.2%. Biden takes office: DJIA: ~ 30,800. Today: ~ 34,600. Economic growth looks to be >6% in 2021.

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“School districts have taken on tremendous responsibility. Others have abdicated their leadership, and I use that term very, very deliberately,” Dr. Susan Enfield told reporter Linda Jacobson. The 74 the74million.org/article/superi…

The death tolls do not begin to capture the true scope of the epidemic of school shootings in the United States. There are the children who suffer no physical wounds, but are still haunted for years by what they saw or heard or lost. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…

Why Do Republican Politicians Hate Public Schools? themerrowreport.com/2022/07/05/why…

Incoming medical students walk out at University of Michigan’s white coat ceremony as the keynote speaker is openly anti-abortion

BREAKING: The Iranian men’s national soccer team defies the Iranian regime, wears black jackets to cover up the country’s emblem in order to protest the regime’s violent crackdown on women and stand in solidarity with Iranian women protesting for their rights. RT TO THANK THEM!

Wow. A big tip of the Stetson to Jon Stewart. A master class in the art of a news making interview.

This is outstanding.

As a father of eight, I think this is by far the best The New York Times letter to the editor today.

Anyone who thinks Black people don't care about gun violence in their communities doesn't know any Black people and also is only using discussions of the violence we suffer as an anti-Black political trope.

Now the poem that Amanda Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration, entitled “The Hill We Climb,” has been banned from curriculum through 5th grade in Miami-Dade County, for not being suitable for elementary students. For those who listened to the poem, you would know the

MTG introduced an amendment approved by House Confederates to reduce U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's salary to no more than $1. Lloyd James Austin III is a retired United States Army four-star general. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s awards are too numerous to list.

Gen. Mark Milley: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator...We take an oath to the Constitution...and we're willing to die to protect it."

Nicolle Wallace Congrats! Let’s hope she doesn’t have to grow up in a world with Trump supporters.

"Only in America." 😂