Apparently Alaska just elected its first Native person to Congress, Democrat Mary Peltola! The election was in question for a while, due to ranked choice voting, and letting mailed-in ballots arrive up to 15 days after election day. She defeated Sarah Palin for this special election, but at least will be the incumbent during the November election. Hooray!
In sadder news, Pakistan is experiencing disastrous monsoon flooding. Thousands have died, and millions are homeless. Apparently this has been happening since June, but I've only heard of it in mainstream news media in late August. Why did they wait so long to report? Talk about a climate change disaster...
As for America, we also have an emergency in Jackson, Mississippi, with no clean water there. Apparently their water systems were failing for months, but the Republicans did nothing to fix it. Somebody should have been working on it all this time, or at least planning on how to get bottled water distributed to everyone in the city when it did fail. This is what we need infrastructure funds for.
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