Sher Spooner

Positive campaign videos are always inspiring. And this one, forwarded to me by a relative, hits on all points. I don’t know who produced it — it doesn’t seem to be an official campaign video, but it makes me want to vote for the Harris-Walz team even more. It uses the music from “Shut Up and Dance” by Walk the Moon, a song that always makes you want to dance. There are lots of good feels and vibes in here, with so, so many incredible images.

Think of it as the Marie Kondo approach to political blogging. When it no longer sparks joy, it’s time to hang it up. I started this blog nearly eight years ago, mainly as a platform to gain publicity about a book I wrote. It gained a life of its own, turning into a job writing on another political blog for several years.

How Buckingham Palace in London looks today, and how it might look with sea levels rising from global warming. A new analysis of 100,000 studies of weather events shows that the vast majority of the world’s population already have experienced the negative effects of global warming on their own local environments. It’s only going to get worse, even with promised cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. It’s going to be catastrophic if the world doesn’t do something drastic — and soon.