quote [ Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has reportedly raised more than $16 million in an effort to help convicted felons in Florida register to vote.  ]

quote [ A "red mirage" on election night and a post-election "blue shift" could lead to an unprecedented constitutional crisis just as the Supreme Court is in tu... ]

quote [ A Colorado school called the police on a 12-year-old student last month for allegedly playing with a toy gun during an art class on Zoom. He was suspended for a week and now has a record with the county sheriff’s department. ]

quote [ Michael Reinoehl, the Portland shootng suspect, is dead. He was killed in a federal raid after proclaiming self defense to a news outlet. ]

quote [ Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well. ]

quote [ The Supreme Court again appears poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color. ]

quote [ Prostitutes in Switzerland have been legally and safely plying their trade in one of Zurich’s taxpayer-funded “sex boxes” for the past five years.

Zurich voters approved a city plan to set aside $2 million of taxpayer’s money to build several drive-in structures in a safe and discreet environment, away from the residential neighborhoods. Another $800,000 was earmarked for annual operation costs, which include security and on-site social services.

A year later, these premises started welcoming dozens of prostitutes and their clients.

To municipal authorities, this arrangement makes a lot of street sense...the premises were intended to “improve the working conditions of sex workers – their health, physical and mental integrity.” ]

quote [ The Arizona senator was diagnosed with brain cancer last year

“Last summer, Senator John McCain shared with Americans the news that our family already knew: he had been diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, and the prognosis was serious,” the McCain family said in a statement Friday. “In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment.” ]

quote [ Former member of Strawberry Alarm Clock joined Southern rock band in 1972 to give it its three-guitar sound ]

quote [ A right-wing group and self-described anti-fascist counter-protesters rallied in Portland, Oregon, Saturday as police tried to prevent the gatherings from turning violent as they have before. ]