Yea 73 / Nay 0 / Absent 6 !

Scott Wiener’s California #Senate #Bill868 “Electricity: portable solar generation devices” legalising #pluginsolar has passed the 2nd Chamber of the #California Legislature: the Assembly!

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac…

Even #Republican voted for #pluginpv!

State Rep #AngieNixon, a #progressive firebrand who ran such an underdog campaign that she could not afford a single television ad, won the Democratic #Senate nomination in #Florida Tuesday in a shocking upset.

With her defeat of #AlexVindman, a candidate with establishment backing who raised >16X as much campaign money, Ms. Nixon, a #DemocraticSocialist, continued the left’s winning streak this year in Democratic primaries.

#USpol #midterms #primaries #elections
nytimes.com/2026/08/19/us/poli…

#ICYMI

Actual good news in the context of "only bad can happen" in the #TrumpVirus #Senate / #GQP #Congress #plutocracy

🚨BREAKING: Senate Republicans failed to pass a truncated version of the SAVE America Act before going into recess early Saturday morning. [As shared to X by Marc Elias]

Voters spared as Senate recesses without passing SAVE America Act’s voter ID measure

#Elections still have a chance, and maybe keeping our aspirational #democracy too

Looks as if Dr Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan primary ballot for Democratic Party candidate for US Senate. Media seems squeamish to report. There’s a whole lot of AIPAC money involved to oppose him. AIPAC also spent money opposing the tireless Cori Bush in Missouri.
#MoneyOutOfUSPolitics #Senate #Michigan

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Trotz scharfer Kritik: Italienischer Senat billigt Justizreform

Italiens Senat hat eine Justizreform gebilligt, die der Regierung mehr Einfluss auf Personalentscheidungen geben könnte. Kritik kommt nicht nur von der Opposition - auch die Justiz sieht ihre Unabhängigkeit in Gefahr. Von R. Kronthaler.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/i…

#Italien #Senate #Justizreform