Women now account for 1,784 of the 7,383 legislators in the 50 states. That’s 24.2 percent of the total. Colorado ranks first, with 41 percent. Louisiana ranks last at 12.5 percent, just 18 women legislators in a House and Senate of 144 members. You can see your state’s ranking here. Of the total, 35.6 percent of women state legislators are Republican (636) and 63.5 percent are Democrats (1,133) with five independents and 10 nonpartisan women legislators in Nebraska.
Joe Romm at Climate Progress writes The Planet Just Had Its Hottest September On Record:
| Last month was the warmest September globally since records began being kept in 1880, NASA reportedSunday. January through September data have 2014 already at the third warmest on record. Projections by NOAA make clear 2014 is taking aim at hottest year on record.
Remarkably, this September record occurred even though we’re still waiting for the start of El Niño, which reveals just how strong the underlying trend of human-caused warming is. It’s usually the combination of the long-term manmade warming trend and the regional El Niño warming pattern that leads to new global temperature records. […] For the second month in a row, it was so hot over West Antarctica, that NASA had to put in the color brown to cover the 4°C to 8.7°C (7°F to over 15°F!) anomalous warmth. But given how far away the South Pole is, why should we get concerned about it when D.C. is having such a pleasant fall? Sure, recent studies have found that the huge glaciers in the West Antarctic ice sheet “have begun the process of irreversible collapse,” but it’s not like “many of the world’s coastal cities would eventually have to be abandoned” if that keeps up, is it? |
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2010—ThinkProgress documents more foreign funding to Chamber:
| ThinkProgress has a new investigation to supplement their story from last week that documented “the disclosure of fundraising documents U.S. Chamber staffers had been distributing to solicit foreign (even state-owned) companies to donate directly to the Chamber’s 501(c)(6).”
This new chapter of the investigation adds significantly to ThinkProgress’s case with very specific donations documented that are far beyond what the Chamber has publicly acknowledged in interviews. ThinkProgress began by documenting the three ways in which the Chamber fundraises from foreign corporations, and how that money goes into its “501(c)(6) entity, the same account that finances its unprecedented $75 million dollar partisan attack ad campaign.” The Chamber has responded with a focus on just one of those avenues for fundraising–the red-herring AmChams, the network of Chabmer affiliates internationally, composed of American and foreign companies. The Chamber acknowledges their existence, and that it receives money from them, but has stonewalled any attempt to deteremine whether or not that money is making its way into their attack ads for Republicans. To date, the traditional media has just bought that story, has accepted the Chamber’s “just trust us” line. |
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On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, DC football team owner Dan Snyder hosts the outgoing Navajo Nation president at a game (on “Columbus Day” weekend). Problem solved forever! Greg Dworkin’s Ebola update, including claims that budget cuts impeded the vaccine search. And an English court says an anti-vax activist’s been lying. Trouble for the armed UT teacher who accidentally fired her gun in school. Why “Columbus Day” makes no sense as a school holiday. The crazy valuation of Snapchat. Memoir of a “gun guy” who accidentally Second Amendmented himself. The final word on just how outrageously wrong the coal companies’ go-to black lung doc was.
