- It's just 30 days until progressive activists from across the country (and beyond) will gather in Pittsburgh for the grassroots event of the year—the annual Netroots Nation convention. Join us August 13–15 at the David Lawrence Convention Center for four days of panels, trainings, keynotes, screenings and networking events. Register now at regonline.com/nn09.
- Sessions and Coburn and Kyl lead the Sotomayor fight. That's what today's Republican party is all about. What that is isn't exactly clear, but there you have it.
- Looks like the Senate has another committed net neutrality proponent in Al Franken.
- Somehow this doesn't seem like it's gonna be enough for the guy who called Spanish "the language of living in a ghetto" to build any bridges to Hispanics.
- This was you attorney general. We should have impeached his ass.
- Sen. Feinstein says, re: activists pressuring her on healthcare reform, "It doesn't move me one whit. They are spending a lot of money on something that is not productive." Jonathan Chait sez, "Let's primary her." Capital idea, and a welcome evolution in Mr. Chait's thinking.
- The demise of one newspaper, the Seattle PI has led to some interesting experiments for the paper's staff. Some of the key writers, including columnist Joel Connelly, are trying to make a go of it with an online only edition. Now a group of reporters have established Investigate West, "a nonprofit news organization that conducts major investigative and narrative reporting efforts in the Western U.S. and Canada. We focus on stories involving the environment, health and social justice."
- More from the Evergreen State. Looking out my Seattle window today at the fine, gray mist enveloping us, this project seems strange, but 80 miles makes all the difference.
The world’s largest solar park ... in Washington state? Why yes, says Howard Trott, the managing director of the project. Contrary to popular belief, this area of the state (about 80 miles southeast of Seattle’s notorious gray skies) enjoys over 300 days of sunshine a year—plenty enough to move Washington state into position as the second largest solar producer by megawatt in the U.S., behind California.
- Mermaids? Brownback carries on one of his more bizarre crusades.
