What if the Senate Looked Like the United States, Instead of So Many White Men

If the Senate looked like America, who would be in the Senate?  If represetative of the population of the United States, the Senate would have: 

51 female senators, this Senate will have have 24

14 Black Senators all at once (we have had 14 ever). We have 5 now, should have 7 in January

7 Black women Senators, we will have 3 in January

21 Latino/a senators, we now have 6

1 Muslim Senator, will have our first in January

2 native Alaska Senators, we should have 2 in January 

9 openly LGBT+ Senators, now we have 1 and will have 2 in January

7 Asian/Pacific Island Senators, right now we have 3

We would still have room for White men.

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New Civil Rights Museum Features Struggles in the North

A new civil rights museum has opened this weekend in Harlem, New York focusing on the struggles in the North, opened by The National Urban League.

The 12,000 square foot museum is located in the Urban League’s Manhattan headquarters. Called the Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlam, it explores the region's lesser-known histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the local changemakers and artists whose contributions helped shape politics and culture worldwide.

The organizers say they hope to remind visitors of their “collective power” in the present.

Jennifer Scott, the museum’s founding executive director and chief curator, states that they want people to know that they are key participants. "History is living, it’s unfinished, and we can impact it.” 

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2026-11-09/few-museums-show-the-norths-civil-rights-movement-a-new-one-in-harlem-is-just-getting-started

https://kdhnews.com/news/nation/few-museums-show-the-norths-civil-rights-movement-a-new-one-in-harlem-is-just/article_a17b6ca9-7b1f-53b5-a054-40b95095e435.html

Pat Summitt to Be Honored with USPS Stamp

Longtime Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt will be honored with a stamp next year, the U.S. Postal Service announced today.

Pat Summitt, who died in 2016 at age 64, led Tennessee to eight NCAA championships and compiled a career record of 1,098-208 from 1974-2012. Her stamp features an oil-on-primed-linen portrait created by Roberto Parada. It was designed by Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS.

When Summitt was a graduate student coaching the women's basketball team, she drove the team in her own car, after they sold donuts on campus to buy uniforms. Charlotte was in graduate school at Tennessee at the time and remembers the fundraisers. Still much lower than men on the sports hierarchy, women's sports have come a long way since then. You know, EVERYONE LOVES WOMEN'S SPORTS. 

https://www.stampsforever.com/stamps/pat-summitt

Hierarchy Side of the See Saw Moves Farther Out with Miller Appointment

With the political and social side of the see saw in constant movement, the increase of mass on the equality side on the Tuesday blue wave necessitated a response from the hierarchy side of the see saw. The hierarchy builders have to move even farther from center in order to stay in the game.

The appointment of Stephen Miller is that response, highlighting the person who is maybe the most disrespected and despised man in America as Chief of the White House staff. 

Circling the wagons, and making themself an immovable target, the intention to build and maintain hierarchies is fixed now more than ever. Even their loudest noble causes will be hard to defend. 

How long until they fall off the end? They are certainly headed as strongly in that direction as ever. 

https://www.cluelessatthetop.com/seesaw/

Equality Side of the See Saw Jumps Together

As the political and social See Saw of our country continues to shift, we saw a huge jump on Tuesday, when the Blue Tsunami hit our country.  The work and commitment of all of us played out in so many ways. Now we will observe how the Hierarchy side responds. 

https://www.cluelessatthetop.com/seesaw/

Google Cuts Down 400,000 Trees for Finland Data Centers

Google has illegally cut down a about 400,000 trees near the towns of Muhos and Otanmäki in rural northern Finland for data centers. Google even took the topsoil with it. All that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River.

Typical of corporations who want to build hierarchies and the wealth they bring and what is good for them is the root of their decision making, many people in Finland are appalled by the arrogance and destruction. 

Jussi Kangasharju, head of computer science at the University of Helsinki, said about data centers, “They are international companies serving international customers. Very little corporate taxes go to Finland. Datacenters ultimately have very little benefit for others except the datacentre operator.”

When the trees were felled, the wolves who had lived there came to the village, said Anni Ranta, 53, whose family has lived there for generations. Vesa Hyyryläinen, chair of the local SLL district, said three-toed woodpeckers nesting in the forest had been pushed out.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

Witches of Scotland Tartan Officially Registered

Serving as a living memorial and visual symbol following the successful campaign that secured formal legal pardons, apologies, and memorials for the victims, An official memorial textile created to honor the thousands of people—mostly women—who were wrongfully accused, tortured, and executed under Scotland's Witchcraft Act between 1563 and 1736. 

The black, red, gray, and pink design honors the thousands of individuals - mostly women - who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act. 

Religion has been classified into hierarchies for centuries, with pagan spiritualities being placed on the bottom by Christian-dominated societies. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-new-tartan-pattern-created-to-honor-women-accused-of-witchcraft-in-scotland-between-1563-and-1736-180986172/