Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene probably won't get the "national divorce" she wants, but her husband filed for a divorce from her, today.

Gadsden County commissioner appointed by Gov. DeSantis resigns after KKK costume photo emerges

Jeffery Moore, a Havana resident and former Department of Revenue employee, abruptly resigned from the post in Florida’s only predominantly Black county after the photo began circulating.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/09/27/gadsden-county-commissioner-resigns-after-kkk-photo-emerges-jeffery-moore-gov-ron-desantis-florida/8119165001/

According to FiveThirtyEight, in the coming US elections the Democrats currently have a 68% probability of holding the Senate, but the Republicans have a 70% probability of winning the House. Control of the House would effectively enable the Republicans to block legislation and engage in numerous "investigations" of the Executive branch.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate/

Rightist bloc wins election in Italy -- set for a majority in both houses. The lead party is the post-fascist Brothers of Italy. Their leader, Giorgia Meloni, is likely the next prime minister.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polls-open-italy-right-wing-alliance-seen-winning-2022-09-25/

The 1/6 Committee will hold what is expected to be its final public hearing on Wednesday, at 1 pm EDT. There's a lot of speculation about the specifics of the hearing, but nothing solid, yet. An interim committee report is expected, in the coming weeks, with a final report to follow.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/25/january-6-panel-to-probe-key-unanswered-questions-in-final-public-hearing

The dark night of fascism appears to be landing in Italy. Let's hope its tenure is short.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/24/italy-right-georgia-meloni-after-election-voting-closes

British pound approaching parity with dollar.

COVID-19 Infections Increase Risk of Long-Term Brain Problems: Strokes, Depression, Anxiety, Migraines.
https://scitechdaily.com/covid-19-infections-increase-risk-of-long-term-brain-problems-strokes-depression-anxiety-migraines/

When blood banks turn to the Marvel dark side.

Life expectancy in the US dropped 0.9 years in 2021. This follows a 1.8 year drop in 2020.

The biggest declines were for non-Hispanic American Indian-Alaskan people (1.9 years in 2021). Their life expectancy has declined by 6.6 years from 2019 to 2021.

Declines in life expectancy were largely, but not exclusively, due to COVID-19.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

Good piece on the mostly Venezuelan refugees lied to and flown from Texas to Martha's Vinyard as a political stunt by Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis.

Two refugees, Pedro Luis Torrealba and his wife, started out in a group of more than 60, of whom 22 survived crossing the Darién Gap. Abducted by a Mexican gang, Pedro's two gold teeth were yanked out. He didn't receive medical treatment for injuries to his mouth and jaw until arriving on Martha's Vinyard. #DeSantis
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/17/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-journey-desantis/index.html

The world did almost nothing as Russia committed war crimes in Aleppo, so now they're committing them in Europe.

If you haven't read about it, a Ukrainian medic captured by the Russians testified before Congress about Russian war crimes, including her own torture.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-16/torment-of-hell-ukraine-medic-describes-russian-torture/101447668

US rail strike averted. Tentative deal reached.

I was dreading this strike. It would have seriously damaged an economy already sliding into recession.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-economy-strikes-congress-94089be6a4f469444da99fec9dde1b3e

Right-wing bloc wins narrow majority in Swedish parliament. Immigrant-related crime a major factor in loss by bloc led by Social Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-4814cf71f9aa5f0224d5795e7597690c

Hungary continues to advance to expulsion from the EU.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/briefing/2022-09-12/3/hungary-can-no-longer-be-considered-a-full-democracy-meps-set-to-declare

The Economist currently projects that Democrats will gain a seat in the Senate, but lose control of the House.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-midterms-2022/forecast/house

Not a great surprise, but The Economist currently projects Democrats will gain a seat in the Senate, but still lose control of the House, in the mid-term elections.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-midterms-2022/forecast/senate

Good piece, by Laurence Tribe and Dennis Aftergut, on the jurisdictional and substantive legal reasoning irregularities of Judge Cannon's appointment of a special master in the Mar-a-Lago search case.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/07/the-trump-special-master-ruling-violates-the-principle-that-no-one-is-above-the-law

Steve Bannon has been arrested on a sealed New York indictment. It's unclear what the charges are, but we'll soon find out. President Trump previously pardoned him on federal crimes related to a fraudulent campaign to fund building a border wall, but these are state charges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/nyregion/bannon-surrender-sealed-indictment.html

Another holiday, another spate of mass shootings. 15 mass shootings with more than a dozen fatalities over Labor Day Weekend.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinehalpert/2022/09/06/more-than-a-dozen-killed-in-15-mass-shootings-over-labor-day-weekend/