Out d’Coup | Buffalo to Get Socialist Mayor; Infrastructure Deal; Pacific NW Heat Wave; Idea Police in FL; Brandi Levy Wins in SCOTUS; Assault on Voting in PA; PASSHE; DuckDuckGo; Seder Owns Crowder

<p><a href='https://newrepublic.com/article/162788/india-walton-buffalo-socialist-mayor'>India Walton</a>, the socialist candidate for mayor of Buffalo, NY <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/nyregion/india-walton-socialist-nyc-primary-buffalo.html'>won the Democratic Party primary on Tuesday,</a> all but securing her election in the fall, given that Buffalo is a deeply blue city. Walton will become Buffalo’s first female mayor and will with the first socialist to lead a major American city since sewer socialists ran Milwaukee, Wisconsin in early 20th century. She beat Mayor Byron Brown, a four-term incumbent and close ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and ran a campaign focused on returning power to working people in New York State's second largest city. </p> <p>Biden signals he’ll back the new bi-partisan infrastructure bill as long as Congress sends him a second bill at the same time that includes investments in our social infrastructure cut from the bipartisan agreement. That second bill will most likely need to run through the reconciliation process. Already, <a href='https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lindsey-graham-bails-on-bidens-infrastructure-bill-calls-it-gop-suicide-mission/ar-AALrlV4'>Sen. Lindsay Graham</a> is bolting. </p> <p>The <a href='https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/heatwave-pacific-northwest-deaths'>Pacific Northwest is expected to be hit by an extreme heatwave</a> this weekend. The National Weather Service is forecasting temperatures as high as 109 degrees. The heatwave comes as the region is already experiencing a significant drought and high fire risk. One more argument for why climate changes needs to be front and center of the infrastructure bill - <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/climate/biden-climate-infrastructure.html'>those very measures that were cut from the bipartisan agreement</a>. </p> <p>Joseph McCarthy...check that...I mean,<a href='https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article252307993.html'> Florida Gov. Ron Desantis</a> has si