This map transitions from a traditional map showing US COunties. to a map showing the proportion of parties by splitting the dots according to the result. This way the ratio between the number of red & blue pixels in the picture corresponds to the actual popular vote ratio.

The transition drives home that the U.S. is not divided into red/blue states, rather, the electorate is mixed throughout the entire country. Regardless of where we live we have a significant number of neighbors who vote both aligned and opposite how we vote.

“Land doesn’t vote, people do.”

Hug 1 BILLIOn TreeS

Millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the western US are due to be planted with MORE THAN A BILLION TREES. The project is already funded too, with money from the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last year.

Click here to read a serious reuters article about it OR click here for a more thought provoking opinion piece.

YOU’VE GOT MAIL!

40% of US Post office’s new fleet of trucks will now be electric. That is 25,000 electric delivery vehicles - more than twice its prior estimate . Sixteen states and the UAW filed suits last spring to stop the USPS from buying mostly gas powered delivery vehicles.

Click here to learn more about the rest of the 84,000 vehicles ordered

$73 Million is a great start…

Remington Arms must pay $73 million to some of the victim families from the Sandy Hook massacre related to the 2012 murder of 20 1st graders and 4 adults.

The families successfully argued that the gunmaker promoted gun sales targeted to troubled men and tied masculinity to gun ownership. The settlement is the FIRST TIME EVER in the U.S. that a gun manufacturer has been held liable for a mass shooting. Click here to learn some of the advertising techniques.