Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:47 and sunset is 8:14, for 14 hours, 26 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 60.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1869, Japan’s Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
Yesterday, Wisconsin’s newest Supreme Court justice was sworn in:
See also Anya van Wagtendonk, Susan Crawford sworn in to Wisconsin Supreme Court, cementing yearslong liberal majority (‘The former Dane County judge won election to the high court after the most expensive judicial election in American history’), Wisconsin Public Radio, August 1, 2025.
This election was not close, and was never close (Crawford was ahead the whole race). The tens of millions that Musk spent on the election was money on a bonfire, and the advice from Scott Walker that encouraged Musk to spend that money was, foreseeably, poor advice.
The ocean’s deepest animal ecosystem:
Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…