In the news today: The House passes a bill to grant statehood to Washington, D.C.; Biden attempts to repair international relationships at climate summit; and an internal Facebook report again confirms the company’s central role in spreading election disinformation, far-right hoaxes, and violence long before the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Here’s some of what you may have missed:

• House passes bill on statehood for Washington, D.C.

Ted Cruz has been accused of a lot of things: being the Zodiac Killer; being from Canada; being a churlish Sea Monkey that grew out of control in a secret Area 51 lab before escaping into the forest with a family-size bag of Bugles and a sixer of Zima; being the son of a key JFK assassination conspiracist; spending the past four years hiding in Donald Trump’s Underoos like a colicky baby wallaby; having the personality of a clammy loaf of reduced-salt Wonder Bre

Happy Earth Day to those who observe!

And who doesn’t observe? Extraterrestrials, maybe?

But don’t they want us to fix our own planet so we don’t go off and dirty up theirs?

Anyway, this missive missed 4/20 by just a couple of days, but that’s also a holiday worth celebrating.

Regardless of whether you do or plan to partake of marijuana, its increasing legality is a very good thing.

The millions of Trump voters who have thus far refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 want us to know that we’re going about it all wrong if we want them to get the shot.

They’re tired of being “bullied,” they say. Besides, as one says, they haven’t gotten sick (yet) despite being “out and about” the entire pandemic. There’s just too much information out there to trust anyone, another says.

A former drill sergeant leader in the U.S. Army was caught on camera in a racist rant proclaiming “Black lives don’t f—ing matter.” The slight that sent John Miles—initially identified by local newspaper Sumter Item—into the fit of rage was reportedly a grocery store clerk refusing to sell alcohol to him.