Six Native Americans won seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, making history for the 117th Congress, Indian Country Today reports. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-native-american-and-hawaiian-representatives-set-a-record-for-the-next-congress?ref=home?ref=home

to no avail 無駄に　その甲斐なく

A deeply polarised US electorate has given the country its first transgender state senator and its first black gay congressman – but also its first lawmaker to have openly supported the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.

Baseless 根拠のない

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/04/us-elects-first-trans-state-senator-and-first-black-gay-congressman

adulation お世辞？追従する賞賛

State senator 州の上院議員

psephology/sɛˈfɒlədʒi,sɪˈfɒlədʒi/ 選挙学

Sonnet 83

I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet’s debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life, and bring a tomb.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in praise devise.

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