Sally Yates warned the troll in January that Flynn was covering up contacts with Russia.

The troll fired Yates but not Flynn. He continued to defend Flynn until the fact that Flynn was lying became public knowledge.

I wonder why the troll cared about public pressure about those lies. Was it that some SCROTUS demanded it?

The troll punished California by refusing federal aid for the evacuation of areas threatened by the damage to the Oroville dam.

This could be retaliation for opposition to the troll's other cruelty. For example, California is moving ahead making the whole state a "sanctuary" for unauthorized immigrants.

The term "sanctuary" is misleading. No city or state can stop immigration thugs from operating — all it can do is deny the cooperation of its own agencies.

Two big coal-burning power plants in the US are expected to shut because they are no longer economical.

The article ignores the most important reason we need to turn off coal-burning power plants: as one step to avoid global disaster.

By the way, global heating disaster could eliminate a lot more jobs than are provided today by fossil fuels. Human society is taking a terrible and stupid risk by continuing the subsidies that keep fossil-fuel-burning power plants running. But that's plutocracy for you.

US thugs go to great lengths to hide their use of stingrays.

Arresting and deporting people for participating in public safety activities makes the whole community less safe.