Global heating positive feedback: it will speed up the action of soil bacteria that metabolize carbon and release greenhouse gas.

The effect is huge — like "adding another United States" to the world's climate cycle.

I don't think global heating is likely to cause the extinction of humans. That would be almost as hard as making cockroaches extinct. But it could destroy technological society and kill most of the humans alive at the time. If you're young today, you could live to see this happen.

Trump voters are factually mistaken about what happened under Obama.

This shows how effective the right-wing noise machine is at misinforming people.

The coverup of the CIA-cocaine scandal of the 1980s shows we can't trust the major newspapers to separate truth from falsehood.

However, the situation today, where hate groups and political manipulators fabricate a dozen fake stories a day and supporters take them as truth, is even worse.

I think it is an important insight that this is not a matter of ceasing to care about the truth, but active rejection of unpleasant truths.

As for those that invent and post fake news, they don't believe it. They are lying and they don't care, because they want to win by hook or by crook.

Did you know that, when Trump is inaugurated, he will give everyone that voted for him the ability to fly by holding their arms out to the side? It will be easy for them to try this: just step out the nearest window.

Why we must keep the resistance to trumpery nonviolent.

US citizens: stand in support of the First Amendment.

Repressive Hungary warns us of what Trump and the Trumpets might try to do.