Republicans continue to work on a law to eliminate the requirement for environmental review of potentially dangerous products.

SUVs increase the danger of being on a street, even as they increase greenhouse gas emissions.

ISTR reading that SUVs are built to be even more harmful because various regulations classify SUVs as trucks rather than as cars.

I support policies to reduce the number of SUVs manufactured.

Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas?

A Colorado sheriff's deputy was given a medal for shooting and killing Richard Ward, who had done nothing harmful or threatening to anyone.

Perhaps it was a medal for creativity in imagining an excuse for killing.

Australia arrested a former US marine pilot whom the US has accused of training Chinese pilots, who faces an extradition hearing. While awaiting that hearing, he is being held in cruel conditions of isolation that call to mind the imprisonment of Julian Assange.

I don't understand how training Chinese pilots, if he did that, can be considered "arms trafficking" or "money laundering". Either that information is garbled, or it is some sort of newspeak. I also don't see how training them constitutes a crime. It behooves the US to explain.

It would be legitimate for the US, Australia and other countries to prohibit their ex-pilots from training Chinese pilots, but it is unconstitutional in the US to make that an ex-post-facto law.

Rebecca Solnit: *Feminism taught me all I need to know about men like [the wrecker] and Putin.*

The article shows that the violence and lies of political authoritarians follow the same tactics as the violence and lies of abusive husbands.