DeMentis passed a law to negate local democracy in Florida to help an exploitative local scheme succeed.

I consider this a kind of corruption.

Iran is trying to mount terrorist attacks against Iranian journalists in exile in the UK.

London's Science Museum has signed contracts with large oil companies (to mount exhibits) in which the museum promises not to say anything that would make those companies look bad. For instance, not to talk about their global heating.

The museum's management now says it "has decided" not to sign such clauses any more, but that doesn't tell us how many such contracts are still in force, nor prevent it from making an exception next month or next year.

It should be a crime for a museum presenting factual subjects to agree to let any other organization decide what it can or cannot say, unless those decisions are published.

The climate "doom loop": the cost of coping with today's damage from the early stages of climate breakdown is interfering with the steps to prevent

If it is too late to save everyone, and all the things important to save, the long term must take precedence.

Taxing the rich more might make it possible to save everyone and everything. If so, we had better push hard to do that while the possibility still exists.

Leaked files from the reputation-whitewashing company Eliminalia showed that it made fraudulent copyright complaints to get negative stories taken down, and used fake accounts to flood the net with fake positive stories, drowning out the criicism.