Seymour Hersh reported that an insider told him that the US used explosives to wreck the Nord Stream pipelines.

I did not believe that Putin did so. He got more power by shutting the pipelines and keeping the option to open them again, than by shutting them irrevocably.

This can be compared to burning the bridges or boats which your army could have used to retreat. An undamaged Nord Stream pipeline would have offered the EU a way to retreat from its boycott of Russian fossil fuel.

Biden plans to escalate the War on Drugs, specifically about fentanyl and substances "related to" fentanyl.

In addition to the usual harm to society of prohibition of any drug, this would ban a range of chemicals, whose effects (harmful or useful) have not been tested.

Fentanyl is dangerous, but a war that's on fentanyl is even more dangerous.

(satire) *[Thug] Chief Vows Officer Accused Of Misconduct Will Receive Harshest Possible Nickname.*

Well-funded and well-organized Antiabortionists have set up a lawsuit with bogus arguments, designed so to give a specific right-wing extremist judge with a history of disregarding the legal merits of a case an opportunity to issue an injunction to ban abortion in the whole US.

The main Republican presidential contenders, DeMentis and Ted Cruz, both graduated from Harvard Law School. This demonstrates that Harvard Law School fails to inculcate a respect for democracy and human rights.