A company hires actors to pretend to be "concerned citizens", reading from scripts.

Sanders now leads Clinton in a national poll.

Clinton's strategy of trying to prevent voters from learning about Sanders, by having few debates and obscure ones, was cunning, and it almost worked. Maybe now it will fail.

Trump stated his admiration for an atrocity (perhaps mythical) attributed to US General Pershing in the colonized Philippines,

I've read (though not in detail) that the US's suppression of the Philippines in 1900, when it had kicked out Spanish rule, was quite brutal.

Global climate mayhem has happened before, and it causes entire ecosystems to collapse and disappear.

Florida is passing a bill to make a list of organizations that support boycott, divestment or sanctions directed at the occupation of Palestine, and specifically cut funding to them.

Similar bills have been proposed in Illinois and California.

These are not local initiatives. It is an extension to the US of the campaign to prohibit dissent in Israel.