*Exiled chief rabbi says Jews should leave Russia while they can … Jewish population will be made scapegoat for hardship caused by war.*

*Top Republicans remain silent over George Santos campaign lies.* If you can stomach the bullshitter's Big Lie, you'd hardly feel a qualm about Santos's series of little lies.

In Bolivia, most people in the Santa Cruz region actually support right-wing politics, including the right-wing coups against President Morales. Their leader has been arrested and accused of terrorism.

It would not surprise me at all if he aided the coup in a criminal way, but the charge of terrorism is somewhat shocking, and I wonder what concrete actions the alleged terrorism consists of.

Many well-known large corporations in the UK give visible holiday donations as publicity stunts to buy good opinion that their overall actions do not deserve.

The EPA has issued a new definition of "waters of the United States" for the sake of the Clean Water Act.

Since this one would be an advance in regulating dangerous and profitable pollution, polluters have already asked the Supreme Court to toss out the whole thing. The right-wing majority wants to transform the United States into a subservient fiefdom full of powerless people so that the rich can take more and more while poisoning more and more.

Although we can't do anything about this for the next two years, we must aim to expand or shrink the Supreme Court to get rid of its right-wing majority, and their gerrymandering, and their voter suppression.