Russia said Eston Kohver was caught spying, but Estonia says Russian agents kidnaped him at gunpoint from a border crossing.

The lack of a proper trial suggests that Russia is lying about the facts.

The attack videos against Planned Parenthood provided an excuse for several Republican-ruled states to investigate. These investigations have found nothing wrong.

Although conclusive of nothing, the videos were quite useful in mobilizing public support among the anti-sex prudes, who are free to disregard the results of the investigations. Several states have already cut funding for Planned Parenthood to provide health care and prenatal care.

US citizens: call on your state governor to support the Clean Power Plan.

It's far from sufficient, but the fossil fools will fight it anyway, and we need to overcome them.

US citizens: oppose the Trans-Pecos Pipeline.

US federal social welfare programs enable 40 million Americans to stay out of poverty.

That was in 2012, after Reagan, Clinton and Dubya had undermined these programs. However, things have got worse since the financial crisis; SCROTUS (Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States) have been attacking our social welfare programs steadily, and are attacking even harder now.

With public officials eager to end poverty, we could clearly achieve much more.

The Earned Income Tax Credit is especially effective. We should increase it. However, not at the expense of cutting other programs that support the poor. Americans in general have become poorer since 2007 and need more support, not less.

And it is no use encouraging poor people to look for jobs that don't exist. The rate of workforce participation in the US is much lower than it used to be, and millions of jobs are likely to be eliminated by automation in the next decade.

Ultimately we need to enable the millions of never-to-be-employed to have a decent life, while reducing the birth rate.