Texas's voter ID law almost stopped former House Speaker Jim Wright from voting.

The state was compelled to fix this, because it would be too big a scandal to block a citizen who formerly held such a prestigious post from voting. But he has only one vote. These laws succeed in stopping thousands of unprestigious old people, blacks, hispanics, poor people, and students from voting, and that's what matters to the Republicans that adopt them.

Only around 200 tigers remain in the Sundarbans.

The Sundarbans are basically a swamp filled with bayous. In 150 years it will all be inundated.

The US and Turkey agreed to establish a border zone within Syria and exclude PISSI from it.

However, the Turkish army is now fighting the revolutionary Kurds in Syria, the only Syrian group that has been able to stand up to PISSI.

A prominent Turkish journalist was fired for a tweet that accused President Erdoğan of being partly responsible for the danger of PISSI. I hope he won't be prosecuted for saying that. Journalists in Turkey have been prosecuted in the past for expressing forbidden opinions, and for criticizing Erdoğan.

Obama visited Ethiopia, whose tyrannical government carries out land grabs for multinational companies and whose proxy invasion of Somalia (on behalf of the US) created al-Shabaab.

At least he criticized repression there.