US citizens: call on the Fish and Wildlife Service to Protect the rusty patched bumblebee.

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US citizens: call on Biden to support a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax.

British thug departments have a pattern of hiring people who acted like thugs even before they were hired.

It is not unusual for homeless people in the US to commit crimes so they can sleep in jail.

Homeless shelters are very uncomfortable places, and have painful rules, such as that you must go out and spend your day on the street. I expect that you are forced to sleep in a small room with several strangers.

Per inmate, a prison is far more expensive than a shelter. I expect that even a comfortable shelter with all the advantages of a jail, giving a person a small room to call per own and lock behind per when going out, would be much cheaper to build and run than a prison.

Sadism is what gets in the way. The US is unwilling to spend money on helping the homeless, but it pays millions for prisons.

Global heating is on the verge of making the vast Congo peat bogs start releasing carbon instead of absorbing it. That would tip the Earth into disaster.