*Tennessee advances bill to [imprison] people [for] helping minors obtain abortion.*

This demonstrates the fanaticism of the religious extremists that are determined to prevent abortion, whatever the cost (to those who are pregnant).

The bill says specifically anyone who "recruits, harbors, or transports a pregnant unemancipated minor" commits a crime. I wonder what it means, concretely, to "recruit" someone for an abortion. Does that ever really occur?

I also wonder what is covered by "transports". Does it include giving someone money, which she might use to buy a bus ticket?

Small farms in the US are having trouble, while large farms are bringing high profits. Congress is proposing to increase subsidies that are independent of size. That won't address the problem.

Explanations for why Netanyahu clings so tightly to defeating HAMAS militarily even though the war is not going well, and why the US finds it so hard to stop this.

The fact that HAMAS is not dead even in occupied northern Gaza may help convince pertinent people that the idea of militarily eliminating HAMAS is an impossible dream.

*Denouncing critics of Israel as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a perversion of history.* There is an old current in Jewish thought which stands up for anyone who is mistreated — including Palestinians mistreated by Jews. And another old current of deplatforming them.

The hottest January ever recorded has caused fire disaster in southern South America. Governments need to change many policies so as to prevent and discourage fires.