It appears that the Putin forces are aiming missiles at monuments to Ukrainian historical nationalists of the past.

Putin says he aims to eliminate Ukraine as a nation. Destroying those monuments might be one method of trying.

One person argues, *If you don't like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organize something better.*

I think it is wrong to damage art as a protest. To make a statement, there is no need to damage things at random.

However, it turns out that Van Gogh's painting, Sunflowers, was in no danger of being harmed by the soup that protesters threw at it. It is protected behind a piece of plastic. I suppose they knew this. So there was no objective harm in protesting that way, no objective reason why they should not.

Still, that method may still have been self-defeating, influencing people such as me who did not know how the painting is protected.

Queensland lags behind the rest of Australia in renewable electricity, but now has a plan to invest big and advance.

Anti-insurrection Republican congresscritter Kinzinger is campaigning for the Democratic opponents of Republican Big Liars.

I hope this defeats them, but at the same time, counting elections honestly is just the beginning of the duties of a politician loyal to democracy. We need Democrats that will defy the plutocracy and reduce its power.

The Tory Party is rapidly self-destructing, and Britain may have a general election soon.

One lesson from this is the system of allowing the governing party's members to choose a new prime minister when one steps down is a disaster. The Tories have done this three times since they got into power, and each one was worse than the last. The right thing to do is to hold a general election.

Another lesson is that the Tory approach to leaving the European Union was too extreme. Corbyn wanted to negotiate a customs union, and in general a closer relationship that the Tories wanted. This would have been much less damaging, and might even have done some good.

We can expect Labour to return the UK to sober and sensible implementation of a somewhat gentler form of plutocracy. Maybe it will move to renewable energy faster. But non-rich Britons need bigger changes, and I doubt Labour will advocate them.