The UK's new "climate minister" is a denialist across the board. Two scientists debunk his claims that fracking benefits the environment and can lower prices in the short term.

The UK's health secretary admitted giving partial prescriptions of leftover antibiotics to others. This is very dangerous as taking a short course of antibiotics promotes resistance.

It may also be illegal in the UK, but that is less important, morally, than the fact that it can be harmful. Preventing antibiotic resistance is the responsibility of everyone — including, above all, the farms that promote resistance by dispensing pounds and pounds of antibiotics to large numbers of animals that are not even sick.

The UN accuses the Putin forces of planning the use of rape as a part of war.

Three Republican lies corrected:

Gun crime has increased most where gun laws are weak. Not due to criminal justice reform.

Inflation is caused by the effects of Covid-19 (including millions incapacitated by long Covid), together with near-monopolies. Not be the (still inadequate) wage increases.

The IRS is hiring new agents to catch rich tax dodgers. Not to harass poor people Republican style.

Ukraine accuses the Putin forces of murdering conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko for refusing to conduct an orchestra in a celebration of Putin's conquest of Kherson.