Global heating has disrupted Australia's wheat harvest, and it's getting worse.

Putin's stooge has announced a plan to "evacuate civilians" from Kherson. Given what we have seen the Putin forces do to civilians in Donetsk, I think this is an item in Putin newspeak and stands for capturing Ukrainian civilians in Kherson and taking them forcibly and permanently to Russia, or perhaps other parts of conquered Ukrainian territory.

It would be easy for the Putin forces to allow Ukrainian civilians to evacuate to Mykolaiv or Kryvy Rih, but we saw in Mariupol that Putin doesn't want to permit that.

[pol note about the repeated pattern of arranging for evacuation and preventing it by shelling the evacuation path]

He would rather take them to Russia and pretend that they chose Russia over Ukraine, interrogating them along the way (and murdering some) in transit prisons he calls "filtration".

*The cheater privately admitted he lost 2020 election, top aides testify.*

Most of the large companies operating Medicare Advantage plans have padded their bills to the US government. Some are being sued for fraud.

They will do it again, too, if they don't get charged punitive damages in the tens of billions.

Scientists that publish in Elsevier journals called on Elsevier to stop its support for fossil fuel companies.

I agree, but I point out that Elsevier does other things that are even worse. For instance, keeping many articles under a paywall. For the sake of science, scientists should drive Elsevier and other paywalled journal publishers out of business.

Sad to say, this includes many scientific professional organizations.