*Ireland and Spain demand EU [review] Israel trade deal over rights obligations.*

*Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn* *Authors of study call for action to prevent possible collapse of region's ecosystems and climate impacts that would result.*

I don't think anyone can tell how long it will take for this disaster to be unstoppable. The question we face is one of how far to press our luck.

*Mississippi prison delayed [prisoner]'s cancer diagnosis until it was terminal, lawsuit says.*

I wish it were possible to get courts to intervene _before_ it is too late.

The EPA is concealing the measurements of the amount of PFAS in plastic containers from he public, calling it a "trade secret".

In general, the US government gives businesses' desired for secrecy much more weight than it deserves. Trade secrecy is fundamentally antisocial. At the same time, compelling people to publish everything they know would be tyranny; therefore, when a business's secrecy about some specific thing does no particular harm, we should go along with it.

However, when trade secrecy collides with anything important for society or the public, trade secrecy must yield.

The verdict in the insurrectionist's fraud trial fined him 364 million dollars.

It was not a criminal trial on charges of fraud. If it were, he could have ended up in prison once found guilty.

*The "law-and-order" candidate is an adjudicated fraudster.*

He is already responding by escalating the super-big-lie.