*Don’t cheer for the Espionage Act being used against Donald Trump. It will backfire. Wishing to see Trump called to account need not make us champion a 100-year-old statute used to target whistleblowers.*

When DeMentis (more precisely, people working for him) lied to migrants released by US immigration in Texas to convince them to get on a plane to Martha's Vineyard, they committed a crime under Texas law.

Those migrants received a brochure that was deceptive, and was given out in connection with leading migrants to take the flight, but it's not clear who published it or how it was given to those migrants.

Alas, I don't think the Republican officials of Texas will prosecute Republicans for crimes committed while mistreating weak and powerless people in the name of the Republican Party. Mistreating the weak and powerless is what the Republican Party stands for. Closing the eye to right-wing hate crimes, even when much worse than these, is standard practice, hardly even denied.

Is there a Democratic prosecutor in Texas with the jurisdiction and guts to prosecute this crime?

The special master, specifically proposed by the bullshitter, is not proving subservient.

*Drought [caused by global heating] threatens UK government’s mass forestry scheme.* The scheme is intended to reduce global heating.

This is an example of an unexpected positive feedback in global heating.

Spain has designated a lagoon called the Mar Menor as a "person".

It is right to protect the lagoon and its wildlife, but that does not require proclaiming absurdities like this. Designating a lagoon or a river as a "person" is as absurd as designating a corporation as a "person".