Bolsonaro is trying to use the Evangelical Taliban to attack democracy in Brazil. Lula has responded by saying that Bolsonaro is possessed by the devil.

That would be entirely plausible, if there were a real devil that could really possess people.

Drought in the US west will require big cuts in water use for Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. For now, they must reduce usage 15%, but the drought may get worse and they may have to cut more.

The drought will surely get worse if we don't curb global heating.

When cars record locations, the data is available to advertisers, insurance companies, and uniformed thugs. Cars must offer a dashboard switch to sop them from determining their locations.

Cars must also offer a dashboard switch to stop the car from sending out signals by which other systems could track them.

Toll payment systems must offer an anonymous method so that they don't track you either.

*A universal healthcare system utilizing a single-payer model in the state will save California families and businesses over $100 billion per year.* That is in addition to thousands of lives, of people who under the current system go untreated.

Since 1980, Americans have tended overall to die younger than people in other developed countries; since then, the problem has grown. In 2019, 2/3 of a million more Americans died than would have died if the US had been like those other countries.

Part of the problem is that the US lacks the national universal medical system that other developed countries have. Another part is that the US lacks the welfare system that other developed countries have. Also contributing is the plutocratist politics of the US, which impoverish an increasing fraction of Americans. Other social problems in the US contribute too.