Most US schools monitor everything students say and do on their school-supplied laptops, and students are in a substantial danger of being charged or harassed as a result.

If this massive surveillance continues, parts of the US may jail students for seeking abortion resources (or birth control, or whatever the Christian Taliban may prohibit) using those school-supplied facilities.

A school-supplied laptop that allows connection to anything but the school's own servers is bait — tempting students to browse the web under direct monitoring by the school and the local thug department. Paradoxical as it may seem, perhaps schools should be legally required to limit these computers strictly to class assignments, so students won't make the mistake of using them for their other activities.

Extremist Republican senator Johnson wants social security and medicare to require congressional approval each year.

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The sex of a baby sea turtle is determined by temperature. This must have been an effectively random choice in the past, but now that it is so hot, all the loggerhead sea turtles hatching in Florida are female.

In a few decades, that will cause extinction of the species — the females will have no mates.

The heatwave in Europe is damaging olive oil production in Spain and Italy.

(satire) *Woman [is] At That Age Where All Her Friends Getting Prosecuted For Losing Pregnancies.*

I suspect that right-wing white women will get preferential treatment: they won't get prosecuted for miscarriages.