A large music festival in Atlanta has been cancelled because Georgia does not permit music festivals in parks to exclude guns.

The direct cause of cancellation seems to be that Atlanta refused to authorized it, but I expect the city invited the festival to change its rules to permit guns in order to get approval. I expect that the organizers were wise to stand by their policy.

(satire) *15-Year-Old Finds Summer Job As BetterHelp Therapist.*

* No single crisis, no matter how existential, will be enough to shut this [planet roasting] machine down naturally. We must break it or it will break us.*

* The fossil fuel industry as a whole is not just another business, providing a service to meet a demand; it is a predatory drug dealer that works every day to keep the world addicted to its poisonous product, knowing full well that it will eventually prove fatal.*

Republicans seek to purge the employees of federal agencies and replace them with inexperienced Republicans who will do whatever they are told.

Due to their lack of experience, they won't respect traditional rules that were adopted to restrain abuse of power.

In the FBI, the extremist agents will investigate whoever the president tells them to investigate. In the DoJ, the extremist staff will prosecute whoever the president tells them to prosecute.

China responded to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan with the typical bluster with which it tries to pressure other countries not to support Taiwan, and the usual displays of military strength.

These are the way China tries to intimidate and threaten. If we don't want to let China conquer Taiwan, we must not be influenced by China's pressure.

China is a real military threat, but that's not due to Pelosi's visit, and Pelosi could not have made China less of a real threat by staying away from Taiwan. We cannot defend Taiwan from China's military power by tiptoeing.