Republicans in New Mexico decided to recheck the results of computerized ballot tabulators, because they claim those were used in 2020 to steal the election from the corrupter.

All computerized voting machines are suspect in principle.

Those Republicans seem to have learned of that problem, but they garbled the point. Machines that tabulate paper ballots are less suspect, precisely because their reports can be verified by hand.

* Denying people basic human needs for the sake of saving a few [pounds] now is a false economy -– the long-term impacts of poverty are a ticking health time bomb.*

We know that growing up deprived can stunt a child, physically or mentally. So I've taken the stand that we must give every child what children need to grow up well.

The article linked above shows that poverty does lasting harm to adults, too.

US citizens: call on members of Congress to cosponsor the war powers resolution to end US support for Salafi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen.

A think-tank describes the obstacles to making Putin pay reparations for destruction in Ukraine.

*International courts not in a position to award compensation and UN would have no enforcement power.*

Modelling concluded that *a total of 7.4 million lives around the world will be saved over this century if the US manages to cut its emissions to net zero by 2050.*

This model considers only death caused directly by heat. Including fires, floods, heating-strengthened hurricanes, heating-spread diseases and climate-caused wars, I expect it to be hundreds of times that — but estimating that number is difficult.

The model also estimates saving $3.7tn in costs to adapt to the rising heat. A way to understand that is around 70 billion per year over 50 years.