(satire) *Congress Reduces SNAP Benefits To One Free Treat On Recipient's Birthday.*

Restrictions on abortion in the US are interfering with sex and with forming sexual/romantic relationships.

However, it has encouraged more use of birth control, including condoms. That is good -- but that good consequence does not justify the anxiety and fear caused by banning abortion.

Americans (and everyone else): get vaccinated for measles (unless you've already had all the diseases it covers, or the vaccine).

Biden has ordered a reconsideration of the criteria for approving fossil gas export terminals. As a consequence, several proposals are now on hold.

If this leads to stricter criteria, and to less construction of new export terminals, that could be a significant step towards avoiding climate disaster. (Although nowhere near enough by itself.)

* UN court's ruling is devastating for Israel and awkward for [its] allies such as the UK and US, which belittled South Africa's case.*

The court did not label the crimes Israel has already committed as "genocide", but pointed out properly that they head in a direction which, if continued, would amount to genocide. And it ordered Israel to bring these crimes to a halt.

The US should help make sure it does so.

If this judgment is not heeded, how can Putin ever be held to account?*