The Putin forces have reportedly taken 8,000 Ukrainian soldiers prisoner in recent weeks.

That is very bad news.

*Climate "tipping points" could push us past the point-of-no-return after less than 2 degrees of warming.*

Indeed, we may have already crossed some of these tipping points. For instance, we may have already unlocked 10 meters (33 feet) of future sea-level rise. However, how fast that happens will depend on how hot Earth gets.

Right-wing extremist congresscritter Gosar demonstrated especially clearly that he makes up false claims based on no information. He said that the Uvalde school murderer was a "transsexual leftist illegal alien." That was entirely his imagination.

Progressive members of Congress have insisted that Google must cease to collect and keep location tracking data from its customers' phones.

I think this is the first acknowledgment by members of Congress that tracking location data about people directly endangers them. That is an important step forward. However, this specific demand is too narrow to do the job, because the problem is bigger than Google.

Many companies track location data through apps, and sell them to other companies that we have never heard of. Rabid antiabortion officials in states such as Texas could send subpoenas to any of those companies. Google (and likewise Apple) must ensure that _no_ location data is ever sent to an app unless the user manually authorizes sending it at that very moment.

Users should be able to send false locations too, whenever they wish.

People have not yet realized that this is another reason why we must make sure paying by cash remains widespread and easy. You must not ever identify yourself during a trip to another state for an abortion. Nor even before you leave, if it is in connection with the trip.

• You must get cash to pay for the abortion before you depart.
• You must not use Uber or Lyft (they require digital payment which identifies the customer).
• You must not pay for a bus by credit card, or give your real name or phone number for the ticket.
• You must not pay for an Amtrak train by credit card, or give your real name for the ticket. Unfortunately, that means you can't ride some Amtrak trains at all, since they require reservations and a reservation requires giving your name and ID to prove it.

The NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have set up a system to sell powerful guns in bigger quantities, and it is not broken -- it is quite effective.