*Tal Mitnick, 18, on going to prison instead of joining [the Israeli army].*

*Five examples of the UK’s crackdown on climate protesters.*

Has Starmer said that Labour would end this repression, or defend the climate enough to the protests unnecessary? I don't think so, but I'd like to be reminded if I forgot.

The Bureau of Land Management has proposed 22 million acres of public land to designate for solar power use. since civilization's survival depends on that.

This is 1% of the land area of the US. I think we can spare that much, especially

The Cop28 climate conference failed to set a target for decarbonizing, but it did set a target of tripling nuclear generation.

The US is rushing to carry out.this plan.

Nuclear generation is more expensive and slower to build than renewable generation, it pollutes at many levels, and it carries the risk of disaster. We should not carry out that agreement -- we should build renewable generators and batteries instead.

Sports teams bully cities into paying for expensive new stadiums which the teams will get the profit from. Now they sweeten the deal by promising to build housing too — but once the stadium is built, the team may not carry them out.

Teams exert the pressure by making cities bid against each other for which will have the team. I've proposed a law to stop businesses of all kinds from making cities or states bid on how much subsidy to offer.

I am absolutely against spending municipal funds on enriching sports team owners. There should be a federal law prohibiting this — any assistance to the team should be a loan which must come first on the team's list of creditors. The city can spend those loan payments on housing if it wants to.

The law could require that all such loans be paid back at 150%.