Two weeks after Massachusetts eliminated regulations to slow transmission of Covid-19, the new case rate increased almost 30% compared with the previous week, 5735 compared with 4459. If this continues, the new case rate will double every 2.5 weeks or so.

Even in oil- and gas- extracting Oklahoma, enormous wind-power developments are being built, purely to save costs. This may not go fast enough to save humanity, but with a sensible amount of attention to the goal of saving technological civilization we might succeed.

Big Oil's investment in Russian oil companies gave Putin 100 billion dollars of investment and income, which paid for much of the weapons he is using for attacks and massacres in Ukraine.

The UK transport minister, a Tory evidently, privately told P&O ferries in November that it was ok to fire all the crews and outsource the work to low-wage workers. Then, last week, he pretended that it came as a surprise to him.

With a serial bullshitter as prime minister, who makes incredible claims to avoid admitting that he lied, it has become hard to demand that Tories follow even the most basic standards of honesty.

P&O seems to have one valid point: that it had a competitor, Irish Ferries, that was already outsourcing the same job to low-wage workers. There were two possible ways for the UK to deal with that: (1) let P&O pay low wages too, or (2) impose better wages on all ferries through a new law. The former fit with the natural inclination of Tories.

UK immigration bullied 2,000 asylum seekers into giving "voluntary" permission to seize and keep their phones, then look through them. A court ruled that it broke the law by doing that.

When they tried to apply for asylum, they were stymied because UK immigration demanded information they couldn't provide because they were unable to get it out of their phones.