Putin shut down the last independent news source in Russia, and the staff are trying to flee.

*[Insurance company] AIG to Stop Insuring Coal, Tar Sands, and Arctic Drilling.*

We will still have to fight to get them to stop insuring other gas and oil projects.

The ACLU is suing to stop Texas from persecuting parents that enable their transgender children to get puberty-delaying or sex-change medical treatment.

I've learned that such treatment is very effective against depression and suicide among trans youth. So I am very much in favor of making it available.

But I think we need to have an objective way to refer to the treatments we are talking about, one that doesn't incorporate a built-in stance about them. I don't like the term "gender-affirming treatments" because it tries to twist people's arms to approve of them. I'd rather approve of them by my own free choice.

California's plan to end the release of microplastics into the environment.

Calling for the US to adopt a no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons.