*US judge blocks sale of Gulf of Mexico drilling leases over climate concerns.*

I suppose the Supreme Court will actually decide the case, months from now, and I expect the worst.

It is now quite clear that Manchin represents billionaires in the Senate. One billionaire supporter publicly announced his reasons for opposing the Build Back Better bill, and it is totally bogus — he called it "Socialism," which is already a big exaggeration, but what he attacks is an extreme form of Communism that no country ever practiced.

Donors have provided funds to rebuild the bookshop in Gaza that Israeli bombers destroyed, and books for it to sell.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Get Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act, to stop foreign owners of US corporations from donating to US election campaigns.

Private voter-suppression in Chile: private bus companies stopped their service on election day to stop non-rich people from getting to polling places.

I have a feeling that some cities had closed the polling places in working-class neighborhoods, as a first blow.