*Defusing the climate emergency requires defusing threats to American democracy.*

This is because the Republican support for plutocracy goes so far you would expect it only in satirical exaggeration. Surely real plutocrats would not be so absurdly greedy!

The UK has ordered a Syrian refugee to return to Syria. He fears he will be jailed for leaving rather than be conscripted to fight in Assad's army.

Ralph Nader calls for a ten-year plan to reverse the takeover of the US by business, including the idea that businesses deserve rights as much as human beings.

That takeover is why working people can't live like Homer Simpson.

Now even in CNN: arguing that people should save the planet by having fewer children.

It's good to reproduce bugs, to fix them. It's good to reproduce works of art, to share them. But we need to have a lot less reproducing of human beings, in every part of the world, to greatly reduce the load we put on nature.

US citizens: call on Congress to reform the Electoral Count Act in order to close a loophole the wrecker tried to use for the coup.

But Congress should watch out for this pitfall.