*Nine pro-corrupter lawyers ordered to pay $175,000 for sham election lawsuit.*

One of them faces federal charges of falsifying incorporation papers.

Every shooting in a school encourages pressure for more complete surveillance of students, which supposedly would make it possible to identify those who will be murderers.

This approach doesn't seem to be practical, because even with lots of personal surveillance data, it's hard to identify the few who will actually commit violence. The system gives warnings about many and nearly all are false alarms. The followups harass many and rarely do any good.

Michael Reinoehl, anti-fascist, admitted shooting an armed right-wing counterprotester and said it was self-defense. The thugs went after him and killed him; some said he tried to shoot them, but others said he was running away, unarmed.

Contrast this with how they treated Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed unarmed antiracist protesters and said it was self-defense.

The article makes claims about what "the Democrats" will do, and that may apply to plutocratist Democrats. I think some progressive Democrats are different.

(satire) *Bounty Scientists Scream As Experimental Paper Towel Absorbs Entire Lab.*

Shell has got final permission to set off explosions off the East Coast of South Africa.

Even if Shell knows how to reduce the harm to whales' hearing from the seismic tests, it makes no sense to permit exploring for oil under the ocean bottom, or anywhere, because there is no room in the carbon budget to extract that oil.