*GOP Reject Vaccine Mandates for Men, But Demand Pregnancy Mandates for Women.*

ALEC is proposing that Republican-dominated states boycott investment companies that divest from fossil fuels.

I can't imagine what justification a state could offer for such a boycott. "Those rich little companies are getting less investment — that is a horrible injustice! We must support them!"? It would be a blatant act of partisanship, a law with no pretense of a public interest purpose.

The Pegasus spyware was used to crack the phones of some US officials. This is in addition to officials of France and some other countries.

French people's incomes increased in the late 1700s because they became less religious and practiced contraception more.

Plankton that proliferated 2 billion years ago died and became graphite, which lubricated rocks, which facilitated the growth of mountains.