* Weak EU vehicle emissions targets could allow Europe’s biggest carmakers to produce millions more petrol and diesel cars than necessary up to 2030.*

Joseph Stiglitz: *Why the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell must go.*

* Documents released Friday reveal how in early 2020 the Trump administration downplayed the deadly danger posed by the nascent Covid-19 pandemic, silencing and sidelining top health officials who tried to warn the public and destroying evidence of political interference while issuing rosy declarations that the outbreak was "totally under control" and would soon be over.*

This included gagging the CDC and altering its data reports.

Studies show: safety precautions and regulations are often very effective. In a wide range of areas, they protect people from harm.

There are denialists who argue that every safety precaution is ultimately worthless, because it will encourage so much reckless behavior as to negate the benefit. The figures show they are wrong, wrong, wrong.

Their mistake is not to recognize that the precautions may encourage some people to be somewhat more reckless, but that isn't a big enough problem to outweigh the direct benefit of the precaution.

What does encourage recklessness is believing disinformation that attacks safety measures.

So get vaccinated, and use your seat belt, your helmet, your condom, and your mask!

US citizens: call on Congress to make the corrupter testify about his involvement in the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol.

This is presuming there is no hope of prosecuting him for this based on the testimony of others. Questioning him in Congress would require giving him immunity for prosecution, and that would be unfortunate if we could otherwise send him to prison.