The Federal Election Commission ruled that foreign companies (and perhaps foreign individials and governments too) can contribute to campaigns for and against ballot questions.

The Senate tried again to hold a vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, mainly to pressure Manchin and Sinema, who insist on maintaining Republicans' power to block laws.

*The Senate needs to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and a suite of other democratic protections, in time for them to be implemented before the 2022 elections.*

*NIH Officials Worked With EcoHealth Alliance to Evade Restrictions on Coronavirus Experiments.*

These experiments took place in the Wuhan lab in China, with US funding specifically to do these experiments, and the experimenters pushed the safety limits.

These experiments did not cause a pandemic, but there was a risk they could have done so.

Restoring mangrove swamps could be an effective way of sequestering large amounts of carbon in the sea.*

I see two possible problems with it.

• The amount that can be done is limited by the length of suitabkle shoreline that can be used.
• Whatever mangroves people restore, sea-level rise could destroy in a few decades. Will that release the carbon they will have sequestered?

Senator Schiff calls for the US to state clearly its commitment to defending Taiwan if China attacks,*

The logic of this is obvious: to make sure doesn't someday attack Taiwan on the supposition that the US will not help Taiwan resist.

I am unable to judge how "strategic ambiguity" might help avoid an attack, but I won't claim that is impossible. I am no expert on displomacy.