US citizens: call on the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and pass the Freedom to Vote Act.

US citizens: call on Biden to shut down the Line 3 pipeline and stop local thugs from using "pain compliance" against protesters

Angela Rayner, deputy leader of Labour, called Tories "scum". Now half the scum in Britain are distracting attention from their policies of cruelty by rebuking her crude language.

What Rayner said was totally justified, but the way Aneurin Bevan (also working class) said it was more effective and harder to attack superficially: "The Tories are lower than vermin." Be using a less common word to condemn them, and putting it inside a comparison, he made it sound incisive rather than crude.

Rayner should not even hint at apologizing, but rather than defending her insult, she should press the attack with varieties of brief but substantial condemnations.

Relevant comic.

Drought could shut down hydroelectric power from Lake Powell and Lake Mead. This would be a big loss in US non-fossil-fuel generating capacity.

As the years go by, this will become more and more likely.

This is an example of the sort of positive feedbacks that can lead to global heating worse than models have predicted.

US citizens: call on Biden to stop deporting Haitians.

Those who come from South America via Mexico and have no claim to asylum should be released back to Mexico so they can return to where they lived.