Republicans' "Happy Labor Day" card to unemployed workers: "Your unemployment benefits have ended."

*Heather Bresch, [Senator] Joe Manchin's Daughter, was CEO of Mylan, the drug company that artificially increased the price of Epipens.*

* Wild relatives of some of the world’s most important crops, including potatoes, avocados and vanilla, are threatened with extinction.*

Breeding crops with their wild relatives is a crucial method for adapting them to cope with diseases, pests or environmental change. Those are spreading a lot right now, so we should not allow our resources for coping with them to be lost.

Many species of animals are evolving slowly to cope with higher average temperatures.

That's fine as long as they can keep up. But as global heating speeds up, more and more species will lag behind and die out.

Meanwhile, there are hard limits to cope with. Small adaptations may not enable humans to survive a fatal heat-humidity combination. As long as we depend on evaporation to cool our bodies, it will be effective only when the ambient air causes evaporation.

*California bill seeks to halt prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline.*

Prisoners who risked their lives fighting wildfires now face deportation.