The bipartisan "compromise" infrastructure bill proposes to have the government track all car travel.

Regardless of the purpose, tracking people's movements as the method is unjust. But the purpose stinks, too. The stated purpose is to tax cars based on the distance they travel, rather than the amount of fuel they use. Who would prefer that?

Fossil fuel companies would prefer that. I suspect this is really is meant to hamper emissions reduction.

There are other things in the bill that subsidize fossil fuels.

If you think of this as "infrastructure construction", but might appear that a smaller amount is better than none at all. But with these harmful measures, the bill can be worse than none at all.

The Gulf stream is starting to weaken. Further global heating, which we cannot now avoid, could cause it to shut down. This would make the US east coast and the Atlantic coast of Britain, Ireland and France considerably colder.

Tigray seems to be conquering substantial parts of other regions of Ethiopia, and the opposition to this seems to be ineffective.

I am very curious about the explanation for Tigray's military success.

*Russian opposition activist to run for parliament from jail.*

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