Nicaragua has jailed a second opposition presidential candidate.

The charges are vague, of course.

The progressive caucus warned Biden that they would not vote for a "compromise" infrastructure bill dictated by Republican senators.

Afterward, Biden rejected the Republican proposal.

We need to get Manchin and Sinema to vote to abolish the filibuster. Rejecting Republican sabotage "solutions" for the infrastructure bill might put on enough pressure to achieve that goal.

Biden's plan is already a "compromise" compared to what we really need.

What's at stake in the infrastructure plan: prosperity, democracy, saving civilization from climate disaster. Also making America great again, with health and strength rather than bullying and cruelty.

10 signs of fascism on the rise. The US faces an immediate fascist threat, not merely a potential one.

*126 Nobel Laureates Warn "Humanity Taking Colossal Risks With Our Common Future."*

Florida is considering a constitutional amendment to declare that rivers have rights.

I am in favor of the goals of this amendment, and practical rules such as are likely to follow from it. However, it should not be formulated this way.

It is a confusion to extend "rights", as such, to anything other than intelligent beings. To exercise a right is to make a decision. A river cannot make any decision whatsoever, so it cannot exercise any right whatsoever.

If you think a river can have rights, next you'll believe that a corporation can have rights. Reject these absurd ideas!

It would be legitimate to decide that rivers have inherent value, that there is an imperative to preserve them in good state, that their health counts in some sorts of legal questions. Just don't call this "rights".