*What will the institutions of liberal democracy do when Republican officials simply refuse to concede Democratic victories?*

*Michigan "Big Lie" lawmaker proposes eerie bill that would punish fact checkers: "You better be right".*

I suspect they will draw up the law such that it will be easy to launch lawsuits that will deter people from criticizing, even if they would ultimately fail.

*North Carolina prosecutor says [thugs] were justified in fatally shooting Andrew Brown.* He claimed Brown was driving his car at the thugs.

Brown's family's lawyer says the video contradicts the prosecutor's claims. The family has seen the video but the public is not allowed to see it.

False accusations against blacks have played an important role in history and politics in that region of Virginia. The prosecutor is not entitled to say, "take my word for it!"

European ministers look forward to joining Biden in policies that give businesses further power over democracy in the US and the EU.

The area of business-supremacy treaties was one of the few policy areas in which the corrupter made things better, keeping the US out of the TPP and modifying NAFTA to remove the ISDN clause (I Sue Democratic States).

Will Biden return to something like Obama's bad policy? Can progressive legislators block it?

Fact-checking and debunking, as Snopes does, used to be apolitical and fun, as well as educational. People who read the explanations often learned from this.

Nowadays, refuting the spew of right-wing lies is ineffective; right-wing fanatics don't change their minds no matter how much evidence is piled on them.

If someone you know has fallen under the truth-hating spell, then unless you have the best information on how to lead someone out of it, and wish to put a lot of patience and effort into it, I suggest cutting off those conversations rapidly.