Virginia has abolished the death penalty.

Almost half the states in the US have done this. I hope Biden will encourage progress.

Israel's entire coastline has been polluted by an oil spill.

By luck, Gaza escaped the pollution. Could Israelis, yearning to bathe in the sea, make peace with Gaza so that this will be possible? Probably not, but it is a nice idea to think about.

Claiming falsely that a blackout was caused by renewable generation is a standard tactic of planet roasters.

The US has a history of white supremacists staging violent overthrow of properly elected state governments, then imposing racist rule with rigged elections. Jan 6 was not the first time. The article describes an instance in 1876.

That article is pervaded by symbolic bigotry, expressed by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid such bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.)

I object to bigotry, and normally I refuse to link to articles which instantiate it. I made an exception for this article because it teaches something very important about the history of racist violence, and I didn't see much chance of finding another article on the topic without the bigotry.

Nonetheless, I rebuke the article's bigotry. Spitting at all whites is wrong, and far from helping to eliminate racism, it is more likely to do the opposite.

*Connecticut Lawmakers Want to Try Again to Make Prison Phone Calls [gratis].*