*Why Democrats lost Latino voters along Texas border.* It starts with taking them mostly for granted, but it isn't just that.

The attitudes reported are so disparate that I can't see any specific concrete lesson to be learned from this, except perhaps to nominate a candidate that excites people rather than a lesser-evil.

Environmental activists say that Bolsonaro arranged a phony Potemkin tour showing selected healthy parts of the Amazon forest.

*NHS England has far fewer hospital beds than it used to and is short of around 100,000 staff.*

Tory cuts started out as purported efficiency measures and morphed into "Let's squeeze the non-rich Britons some more." However, a service that runs without spare capacity in normal times, even if it does a good job then, will be overloaded as soon as there is an emergency.

The UK is taking its greenhouse gas commitments seriously, and is planning to increase measures to achieve them.

Moving to electric cars is a good thing to do, though burning hydrogen made sustainably would also be good. However, if there is a plan to move to cars that take a new kind of fuel, it is imperative to make it possible to buy that fuel anonymously.

Biden will have no chance of returning the US to "normal", even aside from Covid-19.

But then, the "normal" state of affairs for the past few decades has been getting worse and worse. Since the late 90s, the US government has been dominated by big companies and rich people, plus the special interests in any given area. This has been getting worse ever since and I don't think Biden would try to fix it anyway.

Thus, one crucial political battle will be between the plutocratists that want that old "normal" back, the progressives who want something better, and the death cult Republicans want to go berserk.