(satire) *Jason Momoa, star of the forthcoming Aquaman 2, told reporters Monday he and the film’s producers had brought in a scene double to help execute a particularly challenging facial expression required of his character.*

252 million years ago, *the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere set off a chain of events that successively extinguished almost all life in the seas.*

That rise of CO2, caused by a supervolcano in Siberia, was not terribly fast. We are now increasing the CO2 level 14 times as fast.

The article does not state an estimate for the peak atmospheric CO2 level in the end-Permian. Can anyone find an estimate for that? It would be interesting to compare that with where we are heading.

(satire) *New Stimulus Bill Would Require All Americans To Mail Government $1,200 Check.*

The EU will operate drones in the Mediterranean searching for refugees in boats.

When the drone spots a boat full of people, it won't have guns to shoot them with, but what will European countries do to them?

Facebook bent over backwards for right-wing sites, relaxing its rules against misinformation and thus implementing right-wing bias.

Right-wing extremists have learned to lie without a qualm. That includes telling the lie that media are biased against them, as a cynical means of pressuring media to shift to bias for them.