14 states have sued to make the USPS reverse DeJoy's mail-delaying policy changes.

*Colorado … filed a federal lawsuit against DeJoy for sending out mailers containing information that could mislead and disenfranchise voters.*

Republicans have spread disinformation about voting for many years, but in the past they usually were limited to doing so in private capacity.

The Chief Justice of Massachusetts ordered a study of patterns of sentencing, and it found clear evidence of racial bias. Since the study controlled for other pertinent variables, there is no doubt about the conclusion: sentencing in Massachusetts is subject to systemic racism.

That the study was ordered by the state's highest judge gives me hope it will lead to considered action to reduce the injustice.

The article uses bigoted language ("white" and "Black"), and ordinarily I decline to publicize such articles. But the substance of this article is so important that I decided to link to it anyway. Please join me in pushing against intentional bigotry in journalism. If you read stallman.org, I trust you already support the campaign to eradicate racism against blacks.

The FBI strains to entrap lonely men into planning to meet imaginary women who have given contradictory ideas about their age.

A few years ago it was targeting "terrorists" who had to be persuaded to agree to participate in a fictitious plan of violence they could never have arranged on their own.

What these two schemes have in common is that they are opportunities to pretend to protect people from dangers that are entirely imaginary.

Globally, populations of vertebrates have dropped 2/3 since 1970.

Populations of insects have also dropped drastically, but they are not covered by this study.

What it adds up to is that we are ruining nature.

*Australia's untapped gas reserves could unleash three year's worth of global emissions.*

There is no room in the carbon budget for any additional fossil fuel facilities.