Chestnut blight wiped out the American chestnut tree. A genetic engineering project is ready to introduce resistant trees. Should we allow this?

I think the worries that the blight resistance might fail are foolish. Likewise the concern about Phytophthora cinnamomi. If the GE chestnut trees can't survive, we know what will happen — they will die, just as all American chestnut trees died before. That would be a failure but not a disaster.

Could some other worse thing happen? It is not impossible. Perhaps we should do a further experiment of growing a substantial number GE chestnut trees for 20 years in a number of test plots whose other contents are wild, and not allowing the chestnuts' seeds to get loose.

However, the only way to know for certain is to try them. The loss of chestnut trees was damage to the forest, so bringing them back means repairing the damage. We should not be too frightened to try.

A thug in England is being investigated for just threatening to choke a suspect.

It seems that the UK is determined to put an end to chokeholds, and I think its methods have a chance of success.

DeJoy said that "all changes being made to the Postal Service would be suspended until after the November 3 election."

Does this mean that the wrecker had given up on sabotaging voting by mail? That seems too good to be true. Is there a catch?

Does "changes being made" include the changes that were made recently, which have slowed mail delivery, sometimes by a week or more. If not, those could be enough by themselves to mess up the election.

*First-Ever Survey of Sanders Delegates Shows Views of Ticket: Half "Disapprove," a Quarter "Approve," a Quarter "Ambivalent".*

This refers to the delegates chosen by people who voted for Sanders in Democratic primaries and caucuses.

AOC rebuked the Democratic Party for cooperation with Republicans that are trying to define the Democratic Party as "centrist" (which means, plutocratist).

The US is allowing public lands to be used in ways that contribute massively to greenhouse gas emissions.