The Environmental Pollution Agency has announced new rules to facilitate using pesticides to kill wildlife, including endangered wildlife.

Climate strikes are continuing, but only people who use Twitter will notice them.

Supporters of Chelsea Manning are raising money to pay the large fine.

If you want to contribute, don't go through Go Fund Me — it requires running nonfree software. Instead, insist on getting an address to mail a personal check or a money order.

However, paying that fine means that the government wins. I'd rather contribute to a fund to buy groceries for Manning. Is there one?

The US has effectively no public health system. If a vaccine for Covid-19 becomes available, the US has no system to vaccinate everyone.

The US government reportedly is trying to buy exclusive use of a Covid-19 vaccine currently under development, intending to limit its use to Americans.

If this is accurate, it is murderous lunacy. If and when a vaccine is developed, it must be available to the whole world.

The report that the German government is countering with "financial incentives" so that the vaccine will "stay in" Germany, if true, indicates similar disrespect for that principle. Also, if offering money is the most Germany can do to prevent that scheme, it shows plutocratic legal corruption. It should not be necessary for Germany to offer money to resist that scheme. Germany should have the power to order such things.