US citizens: call on Democrats to keep campaigning on abortion rights.

US citizens: call on the Biden administration to stand firm against corporate lobbyists and tax billion-dollar corporations.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

Some environmentalists contend that building nuclear power plants is useful for curbing global heating. I think they have been taken in.

The article does not make it clear whether they are disputing about existing nuclear reactors or building new one. But that distinction is crucial.

A nuclear reactor takes many years to build and is very expensive. If the aim is to curb global heating, that is an ineffective method.

A nuclear reactor is also vulnerable in wartime. It is, in effect, a preexploded nuclear bomb, as regards fallout. Installing one more is making extra vulnerability. At the end of its life, it will require expensive and slow decommissioning.

However, for an existing reactor, the price of construction has already been paid, the construction time has already elapsed, the fallout is already there, and the cost of decommissioning is already going to have to be paid. If you can ensure that the reactor is maintained so that it won't fail, maybe it is better to keep it running.

The US has a history of letting flaws and damage slide.

Venezuela is accused of punishing people horribly based on only a hint of evidence they were guilty of anything.

It is as bad when Maduro does this as it was when Dubya did this to prisoners in black sites and Guantanamo, and in various massacres in Iraq.

The US versus the planet roasters, as they become ever more obdurately opposed to civilization's survival.