Iranians protested the rise in gasoline price by blocking streets. The state responded with tear gas, bullets, and blocking the internet. Estimates are that around 70 people were killed.

We must end subsidies for fossil fuels — global heating disaster threatens to kill billions of people a few decades from now. We would be fools to delay that for any reason whatsoever. Thus, governments need to develop a way to do that without short-term suffering for the poor.

Dishonest Baltimore thugs concealed the evidence that would exonerate three men who were convicted of murder by lying witnesses.

*Countries from Siberia to Australia are burning: the age of fire is the bleakest warning yet.*

There was a large student climate strike, but the kept politicians continue doing their job for the planet-roasting plutocrats.

Ohio has already prohibited abortion (though this law has not been approved by courts). Now its Republican-gerrymandered legislature is planning to define a fertilized egg as a human being. This means women would be imprisoned for failing to carry it to term.

The law would also forbid doctors from treating an ectopic pregnancy (by requiring them to do the impossible afterward). Without treatment, ectopic pregnancy carries a substantial chance of death.