US citizens: call on the Senate to restore the DACA program, that allows people brought to the US as children to remain and become citizens.

If you sign, please spread the word!

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support impeaching the bullshitter.

It wouldn't hurt to ask for the investigation to cover other crimes as well as the Ukraine shakedown.

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

Tory election campaigns have been funded for years by Russians, which is why the Tories are blocking an investigation.

Venice had another flood, the highest since the 1960s. Predictably, there was a lot of damage — but didn't people expect this? They ought to expect it to get worse.

Unless we curb and then undo global heating, the occasional flooding of Venice will become more frequent and higher. Protective barriers will work only temporarily until the sea surmounts them. Eventually only dams will do the job.

Damming off the lagoon will change its water and life; I wonder if it would be adequate to let water flow into the lagoon some of the time, while pumping water out at other times.

The Assyrian empire seems to have fallen after a decades-long regional drought.

That drought wasn't the result of humans' greenhouse gas emissions. But that is what causes today's increasing droughts.