The pertinent inspector general approved a gross conflict of interest by the conman's head of coronavirus task force.

I concur in suspecting that the conman's persistent bulling of inspectors general has intimidated him to back down from his responsibilities. That was surely the intention.

The conman and his family have sunk to promoting companies in exchange for political support.

Who now would dream of making him comply with official ethics rules?

Those rules depended for their force on a system in which corruption was condemned by voters and would terminate a political career. The conman has ripped that up, and that could be the most fundamental damage he has done.

FAIR: mainstream media often exaggerate what authority the conman really has. Many of his announcements pretend to make sweeping changes in laws that he cannot actually make.

*Evictions Aren’t Inevitable When Tenants Fight Back.*

As fracking companies go bankrupt, they leave wells leaking methane and other dangerous substances, and there are no plans to clean them up.

If this were the only bad thing about fracking, one possible solution in principle would be to require the company to post a bond to clean up the well, before starting it. However, as reported in Collapse, by Jared Diamond, this system has problems in practice when dealing with abandoned coal mines in Montana.

Anyway, fracking has other big problems (globally, CO2 from burning the gas, and locally, pollution of water sources) and it is taking us to frack and fruin. Fracking should be entirely forbidden.

*Livestock farming and fossil fuels could drive 4C global heat rise.*

A series of absurdities in Assange's extradition hearing.

The indictment against Assange was replaced, but the hearing is looking at the old indictment and ignoring the new one.