This year's wildfires in California have been much less destructive than in 2017 and 2018, so far. This is partly because people have learned, but partly luck.

They can't be lucky all the time.

Those accused of murdering leftist politician Marielle Franco reportedly visited Bolsonaro's house in Rio earlier that day.

His family had a long history of association with them.

This does not prove, not yet, that Bolsonaro plotted the murder, but given his open support for violence and repression, he would hardly have been stopped by conscience.

The report of a delay in a large business-supremacy treaty being set up by China makes me wonder whether that treaty contains an ISDS provision.

ISDS ("I sue democratic states") means that each signatory country gives foreign companies more rights than its own citizens, and the power to enforce those excessive rights in special international courts that are beyond the reach of democracy. Such treaties ought to be abolished.

So, does anyone know whether China's RCEP contains some form of ISDS?

Everyone: call on major media outlets to stop playing advertisements for fossil fuel companies.

If you call, please spread the word!

In Germany, children of age 7 regularly go to school by themselves taking public transportation. They are also taught what to do if they get lost.

(The child in this story got lost, but not due to any error on her part. I think she is too capable to make any such error.)