Australia's planet-roaster government has set up a scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The cuts are so small that it will make no real difference.

Legalization of assisted suicide is spreading to more US states, but it is limited to people expected to die anyway in under 6 months.

The people who need this the most are those who are condemned to many years of suffering, by a condition that keeps them helpless or in horrible pain, and could continue for decades.

Some US cities require evicting a whole family from an apartment if any one of them commits a crime.

The US has a general tendency to of heaping various secondary punishments on top of the actual sentence. Ex-cons can be barred from education, barred from many kinds of work, barred even from places to live. Ultimately they are barred from anything except a life of crime.

A right-wing murder-incitement campaign targets Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.

The bully knows that when he targets people for hate, this sort of hate campaign is likely to come along. And they all know that this sort of hate campaign has a good chance of inspiring murders. The fanatic who shot Gabrielle Giffords didn't kill her, but injured her so gravely that she could no longer serve in Congress. From the point of view of right-wing murderers, that's success.

US citizens: call on Senator McConnell to stop blocking election security upgrades.