A commission with 14 former national presidents say that the classification of illegal drugs are irrational and need to be redone based on medicine and science.

This has been obvious for a long time, but that commission's backing may help change it.

This Friday's climate strike in New York City will target Faux News. Faux News explicitly denies the danger of global heating, while most US news outlets deny it by hardly talking about it.

Tiffany Cabán won the election for DA of Queens, defeating the establishment candidate.

Her efforts to jail fewer poor people may face a lot of opposition from her own employees as well as from thugs. I hope she overcomes it.

China is funding East Timor to help destroy civilization.

You'd never guess that from the article, which says not one word about global heating or the disaster this project will make more likely. It focuses exclusively on short-term economic side issues.

East Timor and Australia had a long-running dispute about which one would be allowed to extract the fossil fuel deposits in the Timor Sea. I said that the right answer was "Neither one".

I suggest you write a letter to the Guardian (guardian.letters@theguardian.com) to insist that it cease disregarding global heating in articles about the local politics of oil extraction.

Shell has set up a fund for a multi-year "transition to a low-carbon world" with funds equal to 1% of the company's annual income. Various environmental groups are dazzled by this paltry sum.

Shell's lobbying alone does enough damage to cancel any benefit that fund can offer.

Decades of attempts to "engage with" fossil fuel companies proved to have been a planet roaster distraction campaign.

Forget about working with Shell, going one step forward and 100 steps back, and focus on building the movement that will stop those companies from drilling.