Rebecca Solnit: *We can't afford to be climate doomers.*

It is too late to prevent climate disaster, since that has already started. But humanity still has a chance to make the disaster smaller and enable civilization to survive.

I wonder if the planet roasters are spending money promoting climate defeatism as a last-ditch method of discouraging climate defense action.

*Ghana abolishes death penalty, with expected reprieve for 176 condemned prisoners.*

One element of massive surveillance in the US is tracking cars by their license plates.

I suggest requiring any entity to get permission from a car's owner before collecting car location records based on the car's license plate. Or else a court order specifying a license number.

*Muslim leaders decry "double standard" of Farage bank account closure furore.*

The UK government chose to consider Islamic charities as supporters of terrorism, and used the banks to shut them down informally.

The US did comparable things.

*Teacher fired by Texas Christian school for attending drag show.*

The school officials believed their own false propaganda about drag shows and responded with Christian cruelty.