US citizens: call on Congress to fully fund the rebuilding and healing of Puerto Rico.

US citizens: call on the Justice Department to publicly hold thug departments accountable for the deaths of people they are holding prisoner.

(I reject there emotionless term "custody" for being held prisoner.)

Bernie Sanders talked about his personal history. He knows all about the poverty, and the plutocratic system that magnifies it.

Global heating has cut off Isle Royale National Park from the Michigan mainland, blocking local wolves from interpreding with mainland wolves and resulting in an excess of moose.

The so-called "balance of nature" is often very fragile. It often readjusts to a change with a plethora of other changes, sometimes bigger than the first change.

We should be open to the idea that a person's gender identity is significant for certain purposes, while per genetic and developmental background could be significant for certain purposes. One area where this may be useful is dividing sports competitors into classes.

Dividing sporting competitions into classes is a way of compensating for systematic differences in bodily strength or size. In many sports competitors are classed based on sex, but not always only that: boxing has classes based on weight, because otherwise the heavier boxers would have an inherent advantage.

Perhaps we could handicap each sport based on certain pertinent body measurements -- for instance, for running, leg length and/or lung capacity. This could potentially do a better job than sex-based classes, or gender-based classes, or prior-sex-based classes, and do it without reference to sex or gender.

There would be no reason to fuss if you took drugs that gave you longer legs, or bigger muscles, if your handicap took account of the effect.