Global heating is now coming on fast, will affect everyone, and will be worse than what we thought. It could be much worse than the Great Depression. The unpredicted effects may dwarf the ones we now anticipate.

Ocasio-Cortez: "Climate delayers aren’t much better than climate deniers."

Under an ultimatum from nature, delaying action is effectively denial.

US labor unions are skeptical of the Green New Deal. They fear it will lead to fewer union jobs.

The plan already includes measures to stimulate employment, so they are being overcautious. However, the crucial point is that they are judging against a fictitious alternative, continuation of the current situation. That will be impossible for more than a decade, as the increasing effects of global heating will harm all aspects of life, including the jobs of their members.

The supporters of the conman won't be shocked by proof he is a conman. That is what they support him for — though they have engineered their minds to refuse to recognize it.

The age of the image is not the conman's creation. Its earlier form is described in The Image, by Daniel Boorstin: media pseudo-events which have nothing interesting except the extent of their publicity, celebrities that are famous for being famous. These now continue in a more blatantly foolish form in the person of Instagram influencers, commercial social networks that people want to be used by because so many others are, and Republicans, maneuvered step by step into supporting any lie as long as it serves their cult leader.

At a rally of the Christian right-wing group Patriot Prayer, some of them got into a fight with counterprotesters. Portland (Oregon) thugs arrested some counterprotesters, but let members of the Christian right-wing group Patriot Prayer go.

If the thugs had gone easy on both sides, after breaking up the fight, that would have been fair and might have been wise, assuming there was no serious damage. But there is no excuse for preferring right-wingers for whom intimidation is a political stance.

Making luxurious toilet paper for the US is unsustainable: it involves cutting down 48000 square miles of Canadian forest every year.

Canada really should put a stop to this, but Canadian politicians are pressed down by the hand of the US government, which amplifies and leverages the thumb of business.