Senator Feinstein proposed an inadequate substitute for the Green New Deal.

A carbon tax could be a step forward, but in order to make a real difference it would have to be programmed to increase every year and become quite heavy in just a few years. This would pressure companies and government agencies to invest heavily in reducing their emissions.

If the tax is gentle enough that they don't kick and scream, that shows it won't make them change.

Human activities cause the observed global heating: a study has validated this to the five-sigma level, meaning the chance it might be a coincidence is one in a million.

Hilel Garmi is resisting the Israeli draft so that he will not have to oppress Palestinians.

In Israel, draft resisters are jailed for a few weeks, then jailed for a few weeks again, and so on.

Extinction Rebellion planned world-wide civil disobedience on April 15.

Chris Hedges recommends totally rejecting violence, and communicating with the cops about this. Nonviolent protests should never tolerate a violent "black bloc", but when he says that "The state … has been hollowed out by neoliberalism," he's generalizing from the UK. In the US, austerity spares the instruments of repression.

The TSA has a secret "watchlist" for passengers it considers troublemakers. The criteria for putting people on the list, and what it does to those on the list, are secret.