Israeli army seizes land from Palestinians "for military purposes", then hands it over for more illegal Israeli colonization of the occupied territory.

Another valve-turners protest: shutting off two planet-roasting pipelines.

The bully had soldiers put barbed wire on the border of Nogales, Texas; the town council is considering ordering it taken down.

The governor of Virginia and the attorney general face demands to resign because they were photographed in blackface in the 1980s — more than 30 years ago.

Blackface mocks blacks, and that makes a racist statement. (I did not know this until a few months ago; before that, I had come across the concept of blackface only in regard to minstrel plays a century ago.) I would not put on blackface because I don't want to appear to endorse racism. I urge others also not to do so, for the same reason.

What should we make of someone who did that 40 years ago as a gag? Maybe Herring's intention was racist, or maybe he was following a foolish fashion, as young people so often do.

It is absurd to demand that officials resign over racist gags 30-40 years ago, in their youth. Our legal system forgets even crimes that people commit before age 18. Mere mockery is far less grave than a crime.

Are these officials racist now? That is the question that matters.

Key West has banned certain sunscreens which tend to kill coral.

It's a small step in the right direction, Global heating will kill all the world's coral and inundate Key West, if we don't curb it fast.