The saboteur governor of Florida is trying to disobey the recently adopted voter initiative to restore voting rights to ex-cons. He hopes to get away with this because he will have the chance to pack the Florida supreme court.

Nicaraguan thugs have occupied the headquarters of the opposition news site Confidencial.

The repressive Nicaraguan regime has also shut down a human rights organization, CENIDH.

Wisconsin's Republicans have taken away the principal power of the state governor, except for those in the state's constitution which is harder to change.

The fossil fuel companies' power over the Poland climate conference was so strong that they got the UN officials in charge to censor the terms "dirty energy" and "fossil fuel companies".

The town of Whistler, in Canada, has asked fossil fuel companies to pay the expenses that global heating is causing it.

The planet-roaster representative who said that it seems strange to single out specific planet roasters for this request has a valid point. The right way to handle this would be with a world-wide carbon tax, which would increase every year until it is clear that net emissions will go sufficiently negative.

However, their other hand just blocked all real progress at the Poland climate conference, which was unable to agree on targets that would do the job, or specific measures to take.

Given their intentional wrongdoing, they have no valid argument against any plan to hold them responsible.

'Morally Unacceptable': Final Deal Out of COP24 Sorely Lacking in Urgency and Action, Climate Campaigners Say.