Foxconn promised to invest in an Ohio company making electric trucks, but found an excuse to pull out of it, so the company is going bankrupt.

Turkey and Lebanon are deporting Syrian refugees to Syria, and some are being drafted into Assad's army.

The last resort of fragging your commander with a grenade is always available when there is actual combat.

*Supreme Court Rejects Independent State Legislature Theory.*

The "Independent State Legislature Theory" claimed that state legislatures could decide how to decide arbitrarily how the state's electoral votes would be cast in a presidential election, disregarding the state's constitution and immune to correction by the state's courts.

This was obviously absurd, given that the state legislatures are created by the state's constitution. However, brazen right-wing legislators that sought to force a right-wing victory will try anything and see if they can get away with it.

The Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act has been enacted.

*The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires that employers with more than 15 workers provide "reasonable accommodations" to people who are pregnant, postpartum or have a related medical condition,*

Fossil fuel company Santos owns "decommissioned" offshore fossil gas wells that are leaking bubbles of methane. It says that stopping these leaks is "not feasible."

Is that really true, or is it a bogus excuse not to seal them?

If it is true, this is all the more reason not to allow any more fossil gas wells to be made.