Everyone: call on Procter & Gamble to switch to forest-free products to help save the boreal forest.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 1-202-224-3121 and advocate expanding the Supreme Court and imposing a code of ethics such as other federal judges have.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

A train carrying toxic chemicals fell into the Yellowstone River because a bridge collapsed.

I have to wonder whether this collapse was caused by saving money by reducing regular maintenance. That would fit the railroad company's general approach, but I don't know whether it occurred in this bridge.

Prigozhin's Wagner soldiers took over the city of Rostov without a fight, and some of the locals welcomed them.

Another Wagner column seems to have rushed towards Moscow, while Putin ordered real army units to stop them.

Ukraine welcomed the opportunity that an internal conflict in Russia might offer. However, I expect this won't give Ukraine much of an opportunity. Prigozhin was at pains to explain that the army centers he had taken control of were working on the war with Ukraine just as before.

Then he made a deal with Putin to abort the coup.

Prigozhin's attack seemed precipitously sudden, with too little public preparation to build up much support. His climb down seems unbelievably fast as well. I would not expect someone who has launched an armed rebellion and been accused of treason to call it off so quickly.

I have to wonder whether this coup was a kind of theater, agreed in advance between Prigozhin and Putin.

US citizens: call on Congress to boycott Kevin McCarthy's commission to cut Social Security (and Medicare).

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!