Facebook has given the right-wing Daily Standard "fact-checking" authority, and it is now censoring left-wing articles based on points that are mathematically small.

Almost 7 weeks after the court deadline to reunite migrant families, over 400 minors remain imprisoned in the US and have not been reunited with their families. There is no way to determine how many are children and how many teenagers but 22 of them are under 5 years old.

Extreme weather caused by global heating is causing a world-wide food shortage, whose effects mostly hit countries with other problems.

1/9 of the world's human population is chronically hungry. This should be a wake-up call to reduce the birth rate in the affected regions.

Fossil Fuel Dependence Poses 'Direct Existential Threat', Warns UN Chief.

The hurricane that hit Puerto Rico killed thousands of people, but not directly or immediately. Rather, it was the incompetent US government response that was directly responsible. The incompetence went far beyond ordinary levels; it suggests that the officials in charge had no idea how to do their job.

I don't think that could have been due to random murphism alone. I suspect that budget cuts drove honest, competent people out of the agency and that they were replaced by political appointees who were totally lost when they faced a real emergency.

The Jones Act prohibits outsourcing US internal shipping to foreign-registered ships that might pay their workers less and maintain their ships to a lower standard. I support that, and I don't believe it would have hampered competent emergency managers from doing a good job. Apparently the not-so-competent managers of today were not up to the task.

The occasional atrocity by US troops that attracts attention in the US, such as bombing a wedding or a schoolbus, are just a hint of the unending stream of atrocities funded by the US government and carried out around the world.