Ukraine calls for setting up a system whereby the assets of a country that launches a war of conquest will be seized and used to fix the damage.

It is fair to take Russia's assets, and those of Putin's cronies, and put them into rebuilding Ukraine. Let's do it. But we should not suppose that other dictators who in the future start wars of conquest will be vulnerable to the same tactic. Once they have seen this response to Putin, they will take care not to store their assets in countries that might not be on their side in a war.

In Watts, a ghetto in Los Angeles, there is a high school, and near it a metal recycling plant which emits a high level of pollution, including brain-stunting lead. That plant has now been charged with felonies for endangering the students.

As a side issue, I criticize the article for referring to high school students as "children" — they'd have to be prodigies to be in high school that young. Of course, that has no effect on the issue of emitting dangerous pollution.

(satire) *Coast Guard Sends Another Submersible Full Of Billionaires After The First One.*

Economic research concludes that the loss of income from shutting down fossil fuel extraction would fall mainly on the wealthy. We can do it!

In Britain, at least 14,000 people were denied the right to vote by the Tories' new voter-ID law.

They tended to be from demographic groups one might expect not to vote for Tories.

The actual number denied the right to vote could be in the hundreds of thousands, as many who did not vote said it was because of the voter ID.