Various global heating effects are causing great damage in the Mekong Delta, and almost 2 million people have been compelled to leave.

Glenn Greenwald reports that Ecuador is negotiating handing over Julian Assange to the UK. Whether this would permit the UK to turn him over to the US depends on what terms Ecuador negotiates.

If the US prosecutes Assange for publishing leaks, the effect would be to damage freedom of the press in the US. The bullshitter would love this.

Republicans in the House of Representatives don't want to know what secret deals the traitor made with Putin.

New York City voted to make prisoners' phone calls gratis in city jails.

Charging prisoners for talking with their families is cruel to the prisoners (many of whom are accused, not convicted) and pushes them towards committing crimes after they get out.

Keeping accused people in jail because they are poor is also cruel, hence the movement to put an end to the bail system.

(satire) Revealing that the physical world could no longer bear the weight of numerous contradictory realities, sources confirmed Friday that dozens of White Houses have begun to leak from a temporal vortex as President Trump’s rapidly changing story of meeting Putin tears apart space-time.