Due to global heating, California can now have large and deadly fires across the state. Its fire-fighting resources, which were sufficient in the past, are not enough any more.

In the LA area, firefighters were overstretched and could not try to contain the fires for the first three days; it was all they could do to protect people and buildings that were immediately threatened. As a result, the fire became much bigger than it would have, if there weren't a fire in the north as well.

Here are the details about how Sessions has made it effectively impossible for the Department of "Justice" to use consent decrees to make local and state thug departments stop unjust policies.

"Sessions is all for punishment—just not the type of punishment that follows from accountability." He wants to loose thugs to punish whoever they wish to punish, regardless of justice or even law.

Here's the broader context.

It is too late for incremental climate protection, and useless to hope for anything but sabotage from Republicans — we need Democrats to insist on courageous policies.

I disagree on one point. I think an increasing carbon tax should be part of what we do, even if it alone won't work fast enough. We need more money for the state, and the carbon tax will put pressure on business executives that don't give a damn about the world aside from their profits.

The far-too-long career of Saboteur Zinke.

He made the Department of the Interior a tool for short-term profit for big business. The costs will affect us for as long as civilization lasts.

The Syrian rebels are tied up with Islamists, and one thing they do is patriarchal murder.