*More than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot.*

Deep-sea mining, done the way companies intend, would devastate broad areas of bottom, and could wipe out that ecosystem.

* [Hamburger Mary’s in Orlando, Florida] is suing [governor DeMentis] over a law that bans drag performances.*

*Far-right Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years over January 6 attack.*

US nuclear power plants, and their stored wastes, are vulnerable to physical attack and to cracking their computers. It would be stupid and dangerous to build any new ones — but rich jerks want to do it anyway.

The Supreme Court's right-wing extremists have stripped protection from half the wetlands in the US.