Brazilian human rights defender Marielle Franco, leader of Brazil's Black Lives Matter movement, was apparently assassinated by Brazilian federal thugs. They kill thousands of people each year.

US citizens: Call on Saboteur of Education DeVos to resign.

Students and teachers in Texas see danger, not safety, in the idea of teachers with guns.

"School resource officers" is a bland disguise for thugs in the school that will arrest students and ruin their lives. If you want the students to be safe, don't have any thiugs in the school.

President Do-dirty of the Philippines says he will withdraw that country from the International Criminal Court. He cited various pretexts, but it is clear that they are trumpery. His real reason is that he knows he is guilty of mass murder and wants to ensure that no court can try him.

Formally, the withdrawal will not affect criminal investigations that start within the coming year, but we can guess what Do-dirty will do about those. Perhaps imprison any UN personnel that are in the Philippines, or perhaps simply not allow them to enter.

The Philippines will join the list of criminal countries headed by Russia and the United States.

Expensive geoengineering projects are proposed to keep polar ice sheets cool and save coastal lands from inundation.

If we're going to geoengineering specifically to counter heating, we might as well use the atmospheric methods.

But even if we cancel out global heating, that won't protect the oceans from mass extinction. CO2 doesn't just heat up the ecosphere; it also dissolves in the water making it more acidic. In a few decades, all coral will simply dissolve in the acid, and the thousands of species that depend on coral reefs will have nowhere to go.

Some fish have been observed to engage in dangerous behaviors, likely to get them eaten, in elevated levels of CO2. And it appears that rising CO2 levels are causing grain yields to fall, globally.

So even with a way to get rid of the heat, we still urgently need to stop burning so much fossil fuel. And as a way to reduce future heating, it's probably also cheaper.