Arguing that fossil fuel companies owe a total of $200 billion per year in compensation for some of the kinds of damage their products have done.

I fear that arguing about the amount of "compensation" various companies and states ought to pay will act as a distraction from the crucial issue: how to build sustainable power facilities fast and wind up fossil fuel use soon.

The companies will resist reducing the amount of fossil fuels they sell, and they will resist paying reparations. I think the wise choice is to focus on avoiding more damage than on making them pay for it.

Meanwhile, we should certainly tax these companies (and other rich companies) a lot more. I suggest the method I described in https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html .

Louisiana is considering a bill to require just three cities — with mostly black residents — to publish criminal records of juveniles.

The purpose of not publishing the criminal records of juveniles is to help them to turn away from crime. So why adopt the opposite policy mainly for blacks? Perhaps it is to lead black teenagers into a life of crime, so as to put them in prison.

*Turkish Elections: Erdoğan’s Government Arrested and Expelled International Election Observers.*

Some Muscovites are being pressured, even ordered, to register to vote through an internet voting system. Such systems tend to be greatly insecure, and not to be trusted.

Putin has made a practice of rigging elections for years, often blatantly. It is not clear that what a voter actually does has any effect on the "results" that Putin's state will report. But it might. Therefore, I think it is good not to actually vote.

*"Debt Limit Chicken" is a direct result of anti-democratic US house [of representatives] elections.*

The reason so many house districts are not competitive is in large part due to Republican gerrymandering.