Disabled people (and people who will be disabled) are campaigning against the Republican tax attacks, which would cut off their medical care.

Should prisoners' human rights include in-person visits with family?

It might be very important for society to encourage such visits.

US medical care nowadays is so horrible that mentally ill people get put in prison instead of treated. In prison they are beaten and tased instead of treated.

The wildfires in Southern California are unprecedented; the head of firefighting for California said "There will be no ability to fight fires in these winds." The fires spread through forest and town as if through tinder.

This is because global heating has caused a persistent drought in the area for several years. It will get much worse over the decades.

Pipeline protesters barged into the "Wells Fargo Investment Thought Leadership Forum" to deliver a petition for banks to stop funding the Keystone XL pipeline.

The name of the event seems to indicate a greatly distorted world view, as events in China about "Xi Jinping Thought" do.