Senator Feinstein has filed a bill to ban "bump stocks", which pump a semiautomatic rifle to fire like a machine gun. There is a chance Republicans will vote for it.

The time Americans want to talk about gun control is after a massacre, which is why SCROTUS tell us we shouldn't do it then.

The NRA exists to promote gun sales, so the legislators that accept support from the NRA are effectively on the payroll of gun manufacturers.

How US Surveillance Helps Repressive Regimes — the Ethiopia Case.

Brazil wants to build 47 dams on the Tapajós river to transport soy beans from deforested plantations.

This would release a large amount of CO2.

It would also legitimize the deforestation, which was probably illegal in the first place.

Keeping transport difficult could be the first step in eliminating those plantations and allowing the forest to return — if it isn't too late.

Hydroelectric dams do not use fossil fuel, but they do release a lot of CO2 from decaying vegetation each year.

Growing crops to feed animals is overstrainimg Earth's resources.

If we stopped growing soy beans to feed animals, there would ne no need for soy plantations in the Tapajós basin.

Australia is massively cutting down forests to make cattle farms.

This contributes double to global heating — first with deforestation, and second with the cows themselves.

The Supreme Court, now with Gorsuch, will make many important decisions this year affecting human rights and democracy.