Chemical plant explosions are not unaccountable accidents; they result from carelessness, which US agencies and Texas have decided to tolerate.

The spread of toxic pollution from flooded sites of old polluting factories is not an accident either.

Saboteur Pruitt is making sure the Environmental Protection Agency stops trying to protect us from these non-accidents.

The European Union faces a proposal for filtering of all text uploaded for publication.

A report on ag-gag laws, that criminalize reporting on farms' treatment of animals.

One, in Idaho, has been ruled unconstitutional. The report claims they are all inherently unconstitutional.

The old business elite campaigned against laws that protected us from business activities, and for lower taxes. The new Koch machine aims to realize the so-called "libertarian" antisocialist platform of "small government" and no taxes.

The Koch brothers understand that this means that we non-rich would be totally at the mercy of the rich, if we have unilaterally abandoned the only known method to protect ourselves from them: a strong and democratic state that redistributes wealth and helps people, as the US government did quite effectively when I was young.

The sheriff of Polk County, Florida, says that thugs will check the IDs of everyone going to hurricane shelters and arrest them if they are wanted.

This means that many will risk death by staying away from hurricane shelters where they would be arrested. Even when there is a good reason to arrest someone, which sometimes there is, it doesn't justify driving per to death.

Will people without acceptable ID be denied shelter?

Note the sheriff's evidently intentional falsehood in describing people wanted for arrest, all of them, as "sexual offenders & predators". And only a small fraction of the real sexual offenders are likely to bother anyone again.