Persecuting immigrants was just one of Joe Arpaio's many illegal practices when he was sheriff.

The Republicans that control Texas have made it hard to get reliable birth control there. Now they are working on smashing the legal basis of Medicaid, nationwide, so that they can cut off the last funding for Planned Parenthood in Texas.

I hope the students of Texas Tech organize to demand that the university replace the doctor that tries to stop students from getting contraceptives. By refusing to give them proper medical care, sh is refusing to do her job.

If the saboteur-in-chief succeeds in cancelling the Clean Power Plan, one way to compensate for the damage is to plant 10 billion trees, covering 40,000 square miles with forest.

Planting so many trees is easier said than done. What's more, for the trees to take the intended amount of CO₂ out of the air, it is not enough to plant them. It is necessary that they survive and grow for many years. That is hard to assure, what with local disasters fueled by global heating threatening to kill them and increased CO₂ levels slowing the growth of plants.

Is it possible even to find that much land on which to plant trees?

Then there is the point that the Clean Power Plan doesn't go far enough.

Right-wing extremists cancelled their rally in Berkeley after they were told that weapons and helmets would not be allowed. Counterprotesters deployed mockery and jokes against the remnant.

When these extremists say they are defending "freedom of speech", remember how they fuzz the boundary between speech and hitting people with cars. That's not "speech," that is terrorism.

Macron is determined to reduce workers' rights, but unions are planning a general strike.

The root cause of unemployment in France is world-wide plutocracy, imposed through business-supremacy treaties.

Under plutocracy, every country must choose between lots of unemployment (as in France) and lots of Mcjobs (as in the US).