The saboteur-in-chief has done away with the Advisory Panel for the Sustained National Climate Assessment.

He is anti-science in general and especially opposed to climate science. His strategy is that if we close our eyes and don't find out the details of how global heating does and will effect everyone, many people will make less effort to resist the massive denialist campaign.

A thug publicly claims that condemning them for unjustified killings is a kind of "racism" against "blue people".

This seems crazy, but he really says it. The right-wing contempt for truth is so great that Republicans will say obvious bullshit, relying on other Republicans to support it anyways. And they do!

I know of one case where racism is directed against blue-skinned people. When thugs beat up black people, their skin turns black and blue. The usual racism against them continues, but now it is against blue-skinned people.

Many recent technological "advances" seem to be designed to save us any real interaction with other people.

I reject some of the services the article discusses because of their surveillance, and some because I want to protect people's jobs. It is interesting that the three problems often co-occur.

In a way, dating services and apps are doing the same thing. They don't entirely eliminate human contact — you still (possibly) have a date or have sex — but the human contact is greatly reduced. Maybe that is an impediment to finding a real relationship.

"Anyone who continues to work with Trump is complicit in his support of white supremacists."

The CNN article this refers to errs when it suggests that we have no crimes to impeach him for.

It's true that endorsing bigotry is not a crime, but receiving pay from foreign interests directly violates the constitution. Using his office to get money from his hotels is corrupt. Let's impeach him for those.

"Virtual charter schools", where the student talks only to a computer, provide a failing education.