The Tories' intentional delay in welfare support has driven the need for food banks to a record level.

The Tories are lower than vermin — Aneurin Bevan.

With South Florida including Miami facing inundation due to global heating, the wiser property owners are starting to sell. Property values could collapse to near zero once the public realizes the land will cease to be land.

In effect, coastal land is a bubble, and the sooner these bubbles burst, the less harm they do.

It's more or less the same for coasts around the world, though the local rate of sea level rise varies. (It is faster in Florida because the land is sinking.) The inundation of ancient ports around the Mediterranean will be a terrible loss for all humanity, not just for the people who live in them.

I propose that the US government should buy out non-rich homeowners who bought before a certain cutoff date, but only up to a certain limit. That would save the poor from being wiped out, while not wasting money on wealthy people who don't face being wiped out, and avoid creating a "moral hazard" of encouraging people to buy properties at risk.

Those who bought their homes after the cut-off date could receive a buy-out reduced by 4% for each year between the cut-off date and when they purchased the property.

That would be the sensible thing to do, but I'd be surprised if it were done.

Two Supreme Court justices say the court has a tendency to take the side of violent thugs against their victims.

If you ever serve on a jury, keep in mind that thugs have lots of practice in lying in court. They have practiced presenting lies smoothly to make them sound plausible. One thug's testimony supports another's because the system ensures they have a chance to coordinate their stories. This should raise a reasonable doubt about whatever they say.

Dmitry Bogatov is being prosecuted in Russia for messages that others sent through his Tor node.

In a free country, nobody would be prosecuted for those messages, not even those who sent them.

The Koch brothers spend 3 million dollars to press the troll's saboteur appointees thru the Senate.