Tens of millions of people face famine in Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia.

Republicans in Congress are feeling lots of pressure from their constituents.

They don't really want to serve their constituents, only to use them. For the moment they are holding the line for their plutocratic masters. But they may have trouble doing that in October 2018.

Low incomes and rising rents have made the US a maelstrom of evictions. Millions of Americans are evicted each year.

I wish they could get their shit together to riot and stop the evictions.

In reaction to the troll, the membership of the ACLU has doubled.

I first joined in a similar way. When Bush I called Dukakis a "card carrying member of the ACLU", in effect insinuating that defending the US Constitution was the equivalent of joining the Communist Party, I asked myself, "Why I am I not an ACLU member?" Before that, it had never occurred to me that this was a choice I could make.

If you reside in the US, are you an ACLU member? If not, why not?

The UK's National Health Service, after years of increasingly insufficient funding, is making doctors burn out before they are finished training.

The NHS worked very well, and cost much less than the US medical system, but the Tories didn't like that. Starving the NHS ever more of funds over a period of several years has brought it to the verge of cracking.